The monthly traffic feature, which is sometimes also identified as bandwidth or data transfer, indicates the full amount of information which can be uploaded to your hosting account and downloaded from it every month. Your traffic is generated generally by web site visits - whenever someone finds your website, the webpages they view are downloaded from the hosting server to his or her computer or mobile device and they're displayed by the internet browser. What counts for the site traffic produced is the size of these web pages, consequently the more site visitors you get for a period of time, the more website traffic will be produced. In addition to the web site visits, file uploads are also counted towards the total monthly transfer this means that whenever you upload site content or any other files through a file manager or an FTP application, they will also produce some site traffic. The counter resets on the first day of each and every month and it is not related to the date you've registered and the date you've renewed the hosting plan.