Below are the steps to measure Website traffic.
1) The traffic can be measured using the size of the files that are transferred from one place to another (server-client).
2) It can also be measured by the size of the file that is being requested by the client from the server.
3) The number of visitors arriving on the website also involve in the measurement of the traffic using the web hosting platform.
4) The advertisements of the sites take more bandwidth to allow more number of users to be on the website.
5) More number of users provides higher traffic on the website thus it requires more bandwidth on the web hosting sites.