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Bandwidth Report Walkthrough

This feature requires a paid plan on Vimeo.

Vimeo paid members can track their account's bandwidth usage via the bandwidth report. Only the account owner can access the bandwidth report. 

In this article:

Report basics

The Bandwidth report is designed to help you understand bandwidth usage on your account. In this report you are able to see your account's bandwidth usage over time, broken down by Live Events and Video on Demand content. Click here to navigate to your account's Bandwidth report. (Note: You must be logged in and have the proper account setup to access). 

Please check out this article for more information on bandwidth usage and how it is calculated. 

⚠️Note: Due to processing time, bandwidth usage data in this report is often reported 3-4 days behind the current date.

Accessing the Bandwidth report

If your account has access to a Bandwidth report, you will see a widget on the sidebar in Analytics. The widget will (a) show account bandwidth usage for the current month and (b) display a link for you to access the Bandwidth report. 

An example of a bandwidth widget. This example is labeled as 'Aug bandwidth'. The example usage shown is '0GB'. There is a link below 'Aug bandwidth' that shows 'View report'. This can be selected to access the bandwidth report.

Using your Bandwidth report

Date picker

The date picker in the bandwidth report. You can either select a preset in the left panel from the selections of the last 365 days, the current month, or the previous month. In the right panel, you can select a start date and an end date for the timeframe you'd like to view. There are two calendars showing the start and end dates for this example (July 1 - August 19).

The default time range for the Bandwidth report is the last 12 months (including the current month).  

If you would like, you can adjust the time range of your report using the date picker at the top left of the report page. You can select dates going back to January 1, 2020 and up until the current day. Data will continue to show grouped as “Month-Year” but will respect the dates you selected in the date picker.

For example: a date selection of ‘2021.05.01’ to ‘2021.06.10’ will show two rows of bandwidth usage data - one row for all of May and one row for June 1 through June 10.

Graph

The graph component will adjust to your selected date range and display in stacked bar format showing Live Event and Video on Demand bandwidth usage per month.

A bar graph showing bandwith usage. The bar is split into two colors: Video on Demand and Live Events. Hovering over the bar shows a box that has the date selected and the GB used for Video on Demand and Live Events. At the top-left of the bar graph, there is a dropdown menu where you can select the date range. The y-axis of the graph shows the amount of bandwidth usage in GB. the x-axis of the graph shows the date range. In this example, it shows by month.

Table

The table component will adjust to your selected date range and it displays rows showing Live Event and Video on Demand Bandwidth usage per month. 

The default sort order for this table is ascending according to date. If you would like, you can order the table according to ascending or descending order in each column. A table that shows bandwidth usage. The colums are listed as Month, Live Events (GB), Video on Demand (GB), and Total (GB). Each column label is clickable to change the sort order. Each row shows the month, and the GB used for Live Events, Video on Demand, and Total GB for that month. The bottom row is total that shows the totals for all months combined.

If you have questions about your specific bandwidth use case or your report, feel free to get in touch with our team or reach out to your account manager and we'll be happy to help. 

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