website data usage

[canucksfan88]

hey everyone,

is there a way or program i can use to see how much data a website uses to fully load?

im doing a school project to see which websites would be optimized for mobile phones and low bandwidith.


Thanks!

 

[Anawrahta]

Using firefox, you could simply visit whatever website you want to calculate the size of, then click File -> Save Page As...

Then a box should come up giving you the option to save the Web Page - Complete. Just save that into a folder on your computer, and the size of that folder should give you a pretty good estimate of the bandwidth of one visit to that page. Keep in mind though that there will be some server side scripts and things that won't necessarily be downloaded.

Also many advertisements won't be on the same server as the website your visiting, they will be hosted elsewhere.

 

[Isair]

In Safari go to Window->Activity. You see every file that is loaded and their sizes for the page you opened.