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How do you know the real size of a web page?

23rd June 2012

My answer to How do you know the real size of a web page? on Quora

The Google Chrome developer tools can do this, on the Network tab. Take a look at the bottom blue bar (which says “5 requests | 29.49KB transferred”)

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