How to find the size of localStorage
Going off of what @Shourav said above, I wrote a small function that should accurately grab all your the localStorage
keys (for the current domain) and calculate the combined size so that you know exactly how much memory is taken up by your localStorage
object:
var localStorageSpace = function(){
var allStrings = '';
for(var key in window.localStorage){
if(window.localStorage.hasOwnProperty(key)){
allStrings += window.localStorage[key];
}
}
return allStrings ? 3 + ((allStrings.length*16)/(8*1024)) + ' KB' : 'Empty (0 KB)';
};
Mine returned: "30.896484375 KB"
Execute this snippet in JavaScript console (one line version):
var _lsTotal=0,_xLen,_x;for(_x in localStorage){ if(!localStorage.hasOwnProperty(_x)){continue;} _xLen= ((localStorage[_x].length + _x.length)* 2);_lsTotal+=_xLen; console.log(_x.substr(0,50)+" = "+ (_xLen/1024).toFixed(2)+" KB")};console.log("Total = " + (_lsTotal / 1024).toFixed(2) + " KB");
The same code in multiple lines for reading sake
var _lsTotal = 0,
_xLen, _x;
for (_x in localStorage) {
if (!localStorage.hasOwnProperty(_x)) {
continue;
}
_xLen = ((localStorage[_x].length + _x.length) * 2);
_lsTotal += _xLen;
console.log(_x.substr(0, 50) + " = " + (_xLen / 1024).toFixed(2) + " KB")
};
console.log("Total = " + (_lsTotal / 1024).toFixed(2) + " KB");
or add this text in the field 'location' of a bookmark for convenient usage
javascript: var x, xLen, log=[],total=0;for (x in localStorage){if(!localStorage.hasOwnProperty(x)){continue;} xLen = ((localStorage[x].length * 2 + x.length * 2)/1024); log.push(x.substr(0,30) + " = " + xLen.toFixed(2) + " KB"); total+= xLen}; if (total > 1024){log.unshift("Total = " + (total/1024).toFixed(2)+ " MB");}else{log.unshift("Total = " + total.toFixed(2)+ " KB");}; alert(log.join("\n"));
P.S. Snippets are updated according to request in the comment. Now the calculation includes the length of the key itself. Each length is multiplied by 2 because the char in javascript stores as UTF-16 (occupies 2 bytes)
P.P.S. Should work both in Chrome and Firefox.