A way to know the weight of a website?

Know how much information a website hosts... possible?

[lusagalo]

Hello,

I would like to know whether it is possible to know the amount of information hosted by a concrete website.

I guess it should be technically possible, but I did not find a way yet.

Thanks a lot,

luis

[victor]

Download all the pages.

Use WinZip ot equivalent to compress them:

individually and collectively

with and without most HTML tags (an anchor tag adds information at least in the href attribute. Most others don't)

remove all unncessary whitespace before compressing

The percentage by which each page/collection of pages compresses give you a relative measure of complexity of that page. That's related to its information content (in the sense of information theory.

You'll need similar metrics for other sites to get a meaningful comparision.

[lusagalo]

wow,

Thanks, that's really clever!

You have been really helpful to me.

Thanks a lot, and take care!