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delambre (named after the famous astronomer who measured the Earth meridian) is a very small program (written in Python) which, given an URL (a Web address), displays the total size of the page (with images, background images, frames, etc) and the number of files involved.

It can be used to asses the lightness of a Web page.

Examples of use:

Find the size of Pasteur's home page:

%  delambre  http://www.pasteur.fr/
Total size of http://www.pasteur.fr/ is 47 kilo-bytes ( 48716 bytes).
1 total HTML files,  4 total images.

Idem, but verbose:

% delambre -v http://www.pasteur.fr/
     (text of http://www.pasteur.fr/ is 3631 bytes)
    Image http://www.pasteur.fr/icono/lgpast.gif ( 1173 bytes)
    Image http://www.pasteur.fr/icono/bandeau-accueil.jpg ( 15881 bytes)
    Image http://www.pasteur.fr/icono/english.gif ( 1052 bytes)
    Image http://www.pasteur.fr/icono/accueil-ip.gif ( 26979 bytes)
Total size of http://www.pasteur.fr/ is 47 kilo-bytes ( 48716 bytes).
1 total HTML files,  4 total images.

Find the size of sourceforge.net's home page. We need the -g option because SourceForge does not send Content-Length headers:

%  delambre -g http://sourceforge.net/
Total size of http://sourceforge.net/ is 39 kilo-bytes ( 40500 bytes).
1 total HTML files,  14 total images.

To get the program, see the download area.

See the Sourceforge's project page (or go directly to browse the CVS repository). You can check the list of bugs.

Want to see the test suite of delambre (HTML Hall of Shame)?

delambre is free software, under the General Public Licence.

Interesting links

The 5k: make Web pages fit in less than five kilobytes. Use delambre to test the claim :-)
HTML help: write proper HTML, understand what happens, control your pages.

delambre is managed by Stéphane Bortzmeyer <bortz@users.sourceforge.net>. Last update done on Tuesday 16 January 2001 (last regeneration by WML 1.7.4 (06-Oct-1999) on Tuesday 16 January 2001).