Digital information

Text page

A digital file containing one page of plain text characters without formatting or embedded fonts.

How big is it?

3 kB of data

Data · example

Scale illustration of Text page, calibrated to its data measurement.
The marked data represents 3 kB.

A little perspective

Web browser cookie capacity is about 1.37 times larger on this measurement.

Web browser cookie capacity: Web browser cookie capacity is the minimum amount of data a browser must reliably store for each HTTP cookie, including its name, value and attributes.

Linear measure
BYTES OF DATA3 kB4.096 kB
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Text page3 kBData
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Web browser cookie capacity4.096 kBMinimum per-cookie capacity
Bar length represents bytes. The physical sizes of devices are schematic; encoding and compression affect file sizes.
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Text page

A defined 3,000-byte UTF-8 text page using single-byte characters; formatting and embedded fonts excluded.

Defined examples — our methodology

The marked data is calibrated. Unmeasured illustration details are representative.

Web browser cookie capacity

RFC 6265 says general-purpose user agents should support at least 4,096 bytes per cookie, counting name, value and attributes. This is an interoperability minimum, not a universal hard browser limit.

RFC 6265 — HTTP State Management Mechanism

The marked minimum per-cookie capacity is calibrated. Unmeasured illustration details are representative.

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Why we use 3 kB

For comparison, this page uses data. This is labelled example: an explicit comparison model rather than a claim that every example has the same value.

A defined 3,000-byte UTF-8 text page using single-byte characters; formatting and embedded fonts excluded.

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