How to find the size of localStorage

Question

I am currently developing a site that will make use of HTML5's localStorage. I've read all about the size limitations for different browsers. However, I haven't seen anything on how to find out the current size of a localStorage instance. This question seems to indicate that JavaScript doesn't have a built in way of showing the size for a given variable. Does localStorage have a memory size property that I haven't seen? Is there an easy way to do this that I'm missing?

My site is meant to allow users to enter information in an 'offline' mode, so being able to give them a warning when the storage is almost full is very important.

Answer 1

Here is a simple example of how to do this and should work with every browser

alert(1024 * 1024 * 5 - unescape(encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(localStorage))).length);

Answer 2

You can calculate your localstorage by following methods:

function sizeofAllStorage(){  // provide the size in bytes of the data currently stored
  var size = 0;
  for (i=0; i<=localStorage.length-1; i++)  
  {  
  key = localStorage.key(i);  
  size += lengthInUtf8Bytes(localStorage.getItem(key));
  }  
  return size;
}

function lengthInUtf8Bytes(str) {
  // Matches only the 10.. bytes that are non-initial characters in a multi-byte sequence.
  var m = encodeURIComponent(str).match(/%[89ABab]/g);
  return str.length + (m ? m.length : 0);
}

console.log(sizeofAllStorage());

Finally size in bytes will be logged in browser.

Answer 3

The way I went about this problem is to create functions for finding out the used space and remaining space in Local Storage and then a function that calls those functions to determine the max storage space.

function getUsedSpaceOfLocalStorageInBytes() {
    // Returns the total number of used space (in Bytes) of the Local Storage
    var b = 0;
    for (var key in window.localStorage) {
        if (window.localStorage.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
            b += key.length + localStorage.getItem(key).length;
        }
    }
    return b;
}

function getUnusedSpaceOfLocalStorageInBytes() {
    var maxByteSize = 10485760; // 10MB
    var minByteSize = 0;
    var tryByteSize = 0;
    var testQuotaKey = 'testQuota';
    var timeout = 20000;
    var startTime = new Date().getTime();
    var unusedSpace = 0;
    do {
        runtime = new Date().getTime() - startTime;
        try {
            tryByteSize = Math.floor((maxByteSize + minByteSize) / 2);
            localStorage.setItem(testQuotaKey, new Array(tryByteSize).join('1'));
            minByteSize = tryByteSize;
        } catch (e) {
            maxByteSize = tryByteSize - 1;
        }
    } while ((maxByteSize - minByteSize > 1) && runtime < timeout);

    localStorage.removeItem(testQuotaKey);

    if (runtime >= timeout) {
        console.log("Unused space calculation may be off due to timeout.");
    }

    // Compensate for the byte size of the key that was used, then subtract 1 byte because the last value of the tryByteSize threw the exception
    unusedSpace = tryByteSize + testQuotaKey.length - 1;
    return unusedSpace;
}

function getLocalStorageQuotaInBytes() {
    // Returns the total Bytes of Local Storage Space that the browser supports
    var unused = getUnusedSpaceOfLocalStorageInBytes();
    var used = getUsedSpaceOfLocalStorageInBytes();
    var quota = unused + used;
    return quota;
}

Answer 4

Execute this snippet in Chrome console

var _lsTotal=0,_xLen,_x;for(_x in localStorage){_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){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)

Answer 5

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"

Answer 6

//Memory occupy by both key and value so Updated Code.

var jsonarr=[];
var jobj=null;
for(x in sessionStorage) // Iterate through each session key
{
    jobj={}; 
    jobj[x]=sessionStorage.getItem(x); //because key will also occupy some memory
    jsonarr.push(jobj);
    jobj=null;
}
//https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures 
//JavaScript's String type is used to represent textual data. It is a set of "elements" of 16-bit unsigned integer values. 
var size=JSON.stringify(jsonarr).length*2; //16-bit that's why multiply by 2
var arr=["bytes","KB","MB","GB","TB"]; // Define Units
var sizeUnit=0;
while(size>1024){ // To get result in Proper Unit
    sizeUnit++;
    size/=1024;
}
alert(size.toFixed(2)+" "+arr[sizeUnit]);