How to find the size of localStorage

Solution 1:

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.

Solution 2:

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"