Total size of php page?

Anon

is there some way/tool which will tell me how large( in KB's ) my php page is?

i have a php page which has several pages included depending on certain conditions. what i wanted to know is how heavy is the page that is finally sent to the client side. it is somewhat like the weightage of html page which is the sum of the html code and the images etc. getting the total weight of the php page will help me optimise the code.

can anyone help me out on this?

thanks for any reply
steven

Anon

should work with <? $size = sizeof("bla.php"); echo ("$size"); ?>

Anon

Er, that tells me 1. Every time. Exactly as I expected.

In general terms:

You could turn output buffering off, generate a page, and see how much data you've buffered. That'll give you the HTML content.

If this is for testing purposes, however (and you wouldn't want the overhead in a production environment), the obvious solution is to just send it to a suitable browser (eg. IE5+, Netscape6+ or Mozilla) and then save the complete page and then look at filesizes of the result.

Anon

Yes, no, turn output buffering on, of course. But just saving off a sample generated page would do the trick.

But I'm not really convinced that it's worth the effort. Sensible page design at the outset should have taken care of all this already.