bootstrap.min.css size from cdn shows a surprising size in devtools
TL;DR Firefox shows the decompressed file size, Chrome shows the compressed file size
To load pages faster and use less data most modern browsers download compressed versions of files from a WWW server. Let's make an experiment:
- Download the bootstrap.min.css file
- Compress it with
gzip -k bootstrap.min.css - Compare the file sizes:
- Compressed version: ~20KB
- Uncompressed version: ~116KB
I belive that Firefox displays the decompressed file size and Chrome displays the size of the file, which it downloaded (compressed).