Get processed image file size

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I am resizing my images and want to get the file size e.g. 36kb of the resized images.
Is this possible with Hugo?

Generally, I would like to be able to get the file size of any page resource so I can put the file size next to the download link of a pdf. This helps people visiting the site on a slow internet connection decide whether they want to download a pdf or view a larger image.

Thanks
Geoff

2

Hi,

You could maybe adapt this: Local file templates | Hugo to suit. I don’t think Page Resources have the size information readily available, though I’m happy to be corrected.

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There is a os.Stat template func that can be used to get size (and lastmod) of files in your Hugo project … but you need to know the filename, which I don’t think you do for all resources … We should fix that …

An slightly ineffective way (as it reads the files into memory) would be:

{{ $sizeInBytes := len $myImage.Content }}
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Thanks for your replies. I got both of them to work.

Option 1

resize the image
{{ $resized := $imageResource.Resize "960x" }}

get the file name from the path
{{ $name := replace $sized.RelPermalink "/uploads/" "" }}

get all the files in the image directory
{{ $theFiles := readDir "/public/uploads" }}

Iterate through them and get the size of the correct file
{{ range $theFiles }}

{{ if eq .Name $name}}

print the size
{{ div .Size 1000 }}Kb

{{ end }}
{{ end }}

Option 2

{{ $sized := $imageResource.Resize .size }}
{{ $sizeInBytes := len $sized.Content }}

print the size
{{ div $sizeInBytes 1000 }}kB

Option 3

{{ $path := printf "%s%s" "/public" $sized.RelPermalink }}   
{{ $stats := os.Stat $path }}
{{ $stats.Size }}

After further experimenting Option 2 is the only one that works consistently on my local machine and in production deployment. @bep said to me in an email

I would not depend on files in /public.

and that is the case.

Thanks again @bep and @pointyfar
Geoff

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