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HTTP REQUEST ANALYSIS MAC OS X
HTTP REQUEST ANALYSIS ARCHIVE

If we add more than 1KB of cookies to that request, then we exceed 1500 bytes, which is the standard maximum transmission unit (MTU) used by TCP.

HTTP REQUEST ANALYSIS MAC OS X

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/.116 Safari/537.36Īccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/* q=0.8,application/signed-exchange v=b3 q=0.9Īdding a cookie to that will increase the size of the request header. In the example below the request headers total 407 bytes. When a browser sends an HTTP request, the HTTP request headers are usually 400 - 500 bytes. Performance Implications of Large Cookies Some third parties that use a first party subdomain (ie, if loaded a resource from ) also set a first party cookie. For example, when logging into an application, a few additional cookies might be set. It’s important to note that the cookies set by the time favicon was requested may under represent the size of the cookies users would send later in a browsing session. The largest was 7,795 bytes, and you can see the distribution below. The median size of cookies sent on the favicon request was 161 bytes and the 95th percentile was 681. However this does not include any additional cookies set later in a session (ie, such as after logging in) If we look at just the request headers for favicon.ico, we can get an idea of how large the Cookie request header might be for a subsequent request.

HTTP REQUEST ANALYSIS ARCHIVE

Since the HTTP Archive only collects information on homepages, there is a limit to the insight we can collect here. What about cookies that clients send back to servers? A client can send multiple cookies in a single Cookie request header. So really large individual cookies are not common. 88% of the cookies being set are less than 100 bytes. If we look at the entire distribution of cookie sizes, it gets even more interesting.

Most of the largest third party cookies were set from as well as a small number of advertising third parties.

The largest third party cookie was set by, and consisted of a large JSON array named “liveWall”.

Many large first party cookies included large session cookies.

All in all, there were 240 links in a single cookie! It’s value was a long urlencoded string that contained multiple layers and links.

The largest first party cookie was set by, and it is named menu.

This is likely due to the implementation limits defined in RFC 6265. Both Chrome and Firefox will reject cookies greater than 4KB. I was curious to see what the limits are, and decided to dig into the source. The largest cookie size was 29,735 bytes, which is quite large! This is so large in fact that it is rejected by all modern browsers. Cookie Size First Party Third Party Min 1 1 Median 36 37 95th Percentile 181 135 99th Percentile 287 248 Max 29,735 8,500 The minimum is just a single byte, usually set by empty Set-Cookie headers (which is likely an error). That statistic is consistent across both first and third party cookies. The median length of all cookies in the HTTP Archive is 36 bytes as of June 2020. In this example, loggedIn=true is the name/value portion of the cookie, and that is what we’ll be exploring in this post. Set-Cookie: loggedIn=true Domain=. Path=/ Max-Age=14400 HttpOnlyĭirectives such as Domain, Path, max-age, and HttpOnly affect how the cookie is stored, and which hostname a browser should share them with.

You can read it here.Īn example of a cookie set by a server would be: Note: I wrote another blog post exploring the use of the SameSite attribute in cookie files, and how third party cookies are affected. When a cookie is set by a different domain, then it’s considered a third party cookie.īased on an analysis of over 109 million cookies, third parties account for 79% of all cookies. These can be used for session management, authentication, personalization, etc. When a cookie is set by the domain you see in your address bar, it is considered a first party cookie. In this article we’ll be looking at the size of cookies across the web, and discuss some of the web performance implications of them.

On subsequent requests, these cookies are sent to the server in a Cookie HTTP request header. Sites can store these cookies by using the Set-Cookie HTTP response header, or via JavaScript ( okie). They are essentially a name/value pair set by a server and stored in a client’s browser. Cookies are used on a lot of websites - 83.9% of the 5.7 million home pages tracked in the HTTP Archive to be specific.