# How much data does Discourse use?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-data-does-discourse-use/47072>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 11, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-data-does-discourse-use/47072 "2016-07-11T07:06:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Parham\_Bahrami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Parham\_Bahrami](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Parham_Bahrami)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-data-does-discourse-use/47072/1 "2016-07-11T07:06:43Z")

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I am currently on vacation, and the internet here is pretty expensive. As my whole family requires data to do work, I am recharging it frequently.

I would like to ask if you guys have any stats on how much data a post of 10 characters uses. So I can buy myself some data and buy my family some other data, as I am only using the data for the forums, as something really exciting and new is happening there.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![iamntz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamntz/32/114670_2.png) [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-data-does-discourse-use/47072/2 "2016-07-11T07:33:10Z")

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There are few things to consider:

- initial payload is about 1Mb (after that, each refresh is about 50kb);
- posting per se shouldn’t take more than few KB (this very reply had ~900bytes);
- _displaying_ posts can be a different beasts, because a post can have images, videos and so on.

All in all, I would say to leave forums a bit and just enjoy your vacantion 😉