or merely hide loaded images?

I ask because I want to save on bandwidth when using payg amd mainly read text only.

As I understand it Chrome for example has an option to disable images but the images are merely hidden, they are not prevented from loading. The same bandwidth is consumed.

They don't load.

You can test on sites like Boston.com's "The Big Picture".

This image coverage goes from about 280KB downloaded with images disabled to about 18MB when you enable them.

Thanks John.

Out of interest, What tool did you use to measure with?

NetLimiter.

But I use an old one, not the current version.

Just a random sample I found searching for screenshots on the net:

I tried net limiter but the freeware old version won't install on win7 64-bit.

Subsequent versions are trial and then pay.

Oh well!

There are other tools out there to monitor (there are, but don't ask me which one).

I wasn't recommending this one Just answering you

There is old good freeware proxy filter Naviscope - it shows every single request and every file load. (There are much more functions - give it a look!)

I think it would be useful for you if you are sitting on the slow connection.

Thanks for Naviscope but I can't see where how many mbs etc have loaded for a page?

Actually, when I answered your question, I wasn't measuring per page, but per application (or global) with NetLimiter.

This is because NetLimiter has a reset button (per app and global) that lets you "reset" the daily counter (not the historical that saves or each one), and that helps to make a momentary monitoring/count.

As I see you are searching for this kind of features, I made a search for you and I found this one: BitMeter. That according its FAQ/Help page has that reset function and it's a free application. Also have historical data save.

http://codebox.org.uk/pages/bitmeter2

EDIT: here is the reset function explained (at the bottom):
http://codebox.org.uk/bitmeter2help/webinterface.jsp



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/29/2013 07:06PM by JohnHell.

Thanks for bitmeter John it looks just the ticket, apologies if I didn't make it clear what I wanted.

I appreciate your time and help,

You are welcome.

I'm glad it's useful to your purposes

Yes that global setting blocks images from loading (unlike the stuff only blocked by adblock, using CSS).
Just be careful when saving a page to disk! Then K-Meleon immediately loads all blocked stuff secretly in the background and saves it to disk also. To prevent this one must either kill the connection completely or use KMs offline funktion (File / Work Offline)