It should list all transferred objects with their size and transfer duration. Then click the Network-tab to open the network monitor. Then you might use developer tools to measure the network traffic of that web application.įor example, use Firefox and open the Developer console by ctrl + shift + c. You should certainly not use the WhatsApp Web application, but rather use it in a regular webbrowser (Since the application does nothing else than displaying a webpage). So doing a manual update solves the problem. Whenever WhatsApp starts sucking my quota up like this, I just close the app, download and install the compressed version on the site. Instead it downloads/updates uncompressed files and this takes 500+ MB. When WhatsApp starts updating (Update.exe), it doesn't download the file that's on the site (133MB).

What I found out later is WhatsApp application on the website is (currently) 133 MB (compressed), and it's 745 MB (uncompressed?) on my PC. Update: This is an old question, and things got in the way and I didn't actively monitor it. I did not test any other IM app to compare with WhatsApp, but these rates seem like extreme to me.ĭoes anybody have an idea why it comsumes this much? Is there a way to prevent this? If not, I'll probably not use it when using my phone as a hotspot. So, the app consumes 10-20 MB/min while idle, and 15-30 MB/min (idle × 1.5) when logged in. In the second instance, it was ~10MB/min while idle, and ~14MB when logged in. I was not paying attention to the rates while recording the video, so I decided to explicitly record the rates after the video. In one instance (on the video), the app consumes ~20 MB/min while idle (not logged in), and ~33MB/min when logged in. You can watch the video where I show this consumption. I've experimented and recorded the network traffic. I've recently figured out that WhatsApp consumes too much data and since I'm using my phone's data, how much it consumes matters. Sometimes I leave WhatsApp on for many minutes (guesssing here up to 2 hours). I often use my phone as hotspot on my laptop and use WhatsApp desktop application.

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