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Why enormous size HTML reports is not a problem?

omavel

I use scheduled HTML reports to get some summaries every day.
But every report email is enormous huge - on 2020.2.5 it was 5-7 Mb, now on 2020.2.6 it can be 7-10 Mb! This is nonsense!


This 7Mb reports are just tables with node captions and some dates (usually 10-15 rows)

Official position (cases #00714856, #00867645) is:

The increase in size of HTML report is due to the new layout of Orion reports: it grabs the whole HTML page with new styles. Unfortunately, this is by design.

Wow, Solarwinds doesn't see it as a problem. But why? , ?
HTML reports is a general standard which is supported by all monitoring software and I don't want to use PDF reports. Are there any workarounds?

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    Another vote to get this cleaned up! 

    It appears to be mostly font and style definitions. Nearly all of which are unused as far as I can tell.

    Feel free to run this test at home. I'm using Outlook365 and notepadplusplus.

    Save your email report as html. This will create a base html file and a sub-folder.

    Note the size of the base html file. For my report, it's 3.2 MB.

    If you open that html file locally, in your browser, you'll see your report. Close it.

    Open the html file in your favorite text editor, something that can handle large files (Microsoft notepad not recommended).

    Search for "Font Definitions". Note the start of that section;  "<!--". For this report, it starts at line 661.

    Now search for the end of that section; "-->". For this report, that section ends at line 51,851.

    Delete everything from <!-- and -->  (including those lines) and save it, now open the report in your browser.

    In the few reports I tried, nothing in the report has changed -- other than the file size is significantly reduced.

    Your mileage may vary.

    If you try this, I'm curious what you see.

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    Another vote to get this cleaned up! 

    It appears to be mostly font and style definitions. Nearly all of which are unused as far as I can tell.

    Feel free to run this test at home. I'm using Outlook365 and notepadplusplus.

    Save your email report as html. This will create a base html file and a sub-folder.

    Note the size of the base html file. For my report, it's 3.2 MB.

    If you open that html file locally, in your browser, you'll see your report. Close it.

    Open the html file in your favorite text editor, something that can handle large files (Microsoft notepad not recommended).

    Search for "Font Definitions". Note the start of that section;  "<!--". For this report, it starts at line 661.

    Now search for the end of that section; "-->". For this report, that section ends at line 51,851.

    Delete everything from <!-- and -->  (including those lines) and save it, now open the report in your browser.

    In the few reports I tried, nothing in the report has changed -- other than the file size is significantly reduced.

    Your mileage may vary.

    If you try this, I'm curious what you see.

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