How much data is transferred with geofire set

Question

How much data is transferred when I send the location to geofire table with geoFire.set("?????", [??.????, ??.????]) after the connection of the browser client has be set up?

• Somekey is a unique id up to 5 digits?
• down to the 4th digit (gives us an accuracy of 11m according to Measuring accuracy of latitude and longitude)

We want to show a client with a fleet in public transport that it isn't really that much - but want to give facts. It would be nice to get the data every 5-10 seconds.

Answer 1

To see how much data is being transferred:

• open the network tab of your browser
• select the WS panel to just see web sockets
• find the web socket that connects to your Firebase server
• check the size of the frame that sets the value and the acknowledgement

One example from the first GeoFire javascript sample:

{"t":"d","d":{"r":2,"a":"m","b":{"p":"/-Kcj5Z0QMWqWaqO-3bUk","d":{"fish0":{".priority":"rmjhprs42j","g":"rmjhprs42j","l":[-16.130262,153.605347]}}}}}

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