100 MB HTML sample

An HTML file of exactly 104,857,600 bytes. It is a valid HyperText Markup Language file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 100 MB sample, test or dummy HTML file.

sample-html-100mb.html

100 MB104,857,600 bytes

Download 100 MB HTML

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Type: text/html
SHA-256: f7df73fbf6f4ce1a265c980c880005dc989b7ba0aac76f9a92f532b46a5df46e
Delivery: Created in your browser from static generator assets (how it works).

What is in this file

A static HTML5 page with 129,799 sections of headings, paragraphs, lists and tables. It has no scripts, no external resources and a noindex robots tag. An HTML comment before the closing tags brings the file to the exact size.

Sections	129,799
Doctype	HTML5
Scripts	None
External resources	None
Styles	One inline style element
Encoding	UTF-8 (ASCII characters only)

How the file begins

The opening lines of sample-html-100mb.html, exactly as they appear in the file.

00000000  3c 21 44 4f 43 54 59 50  45 20 68 74 6d 6c 3e 0a |<!DOCTYPE html>.|
00000010  3c 68 74 6d 6c 20 6c 61  6e 67 3d 22 65 6e 22 3e |<html lang="en">|
00000020  0a 3c 68 65 61 64 3e 0a  3c 6d 65 74 61 20 63 68 |.<head>.<meta ch|
00000030  61 72 73 65 74 3d 22 75  74 66 2d 38 22 3e 0a 3c |arset="utf-8">.<|

Preview

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Where 100 MB matters

A 104,857,600-byte file: the request-body limit of Cloudflare's Free and Pro plans, and the size above which GitHub rejects a file outright.

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Use this file for

Finding the first upload limit in a new stack
Testing scrapers and HTML-to-text conversion
Testing HTML sanitisers and upload filters

Testing notes for HTML

Serve uploaded HTML with Content-Disposition: attachment or from a separate domain, and send X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff.
A text file that merely starts with a tag can be sniffed as HTML by older browsers if the Content-Type header is missing.

HTML format reference

Technical details

File name	sample-html-100mb.html
Format	HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
Extension	.html
MIME type	text/html
Size	104,857,600 bytes (100 MB)
Kind	Text
Signature	3C 21 44 4F 43 54 59 50 45
SHA-256	f7df73fbf6f4ce1a265c980c880005dc989b7ba0aac76f9a92f532b46a5df46e
Created	2026-10-23
Validation	See the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility.
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Documents

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Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 100 MB?: Yes. It is 104,857,600 bytes, which is 100 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 100 MB HTML file?: A static HTML5 page with 129,799 sections of headings, paragraphs, lists and tables. It has no scripts, no external resources and a noindex robots tag. An HTML comment before the closing tags brings the file to the exact size.
Do the HTML samples run any scripts?: No. They are static documents with one small inline style block, no scripts and no external resources, and they are marked noindex.

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