Chat messages in bytes?

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Has anyone tried benchmarking various chat application and measure the bandwidth usage?

I am building a chat app with smallest footprint. It would be great to know how much data other apps uses.

Did you have a look to Protocol Buffers, Apache Thrift or Cap’n Proto for efficient network exchanges ?

Haven't looked in details. I just want to find out if existing chat application are efficient