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Hovering over the <html> tag shows the site's height is 10735200px

    10735200 px / (37.8px / 1 cm) = 284000 cm
Based on a 96dpi standard monitor (96px/in or 96px/2.56cm)



Small nitpick: an inch is 2.54 cm, not 2.56 cm. That makes the html element 284035.5 cm high, which I guess is the height of that "whws" div plus the height of text and margins above and below.

In any case about 28.4 m is a long way of from 18.94 km.


Oops you're right about that typo

Although for css cm, browsers will use 37.8 px/cm instead of 96/2.54=37.7952 when making the conversion which gives the even 284000cm

The only way I can think of to get 18.94 km from the browser's interpreted 2.84 km is if the website is physically projected/printed on a 14.4 dpi display like a billboard




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