A 100 MB JPG test file

About this file

A 100 MB test file in JPG format, sized to exactly 104,857,600 bytes. Free to download with no signup, for verifying upload limits and file-handling behaviour.

The MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 values listed above are the real digests of this file. Recomputing them after download confirms the transfer was not corrupted, and they double as known-good expected values when testing a hashing library.

What this size means in practice

100 MB is GitHub's hard per-file push limit and also the upload cap through Cloudflare's free plan. It is likewise the point where AWS S3 recommends multipart upload instead of a single PUT.

It also exercises your timeout configuration. On a 10 Mbps link the transfer alone takes about 80 seconds, so leaving PHP's max_execution_time (default 30s) or nginx's fastcgi_read_timeout (default 60s) untouched makes the upload fail on a timeout rather than on a size check.

Getting a feel for this size

On a 10 Mbps link the transfer takes roughly 83.9 seconds, and about 8.4 seconds at 100 Mbps. Base64-encoded it grows to roughly 136,533 KB.

Estimating a photographic JPG at roughly 0.2 bytes per pixel, this size works out to around 524,288,000 pixels — about 26,440 × 19,830 px at a 4:3 aspect ratio. Compression varies enormously with image content, so treat this purely as an order-of-magnitude figure.

What to check for this format

JPEG is lossy and has no transparency. Its signature begins with FF D8 FF. The single most common defect in real implementations is ignoring the EXIF Orientation tag, which makes rotated photos appear sideways in the browser.

• Whether you read EXIF Orientation and auto-rotate, or deliberately strip it
• Whether privacy-sensitive data such as GPS coordinates remains — stripping is mandatory for user-submitted images
• Whether both progressive and baseline JPEG decode correctly — older decoders sometimes fail on progressive