diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8c2ce775..c5910322 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -166,6 +166,16 @@ The resulting stats.json can be found at `dist/stats.json` *Please be aware, that this is not a reasonable build for production use, as it increases the build output size considerably.* +### I don't see `gzip` or `parsed` sizes, it only shows `stat` size + +It happens when `webpack-bundle-analyzer` analyzes files that don't actually exist in your file system, for example when you work with `webpack-dev-server` that keeps all the files in RAM. If you use `webpack-bundle-analyzer` as a plugin you won't get any errors, however if you run it via CLI you get the error message in terminal: +``` +Couldn't parse bundle asset "your_bundle_name.bundle.js". +Analyzer will use module sizes from stats file. +``` +To get more information about it you can read [issue #147](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-bundle-analyzer/issues/147). + +