diff --git a/scripts/build_web_assets.py b/scripts/build_web_assets.py
index bb55694..857880e 100755
--- a/scripts/build_web_assets.py
+++ b/scripts/build_web_assets.py
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
     dependency_ordered_file_list = remove_duplicates_preserve_order(
         dependency_ordered_file_list)
 
-
+    total_payload_size = 0
     for full_filepath in dependency_ordered_file_list:
         # make sure none of the files are hidden
         with open(full_filepath, 'rb') as input_file:
@@ -205,6 +205,8 @@
             sha1_list, file_content, relative_path)
         content_dict[full_filepath] = file_content
 
+        total_payload_size += len(file_content)
+
     with open(args.output.replace("cpp", "hpp"), 'w') as hpp_output:
         hpp_output.write("#pragma once\n"
                          "\n"
@@ -296,5 +298,7 @@
             )
         cpp_output.write("}\n}\n")
 
+    print("Total static file size: {}KB".format(int(total_payload_size/1024)))
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     main()