diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 194594a..1939f53 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "linkedbytes"
-version = "0.1.9"
+version = "0.1.10"
 authors = ["Volo Team <volo@cloudwego.io>"]
 edition = "2021"
 description = "LinkedBytes is a linked list of Bytes and BytesMut."
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 194e71a..fb455f4 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ impl LinkedBytes {
         self.bytes.reserve(additional);
     }
 
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        let mut len = 0;
+        for node in self.list.iter() {
+            len += node.as_ref().len();
+        }
+        len + self.bytes.len()
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.len() == 0
+    }
+
     pub fn insert(&mut self, bytes: Bytes) {
         let node = Node::Bytes(bytes);
         // split current bytes