Identify Performance of Your Web Apps Using Speed Tracer Chrome Extension

September 6, 2011 Browser, Chrome

speed-tracer-logoSpeed Tracer extension for chrome is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Speed Tracer is available as a Chrome extension and works on all platforms where extensions are currently supported (Windows and Linux).

This extension is geared for web developers who want to see performance statistics for their web applications. Click the button added to the toolbar to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application.

Using Speed Tracer you are able to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application.

Download Speed Tracer Extension for Chrome

You can analyze problems caused by:

  • Javascript parsing and execution
  • Layout
  • CSS style recalculation and selector matching
  • [advt]DOM Event handling
  • Network resource loading
  • Timer fires
  • XMLHttpRequest callbacks
  • Painting
To use this extension, make sure you’re using the developer version of Google Chrome and running the browser with the following command line flag: –enable-extension-timeline-api

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