Ever go to look at your website and think “boy, this just isn’t very snappy”. Ever wonder, you know, what could be done to make your site load faster?
You don’t need to be a codemonkey to figure it out. All you need is a (free) copy of Google Chrome, just released in Beta for Mac and Linux, and out forever for Windows.
Under View:Developer, select Developer Tools. In the new dialog box that pops up, select Resources.
Now you can watch as your website loads and identify the culprits, from slow running scripts to bloated images. Clicking on the size tab gives you an overview of the file sizes.
Yes, you have been able to do things like this in Firefox for a while, but few people ever go through the trouble of actually downloading the needed plugins. The Google Chrome Developer Tools are built in, have a slick interface, and can, quite frankly, become addictive to watch, even if you’re not interested in optimizing your site.
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5 Comments at "Google Chrome is Your New Best Friend"
Those are the Webkit developer tools. Safari has the same set. They are indeed very cool and quite useful.
You do realise this is part of WebKit and has been in Safari for about 2 years?
Its not anything to do with Google Chrome!
You’re right; in older versions of Safari, you had to enable Developer tools from the command line. In Safari 4, it is a preference that has to be enabled. And in Firefox you have Firebug, which is a brilliant plug-in.
Developer Tools are not unique to Chrome, but Chrome is the first browser to take them and place them frontish and kinda close to the centre. It’s not a plug-in to download, or a preference to enable. The Developer Tools are just there for anyone to use. That’s why they caught my attention.
Firebug for Firefox does the same. It’s not built in but it’s very tweakable.
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