{"id":333,"date":"2020-10-15T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webfives.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2021-01-18T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T06:00:42","slug":"best-way-to-use-chrome-dev-tools-to-monitor-website-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webfives.com\/best-way-to-use-chrome-dev-tools-to-monitor-website-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Best way to use Chrome Dev tools to monitor website speed."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chrome – the most popular browser on the Internet is also the favorite tool for frontend and backend engineers alike. The plethora of options dev tools offer, encompasses not just HTML, Javascript debugging, it keeps getting rich in features. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The network panel in dev-tools is the most powerful pane to exist in terms of understanding the slowest component of your website. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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developer tools<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Using the network panel is intuitive, as always, open any URL, https:\/\/webfast.co, right click and select Inspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the Network tab and you will see a lot of options. The section with Status code is most critical for our current task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sort by time to view which images load first<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Click on “Time” row to sort it by descending order. Here’s the fun part, you now see the response that takes longest to load. Before we jump to conclusions, it’s important to understand the Waterfall<\/code> column. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waterfall shows how browser is queuing up the requests to download various assets for the HTML page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are few key terminologies associated with Waterfall that are important to understand. Hover your mouse over the horizontal bar graph and you will see the following geek-o-logy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Breakdown of steps involved while loading an image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n