Google Chrome has helped web developers because of the features available in the web browser. Google Chrome has various AWESOME extensions that save developers time by giving them ability to track bugs and performance issues for their applications.

Lets have a look at few useful extensions for web developers.

Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the popular Web Developer extension for Firefox written by the same person.

It comes with many options including on-screen ruler, page re-size, multiple validation options, hidden elements viewer and color picker.

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A fast loading website with good images and scripts performance is the first step to a successful online presence, but in real we use many tools , plugins, widgets in our website and those tools simply cause our website to load slow. The search engine panelizes the websites and we don’t get higher rankings in the search results due to the long response time.

Here is a list of free and open source tools and plugins that can help us to test performance and speed of our websites. With their suggestions, we can improve site’s response time.

 Website speed check

The website speed tester shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.

BrowserMob – Free Website Performance Test Tool

Test your website performance with this free cutting edge tool. This tool accesses your website from different location and generates a website performance analysis report.

PageTest

Pagetest allows you to provide the URL of a webpage to be tested. The test will be conducted from the location specified and you will be provided a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist.

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