Technical Writer, Chrome DevTools & Lighthouse
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 84)
The new Issues tab, accessibility information in the Inspect Mode tooltip, and more.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 83)
Emulate color vision deficiencies, emulate locales, COOP and COEP debugging, and lots more.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 81)
Moto G4 in Device Mode, new cookie-related features, and more.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 80)
Support for let and class redeclarations in the Console, improved WebAssembly debugging, and more.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 79)
Debug why cookies were blocked, simulate "prefers-color-scheme: dark", code coverage updates, and more.
Debug Background Services With Chrome DevTools
How to debug Background Fetch, Background Sync, Notifications, and Push Messages with Chrome DevTools.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 78)
Lighthouse 5.2 in the Audits panel, and Largest Contentful Paint in the Performance panel.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 77)
Copy element styles, visualize layout shifting, and more.
Find Overriding CSS Declarations In Chrome DevTools
How to figure out what old CSS is causing your new CSS to not be applied properly.
Find Unused JavaScript And CSS Code With The Coverage Tab In Chrome DevTools
How to find and analyze unused JavaScript and CSS code in Chrome DevTools.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 76)
Autocomplete with CSS values, a new UI for network settings, and more.
Change Chrome DevTools Placement (Undock, Dock To Bottom, Dock To Left)
How to move Chrome DevTools to the bottom or left of your viewport, or to a separate window.
Enable Dark Theme In Chrome DevTools
How to turn on the dark theme in Chrome DevTools.
Customize Chrome DevTools
A list of ways you can customize Chrome DevTools.
Get Started With Logging Messages In The Console
Learn how to log messages to the Console.
Console Overview
The main uses of the Chrome DevTools Console are logging messages and running JavaScript.
Console Reference
A comprehensive reference on every feature and behavior related to the Console UI in Chrome DevTools.
Watch JavaScript Expression Values In Real-Time With Live Expressions
If you find yourself typing the same JavaScript expressions into the Console repeatedly, try Live Expressions instead.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 75)
Meaningful autocomplete preset values, clear site data from the Command Menu, and more.
Run Commands With The Chrome DevTools Command Menu
A guide on how to open the Command Menu, run commands, see other actions, and more.
View Application Cache Data With Chrome DevTools
How to view Application Cache data from the Application panel of Chrome DevTools.
View Cache Data With Chrome DevTools
How to view Cache data from the Application panel of Chrome DevTools.
View Web SQL Data With Chrome DevTools
How to view Web SQL data from the Application panel of Chrome DevTools.
View And Change IndexedDB Data With Chrome DevTools
How to view and change IndexedDB data with the Application panel and Snippets.
View And Edit Local Storage With Chrome DevTools
How to view and edit localStorage with the Local Storage pane and the Console.
View And Edit Session Storage With Chrome DevTools
How to view and edit sessionStorage with the Session Storage pane and the Console.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 74)
Highlight nodes affected by a CSS property, Lighthouse v4, WebSocket binary message viewer, and more.
Get Started With Viewing And Changing The DOM
How to view nodes, search for nodes, edit nodes, reference nodes in the Console, break on node changes, and more.
Inspect Network Activity In Chrome DevTools
A tutorial on the most popular network-related features in Chrome DevTools.
Disable JavaScript With Chrome DevTools
Open the Command Menu and run the "Disable JavaScript" command.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 73)
Logpoints, detailed tooltips in Inspect Mode, and much more.
Override Geolocation With Chrome DevTools
Open the Sensors tab and select coordinates from the "Geolocation" list.
Simulate Device Orientation With Chrome DevTools
Open the Sensors tab and go to the "Orientation" section.
Blackbox Chrome Extension Scripts
Enable "Blackbox content scripts" from Settings > Blackboxing.
Force Chrome DevTools Into Print Preview Mode (CSS Print Media Type)
Open the "Rendering" tab and select "Emulate CSS media" > "print".
Open Chrome DevTools
All of the ways that you can open Chrome DevTools.
Override The User Agent String From Chrome DevTools
Open the Network conditions tab, disable "Select automatically", and choose from the list or enter a custom string.
Track Which Element Has Focus
Open the Console, create a Live Expression, and set the expression to "document.activeElement".
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 72)
Visualize performance metrics, highlight text nodes, copy the JS path to a node, and Audits panel updates.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 71)
Highlight DOM nodes from Live expressions, store nodes as global variables, and more.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 70)
Live Expressions in the Console, highlight DOM nodes during Eager Evaluation, and more.
Accessibility Reference
A comprehensive reference of accessibility features in Chrome DevTools.
Optimize Website Speed With Chrome DevTools
Learn how to use Chrome DevTools to find ways to make your websites load faster.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 68)
Eager evaluation, argument hints, function autocompletion, Lighthouse 3.0, and more.
Get Started With Running JavaScript In The Console
Learn how to run JavaScript in the Console.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 67)
Search across network headers, copy requests as fetch, audit pages using desktop conditions, and much more.
Edit Files With Workspaces
Learn how to save changes made within DevTools to disk.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 66)
Blackboxing in the Network panel, auto-adjust zooming in Device Mode, and more.
Lighthouse 2.8 Updates
New perf and SEO audits, perf as the first section in reports, and more.
Using DevTools Features Without Opening DevTools
Use Puppeteer to launch Chromium with DevTools features enabled.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 65)
Local Overrides, accessibility tools, performance and SEO audits, and more.
Sources Panel Overview
View and edit files, create Snippets, debug JavaScript, and set up Workspaces in the Sources panel of Chrome DevTools.
Lighthouse 2.7 Updates
New SEO audits and manual accessibility audits, and updates to the WebP audit.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 63)
Multi-client remote debugging, push notifications with custom data, and Workspaces 2.0.
Lighthouse 2.6 Updates
New performance audits, a rehaul of the accessibility score, report UX improvements, and bug fixes.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 64)
Performance Monitor, Console Sidebar, and Console groupings.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 62)
Top-level await operators in the Console, new screenshot workflows, CSS Grid highlighting, and more.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 61)
New features and changes coming to DevTools in Chrome 61.
CSS Reference
Discover new workflows for viewing and changing CSS in Chrome DevTools.
Get Started With Viewing And Changing CSS
Learn how to use Chrome DevTools to view and change a page's CSS.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 60)
New features and changes coming to DevTools in Chrome 60.
Performance Analysis Reference
A reference on all the ways to record and analyze performance in Chrome DevTools.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 59)
New features and changes coming to DevTools in Chrome 59.
Get Started With Analyzing Runtime Performance
Learn how to evaluate runtime performance in Chrome DevTools.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 58)
New features and changes coming to DevTools in Chrome 58.
How To Pause Your Code With Breakpoints In Chrome DevTools
Learn about all the ways you can pause your code in Chrome DevTools.
Get Started with Debugging JavaScript in Chrome DevTools
Learn how to use Chrome DevTools to find and fix JavaScript bugs.
JavaScript Debugging Reference
Discover new debugging workflows in this comprehensive reference of Chrome DevTools debugging features.
Network Issues Guide
Learn how to detect network issues in the Network panel of Chrome DevTools.
Chrome DevTools: JavaScript CPU Profiling in Chrome 58
"Record JavaScript CPU Profile" has been changed in Chrome 58.
DevTools Digest, October 2016
New Console features, updates on the context selector bug, and the new UC Browser user agent.
DevTools Digest, September 2016: Perf Roundup
Perf tooling improvements in DevTools over the last few Chrome releases.
DevTools Digest, August 2016
What happened to the Resources panel, new features, and community activity.
Debug Progressive Web Apps
Use the Application panel to inspect, modify, and debug web app manifests, service workers, and service worker caches.
DevTools Digest: DevTools in 2016 and Beyond
Big themes and trends for DevTools in 2016 and beyond.
Improving Scroll Performance with Passive Event Listeners
New to Chrome 51, passive event listeners provide a major potential boost to scroll performance.
Inspect animations
Inspect and modify animations with the Chrome DevTools Animation Inspector.
Console API Reference
Use the Console API to write messages to the Console.
Find and Fix Web App Performance Issues
This codelab will help you learn to identify and fix web app performance bottlenecks.
Understand Security Issues With Chrome DevTools
Use the Security Panel to make sure that a page is fully protected by HTTPS.
Run Snippets Of JavaScript On Any Page With Chrome DevTools
Snippets are small scripts that you can author and execute within the Sources panel of Chrome DevTools. You can access and run them from any page. When you run a Snippet, it executes from the context of the currently open page.
Set Up Persistence with DevTools Workspaces
Set up persistent authoring in Chrome DevTools so you can both see your changes immediately and save those changes to disk.
How to Use the Timeline Tool
Use the Chrome DevTools Timeline panel to record and analyze all the activity in your application as it runs. It's the best place to start investigating perceived performance issues in your application.
Edit the DOM
The DOM tree view in the Chrome DevTools Elements panel displays the DOM structure of the current web page. Live-edit the content and structure of your page through DOM updates.
Chrome DevTools Keyboard Shortcuts
The canonical documentation for Chrome DevTools keyboard shortcuts.
Inspect and Edit Pages and Styles
Inspect and edit the HTML and CSS of your pages.
Network Analysis Reference
A comprehensive reference of Chrome DevTools Network panel features.
Get Started with Remote Debugging Android Devices
Remote debug live content on an Android device from a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer.
Access Local Servers
Host a site on a development machine web server, and then access the content from an Android device.
Analyze Runtime Performance
Users expect pages to be interactive and smooth. Each stage in the pixel pipeline represents an opportunity to introduce jank. Learn about tools and strategies to identify and fix common problems that slow down runtime performance.
Console Utilities API Reference
A reference of convenience functions available in the Chrome DevTools Console.
Diagnose Forced Synchronous Layouts
Follow along with this interactive guide to learn how to use DevTools to diagnose forced synchronous layouts.
Edit Styles
Use the Styles pane in Chrome DevTools to inspect and modify the CSS styles associated to an element.
Fix Memory Problems
Learn how to use Chrome and DevTools to find memory issues that affect page performance, including memory leaks, memory bloat, and frequent garbage collections.
How to step through your code
By executing code one line or one function at a time, you can observe changes in the data and in the page to understand exactly what is happening.
Inspect and Manage Storage, Databases, and Caches
Inspect and manage storage, databases, and caches from the Application panel.
Make JavaScript Look Pretty
Transform your JavaScript into a more readable form by clicking the Pretty-Print icon in Chrome DevTools.
Measure Resource Loading Times
Measure the network performance of your web application using the Chrome DevTools Network panel.
Simulate Mobile Devices with Device Mode in Chrome DevTools
Use virtual devices in Chrome's Device Mode to build mobile-first websites.
Speed Up JavaScript Execution
Identify expensive functions using the Chrome DevTools CPU Profiler.
View Page Resources With Chrome DevTools
Organize resources by frame, domain, type, or other criteria.
View, Edit, And Delete Cookies With Chrome DevTools
Learn how to view, edit, and delete a page's HTTP cookies using Chrome DevTools.