Chrome DevTools: Identify and visualise slow pieces of JavaScript code

You can locate slow pieces of JavaScript code with the User Timing API.

Try wrapping potentially slow code like this:

performance.mark('costlyFunction Start')

costlyFunction()

performance.mark('costlyFunction End')

performance.measure(
	'costlyFunction',
	'costlyFunction Start',
	'costlyFunction End'
)

💡 Tip: You can do much more with DevTools & the User Timing API:

• ⚡   Inject performance metrics into apps you aren't familiar with.
• 👁   Programatically read all performance measurements which have been recorded in JavaScript.
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧   Deploy performance capturing code to your end-users so you can gather Real User Metrics.
• ❔   Understand the benefit of Real User Monitoring, and how it compares to synthetic monitoring.
• ⚙   Use a combination of tools, like Boomerang and Node.js to receive performance metrics from your real users, straight to your servers.
• 📊   Visualise User Timing metrics in DevTools and correlating it with existing flame graphs.
• 🔌   Use external services & plugins to visualise your performance metrics.

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