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Chrome DevTools: Enable Console Timestamps to see how long things take

Last updated: 20th February 2023
Enable Console Timestamps to see how long things take

Introduction

Console Timestamps offers a simple way to see how long JavaScript operations are taking to execute.

How to enable it

To enable it:

Settings > Console > Show Timestamps

In addition to seeing how long things take, it can act as a reminder for the time at which a console.log was made.

An alternative

While this is handy as you don't need to change/instrument your code, there are alternative, and more powerful time-related features in DevTools - such as console.time() as covered in an earlier tip.

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