DevTools

Chrome DevTools is a set of web developer tools built directly into the Google Chrome browser. DevTools lets you edit pages on-the-fly and diagnose problems quickly, which helps you build better websites, faster.
DevTools supports a wide range of common web development tasks. Jump ahead on this page and explore some of DevTools' key features. Don't know where to start or your first time using DevTools? Watch an intro to DevTools.

Debug with AI

AI assistance, console insights, code suggestions, auto annotations, and more help you debug more efficiently.

Understand performance

Get a comprehensive and actionable view of your page's performance.

Inspect resources

Learn how to inspect resources loaded by your page and edit them from your browser.

Analyze network

Analyze and overwrite network requests and responses on the fly.

Debug with AI

Explore how AI innovations in DevTools let you do more, faster.

Chat with AI assistance

Let Gemini help you analyze and improve your website's styling, network, sources, and performance.

Get code suggestions

Use Gemini to get code suggestions while writing code in the Console and Sources panels.

Understand console messages

Understand console messages and errors in DevTools and learn how to fix them - without any copy-pasting.

DevTools MCP

Give your coding agents the same trusted tools you use to inspect network activity, record traces, and troubleshoot web applications, within your AI workflow.

Connect the Chrome DevTools MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to your tool of choice: Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Cline, Copilot, and more.

Developer Tooling Tips

Explore our monthly video series taking you through common debugging scenarios in DevTools in a playful way.

Performance optimization Pitstop

Get a tour through the updated Performance panel, showing you how to measure Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP) and how to get tailored advice from Gemini.

Pixel Pirate

Set sail with DevTools and become a debugging pirate! Discover techniques for emulating focus styles, testing forms with autofill, and resolving backend errors with network overrides.

AI innovations

Explore the power of Al-assisted debugging with Chrome DevTools! Discover how Console Insights, Al assistance for styling, performance, network, and sources can supercharge your workflow.

Advanced Network Analysis with Chrome DevTools

Explore advanced Network panel techniques, including how to find performance bottlenecks, debug popups, configure network conditions, use shortcuts to determine network request initiators and more.

Get performance insights

A wide range of tools to help you measure and optimize different aspects of your runtime performance: the Performance panel, Lighthouse, and more.

Performance tool overview

Learn about all the features in the Performance panel: how to record a performance trace, how to view and analyze the trace, and more.

Monitor your local and real-user Core Web Vitals performance in DevTools

Learn about new DevTools features like CPU throttling calibration to help you base your performance debugging decisions on data from the real world

Insights sidebar in the DevTools Performance panel

Learn about the new performance insights, the power of Lighthouse directly in the DevTools Performance panel.

News & updates

Inspect and edit resources

Feature reference

Learn about all the features in the Sources panel: how to view and edit files, debug JavaScript, and set up a workspace.

Set up a workspace

Workspace lets you to save changes that you make within DevTools to source code that's stored on your computer. Learn how to set up a workspace in your own projects.

Analyze network activity

Network panel

Learn about all the features in the Network panel: inspect response and request bodies, overwrite headers, and more.

Inspect network activity

A hands-on tutorial to guide you through common tasks inside the Network panel.

More tools

Discover all the other features and capabilities in DevTools.

Elements

Learn how to view and change a page's DOM.

Styles

Learn how to view and change a page's CSS.

Changes

Track changes to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Console

Log messages and run JavaScript.

Performance

Evaluate website performance.

Memory

Find memory issues that affect page performance, including memory leaks, and more.

Application

Inspect, modify, and debug web apps, test cache, view storage, and more.

Animations

Inspect and modify animations.

Recorder

Record, replay, measure user flows, and edit their steps.

Rendering

Discover a collection of options that affect web content rendering.

Autofill

Inspect and debug saved addresses.

Issues

Find and fix problems with your website.

Privacy & Security

Make sure that a page is fully protected by HTTPS.

Media

View information and debug media players per browser tab.

Sensors

Emulate device sensors.

WebAuthn

Emulate authenticators.