Some Common Performance Profiling Tools For Web Applications
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Performance profiling tools available for web applications. Here are some of the most commonly used ones:
Google Lighthouse: An open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and more.
Chrome DevTools: Chrome's built-in DevTools provide a wealth of information about the performance of your web application, including a network panel for inspecting loading performance and a performance panel for runtime performance.
WebPageTest: This tool allows you to run free website speed tests from multiple locations around the globe using real browsers and at real consumer connection speeds.
YSlow: This is a tool that analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages.
GTmetrix: GTmetrix gives you insight on how well your site loads and provides actionable recommendations on how to optimize it.
Pingdom: Pingdom offers cost-effective and reliable uptime and performance monitoring for your websites. It helps you understand the performance of your webpage from a user's perspective.
PageSpeed Insights: This is a tool by Google that analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster.
While these tools can provide valuable insights and suggestions, they are not a substitute for understanding the underlying performance principles and optimizing your code accordingly.