Web development · By Ankit D · Aug 6, 2026

Top 15 Chrome DevTools Features Every Developer Should Know

Top 15 Chrome DevTools Features Every Developer Should Know

Introduction

Today we are going to see 15 such Chrome developer tools which you can use to become quite an expert and these tools will speed up your work. If you are still learning coding then these tools are going to be of great help to you like fixing coding bugs. There are many such tools which help us in our daily life and we get a lot of benefit from them, you just need to know which tool to use and when. Many times we go to a website and we like its color font but we do not know how we can use its font and color. So these There are also tools available which can reduce this work in just a few minutes without any problem. You should know all these things that which tools can reduce our work. So now let us see which tools will boost your coding speed.

Elements Panel

I also use this tool myself. The advantage of this tool is that without editing any file, you can directly check in your browser which button or heading color will be applied, what happens in it, for example, if you are creating a new website and if you are not able to understand which type of color will be applied, then with its help you can directly change the color and see how it will look, and the advantage in this is that you do not need to edit the file and live testing is also done.

Console Panel

You must be knowing about this but many new developers do not know how to use it, how to open it and what is its use, so let me tell you that this is quite normal and you can use it, if any bug comes in JavaScript then it detects it and tells you what is the error and why it came, the advantage of this is that you immediately come to know in which line what error has come, if you use this then you will not have to worry much.

Network Panel

If you open a website, you may not know it, but many files are downloaded in the background of that website, such as JavaScript, HTML, etc. This tool tells you what all has been downloaded, but the advantage of this is that if there is a problem in downloading a file or it fails, then it becomes known immediately, which lets us know and we can fix it. This API can also do debugging.

Performance Panel

This tool is very beneficial if your website is not ranking in Google then you can use this tool because often the SEO of our website is also correct but it does not rank because the loading speed of the website is very low due to which if a user comes to the website then he immediately closes the website which again has a big impact on Google. With this tool you can see all these things FPS, CPU usage, Rendering, JavaScript execution, its best and useful benefit is that you can speed up and optimize your website, then people will use your website and at the same time the website will also rank.

Lighthouse

This tool is also very helpful because it allows you to check the performance of your website. It automatically audits your website, including SEO and page speed. Google provides this tool. If you use it, your website can rank higher. For example, if some pages are not loading quickly, you can check their performance.

Device Toolbar

This is the best tool in this, if you have created a website then many times we have to check whether the website is responsive or not, for that we face many problems in checking the website or doing live testing, for this you can use this tool, in this you can check the website live on mobile device, through which we can check it immediately without any problem, many developers use this tool.

Sources Panel

With this tool, you can fix complex JavaScript bugs, which is great because you don't have to search for them repeatedly; you can fix them quickly and without any hassle.

Application Panel

This tool is also very useful and best because with the help of this tool you can check the storage of your website like local storage, session storage or cookies, this tool tells you everything and its advantage is that you can easily fix the login bugs of the website, many times our website has more storage which we do not know, hence you can check everything with this tool.

Coverage Tool

This tool is very useful and you must use it. This tool tells you about the unused CSS and JavaScript because if there is any unnecessary code in your website then it can cause the website to load while opening, hence you have to pay attention to this and this tool tells you so that you can easily remove the unnecessary code.

Rendering Panel

You must have seen many such websites in which the layout of the website is shifted, sometimes the component goes to the left and sometimes to the right, due to which we have to face many problems, this tool can manage all this and tells you, it visualizes everything, the benefit of which is that the core web vitals of your website can be improved.

Security Panel

You know that there are many such websites that as soon as we open them, we get an alert that this website is not suitable for your device and we do not even know about many such websites which are not suitable for our device, this tool tells you whether the website has SSL certificate installed or not, if the website is not suitable then it tells you this in advance itself, if there is any problem in the website then you can avoid its bad effect.

Recorder Panel

Sometimes it happens that when we work for a client, we have to give details to the client about who is doing what work. This tool records your website interaction, like you are logging in, then adding a product to the cart, it records in exactly the same way who is doing what work. This is very good, through which we get complete details and the client also understands it well. If you work on such a project and the code is complex, then you can use this.

CSS Overview

When we are making a website, many codes get added without any reason, which we do not even know whether it is useless or not. This tool removes unused CSS properties, due to which there is not much load on the code and our work also becomes easier. It removes duplicate colors and fonts, this improves the consistency of our code.

This is very useful and good, I use it myself and it comes in handy in my daily life. When we create a landing page, if we have to edit the code, we edit it quickly, but if we work on a big project, then it becomes very difficult to edit the code or any particular line. This tool makes your work easy. In this, you can find any line of code in just a second, which will save your time.

Conclusion

Today I have told you about all these tools, if you use them then your coding speed will also increase and you will also enjoy working. Error finding tools and many other tools have also been added in it which make your daily coding life easy because there is a difference between a pro developer and a noob developer and a pro is the one who works smartly.