From the course: Developing for Web Performance

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How do we measure performance?

How do we measure performance?

- [Narrator] Most aspects of my performance can be measured in a consistent way for comparison and analysis and iteration. There are a myriad of tools out there for this purpose including tools built into your browser and online tools you can use either for free or for a fee. Different tools give you different types of feedback. And because they exist in different locations on different stacks and provide different types of services, they also give you slightly different results compared to one another. For this reason, the best practice is to use several different performance monitoring tools collect the data from all of them, and then compare, contrast and analyze when possible. These tools fall into two main categories, browser tools and hosted third party tools. Let's look at the browser tools first. There are two main types of tools here. The first one exists inside the Chrome browser. If you open the developer…

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