Google’s dedication to speed doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone and a faster web is one of the main goals of the company. It tackles the problem on several fronts, building its own browser , its own Internet protocols and continually optimizing its own apps and services, but it can’t really do that much for the web at large, at least not directly. It can, however, do its best to help web developers build better and faster apps and it has several projects on this front as well. Recently, it launched an updated version of the Chrome dev tools with a couple of new features and now it’s releasing a new tool for the Google Web Toolkit, Speed Tracer.
“Speed Tracer is a Google Chrome extension that enables developers to identify performance problems in their web apps using a “Sluggishness Graph,” in combination with many other metrics. In the spirit of clean, simple design, developers need only look at the Y-Axis of their application’s Sluggishness Graph to see how they’re doing,” Bruce Johnson, engineering director, wrote. “We think developers will find that Speed Tracer looks under the covers of web applications like never before.”
It’s an interesting use of the new extensions platform which Google just launched for Chrome. Of course, loading times measuring tools … (read more)