Essential Chrome Extensions for Web Developers | A quick guide

Citizens are becoming very knowledgeable about the day-to-day online services and products they utilise and adapt regularly and expect a good experience in return. So, web developers are working hard to give their clients maximum results in minimum time and effort. Browser extensions assist in this a lot. 

These extensions add extra features and functions to your browser and enhance your work and process. 

For example, Grammarly is a writing help extension that can help you check grammar, spelling, and punctuations and suggest better-phrased sentences, making writing emails or documents a cinch.

Here are five essential chrome extensions used by web developers. 

 

1. Check My Links

As depicted by the name, it does what it says. It crawls through your web page to display if it has broken links and reviews for valid and redirected links. It gets proved to be very beneficial for maintaining the SEO norms of the webpage. 

 

2. Session Buddy

It is one of the most used session managers and permits the developers to handle their tabs by preserving the open tabs as collections to be fixed later and also recovers the label after a crash. 

 

3. Wappalyzer

It is a tool to help find out all the underlying technologies to create any website. It allows discovering the programming languages, CMS, databases, web services, content management, generators, server software, analytics tools, eCommerce platforms, plugins, widgets, and JavaScript frameworks. 

 

4. BrowserStack

BrowserStack permits you to strain your work on every feasible on-demand browser and OS. It also provides real devices to try on and finds new test sessions on real browsers with a couple of clicks. It also activates up to 12 browsers for effortless access, switches between browsers, and expends less time on the overall testing process. 

 

5. Lighthouse

Lighthouse helps to make your web pages look attractive and enhances the performance and quality of web pages as it runs quick trials and audits the page to develop a report that helps determine weak spots.