Turns raw browser performance traces into a plain-language diagnosis of what's slow, why, and what to fix first.
Users
9
+7 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
+5.00 in 30 days
Ratings
2
+2 in 30 days
Store rank
#199K
#167K among extensions
Version
0.7.0
updated 15 Oct 2026
Users
monthly, 1 months
Latest, 16 Oct 2026:9 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 1 months
Latest, 16 Oct 2026:2 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.
About traceOn
traceOn
Find what's slowing your page, then prove what fixing it is worth before you do the work.
Most performance tools hand you a flame chart and leave the interpretation to you. traceOn does the interpretation.
Click Record, capture a DevTools Protocol trace of the tab you choose, and traceOn analyzes it entirely on your own machine to produce a readable, actionable report.
What You Get From One Recording
Verdict & Performance Score
Get an immediate explanation of what's making the page slow, alongside a performance score.
traceOn analyzes and explains:
LCP — Largest Contentful Paint
INP — Interaction to Next Paint
CLS — Cumulative Layout Shift
FCP — First Contentful Paint
TTFB — Time to First Byte
Total Blocking Time
Instead of just showing numbers, traceOn explains what caused them and what contributed to the score.
Root Causes With Evidence
Every finding is backed by evidence from the trace.
Each issue identifies:
The responsible file, task, request, or element
Estimated performance impact
Confidence level
Where it occurred on the timeline
Supporting trace evidence
So instead of "your page is slow," you get an explanation of what happened, where it happened, and why it matters.
A Fix Plan
Don't stop at identifying problems.
traceOn turns findings into an ordered list of recommended fixes — helping you understand what to change first, what to change next, and why.
The recommendations are written so you can:
Fix them yourself
Copy them into an issue
Send them directly to the developer responsible for the site
Load Timeline
See how the page came together from beginning to end.
Instead of a wall of trace spans, traceOn presents the loading process as a readable timeline showing the important events and their relationships.
Activity
Inspect the page's activity on a single timeline.
See:
Network requests
Long main-thread tasks
Console output
Drag across the timeline to focus on a specific moment and understand what was happening when performance degraded.
Security Checks
Get a quick security overview alongside your performance analysis.
traceOn checks:
Content Security Policy (CSP)
HSTS
X-Frame-Options
Other important response headers
HTTPS configuration
Cookie security flags
Mobile or Desktop
Record the page under different conditions.
Analyze a page as:
📱 Mobile
🖥️ Desktop
This makes it easier to identify problems that only appear under mobile-like loading conditions.
Across Runs
History & Compare
Every recording is kept so you can see how a page changes over time.
Pin a run as a baseline, make your changes, and record again.
traceOn helps you determine whether the change actually improved performance while accounting for normal run-to-run measurement noise.
Interaction Watch
Don't just test page load performance.
Turn on Interaction Watch, use a site normally, and traceOn monitors your interactions.
It catches:
Clicks
Keypresses
Other user interactions
When an interaction takes 200ms or more, traceOn records the interaction and identifies the script responsible.
Interaction Watch automatically stops after 30 minutes.
Test Lab
What-If
Wondering how much a third-party script or domain actually costs?
Block a script or domain and measure the difference.
traceOn repeatedly loads the page with the cache disabled and compares the results so you can see the measured cost of what you removed.
Use it to answer questions like:
"How much faster would this page be without this third-party script?"
Compare Sites
Load your page alongside up to three other sites and compare their performance.
See where the differences come from and investigate why another implementation may be loading or responding differently.
Responsive Check
Find responsive layout problems across device sizes.
traceOn checks for:
Horizontal overflow
Overlapping elements
Tiny tap targets
Other responsive layout issues
Includes a live preview so you can see the problem rather than relying only on a report.
DevTools Panel
Need a quick performance check without running a full recording?
Open the traceOn DevTools panel for a lightweight Web Vitals readout.
Use it when you want a fast signal before running a deeper trace.
Privacy First
Everything happens on your device.
traceOn does not require an account, and recordings are not uploaded to a server.
🔒 No account required
🖥️ Analysis happens locally
🚫 No ads
🚫 No trackers
🚫 No data sales
🔐 Your recordings stay on your device
Read the full privacy policy:
Everything happens on your device. traceOn needs no account, and nothing you record is sent to any server. No ads, no trackers, no data sales. Full policy: https://traceon-community.solomon-muhye-wd.workers.dev/privacy
Who It's For
traceOn is built for anyone who needs to understand why a web page feels slow.
Web Developers
Find the code, request, task, or rendering problem responsible for poor performance without manually digging through thousands of trace events.
Performance Engineers
Go from raw trace data to evidence-backed findings and repeatable comparisons.
Teams
Turn performance investigations into concrete, prioritized fixes that can be shared with the people responsible for the site.
The Idea Behind traceOn
DevTools shows you what happened.
traceOn helps explain why it happened and what to do about it.
Instead of leaving you with a flame chart and hundreds of thousands of trace events, traceOn turns browser performance data into a diagnosis you can actually act on.
Growth
Window
Users
Change
Ratings
Rating
7 days
−2
−18.2%
0
0.00
30 days
+7
+350.0%
+2
+5.00
Chrome Web Store search rankings
Where traceOn appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change