Performance heads-up display in Chrome

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As you may have noted, I'm busy with the performance on this website lately as we just talked about optimizing animated content, and improving our lighthouse score.
And with that, I found a super cool feature in Chrome, a so-called Performance Heads-up Display (HUD) baked in the core of Chrome!

This used to be an extension that you could add to Chrome, but it's now inside Chrome. The display shows very useful information that you know from Lighthouse.
Including:
Of course, you are now wondering how to enable this, right?
about:flag in your chrome browserShow performance metrics in HUDThese steps make it available in the top right corner.

This is super useful when doing many performance upgrades that you want to check right away, without waiting for Lighthouse to render.
The feature is also coming to mobile, but it doesn't seem to be in Chrome for iOS yet.
I am looking forward to also having the display there.
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