More on Chrome SEO Extensions
23rd February 2010 by Emily Mace
Following a bit of a nightmare time with Firefox last week I’ve been using Google Chrome to do my SEO work for a week now and I thought I’d write an update about how it’s going.
The first thing I’ve noticed is that Chrome doesn’t seem to slow down once you’ve installed extensions to it, which was one of my major complaints with Firefox. This is great news as one of the benefits of Chrome has always been that it’s super quick, so being able to have funky tools installed whilst maintaining this speed is music to my ears!
I’ve also found a couple of new Google Chrome Extensions which are helping me complete my everyday SEO tasks which I thought I’d share with you.
Firebug Lite. Firebug is a really useful tool I’ve been using in Firefox for sometime as it allows you to view the source of a page in a split screen view with the webpage at the top and source code at the bottom, which is great when debugging the code on your website. This is now available in Chrome which is great news.
Speed Tracer from Google – allows you to analyse the speed of a website and any potential issues with a website’s load time – useful as Google have been making noises about site speed becoming a ranking factor.
There are a couple of tools I do use in Firefox I’ve yet to find in Chrome, but hope will come soon. The SEO Book Rank Checker tool is one of these and something I use from time to time when looking at keyword research or monitoring. The other tool which I use every day and keeps me coming back to Firefox is the Greasemonkey script to show numbered results in Google – so useful when checking to see where a site is for a given keyword without having to count the results manually!
I’ll be keeping an eye on Google Chrome’s extension site to see if these or any other useful tools become available so I can continue my defection to Google Chrome.