CSS Overview: Identify potential CSS improvements
Use the CSS Overview panel to better understand your page's CSS and identify potential improvements.
This is a preview feature in Chrome 96. Our team is actively working on this feature and we are looking for your feedback for further enhancements.
Open the CSS Overview panel
Open any web page, such as this page.
Select Customize and control DevTools > More tools > CSS Overview.
Alternatively, use the Command Menu to open the CSS Overview panel.
Run and re-run a CSS Overview report
Click the Capture overview button to generate a CSS Overview report of your page.
To re-run a CSS Overview, click the Clear overview icon and repeat the first step.
Understand the CSS Overview report
The report consists of five sections:
Overview summary. A high level summary of your page's CSS.
Colors. All the colors on your page. The colors are grouped by types, such as background colors, text colors, etc. This sections also shows you texts that have low contrast issues.
Each color is clickable. For example, suppose the
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border color doesn't match the color scheme of your site. To get a list of elements that use this color, click the color.To highlight the element on the page, hover over the element in the list.
To open the element in the Elements panel, click the element in the list.
Font info. All the fonts on your page and their occurrences, grouped by different font size, font weight, and line height. Similar to the Colors section, to view the list of affected elements, click their occurrences.
Unused declarations. All the styles that have no effect, grouped by reason.
For example, the two declarations above are unused because the content determines the height and width of an inline element. To view the corresponding elements, click the occurrences.
Media queries. All the media queries defined on your page, sorted by number of occurrences in descending order. To view the list of affected elements, click their occurrences.