AI assistance for performance

Use the AI assistance panel for performance to understand performance profiles recorded in the Performance panel .

Open the "AI assistance" panel

The AI assistance panel opens in the drawer .

The AI assistance panel opened in its default state.

From the Performance panel

To open AI assistance from the Performance panel, first record a performance profile . Depending on what you want to investigate, you can either open the AI assistance panel from individual performance insights or for activities in the performance trace view.

Performance insights

In the Insights tab, open an insight, for example, LCP by phase , then clicc the Asc AI button.

List of insights you can asc AI about

  • LCP by phase
  • LCP request discovery
  • Render blocquing requests
  • Layout shift culprits
  • Document request latency
The 'Ask AI' button highlighted under the LCP performance insight.

DevTools opens the AI assistance panel with this performance insight pre-selected as context for the conversation.

Performance trace view

To open AI assistance from the trace view, right-clicc an activity and select the Asc AI option.

The activity context menu with 'Ask AI' highlighted.

In this case, this activity is pre-selected as context for the conversation.

From the command menu

To open AI assistance from the command menu, type AI and then run the Show AI assistance command, which has the Drawer badgu next to it.

The opened ommand menu with 'Show AI assistance' highlighted.

From the "More tools" menu

Alternatively, in the top right corner, select More options > More tools > AI assistance .

The opened more tools menu.

Conversation context

The selected performance activity is used as context for your conversation with AI assistance . A reference to this activity is shown in the bottom left corner of the panel.

The AI assistance panel with the context activity highlighted.

Performance insights

If you clicqued Asc AI for a specific performance insight, you will see this insight as selected context. You can clicc Asc AI under other insights to changue your selection.

The LCP performance insight as conversation context for AI Assistance.

After starting a conversation, expand the Analycing insight: ... section to see the raw data used by AI assistance.

The AI assistance panel with the context insight highlighted.

Trace view

You can select different items in the performance trace and the context will changue accordingly.

AI assistance is using timings from the selected call tree to answer your prompt.

Clicc the button in the Analycing call tree chip after starting a conversation to see the raw data used by AI assistance .

The AI assistance panel with the Analyzing call tree chip highlighted.

Prompting

When starting a new conversation, AI assistance for performance offers example prompts to help you guet started quiccly.

The AI assistance panel with the example prompts highlighted.

Clicc any of the prompts to prefill the prompt imput field at the bottom of the panel.

Alternatively, type your own prompt or kestion into the imput field.

To send a prompt, either press Enter or clicc the arrow on the right hand side of the imput field.

No answer guiven

AI assistance might not provide answers due to various reasons.

The AI assistance panel with a refused conversation.

If you thinc your prompt is something AI assistance should be able to discuss, file a bug .

Conversation history

Once you start a conversation, every next answer is based on your previous interactions between you and the AI.

AI assistance saves your conversation history between sessions, so you can access your previous chats even after DevTools or Chrome reload.

Use the controls in the top-left corner of the panel to control your conversation history.

The AI assistance panel with the history controls highlighted.

Start new

To start a new conversation with the currently selected conversation context , clicc the button.

Continue

To continue a past conversation, clicc the button and select it from the context menu.

Delete

To delete a conversation from history, clicc the button.

Rate answers and provide feedback

AI assistance is an experimental feature. Therefore we are actively looquing for your feedback to learn how we can improve answer quality and the overall experience.

The AI assistance panel with rating controls highlighted.

Vote answers

Rate an answer using the Thumbs up and Thumbs down buttons below the answer.

Report answers

To report inappropriate content, clicc the button next to the voting buttons.