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24 alternatives to Record your CSS usage on your website - remove unwanted CSS

This is a follow up to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5095516 regarding CSS optimisation. The common request/theme in these comments was the ability to 'record' your CSS usage on your website as you used it, thus capturing all the CSS selectors (i.e. on a dynamic website). Turns out this functionality is actually inside Chrome Developer Tools; "CSS Selector Profile". The profiler seems to be designed to record how much work each CSS selector takes - but I've noticed that it actually 'records' your usage (you press start + stop) - and shows you how many times each selector was called…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Record your CSS usage on your website - remove unwanted CSS launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Purgecss▲380

    Easily remove unused CSS

    2018 · purgecss.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    Crawl your website and find unused CSS

    2018 · jitbit.com · its alternatives →

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    Easily find and remove unused CSS rules

    2018 · unused-css.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4AC

    just wanted to share this useful tool with you. I have been looking at something like this for a very long time. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/css-used/cdopjfddj... what it does: it analyses your html dom and looks for css classes. Then it extracts it all and combines it into 1 single css file. I used 5 css framworks which was on 340kb kb. This tool made it 36kb!

    2018 · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    The fastest way to check, copy, export and edit CSS

    2020 · cssspider.fresalabs.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    Hover over anything and get the HTML/CSS

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    The fastest and easiest way to check, copy and edit CSS

    2022 · getcssscan.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    Identify large CSS rules and selectors

    2023 · debugbear.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Quickly see and track how much you use each model in Cursor

    2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    Goodbye to "Inspect Element" — Visualize the CSS of any element you hover over, instantly, and copy its entire rules with a single click.

    2022 · getcssscan.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    Transform your browser to improve focus & boost productivity

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Simple website blocker for Chrome 🙅💻

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Google Chrome Extension. Record All Browsing in Screenshots & Full Text. Search For Anything At Any Time. Never Forget Where You Read Something. Saves Everything To Your Machine, Not the Cloud, So Your Web History Stays With You. - idibidiart/AllSeeingEye

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CSSelf▲112

    Clean your CSS files of unused stuff

    2014 · csself.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    Chrome Extension for easy lookup of your website's sessions

    2020 · browsee.io · its alternatives →

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    Rebrowse▲150

    Turn screen-recording into 100 browser flows in one click.

    2025 · rebrowse.me · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    Take control of what you see on your most visited sites.

    2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    Get the CSS of any element on the web

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Click any element and ClickSay instantly captures it

    Mar 2026 · clicksay.net · its alternatives →

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    Get charged if you visit distracting sites

    2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21BB

    I built a web-based app for building websites. The main unique features are: 1. The ability to copy and paste any HTML and CSS into the editor with no limits. I was never able to find another app that could do this without some form of limitation. 2. CSS filtering, which means you can click on an element to view and edit the CSS selectors and rules that apply to that element alone. In many cases I've found CSS naming conventions like BEM to become irritating at certain scales, so this is an alternative solution. This part of the app needs some more development work but the concept is there.…

    2024 · demo.gocodestudio.com · its alternatives →

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    A chrome extension tracks front-end JavaScript that uses DOM / jQuery APIs to manipulate html dom elements (e.g., change style, attach event listener) at runtime. - pilagod/js-tracker

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Block any websites so you can focus on the web

    2021 · asyrafff.com · its alternatives →

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    Track, visualize, and analyze your time spent online

    2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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