From the course: Technical WordPress SEO (2019)

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Chrome inspector

Chrome inspector

- [Instructor] As you dive deeper into evaluating your WordPress site from a technical perspective, you're likely going to spend quite a bit of time in the Chrome Inspector Tool. Now, I use Chrome the browser for most of my SEO work, and that's because its developer tools are incredibly robust as well as its library of extensions. It's very easy to use the Chrome Inspector. You can simply right click and choose Inspect. And here we'll see the Chrome Inspector panel appear on the right-hand side. Now, by default you're in the elements tab, and this displays the page's rendered HTML, which is different from the page's source code. You see, if any HTML elements are created or altered via JavaScript as the page loads, those changes will appear in the rendered HTML. This is different than if I right click and choose Page Source. This shows the code without any changes. Most of what you're interested in is going to be in the…

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