Simulate limited bandwidth from within Chrome?

Question

Is there a way I can simulate various connection speeds from within Chrome?

I need to be able to check http://localhost with varying speeds.

I know there are

Answer 1

In Chrome Canary now you can limit the network throughput. This can be done in the "Network" options of the "Emulation" tab of the Console in the Dev Tools.

You might need to activate the Chrome flag "Enable Developer Tools experiments" (chrome://flags/#enable-devtools-experiments) (chrome://flags) to see this new feature. You can simulate some low bandwidth (GSM, GPRS, EDGE, 3G) for mobile connections.

Answer 2

As of today you can throttle your connection natively in Google Chrome Canary 46.0.2489.0. Simply open up Dev Tools and head over to the Network tab:

Answer 3

I'd recommend Charles Proxy - you can choose to slowdown individual sites, also has a whole bunch of HTTP inspection tools.

Edit:

As of June 2014, Chrome now has the ability to do this natively in DevTools - you'll need Chrome 38 though.

The option is accessible from the Network tab via a drop down at the end of the toolbar.

Answer 4

Starting with Chrome 38 you can do this without any plugins. Just click inspect element (or F12 hotkey), then click on toggle device mod (the phone button)

and you will see something like this:

Among many other features it allows you to simulate specific internet connection (3G, GPRS)

Answer 5

If you are using OSX, you can use: Network Link Conditioner

Here you can select different profiles ie. 100% Loss, 3G, DSL etc.

Please find the below link to download Network Link Conditioner here

Answer 6

if you're not familiar with Fiddler - please do. It's a great debugging tool for HTTP. You also have the option to limit the bandwidth.