Codebase refactored. about 50% faster, color eyedrop added on context menu. Now completly free.
This version includes:
Hi all I just wanted to share an quick update on Rechrome, a project a posted a few months ago and my expirience of going throught differenet phases or develeopemnt and bug fixing.
Rechrome is an all-in-one website analysis, lightweight chrome extesion.
Since my original post. I’ve been rebuilding and expanding it quite a bit:
- Added a Preview page that gives a fast overview of a page’s SEO, colors, typography and media in one place.
- Completely redone the color palette system to be more informative and automatically generate shades and variations.
- Added a quick eyedropper in the context menu so you can grab colors directly from the page.
- Upgraded to in‑depth typography analysis, including the actual typography CSS used (fonts, sizes, weights, line height, spacing, hierarchy).
- Expanded to 20+ on‑page SEO checks for a deeper look at both technical and content SEO.
- Enhanced the media extractor so it can pull more media, including lazy‑loaded and cached resources where possible.
- Added a placeholder text generator and contact form placeholder autofill to speed up testing and form mocking.
The extension is still around 1 MB, runs locally in the browser, and is completely free on the Chrome Web Store.
So now the extension covers color systems, typography settings and styles, technical and content SEO, media extraction, and a few convenient micro features like text placeholders and a quick color eyedropper.
I originally planned to keep some features paid, but while fixing, improving and adding new ones I realised it’s more exciting to share it with more people than to try to make a profit.
I use this tool every day in my work as a web designer, so I already benefit from making it better. There are also a few paid tools with similar features, and people who need heavy all‑in‑one suites probably already bought those. Rechrome is intentionally smaller and simpler, designed to be lightweight and fast, and in the end it’s a personal project I prefer to share for free.