Recently I added a Grunt plugin to the front end workflow we have at work that handily displays a summary of the time taken by a project’s Grunt build tasks. Before this the team had only been aware of the overall time taken. Especially with LiveReload running, waiting for the page to reload with our changes.

We suspected the Compass compilation was taking “a long time”. But we didn’t know for certain how long and if that was the only problem area. With time-grunt we could now see a nice breakdown of each task’s time taken allowing us to know what to focus our performance improvements on.
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