Network request list

The request list of the Network Monitor shows a list of all the network requests made in the course of loading the page.

Network request list

By default, the Network Monitor shows a list of all the network requests made in the course of loading the page. Each request is displayed in its own row:

By default, the Network Monitor is cleared each time you navigate to a new page or reload the current page. You can override this behavior by checking “Enable persistent logs” in the Settings.

Network request columns

You can toggle columns on and off by right-clicking on the table header and choosing the specific column from the context menu. A Reset Columns command is available on the context menu to reset the columns to their initial configuration.

You can also change the width of the columns to help make the information you are looking for easier to view. The mouse pointer changes to a resize icon when you move it over the border of a column. You can drag to manually set the size of column. Starting in Firefox 76 you can double-click a column divider to resize the column to the left of it to fit its contents.

The Reset Columns command on the context menu also resets the width of the columns to the default values.

Clicking the column header label sorts the request list by that column. You can reset the sort to the default by selecting “Reset Sorting” from the context menu.

Here is a list of all available columns:

• Status: The HTTP status code returned. The numeric code is displayed on a colored background, to help unusual ones stand out. If there was no response, this column is empty. Or you might see a red circle with a diagonal slash for responses that were blocked by the browser or the server.

• Method: The HTTP request method used.

• Domain: Domain of the path requested.

  • If the request used SSL/TLS and the connection had security weaknesses such as weak ciphers, you’ll see a warning triangle next to the domain. Y

  • Hover over the domain to see the IP address.

  • There’s an icon next to the domain that gives you extra information about the security status of that request. See Security icons.

• File: The basename of the file requested.

  • (Starting in Firefox 80) On the right edge of the File column, a turtle icon appears if the server waiting time exceeds a threshold (default: 500 ms). A tooltip explains the problem. You can configure the threshold in the Configuration Editor (about:config) by modifying the devtools.netmonitor.audits.slow setting.

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• URL: The URL of the file requested.

• Protocol: The network protocol used to transfer the data, this column is hidden by default.

• Scheme: The scheme (https/http/ftp/…) of the path requested. This column is hidden by default.

• Remote IP: The IP address of the server answering the request. This column is hidden by default.

• Type: Content-type of the response.

• Cookies: The number of request cookies associated to the request. This column is hidden by default. This is new in Firefox 55.

• Set-Cookies: The number of response cookies associated to the request. This column is hidden by default. This is new in Firefox 55.

• Transferred: The number of bytes that were actually transferred to load the resource, or a message about why the resource was not transferred. A number value is less than Size if the resource was compressed.

  • If the resource was fetched from a service worker cache, then this cell displays “service worker”.

  • Cached resources may be fetched from the cache and the network simultaneously, which may improve load time for slow caches. Starting with Firefox 68, the transferred column lists either “cached (raced)” or “[size] (raced)” depending on the faster source. This feature is called Race Cache With Network (RCWN).

  • If the resource was blocked, the message indicates why it was blocked. For example, “CSP”, “Malware”, “CORS Missing Allow Origin”, “Blocked by [Name of Extension]”.

• Size: The size of the transferred resource.

Image thumbnails

If the request is for an Image, hovering over its filename shows a preview of the image in a tooltip:

Security icons

The Network Monitor displays an icon in the Domain column:

This gives you extra information about the security status of the request:

Icon	Meaning
	HTTPS
	Weak HTTPS (for example, a weak cipher was used)
	Failed HTTPS (for example, a certificate was invalid)
	HTTP
	Localhost
	Indicates that the URL belongs to a known tracker that would be blocked with content blocking enabled.

Timeline

The request list also displays a timeline for the different parts of each request.

Each timeline is given a horizontal position in its row relative to the other network requests, so you can see the total time taken to load the page. For more details on the color-coding used here, see the section on the Timings page.

Starting in Firefox 45, the timeline also contains two vertical lines:

• The blue line marks the point at which thepage’s DOMContentLoaded event is triggered.

• The red line marks the point at which the page’s load event is triggered.

Blocking specific URLs

If you want to view your page as it would look without a resource (e.g., if it were blocked by the browser or an extension), you can block requests matching patterns you specify.

1. Click the Request Blocking icon in the toolbar. This opens the Blocking sidebar. (Click the icon again when you want to close the sidebar.)

2. Enter a string in the field with the placeholder text Block resource when URL contains.

3. Reload the page to test it with the specified URL blocked.

Other actions you can take with Request Blocking:

• To turn all request blocking off or on: Toggle the checkbox next to Enable Request Blocking.

• To turn a specific block off or on: Toggle the checkbox next to that item.

• To delete a blocked item, click the X icon that appears when you focus the item.

• (Starting with Firefox 77) Right-click any item in the list and choose from the context menu:

  • Enable all enables blocking of all items in the list.

  • Disable all disables blocking of all items in the list.

  • Remove all deletes all items in the list.

Blocking a specific URL from the request list

You can also block a URL from the request list:

1. Hover over the item you want to block in the Request List.

2. Select Block URL from the context menu.

3. When you refresh the page, that specific URL will be blocked and a message will be added to the item in the list indicating that it has been blocked by the DevTools.

Stop blocking a URL from the Request List

1. Hover over the item.

2. Select Unblock URL.

3. Now when you refresh the page, the item will once enabled.

Note

(Starting in Firefox 80) You can also block and unblock URLs from the Web Console, using the :block and :unblock helper commands. These accept any string, and affect any URL containing the string.

Filtering requests

You can filter requests by content type, by whether they are XMLHttpRequests or WebSocket requests, or by request properties.

Filter type	How to apply
Content type	Use the buttons in the toolbar (HTML, CSS, JS).
XHR requests	Use the XHR button in the toolbar.
WebSocket connections	Use the WS button in the toolbar. You can filter by plain text (in which case the text is used to find partial matches; entering “for” will match any message that contains the word “for”) or—as of Firefox 75 — using regular expressions (by writing the regexp bracketed within slashes; “/.+Corp.*/” will look for any occurrence of “Corp” which has at least one character before it and may or may not have any characters after it, for example). The third-party add-on WebSocket Sniffer may be helpful as well.
URL	Use the Filter URLs box in the toolbar. You can focus it by clicking in the filter box, or by pressing Ctrl + F (or Cmd + F on a Mac); then start typing. The list of network requests is filtered to include only requests that contain your filter string, in either the Domain or the File portions. You can filter requests that don’t contain your filter string by prefixing your query with the “-” operator. For example, the query “-google.com” will show all requests that don’t have “google.com” in the URL.
Request properties	Use the search box in the toolbar. See next section.

Filtering by properties

The search box recognizes specific keywords, which can be used to filter the requests by specific request properties. Those keywords are followed by a colon and a related filter value. The filter values are matched case insensitive. Prepending a minus (-) negates the filter. You can combine different filters together by separating them with a space.

Keyword	Meaning	Examples
status-code	Shows resources that have the specific HTTP status code.	status-code:304
method	Shows resources that have were requested via the specific HTTP request method.	method:post
domain	Shows resources coming from a specific domain.	domain:mozilla.org
remote-ip	Shows resources coming from a server with the specified IP.	remote-ip:63.245.215.53 remote-ip:[2400:cb00:2048:1::6810:2802]
cause	Shows resources matching a specific cause type. The types can be found in the description of the cause column.	cause:js cause:stylesheet cause:img
transferred	Shows resources having a specific transferred size or a transferred size close to the one specified. k can be used as suffix for kilobytes and m for megabytes, e.g. the value 1k is equivalent to 1024.	transferred:1k
size	Shows resources having a specific size (after decompression) or a size close to the one specified. k can be used as suffix for kilobytes and m for megabytes, e.g. the value 1k is equivalent to 1024.	size:2m
larger-than	Shows resources that are larger than the specified size in bytes. k can be used as suffix for kilobytes and m for megabytes, e.g. the value 1k is equivalent to 1024.	larger-than:2000 -larger-than:4k
mime-type	Shows resources that match the specified MIME type.	mime-type:text/html mime-type:image/png mime-type:application/javascript
is	is:cached and is:from-cache shows only resources coming from cache. is:running shows only resources, which are currently being transferred.	is:cached -is:running
scheme	Shows resources transferred via the given scheme.	scheme:http
has-response-header	Shows resources that contain the specified HTTP response header.	has-response-header:cache-control has-response-header:X-Firefox-Spdy
set-cookie-domain	Shows the resources that have a Set-Cookie header with a Domain attribute that matches the specified value.	set-cookie-domain:.mozilla.org
set-cookie-name	Shows the resources that have a Set-Cookie header with a name that matches the specified value.	set-cookie-name:_ga
set-cookie-value	Shows the resources that have a Set-Cookie header with a value that matches the specified value.	set-cookie-value:true
regexp	Shows the resources having a URL that matches the given regular expression.	regexp:\d{5} regexp:mdn|mozilla

For example, to find all 404, not found, errors, you can type “404” into the search and auto-complete suggests “status-code:404” so you’ll end up with something like this:

Search in requests

Use the Search panel to run a full-text search on headers and content.

1. Click the Search icon in the toolbar. This opens the Search sidebar.

2. Enter a string in the search field of the sidebar, and press Enter or Return. The search results area below the search field displays the requests that contain that string in the request or response headers or in the content of the response. You can expand each item to show the specific item that matches the string. Clicking an item in the search results highlights that item in the monitor list, and displays the corresponding information in the request details pane.

Other ways to use the search panel:

• To clear the search string: click the X icon in the search field.

• To make the search case sensitive: click the Case Sensitive (Aa) icon next to the search field.

• To close the search panel, do one of the following:

  • Click the X icon next to the search field.

  • Click the Search icon in the Network Monitor toolbar.

Context menu

Context-clicking on a row in the list displays a context menu with the following options:

Menuitem	Description
Copy > Copy URL	Copies the URL.
Copy > Copy as cURL	Copies the network request to the clipboard as a cURL command, so you can execute it from a command line. See Copy as cURL, below.
Copy > Copy as Fetch	Copies the request as a call to the <a href=”/en-US/docs/Web/API/fetch”>fetch()</a> method, including the URL and any settings object.
Copy > Copy Request Headers	Copies the request’s header to the clipboard.
Copy > Copy Response Headers	Copies the headers of the response for this request, to the clipboard.
Copy > Copy Response	Copies the entire response that was sent for this request.
Copy > Copy All As HAR	Creates an HTTP Archive (HAR) for all requests listed, and copies it to the clipboard.
Save All As HAR	Creates an HTTP Archive (HAR) for all requests listed, and opens a file dialog, so you can save it to a file.
Resend	Resends the request as it was originally sent with no changes made.
Edit and Resend	Opens an editor enabling you to edit the request’s method, URL, parameters, and headers, and resend the request.
Block URL	Blocks the selected URL for future requests. See Blocking a specific URL from the Request List.
Open in New Tab	Resends the request in a new tab — very useful for debugging asynchronous requests.
Open in Style Editor	For a CSS resource, opens it in the Style Editor.
Start Performance Analysis
Use as Fetch in Console	Submits the request as a call to the fetch() <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/fetch> method in the console.

Copy as cURL

The command may include the following options:

-X [METHOD]	If the method is not GET or POST
--data	For URL encoded request parameters
--data-binary	For multipart request parameters
--http/VERSION	If the HTTP version is not 1.1
-I	If the method is HEAD
-H	One for each request header. If the “Accept-Encoding” header is present, the cURL command includes --compressed instead of -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate". This means that the response will be automatically decompressed.
--globoff	Suppresses cURL’s globbing (wildcard matching) feature if the copied URL includes square bracket characters ([ or ]). (Starting in Firefox 76)

Managing HAR data

The HAR format enables you to export detailed information about network requests. In addition to the Copy and Save menu items for HAR in the context menu, similar menu items are available in the HAR dropdown menu in the toolbar, as well as an Import menuitem.

Network Monitor features

The following articles cover different aspects of using the network monitor:

• Toolbar

• Network request list

• Network request details

• Network traffic recording

• Throttling

• Inspecting web sockets

• Inspecting server-sent events