Chrome DevTools introduced an insight in October 2025 showing elapsed matching time and slow-path percentage for CSS selectors during style recalculation. Selector count and DOM size also affect the total cost.
The demo highlights a costly selector and shortens its bar when its scope is reduced. Selector statistics add profiling overhead, so enable them only for traces that need this diagnosis.
When to use
Use it when style recalculation is expensive and you need to isolate costly selectors.