Arc XP

Arc XP Tools and PageBuilder Insights
What is Arc XP?
Arc XP is a Chrome Extension providing extensive tools and insights for website auditing and performance analysis. It significantly simplifies workflows for editorial teams, who can edit and publish content directly from live web pages. Developers gain comprehensive insights into page performance, including content object and API call details. Anomalies in cache health, response codes, etc., are highlighted for quicker debugging. Part of The Washington Post's Arc XP suite, it embodies a swift, extensible, and secure solution for website management.

Extension stats

Users: 3,000+
Rating: 4.75 (4)
Version: 1.3.2 (Last updated: 2023-01-07)
Creation date: 2022-06-06
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Size: 536.58K

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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

The extension shows information that will help publishers and developers audit their live website for content, performance issues and/or improvements.

Editorial team, content creators, publishers can can quickly open content tools from the live web pages, edit and publish content without needing to navigate and find the content they are looking at in Arc Admin interface.

Developers can gain better insight into their page's performance using the extension that will provide details about their content object, cached object, API calls made from their page to Arc XP. This can be helpful to figure out why a web page may be rendering slowly.

PageBuilder tab in Developers Tools provides additional information like cache health, api calls, response codes and insights that when the extension detect anomalies, it will highlight areas that developers should review.

In summary, the extension enables users, developers, and product owners to learn about the web page in a fast, extensible and secure way. The Arc Fusion extension is a part of The Washington Post's Arc XP company.

User reviews

by Ivan Arsenev, 2024-07-03

This seems like a handy way for an Arc developer to get information for a page. It would be nice, though, if the JSON for things like globalContent was formatted and expandable/collapsible. Also would be nice if this extension was available for Firefox =)
by Lowell Kissling, 2022-07-20
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Arc XP requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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