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Performance Profiler Skill for Claude

Profile and optimize application performance including load times, memory usage, and rendering. Use when debugging slow performance, memory leaks, or optimizing app speed.

1k tokens
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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill performance-profiler

The instruction itself

14 sections, as written by the author

Performance Profiler

Instructions

When profiling performance:

  • Identify the bottleneck type: Network, rendering, memory, or compute
  • Measure baseline before optimizing
  • Profile with appropriate tools
  • Apply optimizations
  • Measure improvement

Web Performance

Core Web Vitals

# Lighthouse CLI
npx lighthouse https://yoursite.com --view

# With specific metrics
npx lighthouse https://yoursite.com --only-categories=performance

Target Metrics:

| Metric | Good | Needs Work | Poor |

|--------|------|------------|------|

| LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) | < 2.5s | 2.5-4s | > 4s |

| INP (Interaction to Next Paint) | < 200ms | 200-500ms | > 500ms |

| CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) | < 0.1 | 0.1-0.25 | > 0.25 |

Bundle Analysis

# Next.js
ANALYZE=true npm run build

# Webpack
npx webpack-bundle-analyzer stats.json

# Vite
npx vite-bundle-visualizer

React Performance

React DevTools Profiler

  • Install React DevTools browser extension
  • Open DevTools → Profiler tab
  • Click Record, interact with app, stop recording
  • Analyze flame graph for slow components

Common React Optimizations

// 1. Memoize expensive components
const MemoizedList = React.memo(function List({ items }) {
  return items.map(item => <Item key={item.id} {...item} />);
});

// 2. Use useMemo for expensive calculations
const sortedItems = useMemo(() => {
  return [...items].sort((a, b) => a.name.localeCompare(b.name));
}, [items]);

// 3. Use useCallback for stable function references
const handleClick = useCallback((id: string) => {
  setSelected(id);
}, []);

// 4. Virtualize long lists
import { FixedSizeList } from 'react-window';

function VirtualList({ items }) {
  return (
    <FixedSizeList
      height={400}
      itemCount={items.length}
      itemSize={50}
      width="100%"
    >
      {({ index, style }) => (
        <div style={style}>{items[index].name}</div>
      )}
    </FixedSizeList>
  );
}

// 5. Lazy load components
const HeavyComponent = React.lazy(() => import('./HeavyComponent'));

function App() {
  return (
    <Suspense fallback={<Loading />}>
      <HeavyComponent />
    </Suspense>
  );
}

Node.js Performance

Profiling

# CPU profile
node --prof app.js
node --prof-process isolate-*.log > profile.txt

# Heap snapshot
node --inspect app.js
# Then use Chrome DevTools Memory tab

# Clinic.js (comprehensive)
npx clinic doctor -- node app.js
npx clinic flame -- node app.js
npx clinic bubbleprof -- node app.js

Memory Leak Detection

// Add to app for debugging
const used = process.memoryUsage();
console.log({
  heapUsed: `${Math.round(used.heapUsed / 1024 / 1024)} MB`,
  heapTotal: `${Math.round(used.heapTotal / 1024 / 1024)} MB`,
  external: `${Math.round(used.external / 1024 / 1024)} MB`,
});

Database Performance

-- PostgreSQL: Analyze slow queries
EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '[email protected]';

-- Find missing indexes
SELECT relname, seq_scan, idx_scan
FROM pg_stat_user_tables
WHERE seq_scan > idx_scan;

Query Optimization

// Bad: N+1 query
const users = await db.user.findMany();
for (const user of users) {
  const posts = await db.post.findMany({ where: { userId: user.id } });
}

// Good: Single query with include
const users = await db.user.findMany({
  include: { posts: true }
});

// Good: Select only needed fields
const users = await db.user.findMany({
  select: { id: true, name: true, email: true }
});

Quick Wins Checklist

  • [ ] Enable gzip/brotli compression
  • [ ] Add caching headers
  • [ ] Lazy load images (loading="lazy")
  • [ ] Preconnect to external domains
  • [ ] Use CDN for static assets
  • [ ] Minimize JavaScript bundle
  • [ ] Defer non-critical JS
  • [ ] Optimize images (WebP, proper sizing)
  • [ ] Add database indexes
  • [ ] Use connection pooling

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take onewave-ai/performance-profiler from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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Install what it needs

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