Patent ID: 8875012

Claim:
A method for displaying diagnostic information to facilitate web page development, comprising: while a web page is being assembled at a front-end system using data gathered from one or more back-end systems, accumulating metadata associated with the assembly process; configuring the web page to request and receive JavaScript (JS) code from a content distribution network (CDN), wherein the CDN comprises a distributed set of servers configured to serve content to end-users; rendering the web page using the gathered data; and sending the rendered web page to a browser to be displayed to a user, wherein the metadata is sent along with the rendered page, thereby enabling the browser to: receive from the user a selection of a page element on the rendered web page; use a string stored within the page element to perform a string search of the metadata to find a subset of metadata associated with the selected page element; and display the subset of metadata to the user via a pop using the received JS code.