Google’s Lighthouse doesn’t use the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric in its standard tests, despite INP being one of the Core Web Vitals. Barry Pollard, Web Performance Developer Advocate on Google Chrome, explained the reasoning behind this and offered insights into measuring INP. Lighthouse Measures Page Loads, Not Interactions Lighthouse measures a simple page … Read more
Google announced a new version of Lighthouse that contains numerous changes to how performance scores are calculated and how they are displayed. The updated Lighthouse changes will begin appearing soon in PageSpeed Insights and shipping in DevTools of an upcoming Chrome release. The new version rolls out with significant changes to the Performance category. According … Read more
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Google has updated PageSpeed Insights with a new version of Lighthouse. The new version contains new audits, bug fixes and changes to scoring. Lighthouse 11 Lighthouse is an open source measurement tool that helps debug website performance issues. It’s also the technology that powers PageSpeed Insights and other tools that measure core web vitals. Google … Read more
The newly released Lighthouse 10, the technology underlying PageSpeed Insights and Chrome DevTools, introduces two new site audits. These audits should be useful as part of audit because they pertain to site security and user experience factors. Technically, one of the audits is an expansion of a previous audit, but it’s essentially a new audit. … Read more
Google’s PageSpeed Insights added two new metrics to the PageSpeed Insights API and UI for Lighthouse. The two metrics are labeled experimental are now being collected for field data while the corresponding lab data can be used for diagnostic purposes. Google Lighthouse Updated Lighthouse is now updated with the two new metrics. The new Lighthouse … Read more
