A discussion on Reddit involving Google Search Advocate John Mueller offers guidance on optimizing website performance and highlights the challenges of improving scores on Google’s PageSpeed Insights (PSI) tool. In a recent thread, a user asked for guidance after significantly reducing image and video file sizes did not lead to better PSI scores as expected. … 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
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
In an SEO office-hours video Google’s John Mueller answers why the PageSpeed Insights score and the Search Console Core Web Vitals scores are consistently different. He explains why two measurements of page speed never match and why it makes sense that they don’t match. PageSpeed Insights vs. Search Console CWV Report It’s reasonable to ask … Read more
Google offers PageSpeed Insights API to help SEO pros and developers by mixing real-world data with simulation data, providing load performance timing data related to web pages. The difference between the Google PageSpeed Insights (PSI) and Lighthouse is that PSI involves both real-world and lab data, while Lighthouse performs a page loading simulation by modifying … 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
