What is included in the Google Lighthouse report
Lighthouse auditing is baked into Niteco Performance Insight, and regular testing of web sites and pages are recorded and stored within the tool.
Lighthouse scoring focuses on 5 primary areas:
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Performance
How your page is loading and rendering within the client browser.
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Accessibility
Analyzes how well your website performs for users with disabilities.
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Best Practices
Checks for areas such as security, delivery and use of modern web standards.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Checks the site to determine if it’s fully indexable for ranking on search engines (such as Google, Bing, etc.)
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PWA
If your website operates using modern techniques such as a Progressive Web App, this provides scoring based on the implementation.
Why you should use Lighthouse as part of Niteco Performance Insight
Lighthouse is usually run within the Chrome browser and follows a set of certain rules:
- It’s emulating a specific connection speed or device profile.
- It’s accessing the site from your ISP and location (hitting any appropriate barriers or CDNs as it goes).
However, if we’re going to run some comprehensive synthetic tests using the Lighthouse tool, we want to be able to control these parameters. Luckily, that’s something you can do - Niteco Performance Insight wraps around the Lighthouse capabilities, giving us full control over factors like the test location and device as well as the simulated bandwidth.
Color-coded recommendations help you focus your efforts.
In addition, the recommendations given by Lighthouse and Niteco Performance Insight make it much easier to act upon all the information and data the tools give you. Color-coded recommendations also make it a breeze to focus on the highest-impact changes first.
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