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Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web.

29 mentions on Hacker News by 23 people: 9 stories, 20 comments · first 2016-05-24 · latest 2025-02-13

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  1. I think it was always a Google product https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/tree/9ff34c320811... . If I remember right it was an evolution of the page speed test site (can't remember exact name) of which Google was also a contributor…
    comment by Tyriar · 2025-02-13 · in Google Lighthouse recommends not embedding YouTube videos directly
  2. The package is called `typed-query-selector`. Here it is in action: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/main/types/i...
    comment by hoten · 2024-11-03 · in Cash: A small jQuery alternative for modern browsers
  3. I wrote a JavaScript version of this using Intl: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/9baac0ae9da7...
    comment by hoten · 2024-06-05 · in How to chop off bytes of an UTF-8 string to fit into a small slot and look nice
  4. …can leverage the CompressionStream API rather than using a browserified-gzip-library (eg pako): https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/437eb4d757c5... We use it in Lighthouse for the exact same purpose, a URL #hash full of state.…
    comment by paulirish · 2023-01-10 · in How to store your app's entire state in the url
  5. …Point is, try not to have too much cruft before the charset. [1] https://web.dev/charset/ [2] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/10023#issu...
    comment by hoten · 2022-08-25 · in A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
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    Consider removing Google Analytics or switch to less-heavy alternatives
    story by netol · 2022-07-12 · 0 comments
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    Performance Budgets (Budget.json)
    story by LAC-Tech · 2022-01-21 · 0 comments
  8. Lighthouse simulates mobile cpu and 3g. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/...
    comment by hoten · 2021-06-07 · in Google can't pass its own page speed test
  9. Fixes this issue basically: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/6512#:~:te... . Tried all of the proposed solutions and this error still pops up on certain sites and certain configuration settings. Felt totally random when it…
    comment by hobbescotch · 2021-06-03 · in Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
  10. …inline styles, and Chrome will log a warning to the console, and Lighthouse penalizes you for that: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/11862
    comment by jffry · 2021-06-03 · in Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
  11. …undefined This website had ~80 in accessibility before. Edit: this issue was known before release: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/11384
    comment by Aissen · 2021-06-03 · in Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
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    Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
    story by manojvivek · 2021-06-03 · 57 comments
  13. …Pagespeed conveniently ignores the speed impact of YouTube embeds when it didn't in prior versions. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/10874
    comment by nathanyz · 2020-10-20 · in When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Google.com and YouTube
  14. There's a bit about the variability here: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/...
    comment by dafman · 2020-07-02 · in Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive
  15. Lighthouse is on it: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/10122
    comment by hoten · 2019-12-16 · in Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hosting platform
  16. …) and the current version is a wrapper around Lighthouse which is also open source ( https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse ). (Disclosure: I work for Google)
    comment by jefftk · 2019-11-11 · in Moving towards a faster web
  17. Yes - Lighthouse does this https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse Chrome DevTools uses Closure compiler directly, but also via jsdoc. In fact, the TS team uses chrome devtools as a test case to validate their jsdoc interop:…
    comment by hoten · 2019-08-29 · in TypeScript 3.6
  18. A few resources I've found useful: - lighthouse ( https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse ). You can implement this with their Node CLI to automate in your pipeline and output the results somewhere. - calibre ( https://calibreapp.com/…
    comment by econnors · 2019-05-21 · in Ask HN: How to performance test React webapps for rendering speed regressions?
  19. Are you looking for something like this - https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse ? The GitHub page mentions CLI options. I've only ever used Lighthouse via Chrome DevTools so I can't really comment on the CLI
    comment by prashantmvikram · 2019-01-08 · in Ask HN: Opensource webpage performance testing tool?
  20. …a CLI or as a Node module, you can tell it to only run the audits that are relevant to your needs. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/... I get the general frustration that non-technical teammates look at these…
    comment by kaycebasques · 2018-11-13 · in Web.dev by Google
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    GoogleChrome/lighthouse
    story by tango24 · 2018-08-29 · 0 comments
  22. Part of the audit includes throttling your connection to simulate a device on a slower link. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/...
    comment by pimlottc · 2018-02-21 · in Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
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    Google provides tools for developers to analyze their website for best practices
    story by treycopeland · 2018-02-07 · 1 comment
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    Lighthouse:Auditing,performance metrics, best practises for Progressive Web Apps
    story by kiyanwang · 2017-08-17 · 0 comments
  25. …elopers.google.com/codelabs/your-first-p... Then you can grade how progressive your app is by running https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse Push notifications still aren't widely supported, sadly.…
    comment by prophesi · 2016-11-03 · in Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile
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    Lighthouse – Auditing and Performance Metrics for Progressive Web Apps
    story by sotojuan · 2016-10-30 · 2 comments
  27. …but you might as well move a layer up and use WebDriver as the commands will be fairly common. [0] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/ [1] https://github.com/paulirish/automated-chrome-profiling/
    comment by paulirish · 2016-08-29 · in Show HN: Chrome Remote Debugging Protocol interface
  28. ▲ 3
    Google Lighthouse: Chrome and CLI Auditing and Performance Metrics
    story by matt4077 · 2016-05-24 · 0 comments
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    Lighthouse - Auditing and Performance Metrics for Progressive Web Apps
    story by antouank · 2016-05-24 · 0 comments