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Lighthouse
Benchmark and improve your websites’ accessibility, performance, SEO, and more
Developer
Spotify
Category
Quality
![Lighthouse audit list with multiple tracked items and their performance, seo, best practices, etc over time](https://backstage-spotify-com.spotifycdn.com/_next/static/media/lighthouse-hero.bcab1a87.png)
About the plugin
The Lighthouse plugin allows you to generate on-demand Lighthouse audits for websites and track the trends for the top-level improvement categories directly in Backstage. Using Google's open source Lighthouse auditing tool, your team can benchmark and improve your website’s accessibility, performance, and adherence to best practices.
Drive alignment to best practices
View Lighthouse audit reports directly in Backstage, empowering teams with the information they need to improve and maintain website performance.
View comprehensive insights
See summarized trends for the top-level Lighthouse audit categories, allowing you to track holistic performance for all websites over time.
Lighthouse features
Audits overview
See a summary of all Lighthouse audits for your websites. The trendlines show, at a glance, how all of your websites are performing over time so you can easily identify which areas need improvement.
![A list of existing lighthouse audit and their change over time per item in a line graph](https://backstage-spotify-com.spotifycdn.com/_next/static/media/lighthouse-audit-list.7bf1f94e.png)
Audits deep dive
Explore the detailed Lighthouse audit history for a single website, allowing you to quickly diagnose which release caused a performance, accessibility, or SEO regression.
![Deep dive into a single lighthouse audit with accessibility, performance, SEO, and best practices gauges showing ranges from 1 to 100](https://backstage-spotify-com.spotifycdn.com/_next/static/media/lighthouse-audit-view.f2ec3723.png)
Trigger audits
Trigger an on-demand Lighthouse audit directly from Backstage or trigger them programmatically using the associated lighthouse-audit-service to get periodic snapshots of your website.
![Trigger an audit for a given URL with a specified form factor (mobile, desktop, etc)](https://backstage-spotify-com.spotifycdn.com/_next/static/media/lighthouse-create-audit.badb1599.png)
Additional information
![Lighthouse audit list with multiple tracked items and their performance, seo, best practices, etc over time](https://backstage-spotify-com.spotifycdn.com/_next/static/media/lighthouse-hero.bcab1a87.png)