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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

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

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

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)

Lighthouse

Benchmark and improve your websites’ accessibility, performance, SEO, and more

Lighthouse audit list with multiple tracked items and their performance, seo, best practices, etc over time