{"id":1939,"date":"2020-12-27T10:26:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T10:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2021-01-20T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:00:43","slug":"what-is-google-lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/what-is-google-lighthouse","title":{"rendered":"What is Google Lighthouse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/span> 4<\/span> minutes read<\/span><\/span>\n

If you know nothing about your customers’ experience with your website, Google Lighthouse might be the right tool for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google Lighthouse is an open source automated website auditing tool from Google, used for discovering issues and opportunities to improve the overall user experience of your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether you’re a product owner, business owner or analyst, software developer or tester, Google Lighthouse offers the possibility to identify opportunities to improve your website<\/a> through simple steps, no coding skills required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Google Lighthouse Report<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What does Google Lighthouse measure?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Google Lighthouse measures several aspects of user experience quality, in a simulated environment, aspects that include performance, SEO, accessibility metrics and other best practices. Everything is focused on the user experience and ways on how to achieve a High Quality User Experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which are the metrics used by Google Lighthouse?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Google Lighthouse has defined their own audit metrics, metrics which are not part of what they call Core Web Vitals<\/a><\/strong>. The Role of Core Web Vitals is that it offers a better understanding about the main focus, which is your users’ experience while using your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new user experience metrics introduced in 2020 are Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)<\/a> and are part of Core Web Vitals. The First Input Delay (FID) metrics can be correlated to the Total Blocking Time (TBT) in a lab environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

View your website through Google\u2019s algorithm eyes, and improve your website in terms of performance, speed, seo, progressive web app and other metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So with all these metrics introduced, Google Lighthouse helps you view your website through Google\u2019s algorithm eyes, and make sure you stay up to date with latest changes in terms of performance, speed, seo and other metrics, also to focus on experience\u2014loading, interactivity, and visual stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the Core Web Vitals?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Core Web Vitals is a subset of the Web Vitals and it tries to reflect the real world user experience. The main focus of the user experience gravitates around: loading, interactivity and visual stability of web sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Core Web Vitals Metrics:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n