Lighthouse

What is Lighthouse?

Lighthouse is a very popular Chrome extension by developers.google.com. This extension has 1,037,250 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.43, and is most similar to Google PageSpeed Insights API Extension and SEO META in 1 CLICK. The latest version, 100.0.0.0, was updated 4 years ago.

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By: https://developers.google.com/web

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Users: 1,037,250 ▲ 1.02K

Rating: 4.43 (288)

Version: 100.0.0.0 (Last updated: 2019-11-20)

Creation date: 2019-11-19

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
storage

Size: 27.74K

URLs: Website

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

ChromeStats Rank

# 425 ▲ 4

Other rankings

#6 in Developer Tools

#3 in Our Top Picks - Web development

#89 in details keyword ▼ 2

#137 in owner keyword ▼ 1

#231 in source keyword ▼ 2

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Summary

Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the performance, quality, and correctness of your web apps. 

When auditing a page, Lighthouse runs a barrage of tests against the page, and then generates a report on how well the page did. From here you can use the failing tests as indicators on what you can do to improve your app.

* Quick-start guide on using Lighthouse:

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/


* View and share reports online:

https://googlechrome.github.io/lighthouse/viewer/


* Github source and details:

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse

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User reviews

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Pros

Useful for web stats and development
Provides detailed reports
Easy to use
Good utility tool

Cons

Not updated frequently
Limited functionality for certain websites
Limited to mobile tests only
Does not support incognito mode

Most mentioned

Useful
Report
Mobile
Updated
Test
Tool
Limited
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Safety

Risk impact

Lighthouse is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.

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Risk likelihood

Lighthouse has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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