Google Lighthouse

Name: Google Lighthouse
Rating: 3.5319 (47 reviews)
Author: Google Lighthouse

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

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Google Lighthouse is a powerful, open-source Chrome extension designed to help developers and webmasters improve the performance, quality, and correctness of their web applications. By leveraging the PageSpeed Insights API and running headless Chrome from Google's service, it generates detailed Lighthouse reports that highlight areas for optimization. This tool audits public URLs and provides actionable insights to enhance user experience, accessibility, SEO, and overall web standards compliance, making it an essential tool for modern web development and optimization.

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Version:

100.0.0.3 Last updated: 2023-08-17

Version code:

5604335

Creation date:

2020-02-14

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Permissions:

activeTab
storage

Size:

27.50K

Full description:

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Firefox Browser Add-ons

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# 591

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#51 in Web Development

#8 in delight keyword 1

#8 in house keyword 2

#13 in button for google keyword 51

#13 in google keyword 96

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User reviews

The Firefox add-on "Google Lighthouse" is praised for its simplicity and ease of use, providing accessible report generation and effective website analysis. However, multiple users report significant drawbacks, including lack of support for localhost testing, limitation to mobile site analytics only, frequent errors during tests, and a poorer experience compared to the Chrome version where it mainly redirects to the web viewer. These issues hinder its usefulness, especially for developers needing desktop or local environment testing.

Pros

Simple and easy to use with a straightforward interface.
Provides handy access to saving and printing of reports.
Effectively analyzes websites and helps reduce dependency on PageSpeed Insights.

Cons

Does not support testing local or localhost websites, which is frustrating for developers.
Only provides statistics for the mobile version of websites, no desktop stats available.
Frequently returns errors when loading pages, causing tests to fail.
Effectiveness is limited compared to the Chrome version; functions mostly as a link to the web viewer.

Recent reviews

Only lets you see stats for the mobile version of your website. I know Google prefers that, but it's not Google's website, it's mine, and it's not Google's users, they're mine, so it kind of makes this useless to have Google make a decision for me that I'm not interested in seeing desktop stats, when I actually am more interested in them than the mobile stats.

by Go*****, 2025-05-03

by 敬念*****, 2025-03-26

by 退出*****, 2025-02-11

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Google Lighthouse does not require any sensitive permissions.

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Risk likelihood

Google Lighthouse has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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