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Shine a light on JavaScript performance with Lighthouse

Addy Osmani on October 18, 2018

Unsure if the cost of JavaScript is too high for your user-experience? πŸ™ƒ Lighthouse has a JavaScript execution time audit that measures the total i...
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Ben Halpern

Lighthouse really is one of the best tools I've seen for this sort of thing. I hope it keeps evolving and becomes a longterm cornerstone for web perf measurement.

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Aymen Loukil

Absolutely and the cherry on the cake : Lighthouse could be extendable with custom audits (sort of plugins). I have wrote a tutorial explaining how to here :

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Ali Spittel

I lighthouse test everything, it's an awesome tool!

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Nick Karnik

Lighthouse is really cool. I killed my open source project that was doing a similar thing after I discovered it.

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Ben Kress

Lighthouse is definitely a great tool. I run it on any site I truly care about achieving top performance on.