Websites can be hard to create and once it's deployed, how do you even get people to see it? That's where web.dev (a.k.a. Lighthouse) and WAVE can come in handy. Both are used to audit websites and give useful ways to improve their accessibility and discoverability.
Auditing Example
If we enter the dev.to link, as an example, into Lighthouse we can see it comes back with four main results; Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO. Each result shows the current score and ways of how to improve each. In this case with dev.to, Accessibility and Best Practices came back with the highest scores of 100, while SEO resulted in a great score of 96, and Performance being the lowest at 80.
Benefits
The auditing sites prove to be the most useful given that they will give feedback on how to improve certain areas of the site. In the case of the dev.to example above, there was one suggestion on how to improve the site's SEO to get to a score of 100 and under the Performance there were multiple ideas that could improve it's score.
If you'd like to see this demo in action or see how each category is beneficial to your website, check out this video.
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