Improve Page Experience With Google's Pagespeed Insights & Lighthouse
A technical SEO strategy removes ranking barriers by making your website easier for Google to crawl and improving user experience. To help you keep an eye on your site’s crawlability and ease of use, there are some useful Google tools you can turn to.
Lighthouse audits your website across various categories and provides a detailed report along with actionable recommendations for improvement.
Reports include information about:
• Best Practices: Your site’s overall “code health” according to development standards.
• Accessibility: Opportunities to improve design, user interfaces, language, etc.
• SEO: A basic test for checking if search engines can easily crawl your page.
• Progressive Web App: Measures your site’s general speed, reliability, and installability.
Something To Keep in Mind…
Lighthouse is valuable for developers because its analyses provide more in-depth detail and flexibility.
PageSpeed Insights, on the other hand, uses Lighthouse to inform some results. It’s primarily built for non-developers with an easy-to-use interface that provides clear performance scores and optimization suggestions.
PageSpeed Insights (PSI) offers suggestions for improving page load times by identifying performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities. Using PSI is as simple as plugging in a URL.
PSI performance ratings consider a handful of speed metrics:
• First Contentful Paint (FCP): How long it takes the first image or text block to load fully.
• First Input Delay (FID): The time it takes for visible content to load until the screen is complete.
• Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): How long it takes for the largest image or text block to load fully.
• Interaction to Next Paint (INP): How long it takes for a page to become fully interactive.
• Time to First Byte (TTFB): The time between when something first appears on-screen vs. when the user can click on it.
• Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): A measure of unexpected layout shifts such as content loading out-of-order.
Make SEO Insights Count
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Recommended Resources:
• Google PageSpeed Insights vs. Lighthouse: https://victoriousseo.com/blog/google...