You’re probably using Lighthouse wrong
summary
Argues that the Lighthouse score is often misleading and regularly gamed — examples include detecting the Lighthouse user agent or stripping JavaScript to inflate results — and that e‑commerce sites commonly top out around 60 while blogs can hit 100. Recommends using Lighthouse CI for consistent lab runs, checking synthetic results with PageSpeed Insights and field data from the Chrome User Experience Report, and complements with WebPageTest, Yellow Lab and worker strategies like Party Town.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 16:49make sense to use Lighthouse?
- 17:20Good performance is a tradeoff
- 18:00Use Lighthouse to get a perception of how new release will affect your performance
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