Google Lighthouse Performance Auditor

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Audit website performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices using Google Lighthouse. Get detailed scores, metrics, optimization tips, and actionable insights for improving your web pages.

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Google Lighthouse Checker - Apify Actor

Comprehensive web page auditing tool powered by Google Lighthouse

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Improve your website's quality with the Google Lighthouse Checker, an open-source automated tool designed to audit any web page. This Actor conducts comprehensive assessments across multiple categories, including performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices.

🚀 Features

Multiple Audit Categories

Performance: Metrics including First Contentful Paint, Speed Index, Total Blocking Time, Largest Contentful Paint, and Cumulative Layout Shift
Accessibility: WCAG compliance and accessibility best practices
SEO: Search engine optimization checks
Best Practices: Security, user experience, and modern web standards
PWA: Progressive Web App capabilities (optional)

Detailed Reports

✅ Comprehensive scoring for each category (0-100)
📊 Key performance metrics with values
❌ Failed audits with actionable indicators for improvement
💡 Performance opportunities with potential savings
📄 Full HTML and JSON reports (optional)

Flexible Configuration

📱 Mobile or Desktop emulation
🌐 Network and CPU throttling
🔄 Automatic retries on failure
⏱️ Configurable timeouts
🎯 Selective category auditing

📋 Input

{
  "urls": ["https://example.com", "https://another-site.com"],
  "categories": ["performance", "accessibility", "best-practices", "seo"],
  "device": "mobile",
  "throttling": true,
  "onlyCategories": true,
  "saveHtml": true,
  "saveJson": true,
  "maxRetries": 2,
  "timeout": 90
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
`urls`	Array	Yes	-	List of URLs to audit
`categories`	Array	No	All	Audit categories to run: `performance`, `accessibility`, `best-practices`, `seo`, `pwa`
`device`	String	No	`mobile`	Device emulation: `mobile` or `desktop`
`throttling`	Boolean	No	`true`	Enable network and CPU throttling
`onlyCategories`	Boolean	No	`true`	Only run specified categories
`saveHtml`	Boolean	No	`true`	Save full HTML report to dataset
`saveJson`	Boolean	No	`true`	Save detailed JSON report to dataset
`maxRetries`	Integer	No	`2`	Maximum retry attempts per URL (0-5)
`timeout`	Integer	No	`90`	Timeout in seconds (30-300)

📤 Output

The Actor stores results in the default dataset. Each result contains:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "device": "mobile",
  "success": true,
  "timestamp": "2025-12-20T12:00:00.000Z",
  "fetchTime": "2025-12-20T12:00:30.000Z",
  "scores": {
    "performance": 85,
    "accessibility": 92,
    "bestPractices": 88,
    "seo": 95,
    "pwa": null
  },
  "metrics": {
    "firstContentfulPaint": "1.2 s",
    "speedIndex": "2.5 s",
    "largestContentfulPaint": "2.8 s",
    "totalBlockingTime": "150 ms",
    "cumulativeLayoutShift": "0.05",
    "timeToInteractive": "3.2 s"
  },
  "failedAuditsCount": 5,
  "failedAudits": [
    {
      "id": "uses-webp-images",
      "title": "Serve images in next-gen formats",
      "description": "Image formats like WebP provide better compression...",
      "score": 0,
      "displayValue": "Potential savings of 250 KB"
    }
  ],
  "opportunities": [
    {
      "id": "unused-css-rules",
      "title": "Reduce unused CSS",
      "description": "Remove dead CSS rules...",
      "savings": "150 KB"
    }
  ],
  "htmlReport": "<html>...</html>",
  "fullReport": { /* Full Lighthouse JSON */ }
}

Output Fields

scores: Category scores (0-100)
metrics: Key performance metrics with units
failedAudits: Audits that didn't pass with details
opportunities: Performance improvement suggestions
htmlReport: Full HTML report (if saveHtml is true)
fullReport: Complete Lighthouse JSON data (if saveJson is true)

🎯 Use Cases

1. Regular Website Monitoring

Monitor your website's performance, accessibility, and SEO over time:

{
  "urls": ["https://mywebsite.com"],
  "categories": ["performance", "accessibility", "seo"],
  "device": "mobile"
}

2. Competitive Analysis

Compare multiple websites:

{
  "urls": [
    "https://mysite.com",
    "https://competitor1.com",
    "https://competitor2.com"
  ],
  "categories": ["performance", "seo"]
}

3. Mobile vs Desktop Testing

Test both mobile and desktop versions:

Run the actor twice with different device settings, or schedule separate runs.

4. CI/CD Integration

Use in continuous integration to prevent regressions:

{
  "urls": ["https://staging.mysite.com"],
  "categories": ["performance", "accessibility", "best-practices"],
  "throttling": false,
  "maxRetries": 0,
  "timeout": 60
}

🛠️ How to Use

Option 1: Apify Console

Go to Apify Console
Navigate to Actors → Store → Search for "Lighthouse Checker"
Click Try for free or Buy
Configure input parameters
Click Start to run the Actor

Option 2: Apify API

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~lighthouse-checker/runs?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -X POST \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "urls": ["https://example.com"],
    "categories": ["performance", "accessibility", "seo"]
  }'

Option 3: Apify CLI

# Install Apify CLI
npm install -g apify-cli

# Run Actor
apify call YOUR_USERNAME/lighthouse-checker --input '{"urls": ["https://example.com"]}'

Option 4: Scheduled Runs

Set up recurring runs in the Apify Console:

Go to Actors → Your Actor → Schedules
Click Create new schedule
Set frequency (e.g., daily, weekly)
Configure input
Save schedule

🔧 Local Development

Prerequisites

Node.js 18+
npm or yarn

Setup

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/lighthouse-checker-actor.git
cd lighthouse-checker-actor

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run locally
npm start

Testing Locally

Create apify_storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json:

{
  "urls": ["https://example.com"],
  "categories": ["performance", "accessibility"],
  "device": "mobile"
}

Then run:

$npm start

Results will be saved in apify_storage/datasets/default/.

📊 Example Results

High-Performance Site

{
  "url": "https://fast-site.com",
  "scores": {
    "performance": 98,
    "accessibility": 95,
    "bestPractices": 100,
    "seo": 100
  },
  "metrics": {
    "firstContentfulPaint": "0.6 s",
    "speedIndex": "0.8 s",
    "largestContentfulPaint": "1.2 s"
  }
}

Site Needing Optimization

{
  "url": "https://slow-site.com",
  "scores": {
    "performance": 45,
    "accessibility": 78,
    "bestPractices": 83,
    "seo": 92
  },
  "failedAudits": [
    {
      "title": "Eliminate render-blocking resources",
      "savings": "720 ms"
    },
    {
      "title": "Properly size images",
      "savings": "1,200 KB"
    }
  ]
}

🎓 Understanding Scores

90-100: Excellent - Keep up the good work!
50-89: Good - Room for improvement
0-49: Poor - Needs attention

🔗 Resources

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

📄 License

Apache-2.0 License - see LICENSE file for details

💬 Support

Issues: GitHub Issues
Apify Discord: Join community
Email: support@apify.com

🌟 Keywords

lighthouse performance seo accessibility web-audit page-speed best-practices web-vitals apify actor

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Google Lighthouse Checker - Apify Actor

🚀 Features

Multiple Audit Categories

Detailed Reports

Flexible Configuration

📋 Input

Input Parameters

📤 Output

Output Fields

🎯 Use Cases

1. Regular Website Monitoring

2. Competitive Analysis

3. Mobile vs Desktop Testing

4. CI/CD Integration

🛠️ How to Use

Option 1: Apify Console

Option 2: Apify API

Option 3: Apify CLI

Option 4: Scheduled Runs

🔧 Local Development

Prerequisites

Setup

Testing Locally

📊 Example Results

High-Performance Site

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🔗 Resources

🤝 Contributing

📄 License

💬 Support

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