Overview
Use the Lighthouse panel to run a comprehensive audit of your website. The Lighthouse panel generates a report that gives you insight into the following about your website:
- Performance
- Accessibility
- Best Practices
- SEO
... and many other metrics.
The following tutorial helps you get started with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools.
To learn more about the other ways Lighthouse can improve the quality of your website, see our Lighthouse docs.
Goal of tutorial
This tutorial teaches you how to use Chrome DevTools to find ways to make your websites load faster.
Read on, or watch the video version of this tutorial:
Prerequisites
You should have basic web development experience, similar to what's taught in this Introduction to Web Development class.
You don't need to know anything about load performance.
Introduction
This is Tony. Tony is very famous in cat society. He has built a website so that his fans can learn what his favorite foods are. His fans love the site, but Tony keeps hearing complaints that the site loads slowly. Tony has asked you to help him speed the site up.