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Google Updates PageSpeed Insights With Lighthouse 11 - Search Engine Journal

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Google has updated PageSpeed Insights with a new version of Lighthouse. The new version contains new audits, bug fixes and changes to scoring.

Lighthouse 11

Lighthouse is an open source measurement tool that helps debug website performance issues.

It’s also the technology that powers PageSpeed Insights and other tools that measure core web vitals.

Google released the latest version, Lighthouse 11, on Monday, August 28th.

Changes To Lighthouse 11/PageSpeed Insights

There are many changes introduced.

The following changes and additions are notable:

  • New accessibility audits
  • Changes to how best practices are scored
  • Largest Contentful Paint scoring bug fixed
  • Updated Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to reflect it’s no longer experimental
  • Multiple miscellaneous bug fixes

Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a new metric that measures the interactivity of the entire webpage.

It was formerly an experimental metric but in May of this year Google removed it from the experimental stage and it is in line to become an official Core Web Vital in 2024.

The change in Lighthouse 11 is to formally reflect that INP is no longer experimental.

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Scoring Bug Fixed

LCP diagnostic feedback showed an error in scoring, a bug that was introduced in Lighthouse...



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