Running Your First Audit
Get hands-on experience by performing your initial Lighthouse audits on various web pages and understanding the scoring system.
Your First Lighthouse Audit
Welcome to your first hands-on Lighthouse audit! In this lesson, you'll learn how to run an audit on any webpage and understand its performance scores.
Lighthouse is a powerful tool built by Google to help developers improve the quality of their web pages. It checks for performance, accessibility, SEO, and more.
Where to Find Lighthouse
Google Lighthouse is built right into your Chrome browser's developer tools. You don't need to install anything extra!
- Open Chrome and navigate to any webpage.
- Right-click anywhere on the page and select "Inspect" (or use
Ctrl+Shift+I/Cmd+Option+I). - This opens the Developer Tools panel.
All lessons in this course
- Introduction to Google Lighthouse
- Running Your First Audit
- Interpreting Lighthouse Reports
- Understanding Lighthouse Scoring