Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
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Re: Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
#2Funnily enough the biggest offender of Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) metric in my daily life is google search with its "people also search for" feature that causes me to constantly misclick.
Lighthouse is great though :)
Re: Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
#3Funnily enough the biggest offender of Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) metric in my daily life is google search with its "people also search for" feature that causes me to constantly misclick. Lighthouse is great though :)
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Re: Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
#4If you're running Google Lighthouse manually, you might want to check out a tool I'm building - https://OnlineOrNot.com - it automatically monitors your page speed (as well as uptime, and soon Puppeteer checks). It uses Google Lighthouse v8.0.0 as of this morning (Australian time).
We have a free tier with no time limit or credit card required, if you want to check it out.
Re: Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
#5This is so exhausting, infuriating and perplexing.
Just 1 week after managing to claw our LightHouse score up to 90 - its shot back down 72. The arbitrary nature of their weighting is just tiring - and its compounded by the fact that noone actually knows how much this actually impacts SEO.
Re: Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
#6This is so exhausting, infuriating and perplexing. Just 1 week after managing to claw our LightHouse score up to 90 - its shot back down 72. The arbitrary nature of their weighting is just tiring - and its compounded by the fact that noone actually knows how much this actually impacts SEO.
Is there any indication that Lighthouse affects SEO at all?
Re: Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
#7This is so exhausting, infuriating and perplexing. Just 1 week after managing to claw our LightHouse score up to 90 - its shot back down 72. The arbitrary nature of their weighting is just tiring - and its compounded by the fact that noone actually knows how much this actually impacts SEO.
Is there any indication that Lighthouse affects SEO at all?
When it completely rolls out during this month, it's going to be tie-breaker which, supposedly, happens a lot more often than people think.
Additionally, it's not the Lighthouse score that you need to worry about, but WebVitals (FID, LCP, CLS) and only that for Field data, if your main concern is SEO.
Lighthouse is just a general tool that can hint you at performance issues.
Re: Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
#8This is so exhausting, infuriating and perplexing. Just 1 week after managing to claw our LightHouse score up to 90 - its shot back down 72. The arbitrary nature of their weighting is just tiring - and its compounded by the fact that noone actually knows how much this actually impacts SEO.
Is there any indication that Lighthouse affects SEO at all?
Your performance affects SEO, and people take the Performance Score as measured by Google Lighthouse to be a proxy for how Googlebot will rank their site.
Re: Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
#9This is so exhausting, infuriating and perplexing. Just 1 week after managing to claw our LightHouse score up to 90 - its shot back down 72. The arbitrary nature of their weighting is just tiring - and its compounded by the fact that noone actually knows how much this actually impacts SEO.
Looks to me that you are not. using Lighthouse for the right reasons.
Lighthouse isn't there to improve your SEO. It's just a set of heuristics that make you website performance - as perceived by end users - measurable, and thus improvable. They add a quantitative score on a very qualitative process.
If you clawed your Lighthouse score to 90, you should have improved your end users experience, and that's what matters. Your score shot back down to 72, you know have new areas to investigate, super cool ! Your SEO will not suddenly improve or worsen due to this change. If you don't, however, address the new advices given by Lighthouse over a long period of time, other websites will, and their UX will be better than yours. And your SEO will reflect that. But that's the game with technology: over time, technology evolves, requirements change, and expectations shift.
Re: Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics
#10Is there a way to run lighthouse 8.0.0 on older versions of Chrome for local (development) websites, so we can test them now instead of waiting until Chrome 93 is released?