lets-lighthouse v1.1.8

Lets Lighthouse

Evaluate the performance of your webpage and enhance it before it's too late.

The "Let's Lighthouse" tool facilitates straightforward analysis, reporting, and comparison, supported by "Lighthouse," a reliable tool for assessing your page's performance.

This tool enables the generation of lighthouse reports for multiple URLs, both for desktop and mobile, utilizing config.yaml, and allows for easy comparison of the results.

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The large size of the unpacked file for this project is a result of the presence of sample lighthouse JSON files located within the dist folder.

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Required Node & NPM version

node >= 20.5.1

npm  >=9.8.0

Installation

Use the package manager npm to install Lets Lighthouse.

npm i lets-lighthouse

Simple setup

The following command will create the necessary project folders and populate them with placeholder data.

  npm run init

Heart of the project

To use this tool, you will need to edit the following configuration structure in config.yaml file Create config.yaml file (if not exits) in parallel to your project's package.json file.

Note: In the YAML file, Whitespace indentation is used to indicate nesting and overall structure. Here is the read about YAML

Please be advised to refrain from using special characters in page names.

---
- name: Dummy
  items:
      - name: Google
        path: https://www.google.com/
      - name: Google - Desktop
        path: https://www.google.com/
        device: desktop
- name: News
  items:
      - name: Times of India
        path: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
      - name: Bhaskar
        path: https://www.bhaskar.com/
        device: desktop
      - name: BBC News
        path: https://www.bbc.com/news

Usage

Command 1

# Execute the below command to start lighthouse analysis on
# multiple URLs(uses config.yaml)

  npm run analysis

The above command will create the tests folder under your project root with all the analysis info as follows, you will also get a consolidated report in CSV format under the tests folder refer to screenshot:

Command 2

# Compare 2 JSON files generated from the lighthouse.
# Refer to the JSON path from the above screenshot.

  npm run compare /2023-4-27/Dummy/Google/105453.json /2023-4-27/Dummy/Google/105658.json

Command 3 - Compare 2 lighthouse reports for multiple URLs.

In order to use this command, you have to follow some steps: 1. Create an input folder to the root of the project, for example:

2. Now, create compareit.csv file under input folder like as follows:

3. It is time to edit the compareit.csv file as follows:

Note: Kindly follow the same header names, you can add Test IDs to compare, generated using command 1.

Execute the below command, this command will use Lighthouse Report Viewer

  npm run compare-csv

Execute the below command if you want to use Lighthouse Report Diff Tool

  npm run compare-csv v2

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT