lighthouse-plugin-webforfuture v0.0.2

Web For Future Lighthouse Plugin

Lighthouse allows to check websites for performance, accessibility and other criteria.

It's time we check the sustainability of our websites as well!

The average website is 2MB and rising. A few years ago websites were way smaller (1MB or less). Every website that is transferred causes computers to work and consume energy.

IMHO the easiest rule of thumb is:

"The smaller the better!"

...at least when it comes to websites.

This plugin allows me to check this for every website that I have and display it in a report.

Usage

> npm install lighthouse-plugin-webforfuture

> lighthouse https://webforfuture.org \
  --plugins=lighthouse-plugin-webforfuture \
  --only-categories='lighthouse-plugin-webforfuture'

See also dok/run-lighthouse-local.sh.

Want to help?

Web page size is only one thing that indicates sustainability.

Do you know other things we can measure to find out how "green" a website is?

Feel free to send a merge request with suggestions. 🙂

I'm running this project in my free time but I will try to react as soon as possible. 😉

Want more info? I'm also blogging sometimes (in german 🇩🇪) at webforfuture.org.