Lighthouse is a Google developed tool that allows website owners to improve the quality of webpages on their website. The tool audits pages for performance, accessibility, SEO, and more. It also offers suggestions for improving these aspects. ActiveComply automatically incorporates Lighthouse scores for each individual website page into WebCompass.

Lighthouse can run it against any web page, public or requiring authentication. To begin, users can give Lighthouse a URL to audit. It will then run a series of audits against the page and generate a report on how well the page did. From there, users can review the failing audits as indicators on how to improve the page. Each audit has a reference doc explaining why the audit is important, as well as how to fix it.

The Best Practices score from Lighthouse measures how modern your website is. Factors included in this score include: if resources load from secure servers with HTTPS, if images have a correct aspect ration an proper resolution, and if the page is free from all browser errors. Additional best practices measured can get quite pinpointed, such as if the page allows a user to paste a password in the password field and if intrusive requests (like geolocation and notifications) are blocked at the initial page load. The main focus of this score is security parameters and modernization!

Have a green score? Congrats! A score between 90-100 indicates that your page is meeting Best Practice standards.

Have a red score? Anything below 90 should prompt you to examine the security parameters on the page and ensure the page is fundamentally built on the newest standards for modern website development.