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.

For this report, Lighthouse measures how quickly a website loads and how quickly a user can access its features. The higher the performance score, the easier it is for a user to access your website and it's features. The main focus of this score is Speed!

These checks highlight opportunities to improve the accessibility of your web app for those who need assistive technologies. Improving a websites accessibility can enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader and strengthen efforts toward ADA compliance. The main focus of this score is screen reader accessibility!

The Best Practices score from Lighthouse measures how modern your website is and if it can be securely accessed by a user. The main focus of this score is security parameters and modernization!

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is generally known as the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines. The main focus of this score is improving website traffic!