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Saturday, October 18, 2025

Google Lighthouse 13 Available Online: How to Access It?

Google Lighthouse 13 replaced earlier versions of Lighthouse in Chrome Canary, NPM, and PageSpeed Insights. The new features of Lighthouse offer broader site reports.

Now you will see non-scored edits.

Note: Lighthouse 13 will not change the Core Web Vitals score calculation system.

Google Lighthouse 13 Available

Google Lighthouse 13:

Google Lighthouse 13 replaced legacy audit features in DevTools.

Major changes to Google Lighthouse 13:

  • CLS Layout: Lighthouse 13's cls-culprits-insight replaces layout-shifts. It displays inner details about layout shift.
  • Server and Network: Document-latency-insight display response time, text compression, and redirects.
  • Images: Image-delivery-insight offers better points to solve image optimization, responsiveness, and content animation.
  • Largest Contentful Paint: LCP details are available in two sections. Lcp-discovery-insight and Lcp-phases-insight are available.
  • Third-party insights: Third-party insights offer better results than third-party summaries.

Other Lighthouse 13 Replacements:

  • DOM size issues
  • Duplicate JavaScript
  • Legacy JavaScript
  • Font
  • Network tree
  • Render blocking JavaScript.
  • Viewport
  • Caching
  • HTTPS or HTTPs

Lighthouse Audits removed from Lighthouse 13:

Google has removed multiple audits from Lighthouse 13. The reason is that these audits are outdated and meaningless in modern settings.

Note: Google also removed some audits because they were too costly to run.

Audits Removed from Lighthouse 13:

  • first-meaningful-paint
  • font-size
  • no-document-write
  • offscreen-images
  • preload-fonts
  • third-party facades
  • uses-rel-preload
  • uses-passive-event-listeners

Minor Differences in Lighthouse 13:

Google set unsized-images and non-composited-animations as separate entities.

Preload-fonts and font-size removed.

Why Changes to Lighthouse 13 Matter?

Lighthouse is about giving you details to find issues in your website design and structure.

With Lighthouse 13 you get fewer lines and deeper insights.

How to Access Lighthouse 13?

Here are ways to access Lighthouse 13 reports:

Note: If you do not want to use extensions, then Google PageSpeed Insights is for you.

Conclusion:

Google has aligned with DevTools and Lighthouse results. Now you will see fresh reports, without too many lines.

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Sunday, September 3, 2023

Google Pagespeed Insights Lighthouse 11 Update: What is There for You?

Google has launched an update for speed inside; this time, it is updating Lighthouse 11 with new features.

Google Pagespeed Insights Lighthouse 11 is the latest update of the newest version of the Google Lighthouse.

You can check your website speed, fix buzzes, and get a score.

What is Google Pagespeed Insights Lighthouse 11?

Google Pagespeed Insights Lighthouse 11 Update: eAskme
Google Pagespeed Insights Lighthouse 11 Update: eAskme

Google Lighthouse is a free-to-use tool to measure your website performance issues and find ways to fix them.

It is a free tool that anyone can use. All you need is to type your website URL or webpage URL and hit Enter to get a Google page speed insights report with the core web vital scores.

Google page speed insights lighthouse 11 update launched on August 28, 2023.

It is available for every user who wants to test his website.

What has changed in Lighthouse 11 or Google Pagespeed Insights?

Here are the updates and changes that you can find out;

  • Updated accessibility audits.
  • Updated best practices score.
  • Fixed a bug related to Largest Contentful Paint.
  • Updated INP or interaction to Next Paint reports.
  • Fix many bugs to improve reports.

Updated interaction to next paint (INP) report:

Google has introduced the Interaction to Next Paint metric to improve the interactivity of the webpages.

The search engine giant has also said the INP report will become official in March 2024.

Now, Google has also removed the INP metric from the experimental stage.

The recent change in Lighthouse 11 displays that Google is serious about the INP metric.

Bug fixed in Largest Contentful Paint (LCP):

A bug was reported with the launch of Lighthouse 10.2.0. In Lighthouse 11, this bug is fixed.

13 new accessibility audits:

  • td-has-header
  • table-fake-caption
  • table–duplicate-name
  • skip-link
  • select-name
  • link-in-text-block
  • label-content-name-mismatch
  • input-button-name
  • image-redundant-alt
  • html-xml-lang-mismatch
  • aria-text
  • aria-dialog-name
  • aria-allowed-role

Conclusion:

Google Lighthouse 11 is an essential and official update for Google Pagespeed Insights. You will get a better report to check your website performance and when your bugs are fixed.

Check your website performance with Google Lighthouse 11 and fix issues to make it user-friendly. It is also essential for the overall SEO of your website.

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