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Audit website performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices using Google Lighthouse. Get detailed scores, metrics, optimization tips, and actionable insights for improving your web pages.

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Google Lighthouse Checker - Apify Actor

Comprehensive web page auditing tool powered by Google Lighthouse

👁 Apify Actor
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Improve your website's quality with the Google Lighthouse Checker, an open-source automated tool designed to audit any web page. This Actor conducts comprehensive assessments across multiple categories, including performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices.

🚀 Features

Multiple Audit Categories

  • Performance: Metrics including First Contentful Paint, Speed Index, Total Blocking Time, Largest Contentful Paint, and Cumulative Layout Shift
  • Accessibility: WCAG compliance and accessibility best practices
  • SEO: Search engine optimization checks
  • Best Practices: Security, user experience, and modern web standards
  • PWA: Progressive Web App capabilities (optional)

Detailed Reports

  • ✅ Comprehensive scoring for each category (0-100)
  • 📊 Key performance metrics with values
  • ❌ Failed audits with actionable indicators for improvement
  • 💡 Performance opportunities with potential savings
  • 📄 Full HTML and JSON reports (optional)

Flexible Configuration

  • 📱 Mobile or Desktop emulation
  • 🌐 Network and CPU throttling
  • 🔄 Automatic retries on failure
  • ⏱️ Configurable timeouts
  • 🎯 Selective category auditing

📋 Input

{
"urls":["https://example.com","https://another-site.com"],
"categories":["performance","accessibility","best-practices","seo"],
"device":"mobile",
"throttling":true,
"onlyCategories":true,
"saveHtml":true,
"saveJson":true,
"maxRetries":2,
"timeout":90
}

Input Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
urlsArrayYes-List of URLs to audit
categoriesArrayNoAllAudit categories to run: performance, accessibility, best-practices, seo, pwa
deviceStringNomobileDevice emulation: mobile or desktop
throttlingBooleanNotrueEnable network and CPU throttling
onlyCategoriesBooleanNotrueOnly run specified categories
saveHtmlBooleanNotrueSave full HTML report to dataset
saveJsonBooleanNotrueSave detailed JSON report to dataset
maxRetriesIntegerNo2Maximum retry attempts per URL (0-5)
timeoutIntegerNo90Timeout in seconds (30-300)

📤 Output

The Actor stores results in the default dataset. Each result contains:

{
"url":"https://example.com",
"device":"mobile",
"success":true,
"timestamp":"2025-12-20T12:00:00.000Z",
"fetchTime":"2025-12-20T12:00:30.000Z",
"scores":{
"performance":85,
"accessibility":92,
"bestPractices":88,
"seo":95,
"pwa":null
},
"metrics":{
"firstContentfulPaint":"1.2 s",
"speedIndex":"2.5 s",
"largestContentfulPaint":"2.8 s",
"totalBlockingTime":"150 ms",
"cumulativeLayoutShift":"0.05",
"timeToInteractive":"3.2 s"
},
"failedAuditsCount":5,
"failedAudits":[
{
"id":"uses-webp-images",
"title":"Serve images in next-gen formats",
"description":"Image formats like WebP provide better compression...",
"score":0,
"displayValue":"Potential savings of 250 KB"
}
],
"opportunities":[
{
"id":"unused-css-rules",
"title":"Reduce unused CSS",
"description":"Remove dead CSS rules...",
"savings":"150 KB"
}
],
"htmlReport":"<html>...</html>",
"fullReport":{/* Full Lighthouse JSON */}
}

Output Fields

  • scores: Category scores (0-100)
  • metrics: Key performance metrics with units
  • failedAudits: Audits that didn't pass with details
  • opportunities: Performance improvement suggestions
  • htmlReport: Full HTML report (if saveHtml is true)
  • fullReport: Complete Lighthouse JSON data (if saveJson is true)

🎯 Use Cases

1. Regular Website Monitoring

Monitor your website's performance, accessibility, and SEO over time:

{
"urls":["https://mywebsite.com"],
"categories":["performance","accessibility","seo"],
"device":"mobile"
}

2. Competitive Analysis

Compare multiple websites:

{
"urls":[
"https://mysite.com",
"https://competitor1.com",
"https://competitor2.com"
],
"categories":["performance","seo"]
}

3. Mobile vs Desktop Testing

Test both mobile and desktop versions:

Run the actor twice with different device settings, or schedule separate runs.

4. CI/CD Integration

Use in continuous integration to prevent regressions:

{
"urls":["https://staging.mysite.com"],
"categories":["performance","accessibility","best-practices"],
"throttling":false,
"maxRetries":0,
"timeout":60
}

🛠️ How to Use

Option 1: Apify Console

  1. Go to Apify Console
  2. Navigate to Actors → Store → Search for "Lighthouse Checker"
  3. Click Try for free or Buy
  4. Configure input parameters
  5. Click Start to run the Actor

Option 2: Apify API

curl"https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~lighthouse-checker/runs?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN"\
-X POST \
-H'Content-Type: application/json'\
-d'{
 "urls": ["https://example.com"],
 "categories": ["performance", "accessibility", "seo"]
 }'

Option 3: Apify CLI

# Install Apify CLI
npminstall-g apify-cli
# Run Actor
apify call YOUR_USERNAME/lighthouse-checker --input'{"urls": ["https://example.com"]}'

Option 4: Scheduled Runs

Set up recurring runs in the Apify Console:

  1. Go to Actors → Your Actor → Schedules
  2. Click Create new schedule
  3. Set frequency (e.g., daily, weekly)
  4. Configure input
  5. Save schedule

🔧 Local Development

Prerequisites

  • Node.js 18+
  • npm or yarn

Setup

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/lighthouse-checker-actor.git
cd lighthouse-checker-actor
# Install dependencies
npminstall
# Run locally
npm start

Testing Locally

Create apify_storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json:

{
"urls":["https://example.com"],
"categories":["performance","accessibility"],
"device":"mobile"
}

Then run:

$npm start

Results will be saved in apify_storage/datasets/default/.

📊 Example Results

High-Performance Site

{
"url":"https://fast-site.com",
"scores":{
"performance":98,
"accessibility":95,
"bestPractices":100,
"seo":100
},
"metrics":{
"firstContentfulPaint":"0.6 s",
"speedIndex":"0.8 s",
"largestContentfulPaint":"1.2 s"
}
}

Site Needing Optimization

{
"url":"https://slow-site.com",
"scores":{
"performance":45,
"accessibility":78,
"bestPractices":83,
"seo":92
},
"failedAudits":[
{
"title":"Eliminate render-blocking resources",
"savings":"720 ms"
},
{
"title":"Properly size images",
"savings":"1,200 KB"
}
]
}

🎓 Understanding Scores

  • 90-100: Excellent - Keep up the good work!
  • 50-89: Good - Room for improvement
  • 0-49: Poor - Needs attention

🔗 Resources

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

📄 License

Apache-2.0 License - see LICENSE file for details

💬 Support

🌟 Keywords

lighthouse performance seo accessibility web-audit page-speed best-practices web-vitals apify actor

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