Web Performance and Lighthouse Best Practices

Web Performance and Lighthouse Best Practices Lighthouse is a practical tool that helps you grade how fast and reliable a web page feels. It runs from Chrome DevTools, a command line, or online, and it covers performance, accessibility, best practices, and SEO. The goal is not perfection, but clear, actionable steps you can take to improve real user experience. Core Web Vitals guide much of the focus. Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and the time it takes to become interactive are good benchmarks. They reflect how quickly content appears, stays stable, and responds to user input. Use Lighthouse to spot gaps and to verify that changes really help real users, not just a score on a report. ...

September 21, 2025 · 3 min · 467 words