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Lighthouse is Google's auditing tool that gives you a score for performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. It runs in a lab environment (Chrome DevTools, PageSpeed Insights, CI) and simulates a slow network and an older mobile device. It is ideal for reproducible tests during development, though the results can diverge from what real users experience.

At PageSpeed.ONE we use Lighthouse under the hood of our synthetic tests and display the results alongside CrUX data so you see both sides. The articles below cover how to read the score, when to trust it, and where it diverges from real-user measurements.