How to check website performance using opensource google tool ?

Shivam Gupta
1 min readDec 15, 2018

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Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages.

There is 2 ways using lighthouse —

a.) go to this website —

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http://technicalacademy.in&tab=desktop

Use this website and enter your url it will measure your website performance and give suggestions how to improve website performance.

Test your website performance

b.) You can use lighthouse chrome extension , Install lighthouse plugin.

Open your website in browser and click on lighthouse extension on top right of your browser

Lighthouse by google- click generate report

It will generate detailed report like this —

Lighthouse generated report

So to speedup website it will give you suggestions . Check report and apply suggestions .

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Shivam Gupta
Shivam Gupta

Written by Shivam Gupta

Full Stack Engineer (Web/App) working on different JS Technologies & frameworks— Angular, Node, Typescript, Ionic, Firebase, AWS, ElK...Love to write cool stuff

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