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Minding The Drop: Using Lighthouse CI to Boost Optimization Metrics

Ever felt disappointed with audits that return average or low optimization metrics on your web apps? If you’re like me, the dismay is palpable — especially after completing a round of hard work. But what if you had a reliable way to mitigate the drop in scores while you build? In the same way that we integrate specific workflows into our development processes to ensure performant and accessible applications (for example, crafting out performant algorithms for solving a time complexity problem, integrating reusable performant third-party plugins rather than building from scratch, or ensuring the use of semantic HTML tags to boost our web app accessibility etc.), you can integrate a process into your development workflows to double-check and avoid low optimization metrics. In this talk, I’ll show how developers can harness Lighthouse CI’s suite of tools to double-check and ensure every commit /​pull request to your project reflects how well your application’s optimization metric increased or how it can be improved.

Dot All 2023