Lighthouse Testing

Effortlessly run an automated Lighthouse audit of any page on your website within your automated tests.

Get instant clarity on your Google Lighthouse scores.

 
 

A powerful integration to Google’s Lighthouse website auditing tool is available from Test Evolve Spark. Lighthouse is known as the gold standard for assessing website completeness for SEO, Performance, Coding Best Practice, Progressive Web App and Accessibility.

With a single command, simply add Lighthouse checks for your website, as part of your automated testing builds.

 
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Add Google Lighthouse audits to your automated tests.

With Test Evolve Spark, it’s quick and intuitive to add your page by page Lighthouse checks within your automated website tests.

Test Evolve Flare’s web test recorder provides a rapid right-click option to add Lighthouse audits throughout the user journey being recorded for a new test.

Or simply add a single line of code wherever a Google Lighthouse scoring check is required in your application, for your existing tests.

 
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Execute your automated lighthouse testing audits.

To run your automated Lighthouse tests, just configure your test run options with ‘Audit’ as your test category and ‘Lighthouse’ as your auditing tool of choice.

When your test navigates to the specified application page, a complete Google Lighthouse check is undertaken and the functional test then continues to completion as normal.

 
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Review your Google Lighthouse scores in our Halo real-time results platform.

The Test Evolve Halo results dashboard offers you a real-time view of your functional test results with an overview of your Lighthouse scores for Performance, SEO, Accessibility and Best Practices, following execution.

You can rapidly ascertain whether your minimum scoring thresholds for each category have been met and whether Google considers your scores to be ‘Good’, ‘Poor’ or ‘Needing Improvement’.

 
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Analyse your SEO, Accessibility, Best Practices, PWA and Performance opportunities in a detailed report.

The Test Evolve Spark Lighthouse audit report introduces users to a thoroughly detailed insight to each Lighthouse check that you executed within your end to end website user test.

For each Google Lighthouse check undertaken, you will find a fully expandable analysis across the 5 key categories with core metrics, diagnostics and opportunities to prioritise with your developers for website enhancement.

 

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