Lighthouse#

Pulsewise runs Google Lighthouse audits on your site to track performance, SEO, accessibility, and best practices scores over time.

Available on: Business and Enterprise plans Default frequency: Every 7 days

How it works#

Pulsewise runs a full Lighthouse audit against your site's homepage. The audit produces scores across four categories, each rated from 0 to 100.

Score categories#

Performance#

Measures how fast your site loads and becomes interactive. Key metrics include:

• First Contentful Paint (FCP)
• Speed Index
• Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
• Total Blocking Time (TBT)
• Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
• Time to Interactive (TTI)

SEO#

Checks whether your site follows search engine optimisation best practices:

• Viewport meta tag
• Crawlability
• Document title and meta description
• Descriptive link text
• Valid robots.txt
• Readable font sizes

Accessibility#

Evaluates how accessible your site is to all users:

• Button and link labels
• Color contrast ratios
• Alt text for images
• Tab index usage
• Heading hierarchy

Best Practices#

Checks general web development best practices:

• HTTPS usage
• Image aspect ratios and responsive sizing
• Font preloading
• Console errors

Notifications#

Pulsewise sends notifications when scores change between checks:

Lighthouse history#

The Lighthouse page shows score trends over time for each category, making it easy to track improvements or regressions after deploying changes.