How to Hack your Google Lighthouse scores in 2024
Here's how to do some silly things, even though you probably shouldn't.
Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more performant than they really are, as Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several experiments.
Here's how to do some silly things, even though you probably shouldn't.
You can use sensible animations to guide the user experience of what is happening on a page. Using CSS transform won't cause CLS.
Should you care about a non-perfect Google Lighthouse score? In my opinion a good website should have a perfect or near-perfect score. It is a sign of good code. As argued before, there are multiple reasons to aim for a lightning fast website. It gives you a better ranking, improved conversion and a better UX. Surely, you can cheat to get to this perfect score, especially as long as you are not in the Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report. But as soon as your website becomes more important, your Real User Monitoring results will count and cheating will become much harder.