Lighthouse, the open source tool to improve your SEO
Mar 13, 2024 8:43:42 GMT
Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 8:43:42 GMT
Lighthouse, the open source tool for measuring the speed of your web pages Perhaps not everyone knows, but a new tool – Lighthouse – is available online to measure the performance of your web page and improve its quality. Since February 5, this new tool has a new functionality, the "SEO" category, which has been added to the already existing "Performance", "Progressive Web App", "Accessibility" and "Best Practices". By installing the software in your Google Chrome browser, you can obtain important information on readability, UX/UI and mobile friendliness. For example, Lighthouse indicates whether the viewport tag is present with indications of width or initial-scale, whether there are titles and meta descriptions, whether the page returns a status code of 200.
And also whether all the links have a descriptive anchor text to help Find Your Phone Number users engines to understand the content of the page and whether it is correctly indexable, i.e. whether crawlers can crawl it. There are also indications on the correct setting of the hreflanf and rel=canonical tags and whether the structured data is valid (just launch the Structured Data Testing Tool ). Finally, it is able to understand if the site is mobile friendly with a specific test ( Mobile-Friendly test ). Of course, all this refers only to the new SEO feature recently introduced, which I tested on my Comunicare Social Media site . There are also a number of useful features to improve page performance, accessibility, and much more. To launch Lighthouse just go to the Chrome DevTools panel or use it as a Node module.
Simply indicate to Lighthouse the URL to analyze and the tool will provide a detailed report with indications for improving the quality of the page, indicated in a specific document attached to the report. All in a period of time ranging from 60 to 90 seconds. lighthousetool It is also possible to program automated scans of the web page and use the tool as a Chrome extension , installing it from the browser's Webstore: the icon with the lighthouse will appear on the right side and simply go to the page to be analyzed and click on Generate Report .
And also whether all the links have a descriptive anchor text to help Find Your Phone Number users engines to understand the content of the page and whether it is correctly indexable, i.e. whether crawlers can crawl it. There are also indications on the correct setting of the hreflanf and rel=canonical tags and whether the structured data is valid (just launch the Structured Data Testing Tool ). Finally, it is able to understand if the site is mobile friendly with a specific test ( Mobile-Friendly test ). Of course, all this refers only to the new SEO feature recently introduced, which I tested on my Comunicare Social Media site . There are also a number of useful features to improve page performance, accessibility, and much more. To launch Lighthouse just go to the Chrome DevTools panel or use it as a Node module.
Simply indicate to Lighthouse the URL to analyze and the tool will provide a detailed report with indications for improving the quality of the page, indicated in a specific document attached to the report. All in a period of time ranging from 60 to 90 seconds. lighthousetool It is also possible to program automated scans of the web page and use the tool as a Chrome extension , installing it from the browser's Webstore: the icon with the lighthouse will appear on the right side and simply go to the page to be analyzed and click on Generate Report .