How to Run Automated Lighthouse Audits on WordPress Changes

You are probably familiar with this scenario.

You put a lot of work to drastically improve the page speed and PageSpeed Insights scores of your client’s site.

Mobile scores are particularly challenging to improve!

Your client installs a new app or plugin and all your work goes down the drain.

Can we go lower than 1?

This is a frustrating, but sadly common situation.

Fortunately, there is a version of Google Lighthouse that can perform audits on demand.

It is called Lighthouse CI.

CI stands for Continuous Integration, which is a common practice in software…