Overview
Have you heard about Lighthouse? Are you afraid to go into the light like Carol Anne in Poltergeist? Don’t be afraid, because Lighthouse is an awesome tool to achieve your web experience goals. You can do a bunch of awesome things in Lighthouse, like running SEO audits, front-end performance audits, and Chris DeMars’ favourite, accessibility audits. This talk will explore reasons that audits and testing are necessary, and walk through different types of audits you can run. The end goal is analyzing the results and taking steps to achieve your web experience goals.
Objective
The key objective of the talk is to educate attendees on how to effectively use Lighthouse to run various types of audits—such as SEO, front-end performance, and accessibility audits—and leverage the results to improve overall web experience.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
- What a web audit is: Understanding how an audit evaluates different aspects of a website, such as SEO, performance, and accessibility, to improve user experience
- How to run an audit in Lighthouse: Step-by-step guidance on using Lighthouse to perform comprehensive audits
- Identifying problems: Recognizing critical issues uncovered by the audit, such as slow load times or accessibility barriers
- Creating solutions: Turning the audit results into actionable steps to optimize the website’s performance, SEO, and user accessibility
- How to interpret audit results
Target Audience
Anyone that works on the web in some capacity.
