Lighthouse 6.0 With Core Web Vitals is Out ( npm and Chrome Canary)

Lighthouse 6.0 is available on npm and in Chrome Canary. Other Google services that leverage Lighthouse will get the update by the end of the month. It will land in Chrome Stable in Chrome 84 (mid-July).

This version of Lighthouse comes with a large number of changes that are listed in the 6.0 changelog.  Key points are:

• • New Core Web Vitals metrics
  • Performance score update – check this out it breaks down the weight assigned to each metric, one of the change here is that in v6 TTI’s weight has been reduced from 33% to 15%, FCP’s weight has been reduced from 23% to 15% etc
  • New audits
  • Lighthouse CI
  • Renamed Chrome DevTools panel
  • Mobile emulation
  • Browser extension
  • Budgets