July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
8h 51m
English
Recently, the Chrome team also released a tool called Puppeteer (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer), which executes a headless instance of Chromium. This is not Chrome, but a variation in the code base upon which many popular applications such as Visual Studio Code are built.
A headless browser can execute a page, but not with the ability to view the page. Because the page is not visibly rendered, some of the tests are not run. You should keep this mind when executing an audit using a headless browser.
The ability to exercise Lighthouse against a headless browser has opened up opportunities for the tool to be integrated in different tools. For example, WebPageTest, HTTPArchive, Calibre, and others use ...
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