Audit URLs using Lighthouse and test performance with Lighthouse CI.

The action integrates Lighthouse CI with Github Actions environment. Making it simple to see failed tests with annotations, upload results, store secrets, and interpolate env variables.

It is built in collaboration between Lighthouse Team, Treo (web performance monitoring company), and many excellent contributors.

Features:

• ✅ Audit URLs using Lighthouse
• 🎯 Test performance with Lighthouse CI assertions or performance budgets
• 😻 See failed results in the action interface
• 💾 Upload results to a private LHCI server, Temporary Public Storage, or as artifacts
• ⚙️ Full control over Lighthouse CI config
• 🚀 Fast action initialization (less than 1 second)

Run Lighthouse on each push to the repo, test performance budget, save results as action artifacts.

Create .github/workflows/main.yml with the list of URLs to audit using Lighthouse.

name: Lighthouse CI
on: push
jobs:
  lighthouse:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Audit URLs using Lighthouse
        uses: treosh/lighthouse-ci-action@v2
        with:
          urls: |
            https://example.com/
            https://example.com/blog
          budgetPath: ./budget.json # test performance budgets
          uploadArtifacts: true # save results as an action artifacts
          temporaryPublicStorage: true # upload lighthouse report to the temporary storage

Describe your performance budget using a budget.json.

[
  {
    "path": "/*",
    "resourceSizes": [
      {
        "resourceType": "document",
        "budget": 18
      },
      {
        "resourceType": "total",
        "budget": 200
      }
    ]
  }
]

⚙️ See this workflow in use

Run Lighthouse and validate against Lighthouse CI assertions.

Create .github/workflows/main.yml with the list of URLs to audit and identify a lighthouserc file with configPath.

main.yml

name: Lighthouse
on: push
jobs:
  lighthouse:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Run Lighthouse on urls and validate with lighthouserc
        uses: treosh/lighthouse-ci-action@v2
        with:
          urls: 'https://exterkamp.codes/'
          configPath: './lighthouserc.json'

Make a lighthouserc.json file with LHCI assertion syntax.

lighthouserc.json

{
  "ci": {
    "assert": {
      "assertions": {
        "first-contentful-paint": ["error", { "minScore": 0.6 }]
      }
    }
  }
}

⚙️ See this workflow in use

Upload results to a private LHCI server.

Create .github/workflows/main.yml with the list of URLs to audit using lighthouse, and identify a serverBaseUrl to upload to and an token to use.

Note: use GitHub secrets to keep your server address hidden!

main.yml

name: Lighthouse
on: push
jobs:
  lighthouse:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Run Lighthouse on urls and upload data to private lhci server
        uses: treosh/lighthouse-ci-action@v2
        with:
          urls: 'https://example.com/'
          serverBaseUrl: ${{ secrets.LHCI_SERVER_URL }}
          serverToken: ${{ secrets.LHCI_SERVER_TOKEN }}
          uploadArtifacts: false # don't store artifacts as a part of action

⚙️ See this workflow in use

name: Lighthouse
on: push
jobs:
  lighthouse:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Run Lighthouse on urls with lighthouserc
        uses: treosh/lighthouse-ci-action@v2
        with:
          urls: 'https://example.com/'
          configPath: './lighthouserc.json'

{
  "ci": {
    "collect": {
      "numberOfRuns": 1,
      "settings": {
        "chromeFlags": ["--disable-gpu", "--no-sandbox", "--no-zygote"]
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "ci": {
    "collect": {
      "numberOfRuns": 1,
      "settings": {
        "configPath": "./lighthouse-config.js"
      }
    }
  }
}

module.exports = {
  extends: 'lighthouse:default',
  settings: {
    emulatedFormFactor: 'desktop',
    audits: [{ path: 'metrics/first-contentful-paint', options: { scorePODR: 800, scoreMedian: 1600 } }]
  }
}

Test a static site without having to deploy it.

Create .github/workflows/main.yml and identify a lighthouserc file with a staticDistDir config.

main.yml

name: Lighthouse
on: push
jobs:
  static-dist-dir:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Run Lighthouse against a static dist dir
        uses: treosh/lighthouse-ci-action@v2
        with:
          # no urls needed, since it uses local folder to scan .html files
          configPath: './lighthouserc.json'

lighthouserc.json

{
  "ci": {
    "collect": {
      "staticDistDir": "./dist"
    }
  }
}

Inside your staticDistDir there should be html files that make up your site. LHCI will run a simple static webserver to host the files, then run an audit against each of them. More details on this process are in the Lighthouse CI docs.

⚙️ See this workflow in use

name: Lighthouse CI
on: push
jobs:
  lighthouse:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Run Lighthouse and test budgets
        uses: treosh/lighthouse-ci-action@v2
        with:
          urls: |
            https://pr-$PR_NUMBER.staging-example.com/
            https://pr-$PR_NUMBER.staging-example.com/blog
          budgetPath: ./budgets.json
          temporaryPublicStorage: true
        env:
          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}

Explore more workflows in public examples. Submit a pull request with a new one if they don't cover your use case.

Provide the list of URLs separated by a new line. Each URL is audited using the latest version of Lighthouse and Chrome preinstalled on the environment.

urls: |
  https://example.com/
  https://example.com/blog
  https://example.com/pricing

Upload Lighthouse results as action artifacts to persist results. Equivalent to using actions/upload-artifact to save the artifacts with additional action steps.

uploadArtifacts: true

Upload reports to the temporary public storage.

Note: As the name implies, this is temporary and public storage. If you're uncomfortable with the idea of your Lighthouse reports being stored on a public URL on Google Cloud, use a private LHCI server or Gist. Reports are automatically deleted 7 days after upload.

temporaryPublicStorage: true

Use a performance budget to keep your page size in check. Lighthouse CI Action will fail the build if one of the URLs exceeds the budget.

Learn more about the budget.json spec and practical use of performance budgets.

budgetPath: ./budget.json

Specify the number of runs to do on each URL.

Note: Asserting against a single run can lead to flaky performance assertions. Use 1 only to ensure static audits like Lighthouse scores, page size, or performance budgets.

runs: 3

Set a path to a custom lighthouserc file for full control of the Lighthouse environment and assertions.

Use lighthouserc to configure the collection of data (via Lighthouse config and Chrome Flags), and CI assertions (via LHCI assertions).

configPath: ./lighthouserc.json

Upload Lighthouse results to a private LHCI server by specifying both serverBaseUrl and serverToken. This will replace uploading to temporary-public-storage.

Note: Use Github secrets to keep your server address hidden!

serverBaseUrl: ${{ secrets.LHCI_SERVER_BASE_URL }}
serverToken: ${{ secrets.LHCI_SERVER_TOKEN }}

Note: Use Github secrets to keep your token hidden!

Sponsored by Treo and Google.