We expect this release to ship in the DevTools of Chrome 93, and is already in PageSpeed Insights!
Notable changes
-
The Performance Category had a number of scoring changes to align with other performance tools and to better reflect the state of the web.
- The Performance Score has been reweighted (#12577)
- The TBT and FCP score curves have been updated (#12576, #12556)
- CLS has been updated to its new, windowed
definition (#12554)
See the v8.0 Performance FAQ for more detail.
-
The report includes a new metric filter. Pick a metric to focus on the opportunities and diagnostics most relevant to improving just that metric:
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The Lighthouse Treemap is now available across all the major Lighthouse clients. If your site exposes source maps to Lighthouse, look for the "View Treemap" button to see a breakdown of your shipped JavaScript, filterable by size and coverage on load.
π New audits
- The new audit
csp-xss
has been added to Best Practices to evaluate Content Security Policies and suggest ways of making them more secure. This can be a challenging audit to pass depending on hosting environment and page content, so for now it is unscored (#12514, #12551)
π€π₯ Breaking changes for programmatic users
- Legacy metrics
estimated-input-latency
andfirst-cpu-idle
have been deprecated, unweighted, and hidden since Lighthouse 6. They have now been removed (#12553) - Starting with Node 13, Node is built with
full-icu
by default, so the very largeintl
polyfill has been removed from Lighthouse's dependencies. See the readme FAQ if you're stuck withsmall-icu
but need localization support (#12426) - Long-time audit
uses-webp-images
has a new ID,modern-image-formats
. WebP is now rather mainstream, and this frees the audit to start including details on other cutting-edge image formats in the future (#12535) - The
image-elements
artifact has been restructured for clarity (#12568)
𧱠Core
- navigate: only observe longtasks in PerfObserver (#12545)
- script-treemap-data: do not create nodes with blank names (#12569)
βοΈπ· Fraggle Rock
Support for auditing user flows (#11313)
- add
settings
to gather context (#12574) - fix usage of distributed conditional type (#12565)
- support
inspector-issues
gatherer (#12530) - support
tags-blocking-first-paint
gatherer (#12527) - support
response-compression
gatherer (#12508) - align
navigation-runner
with legacygather-runner
(#12478)
π Report
- improve accessibility of metric filter (#12552)
- treemap: add placeholder, gist, and file upload features (#12511)
- treemap: support passing gzipped data in url (#12509, #12519)
- viewer: fix gist icon (#12505)
π₯ Clients
- fix main session OOPIF checks for devtools (#12533)
- render treemap button in all clients (#12516, #12570, #12590)
- backport proto formatting fixes (#12566)
π i18n
π Tests
- run unit tests on all active node versions in CI (#12513)
- sync devtools webtests (#12578)
- treemap: reduce
debug.json
(#12555)