lighthouse 8.6.0

on Node.js NPM

Full Changelog

We expect this release to ship in the DevTools of Chrome 97, and to PageSpeed Insights within 2 weeks.

New Contributors

Thanks to our new contributors 👽🐷🐰🐯🐻!

• meehawk @meehawk
• Edwin Gustafson @edwingustafson
• Yorkie Liu @yorkie

Core

• crawlable-anchors: ignore event listeners, validate url (#13105)
• full-page-screenshot: fix emulation reset (#13175)
• response-compression: add x-content-encoding-over-network (#13176)
• share localization between core and report (#13146)
• update cdt SourceMap to latest devtools frontend (#13095)
• stack-packs: simplify i18n filename lookup (#13133)

⛏️👷 Fraggle Rock

Support for auditing user flows (#11313)

• add UserFlow usability improvements (#13139)
• add supportedModes filter to categories (#13161)
• handle cached timespan records (#13181)
• add parity logging (#13114)
• animate timespan thumbnail (#13178)
• refine snapshot and timespan performance (#13184)
• topbar save button (#13109)
• elide step name (#13171)
• localized sample (#13143)
• timeline header (#13128)
• add help dialog to explain flows (#13159)
• collect i18n strings (#13152)

CLI

• add list-locales flag (#12983)
• always return correct version (#13130)

Report

• move logger styles into js (#13204)
• remove href from category score gauge (#13180)
• inject report/assets/styles.css via components.js (#13057)
• remove smooth scrolling css (#13102)
• add lh- prefix to remaining show class (#13203)
• handle gauge fragment links in script (#13186)

Clients

• psi: include global reports styles in legacy psi rendering (#13151)
• viewer: swap locale (#10148, #13192)
• viewer: remove devtools disclaimer (#13145)
• viewer: add body styles (#13144)
• viewer: upgrade to firebase 9 (#13115)
• viewer: use access token regardless of firebase auth (#13116)
• viewer: use new firebase credentials (#13110)

I18n

• import (#13206)

Docs

• correct the Node.js version base (#13099)
• add user flow docs (#13134)

Tests

• smoke: make specific assertions about deprecations (#13191)
• update deprecations smoke for M96 (#13179)
• make yarn unit run all available unit tests (#13148)
• centralize running of docs tests (#13150)
• split out axe test (#13142)

Misc

• convert lighthouse-core/scripts to ES modules (#13121)
• remove patrick from issue assigner (#13194)
• set predictable order for sample json timing entries (#13162)
• scripts: fix run-devtools sniffing, add error checking (#13163)
• ensure psi.espanol sample-report es en espanol (#13160)
• add notes about software versions in issue template (#13089)
• build: fix smokehouse bundle (#13135)
• build: fix vercel deployment by adopting stricter engines grammar (#13183)
• build: create rollup-plugins.js helper module (#13122)
• build: don't build flow if only --standalone is requested (#13124)