Note: GoogleChrome#3837 tracks the discussion for making Lighthouse work in concert with Puppeteer. Some things are possible today (login to a page using Puppeteer, audit it using Lighthouse) while others (A/B testing the perf of UI changes) are trickier or not yet possible.
The example below shows how to inject CSS into the page before Lighthouse audits the page. A similar approach can be taken for injecting JavaScript.
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
const lighthouse = require('lighthouse');
const {URL} = require('url');
(async() => {
const url = 'https://www.chromestatus.com/features';
// Use Puppeteer to launch headful Chrome and don't use its default 800x600 viewport.
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
headless: false,
defaultViewport: null,
});
// Wait for Lighthouse to open url, then customize network conditions.
// Note: this will re-establish these conditions when LH reloads the page. Think that's ok....
browser.on('targetchanged', async target => {
const page = await target.page();
function addStyleContent(content) {
const style = document.createElement('style');
style.type = 'text/css';
style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(content));
document.head.appendChild(style);
}
const css = '* {color: red}';
if (page && page.url() === url) {
// Note: can't use page.addStyleTag due to github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/1955.
// Do it ourselves.
const client = await page.target().createCDPSession();
await client.send('Runtime.evaluate', {
expression: `(${addStyleContent.toString()})('${css}')`
});
}
});
// Lighthouse will open URL. Puppeteer observes `targetchanged` and sets up network conditions.
// Possible race condition.
const {lhr} = await lighthouse(url, {
port: (new URL(browser.wsEndpoint())).port,
output: 'json',
logLevel: 'info',
});
console.log(`Lighthouse scores: ${Object.values(lhr.categories).map(c => c.score).join(', ')}`);
await browser.close();
})();
When using Lighthouse programmatically, you'll often use chrome-launcher to launch Chrome. Puppeteer can reconnect to this existing browser instance like so:
const chromeLauncher = require('chrome-launcher');
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
const lighthouse = require('lighthouse');
const request = require('request');
const util = require('util');
(async() => {
const URL = 'https://www.chromestatus.com/features';
const opts = {
//chromeFlags: ['--headless'],
logLevel: 'info',
output: 'json'
};
// Launch chrome using chrome-launcher.
const chrome = await chromeLauncher.launch(opts);
opts.port = chrome.port;
// Connect to it using puppeteer.connect().
const resp = await util.promisify(request)(`http://localhost:${opts.port}/json/version`);
const {webSocketDebuggerUrl} = JSON.parse(resp.body);
const browser = await puppeteer.connect({browserWSEndpoint: webSocketDebuggerUrl});
// Run Lighthouse.
const {lhr} = await lighthouse(URL, opts, null);
console.log(`Lighthouse scores: ${Object.values(lhr.categories).map(c => c.score).join(', ')}`);
await browser.disconnect();
await chrome.kill();
})();