Today I discovered something I honestly should have explored a long time ago: Google Lighthouse.

Funny enough, revamping my portfolio is one of those projects I kept pushing forward with the classic “I’ll do it tomorrow” mindset — and somehow tomorrow kept winning. But today I finally sat down and started improving it, and during that process, I came across Lighthouse.

For anyone who hasn’t heard of it yet, Google Lighthouse is an open-source automated tool designed to help developers improve the quality of web pages. You can run it on almost any page — whether it’s public or behind authentication.

What immediately caught my attention is that it audits things like:

Performance