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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Lighthouse 8.0

Analyze web apps & sites, collect modern performance metrics

Lighthouse 8.0 is a web performance analysis tool that collects and measures modern web metrics for applications and websites. Designed for developers, it provides performance scoring with improved Core Web Vitals… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lighthouse 8.0 launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Optimize your website's performance

    2023 · lighthouse-metrics.com · its alternatives →

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    Lighthouse audits web apps/sites/pages & scores them.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m Kashish, one of the co-founders of SpeedVitals, a platform for testing & monitoring website performance with a major emphasis on Core Web Vitals. Until now, our platform has only focused on Synthetic/Lab testing, such as Lighthouse tests and TTFB tests. But now, we have developed a Real-User Monitoring platform that doubles up as a Web Analytics tool. One major feature we have that most RUM tools lack is Performance Audits. Just like Lighthouse audits work on Lab test data, our audits work across all the real-user visits and gives suggestions on what task to prioritize first.…

    2023 · speedvitals.com · its alternatives →

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    Auditing and performance for Progressive Web Apps

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The metrics Google is to polite too give you

    Jan 2026 · lighthousedark.org · its alternatives →

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    Automated tool for improving the quality of web pages

    2019 · developer.chrome.com · its alternatives →

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    Website performance analyzer that's 10x faster than gpspeed

    Mar 2026 · site-metrics.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Quickly test site speed and view observed Lighthouse data

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Monitoring for websites, APIs, and cron jobs

    2024 · webgazer.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN. We’re Jay and Vadim from Highlight.io (https://highlight.io). We’re building an open source [1] monitoring platform for web applications. Today we’re excited to be sharing a performance tool we’ve been working on, which helps you inspect the latency of code execution from the client to the server. As engineers at past startups, we often had to debug slow queries, poor load times, inconsistent errors, etc... While tools like Jaegar [2] helped us inspect server-side performance, we had no way to tie user events to the traces we were inspecting. In other words, although we had…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Software that makes better managers through 1 on 1s & more

    2016 · m.getlighthouse.com · its alternatives →

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    Raileo▲97

    Monitor website performance, SEO and more

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Apex Ping▲301

    Uptime & performance monitoring for websites and APIs

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Improving the quality of your web apps.

    2017 · developer.chrome.com · its alternatives →

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    Search Cluster Monitoring & Maintenance, Redefined

    2025 · neverblink.ai · its alternatives →

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    Free, privacy-focused web analytics.

    2020 · dash.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →

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    Toolkit to measure and track website SEO performance

    2020 · sitechecker.pro · its alternatives →

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    Senior full stack software engineer with 8+ years shipping production systems in React, Node.js, Python, and Rails. Previously a Product Engineer at Ghost. Based in South Korea.

    2021 · ronaldlangeveld.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time monitoring and alerts for Slack administrators

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Lighthouse score monitoring and notifications, for free.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Falco helps you monitor, analyze, and optimize your websites. - theodo/falco

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy.

    2019 · ackee.electerious.com · its alternatives →

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    Keeps your website fast, page speed monitoring and CrUX

    2023 · pagevitals.com · its alternatives →

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    BECAUSE PERFORMANCE SHOULD BE SEXY. Contribute to swyxio/async-render-toolbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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