Feature Announcements

Lighthouse Monitoring for your Core Web Vitals

  • June 22, 2021
  • Veronika Martosova

As we all know, Core Web Vitals are now becoming a ranking factor for Google Search on mobile, and later this year on desktop as well. And ContentKing is here to help you make sure the page experience of your website stays solid!

Not only have we recently added Origin Core Web Vitals Monitoring, but ContentKing now also monitors the Lighthouse Web Vitals on each of your pages, and alerts you when the Performance of your pages drop significantly!

ContentKing now monitors Core Web Vitals for origins, and also Lighthouse Web Vitals of individual pages
Monitor your Core Web Vitals with Lighthouse

Track your Core Web Vitals over time, and be alerted immediately when they take a nose dive. Let us do the heavy lifting for you!

Check our Academy article (opens in a new tab) and become a web vitals expert in no time.

Zoom in on any page’s Lighthouse Web Vitals…

Optimizing your website for a better page experience and want to check whether your changes improved or worsened the performance of your pages? ContentKing measures web vital lab data for each individual page to give you the answer, quick and simple:

Performance score and six Web Vitals shown on Page detail in ContentKing

… or zoom out and use them to segment your website

You can also filter and sort on web vitals across the entire website, combining them with filters on any other page properties.

Performance score, First Contentful Paint and Time To Interactive displayed on Pages in ContentKing

Get alerted when Web Vitals drop

Be the first to know when the Performance score or any of the 6 Web Vitals change from good to needs improvement.

ContentKing now alerts you when Performance score or any of the six Web Vitals become too low

Track when Lighthouse Web Vitals ratings changed

Do you want to know how ContentKing Lighthouse Web Vitals changed over time? Just head over to the Tracked Changes tab on any Page, and see when the ratings of individual web vitals improved or worsened.

Changes of Performance score, Speed Index and Largest Contentful Paint shown on Page detail in ContentKing

Check what part of a website needs improvement

Want to quickly check how many pages provide a good page experience, how many pages give a poor experience and what portion of your website needs improvement? Just head over to Graphs (opens in a new tab).

Graphs in ContentKing showing how many pages provide a good page experience, a poor page experience, and how many pages need improvement

Identify what to focus on first

Not sure which Web Vitals deserve some optimization? Head over to Issues (opens in a new tab) and get a clear overview of where your time will be best spent.

ContentKing audits the Performance score and six Lighthouse Web Vitals of individual pages

ContentKing respects the default ranges used in Lighthouse when evaluating whether your pages' web vitals are good, need improvement or are poor. If you're optimising your website's page experience for different ranges, you can set your custom ranges in Settings (opens in a new tab).

Check Lighthouse Web Vitals right now

Core Web Vitals Lighthouse Monitoring is available on our Pro and Enterprise plan. However, if you're on the Basic or Standard plan, you can try the Pro plan with this feature for free for 14 days. Find out what level of experience your pages are offering today!

Check ContentKing Lighthouse Web Vitals (opens in a new tab)

ContentKing Lighthouse Web Vitals may show different scores than Page Speed Insights or other tools that report on your pages' lab data. You can learn more in our support article or reach out to us if you have any questions.

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Veronika Martosova

Veronika is ContentKing's Product Manager. She loves talking to our customers to understand their needs and then work with the development team to come up with the right solutions to them. She enjoys working on the intersection of design, development, marketing and business.