Lighthouse Check Action

A GitHub Action for running Lighthouse audits automatically in a workflow with a rich set of extra features. Simple implementation or advanced customization including Slack notifications, AWS S3 HTML report uploads, and more!

This project provides two ways of running audits - "locally" by default in a dockerized GitHub environment or remotely via Foo's Automated Lighthouse Check API. For basic usage, running locally will suffice, but if you'd like to maintain a historical record of Lighthouse audits and utilize other features, you can follow the steps and examples.

How this Project Differs from Others

Simple configuration or choose from a variety of features below. See the example Lighthouse Check action implementation.

• 💛 Lighthouse audit multiple URLs or just one.
• 💛 Save a record of all your audits via Foo's Automated Lighthouse Check.
• 💗 PR comments of audit scores.
• 💗 Save HTML reports locally.
• 💚 Upload HTML reports as artifacts.
• 💙 Upload HTML reports to AWS S3.
• ❤️ Fail a workflow when minimum scores aren't met. Example at the bottom.
• 💜 Slack notifications.
• 💖 Slack notifications with Git info (author, branch, PR, etc).

Table of Contents

• Screenshots
  • Output
  • Save HTML Reports as Artifacts
  • HTML Reports
  • PR Comments
  • Slack Notifications
  • Fail Workflow when Minimum Scores Aren't Met
• Inputs
• Outputs
• Usage
  • Standard Example
  • Failing Workflows by Enforcing Minimum Scores
  • Foo's Automated Lighthouse Check API
  • Example with ZEIT Now

Screenshots

Screenshots below for visual look at the things you can do.

Screenshot: Output

Screenshot: Save HTML Reports as Artifacts

Screenshot: HTML Reports

Screenshot: PR Comments

Screenshot: Slack Notifications

Screenshot: Fail Workflow when Minimum Scores Aren't Met

Inputs

You can choose from two ways of running audits - "locally" in a dockerized GitHub environment (by default) or remotely via the Foo's Automated Lighthouse Check API. For directions about how to run remotely see the Foo's Automated Lighthouse Check API Usage section. We denote which options are available to a run type with the Run Type values of either local, remote, or both respectively.

Outputs

lighthouseCheckResults

An object of the below shape.

data

An array of objects with the below shape. Only applicable data will be populated (based on inputs).

scores

An object of scores. Each value is a number. Names should be self-explanatory - representing the score of each Lighthouse audit type.

Usage

DISCLAIMER: We aim to always use the latest version of Lighthouse. If you are concerned about score impact from version changes, it is recommended to use a strict version of this project vs @master. When a major Lighthouse is bumped in this project, the version of this project will also have a major version change.

Below are example combinations of ways to use this GitHub Action.

Usage: Standard Example

In the below example we run Lighthouse on two URLs, log scores, save the HTML reports as artifacts, upload reports to AWS S3, notify via Slack with details about the change from Git data. By specifying the pull_request trigger and accessToken - we allow automatic comments of audits on the corresponding PR from the token user.

name: Test Lighthouse Check
on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  lighthouse-check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/[email protected]
      - run: mkdir /tmp/artifacts
      - name: Run Lighthouse
        uses: foo-software/[email protected]
        with:
          accessToken: ${{ secrets.LIGHTHOUSE_CHECK_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          author: ${{ github.actor }}
          awsAccessKeyId: ${{ secrets.LIGHTHOUSE_CHECK_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
          awsBucket: ${{ secrets.LIGHTHOUSE_CHECK_AWS_BUCKET }}
          awsRegion: ${{ secrets.LIGHTHOUSE_CHECK_AWS_REGION }}
          awsSecretAccessKey: ${{ secrets.LIGHTHOUSE_CHECK_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
          branch: ${{ github.ref }}
          outputDirectory: /tmp/artifacts
          urls: 'https://www.foo.software,https://www.foo.software/contact'
          sha: ${{ github.sha }}
          slackWebhookUrl: ${{ secrets.LIGHTHOUSE_CHECK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
      - name: Upload artifacts
        uses: actions/[email protected]
        with:
          name: Lighthouse reports
          path: /tmp/artifacts

Usage: Failing Workflows by Enforcing Minimum Scores

We can expand on the example above by optionally failing a workflow if minimum scores aren't met. We do this using foo-software/lighthouse-check-status-action.

name: Test Lighthouse Check with Minimum Score Enforcement
on: [push]

jobs:
  lighthouse-check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/[email protected]
      - run: npm install
      - name: Run Lighthouse
        uses: foo-software/[email protected]
        id: lighthouseCheck
        with:
          urls: 'https://www.foo.software,https://www.foo.software/contact'
          # ... all your other inputs
      - name: Handle Lighthouse Check results
        uses: foo-software/[email protected]
        with:
          lighthouseCheckResults: ${{ steps.lighthouseCheck.outputs.lighthouseCheckResults }}
          minAccessibilityScore: "90"
          minBestPracticesScore: "50"
          minPerformanceScore: "50"
          minProgressiveWebAppScore: "50"
          minSeoScore: "50"

Usage: Foo's Automated Lighthouse Check API

Foo's Automated Lighthouse Check can monitor your website's quality by running audits automatically! It can provide a historical record of audits over time to track progression and degradation of website quality. Create a free account to get started. With this, not only will you have automatic audits, but also any that you trigger additionally. Below are steps to trigger audits on URLs that you've created in your account.

Trigger Audits on All Pages in an Account

• Navigate to your account details, click into "Account Management" and make note of the "API Token".
• Use the account token as the apiToken input.

Basic example

name: Lighthouse Check
on: [push]

jobs:
  lighthouse-check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/[email protected]
      - run: npm install
      - name: Run Lighthouse
        uses: foo-software/[email protected]
        id: lighthouseCheck
        with:
          apiToken: 'myaccountapitoken'
          # ... all your other inputs

Trigger Audits on Only Certain Pages in an Account

• Navigate to your account details, click into "Account Management" and make note of the "API Token".
• Navigate to your dashboard and once you've created URLs to monitor, click on the "More" link of the URL you'd like to use. From the URL details screen, click the "Edit" link at the top of the page. You should see an "API Token" on this page. It represents the token for this specific page (not to be confused with an account API token).
• Use the account token as the apiToken input and page token (or group of page tokens) as urls input.

Basic example

name: Lighthouse Check
on: [push]

jobs:
  lighthouse-check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/[email protected]
      - run: npm install
      - name: Run Lighthouse
        uses: foo-software/[email protected]
        id: lighthouseCheck
        with:
          apiToken: 'myaccountapitoken'
          urls: 'mypagetoken1,mypagetoken2'
          # ... all your other inputs

You can combine usage with other options for a more advanced setup. Example below.

Runs audits remotely and posts results as comments in a PR

name: Lighthouse Check
on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  lighthouse-check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/[email protected]
      - run: npm install
      - name: Run Lighthouse
        uses: foo-software/[email protected]
        id: lighthouseCheck
        with:
          accessToken: ${{ secrets.LIGHTHOUSE_CHECK_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          apiToken: 'myaccountapitoken'
          urls: 'mypagetoken1,mypagetoken2'
          # ... all your other inputs

Usage: ZEIT Now

Runs audits on a ZEIT Now ephemeral instance, posts results as comments in a PR and saves results on Foo's Automated Lighthouse Check. The example would trigger on pushes to master and pull request changes when master is the base. Note the urls input can be used as explained in the Trigger Audits on Only Certain Pages in an Account section, but extended with two colons like so to denote the page token and custom URL (which can be different than the one specified in the account): {page token}::{custom url}.

name: Lighthouse
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  lighthouse:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/[email protected]
      - uses: amondnet/[email protected]
        id: now
        with:
          zeit-token: ${{ secrets.ZEIT_NOW_TOKEN }}
          now-org-id: ${{ secrets.ZEIT_NOW_ORG_ID }}
          now-project-id: ${{ secrets.ZEIT_NOW_PROJECT_ID }}
      - name: Run Lighthouse
        uses: foo-software/[email protected]
        with:
          accessToken: ${{ secrets.LIGHTHOUSE_CHECK_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          apiToken: ${{ secrets.LIGHTHOUSE_CHECK_API_TOKEN }}
          tag: GitHub Action
          urls: ${{ secrets.LIGHTHOUSE_CHECK_URL_TOKEN }}::${{ steps.now.outputs.preview-url }}

Usage: Overriding Config and Option Defaults

Note: this approach is only available when running "locally" (not using the REST API)

You can override default config and options by specifying overridesJsonFile option which is consumed by path.resolve(overridesJsonFile). Contents of this overrides JSON file can have two possible fields; options and config. These two fields are eventually used by Lighthouse to populate opts and config arguments respectively as illustrated in Using programmatically. The two objects populating this JSON file are merged shallowly with the default config and options.

Example content of overridesJsonFile

{
  "config": {
    "settings": {
      "onlyCategories": ["performance"]
    }
  },
  "options": {
    "disableStorageReset": true
  }
}

Credits

This package was brought to you by Foo - a website performance monitoring tool. Create a free account with standard performance testing. Automatic website performance testing, uptime checks, charts showing performance metrics by day, month, and year. Foo also provides real time notifications. Users can integrate email, Slack and PagerDuty notifications.