Google Lighthouse vs Google Search Console

Google Lighthouse

Description: Google Lighthouse is an open-source automated tool for improving web page quality. It audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and more.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

Google Search Console

Description: Google Search Console is a free web service by Google that helps website owners monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot their site's presence in Google Search results. It provides reports on indexed pages, search queries, and more.

Type: software

Google Lighthouse Features

• Performance auditing
• Accessibility auditing
• Best practices auditing
• SEO auditing
• PWA auditing

Google Search Console Features

• Index status reports to see which pages Google can or cannot crawl
• Page speed insights to improve site performance
• Security issues detection
• Sitemaps for crawling prioritization
• URL inspection to fix indexing issues
• Click analytics for search queries
• Manual actions and messages from Google

Google Lighthouse

• Open Source

Google Search Console

• Not listed