Lighthouse Chrome Extension: SEO Audits

[engine]

Google has added an additional audit category to the Lighthouse Chrome Extension: SEO Audits. It runs locally in your browser either on pages in a staging environment or on live pages.

The SEO audit category within Lighthouse enables developers and webmasters to run a basic SEO health-check for any web page that identifies potential areas for improvement.

[webmasters.googleblog.com...]

It's a basic tool, but it should provide some of the most basic requirements. Don't be fooled by that being basic as some of the most basic mistakes can trip a site, and it might just be handy to run this before going live.

[keyplyr]

a basic SEO health-check

...as established by Google.

Well I guess whatever Google wants us to do, is by definition, SEO :)

[buckworks]

Most of the SEO commentary is familiar basics.

Except for one that was new to me:

Document doesn't use legible font sizes
91.07% of text is too small (based on 100% sample).

Font size as an SEO issue? Have I missed something?

[keyplyr]

Font size as an SEO issue? Have I missed something?

Since we are now in the Mobile-First Index [webmasterworld.com] where a site is ranked by the mobile version, I can see that readable font size has become an SEO factor.

[buckworks]

Ah, that makes good sense.