Performance degradation rarely happens overnight. It happens slowly, one minor update at a time. We built Lighthouse Dashboard, a self-hosted, open-source…
We all know the drill. You launch a new website, run a Lighthouse audit, see a satisfying wall of green 90+ scores, and move on. Then six months pass. Marketing adds three new tracking scripts. Content uploads a 4 MB uncompressed hero image. A plugin update quietly breaks your caching headers.
When you finally remember to run Lighthouse again, those green circles have turned a depressing shade of orange and red.
Performance degradation rarely happens overnight. It happens slowly, one minor update at a time. The problem is not that we do not know how to optimize websites; the problem is that we do not monitor them consistently. Running Lighthouse manually is easy enough, but remembering to run it every week, tracking whether scores are improving or getting worse, and sharing those results with a client or a team? That is the part nobody actually does.