Lighthouse Scores That Shine Mighty Bright

100, 100, 97, 100… these are the kind of Google Lighthouse numbers we like to see!

When we built the first version of the Northern Pacific Power website, the Google Lighthouse scores were pretty good, largely in the 75-95 range. But we really wanted to make an effort to help the site reach its full SEO potential, so we took a little extra time to see how far we could push the boundaries.

The results of the efforts were quite good. After doing some auditing and making updates, test results were hitting 100 or very near to it for all categories on most pages.

Getting there required applying a variety of updates including alternate image delivery, improving semantic markdown, auditing accessibility tagging, optimizing load times for mobile and adding server-level cacheing rules.

This is on a WordPress site, btw. So don’t let anybody tell you WordPress sites can’t be blazing fast!