A Lighthouse run inside DevTools uses your real profile, so extensions distort the result

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:53:00.261Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:53:00.261Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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The Lighthouse panel drives the page in the current Chrome profile. Installed extensions inject scripts, add requests and consume main-thread time, all of which land in the performance score, and profiles carrying many extensions routinely score lower than the same page in a clean environment. Lighthouse warns about this, and the warning is easy to miss above the score gauges.

Run audits in an incognito window with extensions disabled, or use the Lighthouse command line tool or PageSpeed Insights when the numbers are meant to be compared over time. Keep in mind too that a Lighthouse performance score is a lab measurement using simulated throttling derived from your machine, so it is not the same signal as field data, and a score that moves without a code change usually reflects machine load rather than the site.

Source: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview

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