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Chrome-Lighthouse

Name: Chrome-Lighthouse
Author: Google

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Chrome-Lighthouse is an automated, open-source tool for auditing web page quality and does not operate as a traditional web crawler. It runs a series of audits against a given page to generate a report on performance and accessibility. Operated by Google.

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Assessment

SEO

What is Chrome-Lighthouse?

Chrome-Lighthouse is a web crawler operated by Google. Chrome-Lighthouse is an automated, open-source tool for auditing web page quality and does not operate as a traditional web crawler. It runs a series of audits against a given page to generate a report on performance and accessibility.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Chrome-Lighthouse

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

Chrome-Lighthouse crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Google as part of their SEO analysis infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Chrome-Lighthouse originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.

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Block or allow Chrome-Lighthouse

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Chrome-Lighthouse in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Chrome-Lighthouse from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Chrome-Lighthouse
Disallow: /

# Allow Chrome-Lighthouse full access
User-agent: Chrome-Lighthouse
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Chrome-Lighthouse. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Google's documentation.