Use Lighthouse for performance budgets
Lighthouse now supports performance budgets. This feature, LightWallet, can be set up in under five minutes and provides feedback on the size and quantity of page resources.
Install Lighthouse
LightWallet is available in the command line version of Lighthouse v5+.
To get started, install Lighthouse:
npm install -g lighthouse
Create a Budget
Create a file named budget.json
. In this file add the following JSON:
[
{
"resourceSizes": [
{
"resourceType": "script",
"budget": 125
},
{
"resourceType": "total",
"budget": 300
}
],
"resourceCounts": [
{
"resourceType": "third-party",
"budget": 10
}
]
}
]
This example budget.json
file sets three separate budgets:
- A budget of 125 KB for the total amount of JavaScript on the page.
- A budget of 300 KB for the overall size of the page.
- A budget of 10 requests for the numer of requests made to third-party origins.
You can set budgets for any of the following resource types: document
, font
, image
, media
, other
,script
, stylesheet
, third-party
, and total
.
Run Lighthouse
Run Lighthouse using the --budget-path
flag. This flag tells Lighthouse the location of your budget file.
lighthouse https://example.com --budget-path=./budget.json
Note: A budget file does not have to be named budget.json
.
View the Results
If LightWallet has been configured correctly, the Lighthouse report will contain a Budgets section within the Performance category.

In the JSON version of the Lighthouse report, Lightwallet results can be found within the audit findings for the performance-budget
audit.