Lighthouse SEO Score
Lighthouse's SEO category audits the technical crawlability basics — meta tags, status codes, mobile friendliness. SaaSalyst captures your PageSpeed Insights SEO category score as an informational cross-check on its own distribution checks.
What SaaSalyst Checks
SaaSalyst records the 0–100 Lighthouse SEO category score from the same PageSpeed Insights run as its performance checks. 90 and above passes; below 90 warns. Informational — never fails, low scoring weight.
Why This Matters
The Lighthouse SEO audit covers machine-readability fundamentals search and answer engines share: valid meta description, crawlable links, indexability, viewport configuration. A low score here almost always co-occurs with failures in SaaSalyst's specific SEO checks — the aggregated number is the recognizable summary, the specific checks are the fix list.
How to Fix It
- Run Lighthouse's SEO audit locally to enumerate the failing items.
- Cross-reference SaaSalyst's Distribution Readiness checks — title, meta description, canonical, robots directives — which name the same issues individually with fix guidance.
- Re-scan after deploying fixes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Lighthouse SEO score the same thing as ranking well?
No. It audits technical crawlability, not authority or content quality. SaaSalyst captures it as an informational floor: a low score means crawlers hit friction before your content is even evaluated.
Why does SaaSalyst carry this at low weight?
Because it is an aggregate that never fails outright and overlaps SaaSalyst's own itemized SEO checks, which carry the scoring weight. SaaSalyst avoids double-penalizing one underlying issue through two checks.
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