What PageSpeed score should my website achieve?
In short and in plain language
Lighthouse is a test tool from Google. It gives your page a score. A high score counts as good.
But the score can change from test to test. The Core Web Vitals matter more. These are speed measures from Google.
We advise against looking only at the score. Our goal is good values for real visitors. The score then mostly follows on its own.
In the first talk we give you a fair view of your score.
A Lighthouse score of 90 or higher is considered good and signals green values across the essential metrics. However, the score is only a weighted summary of several lab values and can vary from one measurement to the next. More important are the individual Core Web Vitals: LCP below 2.5 seconds, INP below 200 milliseconds, CLS below 0.1. These thresholds decide whether Google considers your page fast.
We explicitly warn against treating the score as an end in itself. A page with a score of 85 and excellent field data is in better shape than one scoring 98 whose real visitors wait on slow mobile devices. Our goal is therefore always a stable green range in the field data, with the Lighthouse score following almost automatically. In the initial consultation we put your current score into realistic perspective.