{"id":791,"date":"2025-02-12T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/?p=791"},"modified":"2026-05-24T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:28:32","slug":"perfect-lighthouse-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/perfect-lighthouse-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Lighthouse scores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A perfect <strong>Lighthouse score of 100 in all categories<\/strong> (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO, and PWA) is quite rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Estimated Percentage of Websites with a Perfect 100 in All Categories<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Based on various industry reports and audits, it&#8217;s estimated that <strong>well under 1%<\/strong> of websites achieve a perfect score across all categories.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performance is typically the hardest to achieve, with most sites struggling to hit 100 due to JavaScript execution, large assets, or render-blocking issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO are more attainable but still require active effort.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Progressive Web App (PWA) compliance is another challenging category that many sites don\u2019t fully meet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why It&#8217;s So Rare<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Performance Challenges<\/strong> \u2013 Third-party scripts (e.g., analytics, ads), large images, or inefficient coding can impact performance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Accessibility Gaps<\/strong> \u2013 Many sites miss small accessibility issues like contrast ratios or missing ARIA attributes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>PWA Criteria<\/strong> \u2013 Many sites don\u2019t implement service workers or manifest files, which are required for a perfect PWA score.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While static sites or well-optimized, lightweight pages (like simple blogs or landing pages) <strong>can<\/strong> achieve perfect scores, most dynamic or content-heavy websites don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perfect Lighthouse score of 100 in all categories (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO, and PWA) is quite rare. Estimated Percentage of Websites with a Perfect 100 in All Categories Why It&#8217;s So Rare While static sites or well-optimized, lightweight pages (like simple blogs or landing pages) can achieve perfect scores, most dynamic or content-heavy &#8230; <a title=\"Perfect Lighthouse scores\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/perfect-lighthouse-scores\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Perfect Lighthouse scores\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}