Kuality vs
Google Lighthouse
Google Lighthouse is the best tool for instant, detailed performance and accessibility audits in Chrome DevTools. Kuality automates the same Lighthouse audits on a schedule, tracks scores across deployments, gates CI/CD, and bundles security and broken link checks.
No credit card · Free forever tier · Scheduled scans included
One-time audit vs continuous quality monitoring
Lighthouse is the canonical tool for auditing performance and accessibility in the moment. Kuality automates the same audit over time with CI/CD gates and additional security checks.
Google Lighthouse
Free — built into Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse CI
- Performance score with LCP, CLS, INP, FCP, SI, TTFB
- Accessibility score (axe-core)
- SEO score
- PWA checks
- Best practices score
- Lighthouse CI for per-PR automation (self-hosted)
- PageSpeed Insights integration (Google's free hosted version)
- Highly detailed diagnostic recommendations
- Manual triggering from DevTools
- Lighthouse CI requires self-hosted setup and config
- Score not automatically tracked across releases
- No security headers or cookie compliance checks
- No broken link detection
- No scheduled monitoring or alerts
Kuality
Free–$79/mo — Lighthouse + security + broken links + accessibility
- Full Lighthouse audit — LCP, CLS, INP, TTFB, FCP, SI
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility (axe-core)
- Performance score tracked across every deployment
- CI/CD quality gate API — fail build on LCP regression
- JUnit XML output for GitHub Actions test annotations
- Scheduled scans — daily, weekly, or monthly
- Security headers audit (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options)
- Cookie & GDPR compliance
- Broken link detection
- JavaScript CVE scanning
- SSL certificate monitoring
- Uptime monitoring
- Free tier — no credit card
Lighthouse for debugging, Kuality for prevention
Open Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools when you need to understand exactly why a specific page is slow or why an element fails an accessibility criterion. Use Kuality to run Lighthouse automatically on every deploy, fail CI/CD when scores drop, and get notified before your users notice the regression.
Catch regressions on deploy
Kuality tracks your Lighthouse performance and accessibility scores across every deployment. A 200ms LCP regression in a PR is visible in the CI check — not three weeks later from a user complaint.
Zero Lighthouse CI setup
Lighthouse CI requires LHCI server, budget.json, and CI runner configuration. Kuality's CI/CD gate API is one curl command — no self-hosting, no config file, no maintenance.
Security alongside performance
Lighthouse covers performance and accessibility. Kuality adds security headers, cookie compliance, and broken link detection in the same scheduled scan — one tool, one report.
Free plan. No credit card. No Lighthouse CI setup.