December 2021 Release notes

Better weekly emails

The weekly emails now include details about specific pages, as well as information about the Google's CrUX metrics.

If you're not already subscribed, you can get a preview of the weekly emails in the project Integrations tab.

LCP highlight

The DebugBear filmstrip timeline now highlights the LCP element.

If the LCP element is an image this will also be shown in the request waterfall.

Request initiator snippets

DebugBear now shows more call stack data for request initiators.

Lighthouse 9.1 / Chrome 95

DebugBear now runs tests using the latest version of Lighthouse, including a redesign of the Lighthouse report.

Chrome has been upgraded from version 92 to 95.

CLI --output flag

You can now save API test result data to file without having to write a Node script.

New Lighthouse bulk simulation tool

Want to see how different network speeds affect your website speed? This tool runs Lighthouse with 100 different throttling settings.

New blog posts

Which web vitals metrics is hardest to pass? – only 46% of mobile origins pass the LCP threshold
Measuring user flow performance with Lighthouse – Lighthouse is adding support for auditing user flows
Recording a user flow in Chrome DevTools – DevTools now lets you generate Puppeteer scripts

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