lighthouse-performance-troubleshooting

A set of coding rules for improving Lighthouse performance scores on Adobe Express Milo websites. Lighthouse is a tool that measures web performance, accessibility, best practices, and search visibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for troubleshooting Lighthouse performance issues, especially slow first-screen content and inefficient loading paths.
Why use it?
It gives concrete guidance for common performance problems such as slow Largest Contentful Paint, the time until the main visible content appears.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/adobecom/express-milo/lighthouse-performance-troubleshooting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adobecom/express-milo

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 2,166 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,166 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.02166 $0.02166
Opus 5 $0.01083 $0.01083
Sonnet 5 $0.00433 $0.00433
Haiku 4.5 $0.00217 $0.00217

Measured 2d ago against content hash e0aa4c1279bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lighthouse-performance-troubleshooting scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to lighthouse-performance-troubleshooting — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/rules/lighthouse-performance-troubleshooting.mdc · 304 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lighthouse Performance Troubleshooting Guide

APPLY: EVERY QUERY - LIGHTHOUSE SCORE OPTIMIZATION

Target Performance Scores

Based on Express-Milo architecture requirements:

  • Performance: 90+ (Target: 97-100)
  • Accessibility: 100
  • Best Practices: 100
  • SEO: 92+

Critical Performance Issues & Solutions

Issue 1: LCP > 3 seconds (Score drops from 100 to 86)

Root Cause Analysis:

  • Large content elements not optimized for LCP detection
  • Render-blocking resources in critical path
  • Poor content hierarchy in first section

REQUIRED Solutions:

/* ✅ First section must dominate viewport */
.section:first-child {
  min-height: 100vh;
  background-image: url('high-entropy-image.jpg');
  background-size: cover;
}

/* ✅ Ensure LCP element is largest contentful element */
.section:first-child h1 {
  font-size: clamp(2rem, 5vw, 4rem);
  margin: 2rem 0;
}

/* ✅ Make first section image larger than second section */
.section:first-child img {
  width: 100%;
  max-width: 800px; /* Larger than second section */
}

.section:nth-child(2) img {
  max-width: 600px; /* Smaller than first section */
}

Content Strategy Fix:

// ✅ Auto-block to ensure proper LCP structure
function buildAutoBlocks(main) {
  const firstSection = main.querySelector('.section');
  const h1 = firstSection?.querySelector('h1');
  const firstImage = firstSection?.querySelector('img');
  
  if (firstSection && (!firstImage || hasLowEntropy(firstImage))) {
    // Add high-entropy background for LCP detection
    firstSection.style.backgroundImage = 'url("/express/assets/hero-texture.jpg")';
    firstSection.classList.add('hero-section');
  }
}

Issue 2: Largest Contentful Paint Optimization

Problem: LCP element not in first section (common cause of 86 vs 100 score)

Diagnostic Steps:

  1. Check LCP element location: Use Chrome DevTools → Performance → Web Vitals
  2. Verify first section dominance: Ensure first section fills viewport
  3. Image size hierarchy: First section image > second section image

Read the full file on GitHub · 304 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 304 lines · 2,166 tokens per session scan A e0aa4c1279bd

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lighthouse-performance-troubleshooting is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository adobecom/express-milo (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,166 tokens to every session, about $0.0108 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to lighthouse-performance-troubleshooting, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.