Introducing Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.3.0

Today, we're announcing the general release of Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.3.0. The major highlights of this release are:

• Support for auditing sites that use Google Publisher Tag limited ads
• Improved ad density measurement to better align with industry best practices
• Updates to support Lighthouse v6.4.1

A number of smaller enhancements and bug fixes are also included. For complete details, see the changelog on GitHub. Additional Lighthouse changes included in this release can be found in the v6.3.0 and v6.4.0 release notes.

Try it out and let us know what you think

Publisher Ads Audits v1.3.0 is available to use right now. You can try generating an updated report from the web app, or grab the latest CLI release from GitHub or npm to run locally. Updates to the Chrome DevTools version will land in Chrome Stable with the Chrome 89 release (est. March 2021).

Have questions about this or anything else Ad Speed related? Interested in contributing? Visit our GitHub repo.

 - Jonathon Imperiosi, Publisher Ads Audits Team