Lighthouse score optimization is not enough for a fast website

The article on Smashing Magazine highlights that optimizing your Lighthouse score, though important, is not enough to ensure a fast website. It provides examples of factors that can impact website performance that are not reflected in Lighthouse scores. Specifically, the author emphasizes that user experience is crucial in evaluating the effectiveness of a site. Even if the Lighthouse score is high, user experience may be degraded by various factors such as resource loading delays or interaction issues. Therefore, it is essential not only to aim for a good score in these tools but also to focus on how the website performs in practice. For developers and site owners, this means that real user feedback and performance monitoring are integral parts of the web optimization strategy.