For better or worse I care deeply about my lighthouse scores, and I've been tempted by the "evil tips" in the article. I try my best to control my results by using both Pagespeed Insights[1] and WebpageTest[2].<p>That being said my worst scores are always the result of a reliance on third party tools like Zendesk - which is why I'm so excited about efforts to load third party scripts outside the main thread like partytown[3]<p>[1]<a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/</a><p>[2]<a href="https://webpagetest.org/" rel="nofollow">https://webpagetest.org/</a><p>[3]<a href="https://github.com/BuilderIO/partytown#readme" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/BuilderIO/partytown#readme</a>