Google Lighthouse is a free, open-source tool built into Chrome DevTools that audits performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. StoreVitals is purpose-built for ecommerce — automated monitoring, broken link detection, security headers, and health scores that Lighthouse doesn't cover.
Lighthouse is the gold standard for single-page performance and accessibility audits — every developer should use it. But it audits one page at a time and doesn't crawl your site for broken links, missing meta tags across pages, or ecommerce-specific issues. StoreVitals complements Lighthouse by crawling your entire store, tracking health over time, and automating the monitoring that Lighthouse requires you to do manually.