1. Site understanding
Search Lighthouse crawls the homepage, robots.txt, sitemap, sampled pages, metadata, schema, feed links, and page categories so later recommendations have site context.
Methodology
How Search Lighthouse analyzes search growth
Search Lighthouse separates site facts, search data, deterministic rules, AI interpretation, fix planning, and verification so every recommendation stays tied to evidence.
2. Search data analysis
Google Search Console CSV, ZIP, OAuth rows, and Bing Webmaster exports are normalized into query, page, clicks, impressions, CTR, position, country, device, and date evidence.
3. Growth stage detection
Rules and trend history identify whether a site is in Needs Search Data, Not Indexed, Google Testing, Early Growth, or Authority Site before prioritizing fixes.
4. Finding generation
Deterministic checks find indexability, sitemap, canonical, metadata, low-CTR, zero-click, ranking opportunity, and GEO trust issues before AI interpretation is added.
5. Fix plan creation
A diagnosis report can become a fix plan with P0/P1/P2 implementation tasks, acceptance criteria, and briefs for Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, or markdown workflows.
6. Verification
Each task gets a verification path: instant crawl, later search data, manual review, or not verifiable. Work is not considered proven until evidence changes.
7. Monitoring
Paid monitoring stores snapshots, detects meaningful changes, generates alerts, and only creates new reports when action is needed.
Key framework
From diagnosis to proof.
Search Lighthouse is not a generic audit score. It turns evidence into a work log that builders can ship and verify.
Report
Diagnosis
Fix Plan
Treatment
Task
Action
Verification
Proof
Why Search Lighthouse Stores History
Current state is not enough.
Most tools show the current state of a site. Search Lighthouse stores enough context to explain whether changes actually worked after a fix ships.
- Site Profile Scans
- Search Snapshots
- Reports
- Fix Plans
- Verification Events
Sample output
The recommendation stays concrete
Current StageGoogle Testing
Biggest ProblemLow CTR
Next ActionRewrite title templates
Expected ImpactMedium
Monitoring framework
Monitoring does not create report spam.
Search Lighthouse creates snapshots.
It detects meaningful changes.
It generates alerts when action is needed.
It only creates reports when the evidence justifies a new decision.
See the framework on your own domain.
Start with a public URL scan, then add search data, fix plans, and monitoring when you need deeper evidence.