Getting Started
This guide walks you through setting up your first performance audit in xcelera.
1. Create an account
Sign up at the login page. You can use email and password, or sign in with Google or GitHub.
2. Add a page
From your dashboard, click Add Page and fill in:
- Name — a label for this page (e.g. "Homepage")
- URL — the full HTTPS URL to audit (e.g.
https://example.com) - Schedule — how often to run audits: daily or weekly
Each page gets a unique ref (a short slug) that identifies it across the dashboard and API.
Start with daily scheduling for your most important pages. You can always adjust later. See Scheduling Audits for all options.
Need to audit a page behind a login? See Auditing Secure Pages to set up authentication.
3. Run your first audit
Once a page is added, xcelera queues an audit on the next scheduled interval. You can also trigger one immediately from the page detail view.
Each audit runs Lighthouse multiple times and performs statistical analysis to give you a stable, representative result — not just a single data point.
4. Read the results
The dashboard shows your page's score history over time. Click into any audit to see detailed metrics — Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO scores along with individual statistics like LCP, TBT, and CLS.
Look at the trend over multiple audits rather than any single score. Lighthouse scores have natural variance, so the pattern matters more than one data point.
5. Credits
Each audit consumes one credit from your monthly allocation. Free accounts include 50 credits per month — enough for daily audits on one or two pages.
See Usage & Billing for details on tiers and credit limits.
Next steps
- Concepts — understand how pages, audits, runs, and scores fit together
- GitHub Integration — get check runs on every pull request
- API & CLI — trigger audits from your CI pipeline