Lighthouse vs TechSEO360

Lighthouse is an open-source automated tool for auditing web page quality. Given a URL, it runs audits covering performance, accessibility, best practices, SEO, and other areas, then produces a report with results and references on the audits and how to address failures. It is aimed at web developers seeking relevant, actionable guidance. Lighthouse runs in Chrome DevTools, from the command line, as a Node module, or through a web interface without installation. DevTools can audit pages requiring authentication; the Chrome extension cannot audit authenticated pages or local sites. Reports can be produced as JSON or HTML, and the command-line tool also supports CSV. Stack packs add platform-specific recommendations, while plugins allow domain experts to contribute audits and report categories. Lighthouse can be integrated into continuous integration, and Lighthouse CI can help prevent regressions. Reports can be viewed online or shared with Lighthouse Viewer using report JSON. The CLI and Node workflows require Google Chrome, and the repository specifies Node 22 (LTS) or later. Its first CLI run asks about anonymous runtime exception reporting; opting out does not affect use.

TechSEO360 is a technical SEO tool and website crawler for auditing websites on Windows and macOS. It creates visual HTML/CSS, news, image, video and XML sitemaps, and detects duplicate content in titles, headers, descriptions and other page elements. Link audits find broken links and redirects, with reports that include anchor text, alt text, follow/nofollow status and line numbers. By default, the crawler follows robots.txt, canonical, noindex, nofollow and hreflang directives; users can also configure crawls manually. Command-line support can schedule crawls and update scan data and sitemaps. It imports and merges data from Google Webmaster Tools and Apache Logs. The license allows installation and use on all of a customer's computers. The Free plan covers 500 pages and starts when the trial ends. A fully functional 30-day trial begins after first run. The Professionals plan is $79 a year.