Fix PageSpeed Insights “Lighthouse returned error: Something went wrong”

Google offers some excellent tools for website administrators (Webmasteri). From the well-knownGoogle Analytics (And the newerGA4) for monitoring traffic, conversions, users, up to Google Search Console (former Google Webmasters).

Google PageSpeed Insights It is a recommended service for checking the performance of the web pages. We find out quite quickly what are problems that require attention, what scripts, images and codes we must optimize to increase the speed of loading the web page and be legible, the host server time and many other useful information.
In Plus goes through a optimization score so much for mobile devices as well as for desktop.

PageSpeed Insights pentru o pagina AMP

I use Pagespeed Insights quite often, and these days I had a problem every time we try to check the performance of a website. "Lighthouse returned error: Something went wrong.”
Initially I thought it was a problem at the Pagespeed Insights service, but any other website was checked, everything was ok.

PageSpeed Insights Error

I understood that the error appeared because something did not go well, but what?

After I did a few good minutes "research" in the aid center without reaching a result, I started taking in a rowactive plugins by Wordpess of the website in question andto disable them. After each plug disabled we "put a sheet" in Pagespeed, maybe, maybe.

In my scenario, the problem was a plugin that brought in a feed Instagram posts in a widget. After deactivating that plugin, I resumed the test inPageSpeed Insights And everything went smoothly.

The question remains, would this error also have led to SEO problems or is it limited to the impossibility to test the URL?

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