Plugin Data in Dashboard

The Google’s Publisher Ads plugin data does not appear in the lighthouse dashboard. At first I thought it was a bug in the googleads/publisher-ads-lighthouse-plugin repo, so I filed this ticket in that repo.

But upon looking into it more, I think it might be either a bug or feature request for this repo. It appears that the category prefixes are pre-defined in this repo, in the server ui “category-card” component But, if I add the publisher-ads prefix there, then it is still missing the data from props.statistics a few lines below.

I’m still stepping through the process, looking for a solution. But I was wondering if anyone more familiar with this repo might know what’s missing, from either this or the plugin repo. I’m currently using the mocks pages and lighthouserc.js in the plugin repo to test and debug this.

I will update here as I continue to research this.

[patrickhulce]

Rough roadmap idea if we proceed:

1. Abstract away all fetching of statistic definitions behind a function/API call that requires the config + project as input
2. Add a flag to config that mutates the statistic definitions in some way (removes a category, adds an audit count, doesn’t matter it will be temporary)
3. Add a table + migration file for definitions to be stored in the DB
4. Wire up the DB model to the function from step 1 (remove the temporary junk from step 2)
5. expose writing of new definitions via API
6. Cleanup old path, document everything 😃

[niieani]

Thanks @patrickhulce, I’ll try to work this (or at least some of the stages) into our Q4 roadmap.

No hard promises though, as you mentioned:

just a fact that I know other priorities can come up 😃

couldn’t be more true 😃

building this behind a configuration flag while leaving the existing path intact

👍