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Lighthouse CLI hangs on certain websites

See original GitHub issue

~ $ lighthouse http://nba.com
  ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser. +0ms
  ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser... +0ms
  ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser..... +609ms
  ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser.....✓ +2ms
  Lighthouse:warn The URL provided should be on HTTPS +436ms
  Lighthouse:warn Performance stats will be skewed redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS. +1ms
  status Initializing… +420ms
  status Loading page & waiting for onload URL, Viewport, ViewportDimensions, ThemeColor, Manifest, RuntimeExceptions, ChromeConsoleMessages, ImageUsage, Accessibility, EventListeners, AnchorsWithNoRelNoopener, AppCacheManifest, DOMStats, JSLibraries, OptimizedImages, PasswordInputsWithPreventedPaste, ResponseCompression, TagsBlockingFirstPaint, WebSQL, MetaDescription, CrawlableLinks, MetaRobots +355ms
  Driver:warn Timed out waiting for page load. Moving on... +45s
  statusEnd Loading page & waiting for onload +2ms
  status Retrieving trace +1ms
  status Retrieving devtoolsLog and network records +9s

Hangs here: Imgur

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Created 6 years ago
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patrickhulcecommented, Jun 14, 2018

You can use the --max-wait-for-load=10000 to only wait 10s for example

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patrickhulcecommented, Aug 26, 2021

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/c7931ffe721fc4d44e4b5943f785a1c885df22ba/lighthouse-core/gather/driver/wait-for-condition.js#L437-L443

I wanted to stop loading if full load of page wasn’t succed in 1 minute for example. I thought that in that case I should set here --max-wait-for-load=60000

Yes, that’s exactly what you’d want to do. Note that this just moves on after checking if the page is hung and adds a warning, it won’t abort the Lighthouse run.

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