Locale Support

[sgryschuk-va]

Will lighthouse support different locales?

PageSpeed insights does and has a lot of the same content
https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v4/reference/pagespeedapi/runpagespeed

[evenstensberg]

Willing to work on this, but what do you mean with locale? Formatting scores to be displayed for certain languages or formats?

[sgryschuk-va]

Specifically, translations for the explanations and instructions

[evenstensberg]

Alright, thanks for elaborating @sgryschuk-va! @patrickhulce is this up for grabs?

[patrickhulce]

I think we need to do a bit of scoping before we jump in on impl for this one @ev1stensberg.

A few things to figure out:

• What channels would this affect/how would it be distributed?
  • DevTools doesn't offer translations, so we wouldn't apply it there
  • Extension as an option based on Chrome lang?
  • CLI/node flag and we ship all?
• How does this impact linked docs/who maintains those?
• How does this impact our PR process for text changes?
• How high a priority is this/which languages are most urgent?

We'll try and tackle some of these questions in our next triage post-I/O :)

[zomars]

May I suggest starting with the Lighthouse Report Viewer ? I think it would be the easiest to implement IMO. We can download the json regardless of locale, upload it to the report viewer and switch the locale in there. Am I crazy?

[paulirish]

We support locales now (in master branch). :)

This was tracked mostly by the #5719 ticket