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    • Pull Request Reviews

    Pull Request Reviews allow you to see the performance impact of development work before it gets released to your customers. It’s a powerful GitHub integration that works with most popular deployment platforms.

    Your repository has to be using one of the deployment methods such as ZEIT, Netlify, Heroku or GitHub deployment statuses, so Calibre knows what your Pull Requests should be compared to.

    Connect Calibre to your GitHub organisation

    To enable Pull Request Reviews, go to Site → Settings → Integrations tab and click Install next to the GitHub logo. You will be redirected to GitHub to enable the integration for your organisation.

    Calibre requires access to commit statuses, deployments, checks and pull requests. We strongly recommend granting access to any selected repositories you’re interested in tracking.

    Select comparison branch

    After confirming the link between GitHub and Calibre, you will have to select a primary branch that will be the base for performance comparisons. This branch should be either deploying to production or a staging environment. In most cases, this might be master branch.

    For the most accurate results, make sure you compare two very similar environments. Some of the common differentiators producing unreliable results can be using a CDN on production, but not on Pull Request deployments, or the presence of ads or other third parties.

    When the selected branch is successfully deployed, Calibre creates a deployment marker on your charts and takes a new snapshot of your site. That way, you always know how releases affect your performance metrics.

    If you’re using Netlify, make sure to enable the Netlify integration first, so the deployment markers show on your charts.

    Create a Pull Request

    Calibre will compare each Pull Request to the median of your site metrics since the last deploy. Each report highlights critical measurements (Lighthouse Performance Score, Time to Interactive and First Contentful Paint) overall and across Test Profiles to highlight top-level changes.

    You can also analyse each page to see browser previews for specific Test Profiles and most significant changes, including any Budgets that have changed.

    Pull Request Reviews provide a helpful performance overview directly in GitHub, with the ability to drill down into metrics further in the Calibre interface.

    Configuration file

    You can customise metrics and authentication settings by including a configuration YAML file in your linked repository at /.calibre/config.yml.

    There are two top-level properties you must specify:

    • version: The current version is 1
    • pullRequestReviews: Options for Pull Request Reviews

    Configure metrics

    By default, Calibre will compare the following metrics:

    Under pullRequestReviews in your configuration file you can explicitly define which metrics to use, or you can provide a list of metrics to ignore from all available metrics in Calibre.

    When you define metrics, the first three will be shown in the summary table.

    Example: Define metrics

    The following configuration will only compare the metrics listed under measurements:

    1version: 1
    2pullRequestReviews:
    3  measurements:
    4    - lighthousePerformanceScore
    5    - lighthouseAccessibilityScore
    6    - lighthouseSEOScore

    Example: Ignore metrics

    The following configuration will include all metrics except the ones listed under ignore:

    1version: 1
    2pullRequestReviews:
    3  ignore:
    4    - lighthousePwaScore
    5    - pageHTMLDownload
    6    - timeToFirstByte
    7    - lighthouseSeoScore
    8    - pageWaitTiming

    Configure authentication

    Calibre will copy authentication settings to your Pull Request Review tests. The authentication URL will be automatically updated with your deployment URL.

    If you require specific authentication details for Pull Request Reviews, you can set them using config.yml.

    Example: Define authentication settings

    The following configuration will be used for authentication:

    1version: 1
    2pullRequestReviews:
    3  authentication:
    4    url: https://different-domain.com/login
    5    username: user@email.com
    6    password: mysecretpassword
    7    formSelector: form
    8    usernameSelector: input[name=email]
    9    passwordSelector: input[type=password]

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