https://lightpanda.io Latest blog posts en-gb Zaid Daba'een, CEO & Founder of DeveloperHub.io, switched their prerender deployment to use Lightpanda instead of headless Chrome. Pages now serve 4x faster and load average dropped 10x. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/how-developerhub-io-cut-prerender-load-by-10x Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every tool in web automation runs on a browser engine. There are only two real options: Chromium and Lightpanda. Here's how the entire stack fits together. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/web-automation-stack-explained Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lightpanda now supports Web Bot Auth, the emerging standard for bots and AI agents to cryptographically prove their identity. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/web-bot-auth-support Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The LP domain grows with LP.getSemanticTree, LP.getInteractiveElements, and LP.getStructuredData alongside a native MCP server built into the browser binary that exposes the same engine capabilities without CDP. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/lp-domain-commands-and-native-mcp Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lightpanda now converts web pages to markdown natively inside the browser, cutting token usage for AI agents. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/native-markdown-output Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lightpanda can now handle multiple CDP connections simultaneously. Here's what it took to get there and what it means for running concurrent browser sessions at scale. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/how-we-built-multiclient Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why we added robots.txt support, how the singleflight cache works, and why the feature is opt-in. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/robotstxt-support Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT How we built request interception in Lightpanda and why the async coordination between your HTTP client and CDP WebSocket is the part that really matters. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/why-request-interception-matters Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT We tested Lightpanda against Chrome on 933 real pages over the network. At 25 parallel tasks: 16x less memory, 9x faster. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/from-local-to-real-world-benchmarks Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT We replaced LibDOM with a custom Zig implementation for better cohesion across events, Custom Elements, and ShadowDOM. Here's how we built it and what we learned along the way. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/migrating-our-dom-to-zig Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here's what we learned building a browser with it. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/why-we-built-lightpanda-in-zig Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Chrome DevTools Protocol powers every major browser automation library, but it wasn't designed for browser automation. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/cdp-under-the-hood Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Modern web architecture has made traditional HTTP crawling obsolete. JavaScript execution is now mandatory for most sites and that changes everything about infrastructure costs and scale. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/the-real-cost-of-javascript Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT We explore the difference between a consumer browser in headless mode versus a true headless browser built for machines. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/what-is-a-true-headless-browser Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Web automation tools like Playwright and Puppeteer run on top of CDP. Understanding CDP helps developers choose the right level of abstraction. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/cdp-vs-playwright-vs-puppeteer-is-this-the-wrong-question Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI agents introduce new security risks when given direct browser access. Lightpanda explores how a lightweight browser with instant startup can mitigate these threats. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/browser-security-in-the-age-of-ai-agents Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT We've switched all Lightpanda browser HTTP requests from our home made Zig HTTP client + zig.tls) to libcurl https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/lightpanda-browser-now-uses-libcurl Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT We’re excited to share that Lightpanda has raised a pre-seed round to build the first browser designed from the ground up for machines. https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/lightpanda-raises-preseed Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Three years ago when we started Lightpanda, we asked ourselves a seemingly simple question what would a browser look like if it were built specifically for automation? https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/why-build-a-new-browser Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT