Documentation on website doesn't seem to be udpated to v4

[molant]

Lighthouse is currently on v4 but the documentation seemt to talk about v3 (Lighthouse v3 scoring guide). Also there are a few audits that have been disabled in the latest version but are still listed in the website. These are the ones I know of but there might be more:

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/date-now
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/console-time
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/mutation-events
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/old-flexbox

[antross]

Here are the PRs those were disabled/removed in:

• Avoids Date.now() in its own scripts (removed in PR perf: consolidate DBW pass into defaultPass #2160)
• Avoids console.time() in its own scripts (removed in PR perf: consolidate DBW pass into defaultPass #2160)
• Avoids Mutation Events in its own scripts (removed in PR core: remove no-mutation-events audit & js callstack method #5509)
• Avoids old CSS flexbox (commented out in PR perf(config): disable styles gatherer #2153; haven't found when it was removed)

I assume these were probably meant to be marked in the documentation as deprecated since that's what was done for the WebSQL audit documentation when it was removed.

[connorjclark]

@kaycebasques could we deprecate these?

@patrickhulce for #2153 it seems like you wanted to do some followup, but I didn't find any discussion on it after this PR. Think we could bring back the checks that this PR removed?

[patrickhulce]

@hoten are you referring to old flexbox? I'm not sure we want to bring that back 😆

For reference, #4183 was the conclusion/followup to #2153.

[connorjclark]

I meant the checks (against) using old flexbox

[patrickhulce]

Yeah I'm not sure that audit is really in line with the direction LH has taken over the past 2 years and certainly couldn't pass our new audit guidelines today. If you feel strongly about old flexbox though, by all means I would seriously love to read the questionnaire responses for someone making the case! :D

[connorjclark]

~insert Futurama idc meme~

let's keep it dead then.

[brendankenny]

@mfriesenhahn is starting to take this over, starting with #9084