Lightpanda
A lightweight browser engine for rendering pages. Stealth is not its focus.
29 September 2026 · no proxy
Lightpanda on the frozen 30-site set
All 30 public targets attempted with the local open-source browser. Inspect every DOM content check, failure, redirect observation, sampled process-tree PSS and capture hash beside the corrected wreq baseline. The dates and browser-method differences remain visible.
Compare all 30 Lightpanda and wreq attemptsTwo public pages with Lightpanda nightly
Version 1.0.0-nightly.9909+f086b75d5 returned HTTP 200 with usable article content from Wikipedia. A JavaScript test page returned HTTP 200 with 10 rendered quotes, including an Albert Einstein author element. Wikipedia logged a robots-policy block for a login script; the article remained usable. This small check makes no stealth or comparative performance claim.
Wikipedia: rendered DOM · navigation log · resource use
JavaScript page: rendered DOM · navigation log · resource use
Published test history
The 30-site comparison above is the current evidence. The earlier two-page check used a different robots policy. No May 2026 run is published for this project.
What it can do
- Render JavaScript
Capabilities are catalog notes, not outcomes from the benchmark above.
Project record
- Type
- Use a browser
- Ecosystem
- browser, zig
- Repo check
- 2026-05-23
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Repository metadata is a dated snapshot, not a live health guarantee.
See how we validate pages, including what a pass does and does not mean.