Preferences
Configure theme, color scheme, stats bar, highlight mode, and default home view in SERP Lens.
Preferences are app-wide settings that control how SERP Lens looks and behaves across every window and tab. Unlike the browser settings panel, which applies per-tab overrides like user-agent or device emulation, Preferences are configured once and persist globally.
Open Preferences from the in-app account and settings area.
Looking for per-tab browser settings like user-agent, device emulation, or Google search parameters? See Browser settings.
General
Theme
Choose between light, dark, or system theme. When set to system, SERP Lens follows your operating system's appearance setting and switches automatically.
Stats bar
Show performance stats at the bottom of the browser. When enabled, the stats bar displays nine metrics for the currently loaded page so you can monitor performance and on-page SEO without opening a panel.
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| FCP | First Contentful Paint — when the first content paints on screen |
| LCP | Largest Contentful Paint — when the largest element finishes rendering |
| CLS | Cumulative Layout Shift — visual stability of the page |
| INP | Interaction to Next Paint — responsiveness to user input |
| Links | Total number of links on the page |
| Words | Word count of the page's visible text |
| Images | Total number of images on the page |
| Canonical | Canonical URL status for the page |
| Indexability | Whether the page is indexable by search engines |
Highlight mode
Set the default page element highlighting in the browser. When a highlight mode is active, SERP Lens visually highlights elements of that category on every page you load.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| None | Disable all highlighting |
| Internal links | Highlight links that point to the current origin |
| External links | Highlight links that point to a different origin |
| Nofollow links | Highlight links marked with rel="nofollow" |
| Broken links | Highlight links that fail to resolve |
| Headings | Highlight all heading elements (h1–h6) |
| H1 tags | Highlight only h1 elements |
| Lazy images | Highlight images with loading="lazy" |
You can also switch highlight mode ad-hoc for the current tab by right-clicking any page and opening the Highlight submenu. See Right-click context menu for the full reference. Preferences sets the default highlight mode that applies to every new page you load.
Appearance
Color theme
Choose a pre-built color theme to restyle the SERP Lens interface. Eight themes ship with the app:
- Default
- Zinc
- Nord
- Dracula
- Gruvbox
- Solarized
- Everforest
- Rosé Pine
Reduce transparency
Replace translucent backgrounds with solid colors. Turn this on if you prefer a flatter interface or find translucency distracting.
Navigation
Default home view
Set the page shown when you open SERP Lens. Choose from four options:
- Projects — open directly into your projects list
- Browser — open straight into the SEO browser
- Screenshots — open the screenshots library
- SERP Compare — open the SERP comparison tool