diff --git a/core/computed/page-dependency-graph.js b/core/computed/page-dependency-graph.js
index 0a03ce4a356a..04072f00b376 100644
--- a/core/computed/page-dependency-graph.js
+++ b/core/computed/page-dependency-graph.js
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class PageDependencyGraph {
     if (data.fromTrace) {
       const traceEngineResult = await TraceEngineResult.request({trace}, context);
       const {graph} = await LanternPageDependencyGraph.createGraphFromTrace(
-        mainThreadEvents, trace, traceEngineResult, URL);
+        trace, traceEngineResult, URL);
       return graph;
     }
 
diff --git a/core/lib/lantern/page-dependency-graph.js b/core/lib/lantern/page-dependency-graph.js
index b0311d4b08c1..1a1dfaa6764a 100644
--- a/core/lib/lantern/page-dependency-graph.js
+++ b/core/lib/lantern/page-dependency-graph.js
@@ -785,12 +785,52 @@ class PageDependencyGraph {
   }
 
   /**
-   * @param {LH.TraceEvent[]} mainThreadEvents
+   * @param {LH.Trace} trace
+   * @param {LH.Artifacts.TraceEngineResult} traceEngineResult
+   * @return {LH.TraceEvent[]}
+   */
+  static _collectMainThreadEvents(trace, traceEngineResult) {
+    const Meta = traceEngineResult.data.Meta;
+    const mainFramePids = Meta.mainFrameNavigations.length
+      ? new Set(Meta.mainFrameNavigations.map(nav => nav.pid))
+      : Meta.topLevelRendererIds;
+
+    const rendererPidToTid = new Map();
+    for (const pid of mainFramePids) {
+      const threads = Meta.threadsInProcess.get(pid) ?? [];
+
+      let found = false;
+      for (const [tid, thread] of threads) {
+        if (thread.args.name === 'CrRendererMain') {
+          rendererPidToTid.set(pid, tid);
+          found = true;
+          break;
+        }
+      }
+
+      if (found) continue;
+
+      // `CrRendererMain` can be missing if chrome is launched with the `--single-process` flag.
+      // In this case, page tasks will be run in the browser thread.
+      for (const [tid, thread] of threads) {
+        if (thread.args.name === 'CrBrowserMain') {
+          rendererPidToTid.set(pid, tid);
+          found = true;
+          break;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    return trace.traceEvents.filter(e => rendererPidToTid.get(e.pid) === e.tid);
+  }
+
+  /**
    * @param {LH.Trace} trace
    * @param {LH.Artifacts.TraceEngineResult} traceEngineResult
    * @param {LH.Artifacts.URL} URL
    */
-  static async createGraphFromTrace(mainThreadEvents, trace, traceEngineResult, URL) {
+  static async createGraphFromTrace(trace, traceEngineResult, URL) {
+    const mainThreadEvents = this._collectMainThreadEvents(trace, traceEngineResult);
     const workerThreads = this._findWorkerThreads(trace);
 
     /** @type {Lantern.NetworkRequest[]} */
diff --git a/core/test/lib/lantern/metrics/metric-test-utils.js b/core/test/lib/lantern/metrics/metric-test-utils.js
index 4ae467dd10fc..09ada786be61 100644
--- a/core/test/lib/lantern/metrics/metric-test-utils.js
+++ b/core/test/lib/lantern/metrics/metric-test-utils.js
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
 
-import {ProcessedTrace} from '../../../../computed/processed-trace.js';
 import {TraceEngineResult} from '../../../../computed/trace-engine-result.js';
 import {createProcessedNavigation} from '../../../../lib/lantern/lantern.js';
 import {PageDependencyGraph} from '../../../../lib/lantern/page-dependency-graph.js';
@@ -17,18 +16,6 @@ import {getURLArtifactFromDevtoolsLog} from '../../../test-utils.js';
 
 // TODO(15841): remove usage of Lighthouse code to create test data
 
-/**
- * @param {LH.Artifacts.TraceEngineResult} traceEngineResult
- * @param {LH.Artifacts.URL} theURL
- * @param {LH.Trace} trace
- * @param {LH.Artifacts.ComputedContext} context
- */
-async function createGraph(traceEngineResult, theURL, trace, context) {
-  const {mainThreadEvents} = await ProcessedTrace.request(trace, context);
-  return PageDependencyGraph.createGraphFromTrace(
-    mainThreadEvents, trace, traceEngineResult, theURL);
-}
-
 /**
  * @param {{trace: LH.Trace, devtoolsLog: LH.DevtoolsLog, settings?: LH.Config.Settings, URL?: LH.Artifacts.URL}} opts
  */
@@ -39,7 +26,8 @@ async function getComputationDataFromFixture({trace, devtoolsLog, settings, URL}
 
   const context = {settings, computedCache: new Map()};
   const traceEngineResult = await TraceEngineResult.request({trace}, context);
-  const {graph, records} = await createGraph(traceEngineResult, URL, trace, context);
+  const {graph, records} =
+    await PageDependencyGraph.createGraphFromTrace(trace, traceEngineResult, URL);
   const processedNavigation = createProcessedNavigation(traceEngineResult);
   const networkAnalysis = NetworkAnalyzer.analyze(records);
   const simulator = Simulator.createSimulator({...settings, networkAnalysis});