{ "url": "https://groww.in", "auditedAt": "2026-07-18T09:26:45.809Z", "mode": "report", "status": "completed", "statusDetail": "Public, pre-auth representative templates audited. Account opening was inspected to the credential boundary; regulated KYC/trading after authentication was intentionally outside public-scope coverage.", "page": { "appType": "hybrid", "framework": "Next.js", "notes": "Server-rendered public content with client hydration, shared desktop-oriented global shell, manifest but no active service worker registration." }, "evidenceUsed": [ "screenshot", "dom", "evaluate-probe", "layout-metrics", "discoverability", "headers", "cookies", "trackers", "secrets", "images", "har", "trace", "lighthouse", "heap-summary", "robots/sitemap fetch", "Modern Web Guidance search/retrieve" ], "guidanceConsulted": [ "dark-mode", "component-specific-light-dark-theme", "accessibility", "adapt-scrollbar-to-contrast-preferences", "same-document-transitions", "cross-document-transitions", "group-element-transitions", "faster-spa-view-transitions", "scrollytelling", "parallax-scroll-effects", "scroll-entry-exit-effects", "carousel-slide-effects", "physics-based-easing", "individual-transform-properties", "animate-element-entry-exit", "animate-to-from-top-layer", "animate-to-intrinsic-sizes", "dynamic-sibling-animations", "interactive-content-reveal", "pull-to-reveal", "swipe-to-remove", "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "scroll-progress-indicator", "scroll-position-aware-elements", "scroll-snap-realtime-feedback", "scroll-snap-state-sync", "scroll-target-on-load", "soft-edge-content-fade", "scrollability-affordance-hints", "anchor-positioning-tab-underline", "position-aware-tooltips", "interest-triggered-tooltips", "interest-triggered-action-previews", "directional-navigation-transitions", "carousel-snap-highlights", "navigation-drawer", "stack-drill-down", "persistent-app-tours", "persistent-toast-notifications", "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "platform-controls-dismiss-dialog", "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "animated-select-picker", "branded-select-styling", "brand-consistent-forms", "custom-select-picker-layouts", "rich-media-picker", "complex-shapes", "shaped-cutouts", "overflow-clipping-control", "visually-texture-content", "apply-webgl-shaders", "interactive-content-in-3d-scenes", "highlight-text-ranges", "prevent-text-wrapping", "customize-scrollbar-color-and-thickness", "export-html-media-from-canvas", "fluid-scaling", "calculate-with-intrinsic-sizes", "css-layout", "size-aware-styling", "content-based-styling", "child-state-based-styling", "design-token-reactivity", "dynamic-sibling-styling", "form-fields-automatically-fit-contents", "improve-text-layout-and-legibility", "forms", "accessible-error-announcement", "required-field-feedback", "validate-input-after-interaction", "identify-inp-causes", "schedule-tasks-by-priority", "optimize-preload-priority", "improve-next-page-load-performance", "interactions-in-complex-layouts", "performance", "visually-stable-font-fallbacks", "break-up-long-tasks", "identify-heavy-scripts", "optimize-script-priority", "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "defer-work-until-scroll-ends", "optimize-image-priority", "conditional-async-dependencies", "expose-canvas-content-to-browser-features", "move-dom-element-without-losing-state", "precise-text-alignment", "visually-stable-mixed-fonts", "css", "html", "reduce-style-repetition", "security", "privacy", "batch-analytics-events", "full-session-analytics", "calculate-total-foreground-time", "passkeys", "passkey-registration", "passkey-authentication", "passkey-reauthentication", "passkey-conditional-create", "passkey-management", "flicker-free-client-side-ab-testing", "consistent-cross-document-transitions", "stabilize-reactive-state", "resilient-context-menus-and-nested-dropdowns", "persistent-top-layer-ui", "detect-initial-visibility-state", "sequence-distributed-events", "translator", "language-detection", "support-global-calendar-systems", "capture-location-agnostic-data", "format-human-readable-durations", "manage-recurring-intervals", "calculate-event-differentials", "coordinate-global-events", "model-partial-time-concepts", "search-hidden-content", "select-menu-interaction", "style-parent-with-has", "autofill-address-form", "autofill-payment-form", "autofill-sign-in-form", "autofill-sign-up-form", "autofill-highlight-inputs", "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "resolution-optimized-pseudo-elements", "deprioritize-background-fetches", "efficient-background-processing", "webmcp", "agentic-forms", "agentic-javascript-tools", "language-model", "summarizer" ], "artifacts": [ { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/404-mobile.png", "caption": "404 mobile", "condition": "narrow mobile viewport", "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/404-probe.json", "caption": "404 probe", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/blog-discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "blog discoverability crawler", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/blog-discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "blog 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"path": "evidence/demat-discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "demat discoverability rendered", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/demat-discoverability.json", "caption": "demat discoverability", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/demat-layout.json", "caption": "demat layout", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/demat-mobile.png", "caption": "demat mobile", "condition": "narrow mobile viewport", "findingIds": [ "F06", "F28", "F31" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/demat-overlay.json", "caption": "demat overlay", "findingIds": [ "F06", "F07", "F15", "F28", "F29", "F30", "F31" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/demat-probe.json", "caption": "demat probe", "findingIds": [ "F07", "F29" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-cookies.json", "caption": "home cookies", "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-dark.png", "caption": "home dark", "condition": "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-desktop.png", "caption": "home desktop", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "home discoverability crawler", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "home discoverability rendered", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/home-discoverability.json", "caption": "home discoverability", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/home-dom.json", "caption": "home dom", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F20", "F27" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-focus.json", "caption": "home focus", "findingIds": [ "F10", "F17" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-forced-colors.png", "caption": "home forced colors", "condition": "forced-colors: active", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-headers.json", "caption": "home headers", "findingIds": [ "F23", "F25" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-images.json", "caption": "home images", "findingIds": [ "F15", "F20", "F32" ] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "caption": "home layout mobile", "condition": "narrow mobile viewport", "findingIds": [ "F08", "F12", "F18" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "caption": "home lighthouse", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F12", "F13", "F14", "F15", "F16", "F18", "F19", "F21", "F22", "F23", "F25", "F33" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-manifest-agent.json", "caption": "home manifest agent", "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-mobile.png", "caption": "home mobile", "condition": "narrow mobile viewport", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F27" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-motion.json", "caption": "home motion", "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-platform.json", "caption": "home platform", "findingIds": [ "F03", "F04", "F05", "F09" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-recon.json", "caption": "home recon", "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-secrets.json", "caption": "home secrets", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "har-summary", "path": "evidence/home-summary.json", "caption": "home summary", "findingIds": [ "F13", "F14", "F24", "F32", "F33", "F34" ] }, { "type": "trace-summary", "path": "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "caption": "home trace summary", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F12", "F33" ] }, { "type": "trace", "path": "evidence/home-trace.json", "caption": "home trace", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-trackers.json", "caption": "home trackers", "findingIds": [ "F24", "F34" ] }, { "type": "har", "path": "evidence/home.har", "caption": "home", "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/mutual-funds-discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "mutual funds discoverability crawler", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/mutual-funds-discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "mutual funds discoverability rendered", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/mutual-funds-discoverability.json", "caption": "mutual funds discoverability", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/mutual-funds-layout.json", "caption": "mutual funds layout", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/mutual-funds-mobile.png", "caption": "mutual funds mobile", "condition": "narrow mobile viewport", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/mutual-funds-probe.json", "caption": "mutual funds probe", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/robots-sitemap.txt", "caption": "robots sitemap", "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/sip-calculator-discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "sip calculator discoverability crawler", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/sip-calculator-discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "sip calculator discoverability rendered", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/sip-calculator-discoverability.json", "caption": "sip calculator discoverability", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/sip-calculator-layout.json", "caption": "sip calculator layout", "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/sip-calculator-mobile.png", "caption": "sip calculator mobile", "condition": "narrow mobile viewport", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/sip-calculator-probe.json", "caption": "sip calculator probe", "findingIds": [ "F10", "F15", "F30" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/stock-detail-discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "stock detail 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"stocks discoverability rendered", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/stocks-discoverability.json", "caption": "stocks discoverability", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/stocks-layout.json", "caption": "stocks layout", "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/stocks-mobile.png", "caption": "stocks mobile", "condition": "narrow mobile viewport", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/stocks-probe.json", "caption": "stocks probe", "findingIds": [ "F10", "F17", "F18", "F22" ] } ], "config": { "loaded": false }, "coverage": { "catalogVersion": "modern-web-guidance@0.0.172", "catalogChecksum": "sha256:78ccfdb2d483f4c57d9dafed80fd86c6265585a56457c8dcfddc254b80fb44d7", "expected": 58, "recorded": 58, "judged": 58, "blocked": 0, "notRun": 0, "missing": 0, "unknown": 0, "duplicates": 0, "complete": true }, "checkOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-color-scheme", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Screenshot under emulated prefers-color-scheme: dark and computed root theme inspection", "evidence": "The dark-condition screenshot remains white and the rendered root is data-theme=\"light\" with color-scheme:light.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "getAnimations() under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "evidence": "The preference matched, but five animations remained, including four indefinitely running 30s–200s animations, and no reduced-motion CSS rule was found.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-motion.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Screenshot under forced-colors: active plus Lighthouse contrast inspection", "evidence": "Forced-colors rendered navigation, search, and ticker text visibly in system black/white colors; ordinary-mode contrast failures are recorded separately under sufficient-contrast.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-forced-colors.png" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "view-transitions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Rendered CSS probe and route walkthrough", "evidence": "The browser supports View Transitions, but no view-transition CSS was present on any representative template and route changes use abrupt full swaps.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stock-detail" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform.json", "evidence/stock-detail-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "CSS feature probe and long-task/animation inspection", "evidence": "No scrollytelling, parallax, or scroll-linked reveal was observed on the representative pages, so no main-thread scroll-linked animation anti-pattern was found.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform.json" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No gesture-driven removal, pull-to-reveal, draggable carousel, or comparable physical gesture was present on the audited public templates.", "reason": "No gesture-driven removal, pull-to-reveal, draggable carousel, or comparable physical gesture was present on the audited public templates." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Mobile screenshots and CSS feature probe across long pages", "evidence": "Long pages retain a clipped desktop-style header and provide no progress or scroll-state adaptation; no scroll-state/container CSS was detected.", "pathIds": [ "home", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/blog-mobile.png", "evidence/home-platform.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No open tooltip, popover, or edge-sensitive anchored menu was exposed in the representative public flows.", "reason": "No open tooltip, popover, or edge-sensitive anchored menu was exposed in the representative public flows." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Route walkthrough and rendered CSS probe", "evidence": "Route changes and the 404-to-home path provide no directional transition or focus/attention cue; view-transition/highlight styles were absent.", "pathIds": [ "home", "404" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/404-mobile.png", "evidence/home-platform.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Load screenshot and fixed-overlay DOM probe on account-opening route", "evidence": "The demat route opens with a viewport-covering signup overlay before interaction and no visible close action.", "pathIds": [ "demat" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-mobile.png", "evidence/demat-overlay.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM semantics probe of the signup overlay", "evidence": "The covering signup modal is a fixed DIV (.rodal) with no dialog role; representative pages reported zero and zero popover elements.", "pathIds": [ "demat" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-overlay.json", "evidence/demat-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "reduced-chrome", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Desktop and mobile visual review", "evidence": "The home, stock detail, calculator, and blog templates use restrained borders and keep their primary content visually dominant once no overlay is present.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stock-detail", "sip-calculator" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/stock-detail-mobile.png", "evidence/sip-calculator-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Layout primitive at 360x800/390x844 on seven templates", "evidence": "Every sampled template overflowed horizontally: home/stocks/mutual funds by about 6.7k px, stock detail by 442 px, calculator by 384 px, demat by 347 px, and blog by 682 px.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/stocks-layout.json", "evidence/stock-detail-layout.json", "evidence/sip-calculator-layout.json", "evidence/blog-layout.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "component-level-responsiveness", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Rendered stylesheet probe across seven templates", "evidence": "No @container rules were found, while shared header/ticker and cards visibly remain desktop-sized and clipped at mobile widths.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform.json", "evidence/blog-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F09" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Interactive-target and focus probes across templates", "evidence": "Each template exposes more than 400 visible targets below 24px in at least one dimension; sampled pre-rendered anchors did not accept focus or show an outline.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-focus.json", "evidence/stocks-probe.json", "evidence/sip-calculator-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "First-viewport screenshots and heading/CTA inspection", "evidence": "Home, stocks, mutual funds, stock detail, calculator, and blog all state their purpose with a clear H1 and an obvious next action or content object.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/stock-detail-mobile.png", "evidence/sip-calculator-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Public pre-auth task walkthrough", "evidence": "The representative public flow, open SIP calculator, adjust investment/return/time inputs, and read updated totals, was available without a dead end; investment/account execution correctly requires authentication.", "pathIds": [ "sip-calculator", "demat" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/sip-calculator-mobile.png", "evidence/calculator-heap-post.heapsnapshot" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Invalid-route walkthrough plus delayed-price state inspection", "evidence": "The stock detail explains delayed prices and offers LOGIN; an invalid route renders a clear 404 with a Go to Home Page recovery link.", "pathIds": [ "stock-detail", "404" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/stock-detail-mobile.png", "evidence/404-mobile.png", "evidence/404-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse plus DevTools trace", "evidence": "Mobile Lighthouse measured LCP 10.6s, TBT 7,020ms and performance 0.33; trace corroborated LCP 2.44s and 445ms TBT in a lighter desktop run.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Layout observer and Lighthouse CLS", "evidence": "Both the mobile layout observer and Lighthouse recorded CLS 0 on the home load.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DevTools trace, layout long-task observer, and Lighthouse", "evidence": "Trace recorded 9 long tasks (longest 232ms, TBT 445ms); mobile Lighthouse measured 7,020ms TBT.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR summary confirmed against DOM and Lighthouse insights", "evidence": "Home loaded 360 requests and 4.14MB transferred, including 138 scripts; Lighthouse failed LCP discovery and network-dependency insights.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse code coverage and HAR weight analysis", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 776KiB unused JS and 16KiB unused CSS; analytics and app chunks dominate the request weight.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility plus DOM probes", "evidence": "Lighthouse found an accessible-name mismatch; calculator has three unlabeled inputs, the account overlay input has no label/ARIA name, and image audit found two missing alt attributes.", "pathIds": [ "home", "sip-calculator", "demat" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/sip-calculator-probe.json", "evidence/demat-overlay.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse color-contrast audit", "evidence": "Ticker text measured 2.51:1, positive values 2.66:1, and the white-on-green Get started control 2.66:1, below WCAG AA.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Landmark and focus probes", "evidence": "Representative probes found no main/nav/header/footer landmarks, while sampled links had outline-style none and many empty accessible names, making focus orientation unreliable.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-focus.json", "evidence/stocks-probe.json", "evidence/blog-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Visual review of content templates", "evidence": "Primary headings and body text on stock, calculator, and blog templates are comfortably sized and not clipped vertically.", "pathIds": [ "stock-detail", "sip-calculator", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/stock-detail-mobile.png", "evidence/sip-calculator-mobile.png", "evidence/blog-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse viewport audit and mobile layout/target probes", "evidence": "Mobile Lighthouse found a second viewport declaration with maximum-scale=1/user-scalable=no; every template overflowed horizontally and hundreds of targets were under 24px.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/stocks-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse Runtime/console collection", "evidence": "Console logged FedCM concurrency/network errors and multiple CSP-blocked scripts, images, and analytics requests.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM, Lighthouse, and image audit", "evidence": "Doctype/charset are valid, but 4 images lack dimensions, 29 are oversized, 18 use legacy formats, and 2 lack alt text.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Lighthouse best-practices diagnostics", "evidence": "The page failed BFCache for three no-store reasons, emitted inspector issues, and large first-party bundles referenced missing source maps.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM metadata probes on seven templates", "evidence": "Every representative page had a unique descriptive title and meta description.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-recon.json", "evidence/stock-detail-probe.json", "evidence/blog-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Anchor, viewport, robots, and Lighthouse probes", "evidence": "URLs and robots are crawlable, but 326–330 anchors per template have no descriptive text/accessible name, and mobile Lighthouse found zoom disabled by a second viewport meta.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/stocks-probe.json", "evidence/blog-probe.json", "evidence/robots-sitemap.txt", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Canonical/robots probes and robots/sitemap fetch", "evidence": "All sampled pages returned index signals and self-referential canonicals; robots.txt and sitemap.xml were reachable.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/robots-sitemap.txt", "evidence/home-recon.json", "evidence/stock-detail-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "JSON-LD and Open Graph probe across templates", "evidence": "All sampled entity/content templates exposed 2–4 JSON-LD blocks and seven Open Graph tags consistent with visible titles.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/stock-detail-probe.json", "evidence/blog-probe.json", "evidence/home-recon.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Headers, cookies, and Lighthouse security inspection", "evidence": "HTTPS/HSTS/nosniff/frame protection are present, but the desktop response lacked CSP, 7 of 8 cookies were flagged insecure, and the mobile CSP blocked several configured integrations.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-cookies.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Tracker primitive and HAR summary", "evidence": "Load contacted 14 third-party origins including four known trackers; HAR captured 347 third-party-classified requests and 4.07MB transferred (including first-party asset subdomains classified by origin).", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Load inspection and authentication-overlay review", "evidence": "No browser permission prompt appeared on load; authentication offers Google FedCM and an email continuation rather than exposing a password-only form.", "pathIds": [ "demat", "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-overlay.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Security-header primitive and Lighthouse CSP inspection", "evidence": "Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy are absent; desktop CSP was absent while mobile CSP produced blocked-resource violations, indicating inconsistent defensive policy deployment.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Discoverability raw-HTML/no-JS comparison on seven templates", "evidence": "Raw HTML retained 85–99% of rendered content on every template and none was a JS shell, so core public content remains reachable without JavaScript.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-discoverability.json", "evidence/stock-detail-discoverability.json", "evidence/demat-discoverability.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Representative route, overlay, and calculator walkthrough", "evidence": "Stock data, calculator, signup overlay, and blog all reached stable rendered states; no cut-off menu or broken asynchronous shell was observed beyond separately reported reflow.", "pathIds": [ "stock-detail", "sip-calculator", "demat" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/stock-detail-mobile.png", "evidence/sip-calculator-mobile.png", "evidence/demat-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Manifest fetch and service-worker registration probe", "evidence": "A valid standalone manifest exists, but navigator.serviceWorker.getRegistrations() returned no registration, so the app has no demonstrated offline fallback.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-manifest-agent.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Invalid-route request and screenshot", "evidence": "An invalid URL renders an intentional, readable 404 state with a direct home recovery action instead of a blank shell.", "pathIds": [ "404" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/404-mobile.png", "evidence/404-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "DOM language/direction and representative-layout probes", "evidence": "Pages declare lang=en but no dir; the public site claims multilingual finance yet exposes no hreflang/language choice in sampled metadata, and severe fixed-width overflow gives no evidence that translated expansion or bidi layouts survive.", "pathIds": [ "home", "stocks", "stock-detail", "mutual-funds", "sip-calculator", "demat", "blog" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-recon.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Rendered currency/number inspection", "evidence": "Calculator and stock templates consistently render Indian currency and lakh grouping (for example ₹30,00,000 and ₹335.60), appropriate for the stated Indian locale.", "pathIds": [ "sip-calculator", "stock-detail" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/sip-calculator-mobile.png", "evidence/stock-detail-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No public audited template exposed a date/time scheduling or recurring-event workflow whose time-zone or DST behavior could apply.", "reason": "No public audited template exposed a date/time scheduling or recurring-event workflow whose time-zone or DST behavior could apply." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Account-opening load screenshot and overlay DOM probe", "evidence": "The demat route forces an undismissible full-screen signup DIV before users can inspect the page; there is no visible cancel/close affordance and consent copy is compressed into the continuation UI.", "pathIds": [ "demat" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-mobile.png", "evidence/demat-overlay.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Signup and calculator form semantics inspection", "evidence": "The signup control is not a semantic form, its text input is unlabeled, and no accessible error-announcement surface or declarative validation semantics were present.", "pathIds": [ "demat" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-overlay.json", "evidence/demat-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F29" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Input autocomplete/label probe", "evidence": "The signup field has autocomplete=\"on\" instead of a purpose-specific email token and no label/ARIA name; three calculator inputs are also unlabeled.", "pathIds": [ "demat", "sip-calculator" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-overlay.json", "evidence/sip-calculator-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F30" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Pre-auth account-opening walkthrough", "evidence": "The account route immediately traps the page behind a modal-like signup layer with no visible cancellation, weakening reversibility before the user can review account details.", "pathIds": [ "demat" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-mobile.png", "evidence/demat-overlay.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F31" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Image primitive and HAR inspection", "evidence": "29 of 31 images were over 2x displayed resolution, 18 used legacy formats, 7 lacked srcset, and 26 below-fold images were not lazy-loaded.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F32" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR, trace, and Lighthouse coverage", "evidence": "The home load makes 360 requests with 138 scripts; Lighthouse estimated 776KiB unused JS and the trace recorded nine long tasks.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Tracker and HAR budget inspection", "evidence": "Known ad/analytics trackers and WebEngage contribute hundreds of kilobytes; Google Tag Manager/gtag alone account for roughly 487KB transferred.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F34" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Runtime agent-capability probe and contextual applicability judgement", "evidence": "No agent-facing capability is claimed by the public site, and the runtime probe found no WebMCP registration; this emerging capability is contextual and therefore not penalised.", "reason": "No agent-facing capability is claimed by the public site, and the runtime probe found no WebMCP registration; this emerging capability is contextual and therefore not penalised." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Runtime built-in-AI probe and contextual applicability judgement", "evidence": "No summarisation or language-model experience is offered on the audited public templates, so on-device inference is not applicable.", "reason": "No summarisation or language-model experience is offered on the audited public templates, so on-device inference is not applicable." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Baseline and post-interaction heap snapshots around ten calculator range-update cycles", "evidence": "After ten representative calculator updates, node count fell from 833,097 to 831,736 and self size from 49,888,433 to 49,813,933 bytes; no retained growth was observed.", "pathIds": [ "sip-calculator" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/calculator-heap-baseline.heapsnapshot", "evidence/calculator-heap-post.heapsnapshot" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Heap summary totals on the calculator template", "evidence": "A simple calculator retained about 833k heap nodes and 49.9MB self size at baseline, a large footprint for this surface even though it did not grow under repetition.", "pathIds": [ "sip-calculator" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/calculator-heap-baseline.heapsnapshot" ], "findingIds": [ "F35" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Before/after heap totals over repeated interaction", "evidence": "The repeated interaction ended with 1,361 fewer heap nodes and 74,500 fewer self-size bytes than baseline, providing no signal of accumulating detached DOM/listeners in this bounded test.", "pathIds": [ "sip-calculator" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/calculator-heap-baseline.heapsnapshot", "evidence/calculator-heap-post.heapsnapshot" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F06", "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F08", "F09", "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass", "findingIds": [] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F12", "F13", "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F15", "F16", "F17", "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F19", "F20", "F21" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F23", "F24", "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F28", "F29", "F30", "F31" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F32", "F33", "F34" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "No agent-facing capability is claimed by the public site, and the runtime probe found no WebMCP registration; this emerging capability is contextual and therefore not penalised. No summarisation or language-model experience is offered on the audited public templates, so on-device inference is not applicable.", "findingIds": [] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F35" ] } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Homepage and global shell; represents product discovery, navigation, preference, performance, privacy, and metadata behavior.", "url": "https://groww.in/", "conditions": [ "desktop", "viewport: 360x800", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "forced-colors: active", "no JavaScript crawler" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "stocks", "description": "Stocks landing/listing archetype; represents category discovery and shared long-form product marketing template.", "url": "https://groww.in/stocks", "conditions": [ "viewport: 390x844", "no JavaScript crawler" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "stock-detail", "description": "Individual security detail archetype with live/delayed data and chart.", "url": "https://groww.in/stocks/tata-motors-ltd", "conditions": [ "viewport: 390x844", "no JavaScript crawler" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "mutual-funds", "description": "Mutual-fund category archetype; 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represents HTTP/navigation failure handling.", "url": "https://groww.in/this-route-does-not-exist-web-uplift", "conditions": [ "viewport: 390x844" ], "result": "pass" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F01", "severity": "medium", "summary": "Dark mode ignores the user preference", "evidence": "The dark-condition screenshot remains white and the rendered root is data-theme=\"light\" with color-scheme:light.", "suggestedFix": "Add an early color-scheme meta, set :root { color-scheme: light dark }, and drive semantic color tokens with prefers-color-scheme/light-dark().", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-dom.json" ] }, { "id": "F02", "severity": "high", "summary": "Reduced-motion users still receive indefinite motion", "evidence": "The preference matched, but five animations remained, including four indefinitely running 30s–200s animations, and no reduced-motion CSS rule was found.", "suggestedFix": "Wrap non-essential marquee/hero animations in no-preference and stop auto-running motion under reduce.", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-reduced-motion", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-motion.json" ] }, { "id": "F03", "severity": "low", "summary": "Route changes are abrupt despite View Transition support", "evidence": "The browser supports View Transitions, but no view-transition CSS was present on any representative template and route changes use abrupt full swaps.", "suggestedFix": "Progressively enhance same-document navigation with document.startViewTransition and add cross-document @view-transition where compatible.", "guidanceId": "same-document-transitions", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform.json", "evidence/stock-detail-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F04", "severity": "medium", "summary": "Long-page navigation chrome does not adapt on mobile", "evidence": "Long pages retain a clipped desktop-style header and provide no progress or scroll-state adaptation; no scroll-state/container CSS was detected.", "suggestedFix": "Make header/ticker responsive and use CSS scroll-state/container queries for compact scrolled chrome with a fallback.", "guidanceId": "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/blog-mobile.png", "evidence/home-platform.json" ] }, { "id": "F05", "severity": "low", "summary": "Navigation does not cue moved focus or direction", "evidence": "Route changes and the 404-to-home path provide no directional transition or focus/attention cue; view-transition/highlight styles were absent.", "suggestedFix": "Use directional view transitions and move focus to the destination heading after route/error recovery.", "guidanceId": "directional-navigation-transitions", "effort": "small", "confidence": "medium", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "directs-attention", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/404-mobile.png", "evidence/home-platform.json" ] }, { "id": "F06", "severity": "high", "summary": "Account page is obscured by an unsolicited signup overlay", "evidence": "The demat route opens with a viewport-covering signup overlay before interaction and no visible close action.", "suggestedFix": "Keep account information visible and open signup only after an explicit action; always provide a visible dismissal.", "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "pathId": "demat", "url": "https://groww.in/open-demat-account", "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-mobile.png", "evidence/demat-overlay.json" ] }, { "id": "F07", "severity": "high", "summary": "Signup modal is a non-semantic fixed DIV", "evidence": "The covering signup modal is a fixed DIV (.rodal) with no dialog role; representative pages reported zero and zero popover elements.", "suggestedFix": "Replace the Rodal DIV with , declarative closedby/light-dismiss behavior, labelled heading, and focus restoration.", "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "pathId": "demat", "url": "https://groww.in/open-demat-account", "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-overlay.json", "evidence/demat-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F08", "severity": "critical", "summary": "All representative mobile templates overflow horizontally", "evidence": "Every sampled template overflowed horizontally: home/stocks/mutual funds by about 6.7k px, stock detail by 442 px, calculator by 384 px, demat by 347 px, and blog by 682 px.", "suggestedFix": "Remove fixed desktop widths, constrain ticker tracks without inflating document scrollWidth, and use intrinsic/fluid sizing at narrow viewports.", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/stocks-layout.json", "evidence/stock-detail-layout.json", "evidence/sip-calculator-layout.json", "evidence/blog-layout.json" ] }, { "id": "F09", "severity": "medium", "summary": "Shared components do not adapt to their containers", "evidence": "No @container rules were found, while shared header/ticker and cards visibly remain desktop-sized and clipped at mobile widths.", "suggestedFix": "Introduce container-type on reusable shells/cards and @container rules where each component is reused at narrow widths.", "guidanceId": "size-aware-styling", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform.json", "evidence/blog-mobile.png" ] }, { "id": "F10", "severity": "high", "summary": "Hundreds of targets are undersized and keyboard focus is unreliable", "evidence": "Each template exposes more than 400 visible targets below 24px in at least one dimension; sampled pre-rendered anchors did not accept focus or show an outline.", "suggestedFix": "Give interactive targets at least 24x24 CSS px (prefer 44px for primary touch controls), remove hidden tabbables, and add clear :focus-visible styles.", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-focus.json", "evidence/stocks-probe.json", "evidence/sip-calculator-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F11", "severity": "critical", "summary": "Mobile performance misses the Core Web Vitals load bar", "evidence": "Mobile Lighthouse measured LCP 10.6s, TBT 7,020ms and performance 0.33; trace corroborated LCP 2.44s and 445ms TBT in a lighter desktop run.", "suggestedFix": "Prioritise the LCP asset/content, defer non-critical code, and profile INP/TBT contributors before shipping.", "guidanceId": "performance", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ] }, { "id": "F12", "severity": "high", "summary": "Long tasks block the main thread", "evidence": "Trace recorded 9 long tasks (longest 232ms, TBT 445ms); mobile Lighthouse measured 7,020ms TBT.", "suggestedFix": "Break app initialization into scheduler-yielding tasks and defer analytics/widgets until after core interactivity.", "guidanceId": "break-up-long-tasks", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "id": "F13", "severity": "high", "summary": "The home load ships 360 requests and 4.14MB", "evidence": "Home loaded 360 requests and 4.14MB transferred, including 138 scripts; Lighthouse failed LCP discovery and network-dependency insights.", "suggestedFix": "Shorten critical chains, preload only true LCP dependencies, cache static assets, and conditionally load non-critical integrations.", "guidanceId": "optimize-preload-priority", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "id": "F14", "severity": "high", "summary": "At least 776KiB of JavaScript is unused on load", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 776KiB unused JS and 16KiB unused CSS; analytics and app chunks dominate the request weight.", "suggestedFix": "Code-split by route/interaction, remove duplicate analytics clients, and load large optional dependencies on demand.", "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ] }, { "id": "F15", "severity": "high", "summary": "Controls and links lack robust accessible names", "evidence": "Lighthouse found an accessible-name mismatch; calculator has three unlabeled inputs, the account overlay input has no label/ARIA name, and image audit found two missing alt attributes.", "suggestedFix": "Add explicit labels to calculator/signup inputs, repair label/name mismatches, and give meaningful images/links accurate alternatives.", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/sip-calculator-probe.json", "evidence/demat-overlay.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ] }, { "id": "F16", "severity": "high", "summary": "Key ticker and CTA colors fail contrast", "evidence": "Ticker text measured 2.51:1, positive values 2.66:1, and the white-on-green Get started control 2.66:1, below WCAG AA.", "suggestedFix": "Use darker semantic text/accent tokens that reach 4.5:1 for normal text and verify all interactive states.", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "id": "F17", "severity": "high", "summary": "Landmarks and focus orientation are weak", "evidence": "Representative probes found no main/nav/header/footer landmarks, while sampled links had outline-style none and many empty accessible names, making focus orientation unreliable.", "suggestedFix": "Add semantic header/nav/main/footer landmarks, remove empty links, preserve logical focus order, and style :focus-visible.", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-focus.json", "evidence/stocks-probe.json", "evidence/blog-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F18", "severity": "critical", "summary": "Zoom is disabled and content fails mobile reflow", "evidence": "Mobile Lighthouse found a second viewport declaration with maximum-scale=1/user-scalable=no; every template overflowed horizontally and hundreds of targets were under 24px.", "suggestedFix": "Remove maximum-scale/user-scalable restrictions and fix intrinsic reflow so content works at 320px and 400% zoom.", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/stocks-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F19", "severity": "medium", "summary": "The page logs runtime, FedCM, and CSP errors", "evidence": "Console logged FedCM concurrency/network errors and multiple CSP-blocked scripts, images, and analytics requests.", "suggestedFix": "Deduplicate credential requests and align third-party initialization with the deployed CSP; keep production console clean.", "guidanceId": "html", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "no-console-errors", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "id": "F20", "severity": "medium", "summary": "Image dimensions and delivery are inconsistent", "evidence": "Doctype/charset are valid, but 4 images lack dimensions, 29 are oversized, 18 use legacy formats, and 2 lack alt text.", "suggestedFix": "Reserve image space, provide responsive srcset/sizes, and right-size/modernise below-fold images.", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ] }, { "id": "F21", "severity": "low", "summary": "BFCache, source maps, and inspector hygiene regressions remain", "evidence": "The page failed BFCache for three no-store reasons, emitted inspector issues, and large first-party bundles referenced missing source maps.", "suggestedFix": "Review no-store usage, publish correct source maps to the error tracker, and clear DevTools inspector issues.", "guidanceId": "html", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "id": "F22", "severity": "high", "summary": "Hundreds of links have no descriptive text and mobile zoom is blocked", "evidence": "URLs and robots are crawlable, but 326–330 anchors per template have no descriptive text/accessible name, and mobile Lighthouse found zoom disabled by a second viewport meta.", "suggestedFix": "Do not render empty navigation anchors; ensure every crawlable link has meaningful text and retain a single scalable viewport meta.", "guidanceId": "html", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/stocks-probe.json", "evidence/blog-probe.json", "evidence/robots-sitemap.txt", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "id": "F23", "severity": "high", "summary": "Cookie and CSP policy is inconsistent across variants", "evidence": "HTTPS/HSTS/nosniff/frame protection are present, but the desktop response lacked CSP, 7 of 8 cookies were flagged insecure, and the mobile CSP blocked several configured integrations.", "suggestedFix": "Set Secure/SameSite intentionally on all cookies and deploy one tested nonce/hash-based CSP consistently across desktop/mobile.", "guidanceId": "security", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-cookies.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "id": "F24", "severity": "high", "summary": "Tracking and third-party collection is heavy by default", "evidence": "Load contacted 14 third-party origins including four known trackers; HAR captured 347 third-party-classified requests and 4.07MB transferred (including first-party asset subdomains classified by origin).", "suggestedFix": "Minimise analytics vendors/events, delay consent-sensitive tags, batch telemetry, and document each third party’s purpose.", "guidanceId": "privacy", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ] }, { "id": "F25", "severity": "high", "summary": "Referrer and Permissions policies are absent", "evidence": "Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy are absent; desktop CSP was absent while mobile CSP produced blocked-resource violations, indicating inconsistent defensive policy deployment.", "suggestedFix": "Add restrictive Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy, then align CSP and frame-ancestors across response variants.", "guidanceId": "security", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "defensive-browser-policies", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "id": "F26", "severity": "medium", "summary": "Installable metadata has no offline service worker", "evidence": "A valid standalone manifest exists, but navigator.serviceWorker.getRegistrations() returned no registration, so the app has no demonstrated offline fallback.", "suggestedFix": "Register a small service worker with an explicit offline fallback and test flaky/offline navigation, or remove unsupported installability claims.", "guidanceId": "detect-initial-visibility-state", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "offline-and-installable", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-manifest-agent.json" ] }, { "id": "F27", "severity": "medium", "summary": "Multilingual/bidi readiness is not demonstrated", "evidence": "Pages declare lang=en but no dir; the public site claims multilingual finance yet exposes no hreflang/language choice in sampled metadata, and severe fixed-width overflow gives no evidence that translated expansion or bidi layouts survive.", "suggestedFix": "Expose language alternatives/hreflang, set direction where needed, use logical properties, and test translated expansion and RTL.", "guidanceId": "translator", "effort": "large", "confidence": "medium", "principleId": "be-internationalised", "principleCheckId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-recon.json" ] }, { "id": "F28", "severity": "high", "summary": "Account opening starts with an undismissible commitment UI", "evidence": "The demat route forces an undismissible full-screen signup DIV before users can inspect the page; there is no visible cancel/close affordance and consent copy is compressed into the continuation UI.", "suggestedFix": "Let users review the offer before signup, make dismissal/cancellation obvious, and separate consent links from the primary CTA.", "guidanceId": "custom-button-actions", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "no-dark-patterns", "pathId": "demat", "url": "https://groww.in/open-demat-account", "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-mobile.png", "evidence/demat-overlay.json" ] }, { "id": "F29", "severity": "high", "summary": "Signup validation lacks semantic, accessible error handling", "evidence": "The signup control is not a semantic form, its text input is unlabeled, and no accessible error-announcement surface or declarative validation semantics were present.", "suggestedFix": "Use a real form, labelled email input, post-interaction validation, aria-invalid, and a live error summary.", "guidanceId": "accessible-error-announcement", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "humane-error-handling", "pathId": "demat", "url": "https://groww.in/open-demat-account", "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-overlay.json", "evidence/demat-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F30", "severity": "medium", "summary": "Inputs do not expose purpose-specific autofill semantics", "evidence": "The signup field has autocomplete=\"on\" instead of a purpose-specific email token and no label/ARIA name; three calculator inputs are also unlabeled.", "suggestedFix": "Use autocomplete=email/username as appropriate and programmatic labels; label calculator ranges with output associations.", "guidanceId": "autofill-sign-up-form", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "pathId": "demat", "url": "https://groww.in/open-demat-account", "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-overlay.json", "evidence/sip-calculator-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F31", "severity": "high", "summary": "The account flow is not visibly reversible", "evidence": "The account route immediately traps the page behind a modal-like signup layer with no visible cancellation, weakening reversibility before the user can review account details.", "suggestedFix": "Provide a clear close/back path before identity capture and keep pricing, terms, and cancellation information available.", "guidanceId": "passkey-management", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "pathId": "demat", "url": "https://groww.in/open-demat-account", "artifacts": [ "evidence/demat-mobile.png", "evidence/demat-overlay.json" ] }, { "id": "F32", "severity": "high", "summary": "Most images are oversized or delivered inefficiently", "evidence": "29 of 31 images were over 2x displayed resolution, 18 used legacy formats, 7 lacked srcset, and 26 below-fold images were not lazy-loaded.", "suggestedFix": "Generate responsive AVIF/WebP variants, supply srcset/sizes, lazy-load below fold, and right-size decorative assets.", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ] }, { "id": "F33", "severity": "high", "summary": "Background scripts and requests waste client resources", "evidence": "The home load makes 360 requests with 138 scripts; Lighthouse estimated 776KiB unused JS and the trace recorded nine long tasks.", "suggestedFix": "Deprioritise background fetches, conditionally initialize analytics, and stop idle work when hidden.", "guidanceId": "deprioritize-background-fetches", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "no-wasteful-work", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ] }, { "id": "F34", "severity": "high", "summary": "Third-party scripts consume a disproportionate budget", "evidence": "Known ad/analytics trackers and WebEngage contribute hundreds of kilobytes; Google Tag Manager/gtag alone account for roughly 487KB transferred.", "suggestedFix": "Set a vendor byte/request budget, remove duplicate Google tags, and defer WebEngage/ads until justified by consent and intent.", "guidanceId": "efficient-background-processing", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://groww.in/", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ] }, { "id": "F35", "severity": "medium", "summary": "A simple calculator has a large baseline heap/DOM footprint", "evidence": "A simple calculator retained about 833k heap nodes and 49.9MB self size at baseline, a large footprint for this surface even though it did not grow under repetition.", "suggestedFix": "Reduce pre-rendered global navigation/hidden links and route bundles; measure heap/DOM after each reduction against this baseline.", "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "effort": "large", "confidence": "medium", "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "principleCheckId": "bounded-footprint", "pathId": "sip-calculator", "url": "https://groww.in/calculators/sip-calculator", "artifacts": [ "evidence/calculator-heap-baseline.heapsnapshot" ] } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T01", "title": "Restore mobile reflow and zoom across the shared shell", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F08", "F09", "F18", "F10" ], "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T02", "title": "Cut LCP/TBT by route-splitting and deferring analytics/widgets", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F11", "F12", "F13", "F14", "F33", "F34" ], "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T03", "title": "Make account opening explicit, semantic, dismissible, and reversible", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F06", "F07", "F28", "F29", "F30", "F31" ], "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T04", "title": "Repair labels, landmarks, focus, link names, and contrast", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F15", "F16", "F17", "F22" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T05", "title": "Deploy consistent secure headers and privacy-minimised telemetry", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F23", "F24", "F25" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T06", "title": "Right-size and responsively deliver images", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F20", "F32" ], "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T07", "title": "Respect dark and reduced-motion preferences", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T08", "title": "Reduce the calculator/global-shell memory footprint", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F35" ], "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T09", "title": "Add and test an offline fallback", "priority": 9, "findingIds": [ "F26" ], "guidanceId": "detect-initial-visibility-state", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T10", "title": "Clean runtime and browser-platform diagnostics", "priority": 10, "findingIds": [ "F19", "F21" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T11", "title": "Prepare translated and bidi layouts", "priority": 11, "findingIds": [ "F27" ], "guidanceId": "translator", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T12", "title": "Add progressive navigation/attention transitions", "priority": 12, "findingIds": [ "F03", "F04", "F05" ], "guidanceId": "same-document-transitions", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 8, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-18T09-26-45-809Z" }