{ "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in", "auditedAt": "2026-07-18T18:49:12.947Z", "mode": "report", "status": "completed", "statusDetail": "Coverage complete. Public Angular entry plus representative services, examination, contact, and login routes were exercised; all destination routes redirected to a shared #/500 state.", "page": { "appType": "spa", "framework": "Angular", "notes": "Production entry redirects to /ExaminationServices/. Representative route requests redirect cross-origin to testservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/#/500 while re-rendering the homepage shell." }, "evidenceUsed": [ "screenshot", "dom", "layout-metrics", "evaluate-probe", "trace", "har", "discoverability", "headers", "cookies", "trackers", "secrets", "images", "heap-summary", "lighthouse", "curl" ], "guidanceConsulted": [ "accessibility", "accessible-error-announcement", "batch-analytics-events", "css-layout", "dark-mode", "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "fluid-scaling", "forms", "html", "improve-text-layout-and-legibility", "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "manage-recurring-intervals", "optimize-image-priority", "optimize-script-priority", "performance", "privacy", "reduce-style-repetition", "same-document-transitions", "security", "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "stabilize-reactive-state", "translator", "validate-input-after-interaction", "webmcp" ], "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": "Paired screenshots under default and prefers-color-scheme: dark", "evidence": "The dark-condition screenshot is pixel-identical in palette and file size (179,048 bytes) to the default capture; no color-scheme media rule was found.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-01" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Emulated reduced-motion probe", "evidence": "The probe matched reduced motion, found no active document animations, and found framework reduced-motion rules.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/preferences-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse contrast audit plus stylesheet preference probe", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed color-contrast and the stylesheet probe found no prefers-contrast handling.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/preferences-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "view-transitions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct navigation of representative routes and rendered-state comparison", "evidence": "Every tested route jumped to testservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/#/500 with no transition or destination state.", "pathIds": [ "services", "examinations", "contact", "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-03" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Reduced-motion/runtime animation and stylesheet probe", "evidence": "No active animations or scroll-linked animation timelines were present, so no main-thread scroll-animation anti-pattern was observed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/preferences-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Visual and DOM inspection", "evidence": "The page exposes native scrolling and explicit carousel controls; no custom pointer gesture surface was found.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Desktop/mobile screenshots and DOM inspection", "evidence": "The large government banner and navigation remain static chrome; no progress or scroll-state response was found.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-04" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No tooltip, popover, or viewport-edge menu exists on the audited public surface.", "reason": "No tooltip, popover, or viewport-edge menu exists on the audited public surface." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct route traversal and link probe", "evidence": "Services, Examinations, Contact, and Login all redirect to the same #/500 state while rendering the homepage, with no error or destination cue.", "pathIds": [ "services", "examinations", "contact", "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-05" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Load screenshots on desktop and mobile", "evidence": "No popup, consent wall, or load-time overlay obscured content.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No overlay or disclosure component requiring dialog, popover, or details was present.", "reason": "No overlay or disclosure component requiring dialog, popover, or details was present." }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "reduced-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "First-viewport screenshots", "evidence": "Government masthead, oversized title block, full-width navigation, carousel, chart, and statistic cards crowd the first view before useful exam links.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-06" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Layout primitive at 360x800 and mobile screenshot", "evidence": "The layout reported scrollWidth 751 against a 360px visual viewport, 391px horizontal overflow.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-07" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "component-level-responsiveness", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Mobile layout metrics and stylesheet probe", "evidence": "Reusable masthead/navigation/chart components remain 751px wide at a 360px viewport; no container-query evidence was found.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/preferences-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-08" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Programmatic focus walk and target measurement", "evidence": "Many links, carousel controls, cards, logo links, and footer links computed to outline:none and box-shadow:none; footer links are only 17px tall.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/focus-targets.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-09" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "First-viewport screenshot and anchor probe", "evidence": "The platform purpose is stated, but the visible exam URLs have no href and the “Home” item points to /login.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-10" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct traversal of four primary navigation destinations", "evidence": "All four representative destinations ended at testservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/#/500 and displayed the same shell instead of their requested content.", "pathIds": [ "services", "examinations", "contact", "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-11" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Error-route screenshot and URL/DOM comparison", "evidence": "The #/500 URL shows the normal homepage with no error explanation, retry, back, or recovery action.", "pathIds": [ "services" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse plus DevTools trace", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured LCP 4.82s and TBT 203ms; the trace measured LCP 3.94s and two long tasks.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Layout observer and Lighthouse CLS", "evidence": "Observed CLS was 0 and Lighthouse CLS was 0.000037, despite missing image dimensions.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Trace and Lighthouse main-thread diagnostics", "evidence": "The trace recorded 2 long tasks (99ms longest); Lighthouse reported 2.8s main-thread work and 203ms TBT.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR summary confirmed against DOM/Lighthouse", "evidence": "The page transfers 1.72MB; a 928KB uncompressed stylesheet lacks cache headers, parser scripts are high priority, and font-display costs about 1.02s.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse code diagnostics and HAR", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 147KiB unused CSS and 146KiB unused JS; the page also ships jQuery, Bootstrap, admin scripts, and Angular.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "findingIds": [ "F-16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility audit and image/DOM probes", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed aria-input-field-name, aria-required-children, image-alt and link-name; 3 of 6 images lack alt.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse color-contrast audit", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed the color-contrast audit on the rendered homepage.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse structure audits plus semantic/focus probes", "evidence": "There is no h1 or main landmark; heading order fails, and many focused controls have no visible outline.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-19" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Desktop/mobile screenshots", "evidence": "At desktop the title/subtitle is clipped behind the navigation, and the mobile page is wider than the viewport.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-20" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Mobile reflow metrics, Lighthouse, and focus target probe", "evidence": "At 360px the page overflows by 391px; multiple footer targets are 17px tall.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-21" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse browser-error audit", "evidence": "Lighthouse reported browser errors in the console.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-22" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM, images primitive, and Lighthouse", "evidence": "Document/charset are valid, but all 6 images omit dimensions, 5 use legacy PNG/JPG, and one is oversized.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-23" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse best-practices diagnostics", "evidence": "Lighthouse found missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript and browser console errors.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM and Lighthouse SEO audits", "evidence": "The title is descriptive, but meta description is absent.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Discoverability, semantic link probe, robots fetch, and Lighthouse", "evidence": "Non-JS coverage is 2%; several visible links have no href; robots.txt returns an error redirect document and Lighthouse reports 14 robots errors.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM, robots/sitemap fetch, and direct response inspection", "evidence": "No canonical is present; robots.txt and sitemap.xml both return a JavaScript error redirect with HTTP 200.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/robots.txt.txt", "evidence/sitemap.xml.txt" ], "findingIds": [ "F-27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Metadata probe", "evidence": "The organization/examination page exposes no JSON-LD or Open Graph metadata.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Headers, cookies, and secrets primitives", "evidence": "HTTPS, HSTS, nosniff, and secure no-cookie state pass, but CSP permits unsafe-inline for scripts and styles.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/secrets.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-29" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR, trackers, cookies, and secrets primitives", "evidence": "No known trackers, cookies, or exposed secrets were found; third-party traffic was limited to 43KB of exam API data from nta.nic.in.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/secrets.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No permission prompt or reachable authentication form was present on the audited public surface; the advertised login route is broken and is covered as a core-flow issue.", "reason": "No permission prompt or reachable authentication form was present on the audited public surface; the advertised login route is broken and is covered as a core-flow issue." }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Security headers primitive", "evidence": "Permissions-Policy is missing, Referrer-Policy is legacy no-referrer-when-downgrade, and CSP has unsafe-inline, although HSTS and X-Frame-Options are present.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/secrets.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-30" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Discoverability no-JS comparison", "evidence": "Raw HTML provides only 2% of rendered content and the crawler screenshot is blank; the Angular page is a JS shell.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-31" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct route traversal", "evidence": "Every tested destination resolves to a #/500 state and silently re-renders the homepage.", "pathIds": [ "services", "examinations", "contact", "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-32" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "This informational public portal is not an app-like workflow requiring installation; no offline/PWA intent was declared.", "reason": "This informational public portal is not an app-like workflow requiring installation; no offline/PWA intent was declared." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Representative error-route traversal", "evidence": "The #/500 state contains no visible error, retry, stale-data warning, or recovery action.", "pathIds": [ "services" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "DOM and visual inspection", "evidence": "The page mixes Hindi and English branding while declaring only lang=en; no direction metadata or translation affordance is present.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/entry-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-34" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No user-facing dates, currencies, formatted numbers, or locale selector were exposed in the reachable representative content.", "reason": "No user-facing dates, currencies, formatted numbers, or locale selector were exposed in the reachable representative content." }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No user-facing event times or time-zone-sensitive workflow was exposed in the reachable representative content.", "reason": "No user-facing event times or time-zone-sensitive workflow was exposed in the reachable representative content." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Visual review of load and navigation surfaces", "evidence": "No consent nag, disguised advertisement, forced continuity, or confirmshaming was present.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No reachable form exists; the broken login/destination routes are reported under core task and resilience rather than fabricating form validation evidence.", "reason": "No reachable form exists; the broken login/destination routes are reported under core task and resilience rather than fabricating form validation evidence." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No reachable input form exists on the representative public surfaces.", "reason": "No reachable input form exists on the representative public surfaces." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No checkout, subscription, consent, or reachable account-management flow exists on the representative public surfaces.", "reason": "No checkout, subscription, consent, or reachable account-management flow exists on the representative public surfaces." }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Images primitive and HAR", "evidence": "Five of six images are legacy PNG/JPG, four below-fold images are not lazy, four lack responsive sources, and one is oversized.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "findingIds": [ "F-35" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR and Lighthouse code diagnostics", "evidence": "A 928KB uncompressed stylesheet and roughly 293KiB estimated unused CSS/JS are shipped for a simple portal homepage.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-36" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR resource budget", "evidence": "The 1.72MB load is dominated by 928KB CSS, 184KB fonts, and a 179KB hero image; major hashed assets lack cache headers.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "findingIds": [ "F-37" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "WebMCP capability exposure is emerging and not required for this informational portal; its crawlability opportunity is already covered under discoverability.", "reason": "WebMCP capability exposure is emerging and not required for this informational portal; its crawlability opportunity is already covered under discoverability." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No summarization or language-model task needs on-device inference on this simple portal.", "reason": "No summarization or language-model task needs on-device inference on this simple portal." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Baseline and post heap summaries after 10 repeated full-page scroll cycles", "evidence": "Heap self size rose only 143,819 bytes (0.77%) and nodes 1,438 (0.40%) across separate controlled runs, with no unbounded pattern established.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-post-scroll.json", "evidence/runtime-metrics.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Heap summary and runtime metrics", "evidence": "The rendered page has 254 DOM elements, about 11.7MB used JS heap at runtime, and an 18.6MB snapshot self-size, proportionate for the Angular page.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-post-scroll.json", "evidence/runtime-metrics.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Before/after heap constructor comparison", "evidence": "No Detached* constructor appeared among retained-size leaders; closure count changed by 7 after repeated scrolling, not evidence of accumulation.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-post-scroll.json", "evidence/runtime-metrics.json" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-01", "F-02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-03" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-04", "F-05" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-06" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-07", "F-08", "F-09" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-10", "F-11", "F-12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-13", "F-14", "F-15", "F-16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-17", "F-18", "F-19", "F-20", "F-21" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-22", "F-23", "F-24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-25", "F-26", "F-27", "F-28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-29", "F-30" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-31", "F-32", "F-33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-34" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-35", "F-36", "F-37" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "WebMCP capability exposure is emerging and not required for this informational portal; its crawlability opportunity is already covered under discoverability. No summarization or language-model task needs on-device inference on this simple portal." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Public entry and dashboard template; tested desktop, 360x800, dark/reduced preferences, keyboard semantics, performance, network, security, no-JS, and memory.", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/", "conditions": [ "desktop", "viewport 360x800", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "keyboard focus", "JavaScript disabled" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "services", "description": "Primary service/detail navigation archetype; direct route traversal.", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/services", "conditions": [ "direct navigation" ], "result": "failed" }, { "id": "examinations", "description": "Exam listing archetype and core discovery journey; direct route traversal.", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/examination", "conditions": [ "direct navigation" ], "result": "failed" }, { "id": "contact", "description": "Support/contact journey and recovery surface; direct route traversal.", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/contact", "conditions": [ "direct navigation" ], "result": "failed" }, { "id": "login", "description": "Authentication entry and primary transactional journey; direct route traversal.", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/login", "conditions": [ "direct navigation" ], "result": "failed" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F-01", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The interface ignores the user’s dark color-scheme preference.", "evidence": "The dark-condition screenshot is pixel-identical in palette and file size (179,048 bytes) to the default capture; no color-scheme media rule was found.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme and retint surfaces with prefers-color-scheme or light-dark().", "effort": "small", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-02", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Text and controls do not consistently survive enhanced-contrast needs.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed color-contrast and the stylesheet probe found no prefers-contrast handling.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/preferences-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Correct failing contrast pairs and add forced-colors/prefers-contrast adaptations.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-03", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Route changes are abrupt and, more importantly, fail before a meaningful transition can occur.", "evidence": "Every tested route jumped to testservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/#/500 with no transition or destination state.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Repair routing first, then use same-document view transitions for stable route changes.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "same-document-transitions", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "services", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/services" }, { "id": "F-04", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Navigation chrome does not respond to scroll position.", "evidence": "The large government banner and navigation remain static chrome; no progress or scroll-state response was found.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use sticky state-aware chrome or a compact progress affordance when users move down the long page.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-05", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Primary navigation loses the user in an undifferentiated error route.", "evidence": "Services, Examinations, Contact, and Login all redirect to the same #/500 state while rendering the homepage, with no error or destination cue.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Fix route targets and expose current-page state, focus movement, and a visible failure message.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "directs-attention", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "services", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/services" }, { "id": "F-06", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "The first viewport gives more space to institutional chrome and dashboard decoration than direct exam actions.", "evidence": "Government masthead, oversized title block, full-width navigation, carousel, chart, and statistic cards crowd the first view before useful exam links.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Compress the masthead and prioritize a concise, task-oriented exam list.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "reduced-chrome", "guidanceId": "improve-text-layout-and-legibility", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-07", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page renders a desktop-width layout on mobile.", "evidence": "The layout reported scrollWidth 751 against a 360px visual viewport, 391px horizontal overflow.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Replace fixed widths with intrinsic/fluid layout and verify no overflow at narrow widths.", "effort": "large", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-08", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Components do not adapt to their available container.", "evidence": "Reusable masthead/navigation/chart components remain 751px wide at a 360px viewport; no container-query evidence was found.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/preferences-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Introduce container boundaries and size-aware component rules.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "css-layout", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-09", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Keyboard focus is frequently invisible and several targets are undersized.", "evidence": "Many links, carousel controls, cards, logo links, and footer links computed to outline:none and box-shadow:none; footer links are only 17px tall.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/focus-targets.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Apply a consistent :focus-visible ring and enlarge compact touch targets.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-10", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Users can see exam information but cannot identify a reliable primary action.", "evidence": "The platform purpose is stated, but the visible exam URLs have no href and the “Home” item points to /login.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Make each current exam a descriptive real link and correct the Home destination.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-11", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Primary navigation and login flows cannot be completed.", "evidence": "All four representative destinations ended at testservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/#/500 and displayed the same shell instead of their requested content.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Correct production routing/base href and add route smoke tests for all public and login destinations.", "effort": "large", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "primary-flow-completion", "guidanceId": "forms", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "services", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/services" }, { "id": "F-12", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The system hides a server/error state instead of helping users recover.", "evidence": "The #/500 URL shows the normal homepage with no error explanation, retry, back, or recovery action.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Render an explicit accessible error state with retry, Home, and contact/support paths.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "guidanceId": "accessible-error-announcement", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "services", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/services" }, { "id": "F-13", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Largest Contentful Paint is outside the good range.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured LCP 4.82s and TBT 203ms; the trace measured LCP 3.94s and two long tasks.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Prioritize the LCP resource, compress critical delivery, and defer non-critical work.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-14", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Main-thread work delays interactivity.", "evidence": "The trace recorded 2 long tasks (99ms longest); Lighthouse reported 2.8s main-thread work and 203ms TBT.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Chunk non-critical work, remove redundant libraries, and schedule low-priority tasks later.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-15", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Critical resources are oversized, uncached, and render delaying.", "evidence": "The page transfers 1.72MB; a 928KB uncompressed stylesheet lacks cache headers, parser scripts are high priority, and font-display costs about 1.02s.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Compress and cache hashed assets, inline only critical CSS, defer classic scripts, and set font-display.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-script-priority", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-16", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Substantial unused and overlapping code ships on the entry page.", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 147KiB unused CSS and 146KiB unused JS; the page also ships jQuery, Bootstrap, admin scripts, and Angular.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove unused CSS/JS and eliminate legacy libraries where Angular/platform code already provides the behavior.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "reduce-style-repetition", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-17", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Controls, links, and images lack reliable accessible names and roles.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed aria-input-field-name, aria-required-children, image-alt and link-name; 3 of 6 images lack alt.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Provide semantic controls, names, required ARIA children, and appropriate alt text.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-18", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Foreground/background contrast is insufficient in visible content.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed the color-contrast audit on the rendered homepage.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Adjust color tokens until all normal and large text meet WCAG contrast thresholds.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-19", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Heading, landmark, and focus structure does not provide a coherent keyboard/AT path.", "evidence": "There is no h1 or main landmark; heading order fails, and many focused controls have no visible outline.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add main and h1, repair heading order, and enforce visible focus in DOM order.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-20", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Text is clipped or forced into an oversized layout.", "evidence": "At desktop the title/subtitle is clipped behind the navigation, and the mobile page is wider than the viewport.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use fluid type/spacing and allow masthead text to wrap without overlap.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "legible-text", "guidanceId": "improve-text-layout-and-legibility", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-21", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page does not reflow and compact targets are hard to activate.", "evidence": "At 360px the page overflows by 391px; multiple footer targets are 17px tall.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Meet 400% zoom/reflow behavior and enlarge interactive hit areas.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-22", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The production page logs browser errors.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reported browser errors in the console.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Resolve failing requests/runtime exceptions and enforce a clean-console smoke test.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "no-console-errors", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-23", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Image assets are not robustly sized or delivered.", "evidence": "Document/charset are valid, but all 6 images omit dimensions, 5 use legacy PNG/JPG, and one is oversized.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add width/height, responsive sources, lazy loading, and modern formats where useful.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-24", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Production diagnostics are incomplete and platform errors remain.", "evidence": "Lighthouse found missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript and browser console errors.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Publish protected source maps to monitoring and remove browser errors/deprecations.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-25", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page has no search-result description.", "evidence": "The title is descriptive, but meta description is absent.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a concise unique meta description matching the public examination service.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "title-and-description", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-26", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Core content and navigation are not reliably crawlable.", "evidence": "Non-JS coverage is 2%; several visible links have no href; robots.txt returns an error redirect document and Lighthouse reports 14 robots errors.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png", "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Server-render meaningful content and real links; serve a valid robots.txt.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-27", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Canonical, robots, and sitemap signals are inconsistent or missing.", "evidence": "No canonical is present; robots.txt and sitemap.xml both return a JavaScript error redirect with HTTP 200.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/robots.txt.txt", "evidence/sitemap.xml.txt" ], "suggestedFix": "Serve valid robots/sitemap resources and add a canonical for the public route.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-28", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Search and share clients receive no structured entity or preview metadata.", "evidence": "The organization/examination page exposes no JSON-LD or Open Graph metadata.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add accurate Organization/WebSite and relevant exam metadata plus Open Graph fields.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-29", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The CSP weakens XSS protection with unsafe-inline.", "evidence": "HTTPS, HSTS, nosniff, and secure no-cookie state pass, but CSP permits unsafe-inline for scripts and styles.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/secrets.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Move inline code/styles to nonce/hash-protected resources and tighten CSP.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-30", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Browser-enforced policy defenses are only partial.", "evidence": "Permissions-Policy is missing, Referrer-Policy is legacy 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"evidence/discoverability-crawler.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Server-render or prerender core headings, exam links, and navigation, then enhance with Angular.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "progressive-enhancement", "guidanceId": "stabilize-reactive-state", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-32", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Runtime routing is fragile across the primary navigation.", "evidence": "Every tested destination resolves to a #/500 state and silently re-renders the homepage.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Fix route configuration and add production-origin navigation tests with explicit error boundaries.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "services", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/services" }, { "id": "F-33", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "HTTP/runtime failure states are misleading and unrecoverable.", "evidence": "The #/500 state contains no visible error, retry, stale-data warning, or recovery action.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/services.png", "evidence/examination.png", "evidence/contact.png", "evidence/login.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Render explicit 404/500/network states with retry and safe navigation.", "effort": "medium", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "guidanceId": "accessible-error-announcement", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "services", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/services" }, { "id": "F-34", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Mixed-language content is not semantically identified for assistive technology.", "evidence": "The page mixes Hindi and English branding while declaring only lang=en; no direction metadata or translation affordance is present.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/entry-dom.json", "evidence/semantic-probe.json", "evidence/entry-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Mark language changes, retain correct html lang/dir, and use logical layout properties.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-internationalised", "principleCheckId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "guidanceId": "translator", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-35", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Image delivery wastes bytes and misses responsive/lazy loading.", "evidence": "Five of six images are legacy PNG/JPG, four below-fold images are not lazy, four lack responsive sources, and one is oversized.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "suggestedFix": "Use responsive modern images, explicit dimensions, and lazy loading below the fold.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-36", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page transfers substantial unused work.", "evidence": "A 928KB uncompressed stylesheet and roughly 293KiB estimated unused CSS/JS are shipped for a simple portal homepage.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Purge unused CSS/JS, compress text, and defer non-essential code.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "no-wasteful-work", "guidanceId": "reduce-style-repetition", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" }, { "id": "F-37", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The resource budget is disproportionate to a mostly static portal.", "evidence": "The 1.72MB load is dominated by 928KB CSS, 184KB fonts, and a 179KB hero image; major hashed assets lack cache headers.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "suggestedFix": "Set a lean page budget, subset fonts, optimize the hero, and cache immutable assets.", "effort": "small", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "modern-web-guidance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://examinationservices.nic.in/ExaminationServices/" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T-01", "title": "Repair production routes and explicit failure recovery", 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