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"other", "path": "evidence/cookies.json", "caption": "cookies", "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/headers.json", "caption": "headers", "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "caption": "heap baseline", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-post-carousel.json", "caption": "heap post carousel", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-post-menu.json", "caption": "heap post menu", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-contrast.png", "caption": "home contrast", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-dark.png", "caption": "home dark", "findingIds": [ "F1" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-desktop.png", "caption": "home desktop", "findingIds": [ "F4", "F6", "F16" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "home discoverability crawler", "findingIds": [] 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"evidence/robots-manifest.json", "caption": "robots manifest", "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/search-mobile.png", "caption": "search mobile", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/secrets.json", "caption": "secrets", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/section-desktop.png", "caption": "section desktop", "findingIds": [ "F4" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/signin-mobile.png", "caption": "signin mobile", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/signin-probe.json", "caption": "signin probe", "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/trackers.json", "caption": "trackers", "findingIds": [ "F15" ] } ], "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": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "The dark-mode screenshot is pixel-identical in composition and colours to the default capture; the DOM reports html color-scheme: light and body background rgb(255,255,255).", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F1" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "evaluate under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce found zero active animations", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-motion.json" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual inspection", "evidence": "high-contrast screenshot kept primary text, controls and consent choices visible; Lighthouse reported no contrast failure", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-contrast.png" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "view-transitions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "The reduced-motion/source probe found no view-transition rules, and navigation is conventional full-document replacement.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-motion.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F2" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative route and feature recon", "evidence": "No scroll-linked decorative motion was observed on the audited templates, so there is no scroll animation implementation to assess.", "reason": "No scroll-linked decorative motion was observed on the audited templates, so there is no scroll animation implementation to assess." }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "homepage story carousel exposes a labelled forward control and remained bounded after repeated activation", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/platform-a11y-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "The long article template has many sections, while DOM/CSS inspection found no scroll-state container behaviour and the captured header is static.", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json", "evidence/article-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F3" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative route and feature recon", "evidence": "No tooltip or edge-sensitive anchored popover was present in the representative states; the full-screen modal does not need anchor positioning.", "reason": "No tooltip or edge-sensitive anchored popover was present in the representative states; the full-screen modal does not need anchor positioning." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual inspection", "evidence": "active Lifestyle section is visibly underlined and skip links guide focus directly to content/navigation", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "Desktop and mobile first-load screenshots show the article/front content dimmed and inaccessible behind a fixed aria-modal dialog covering the viewport.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/newsletters-mobile.png", "evidence/section-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F4" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "Article DOM inspection found gallery overlays as DIV role=dialog, while the consent system is an iframe 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"component-level-responsiveness", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual inspection", "evidence": "reused story/header components visibly reflow between desktop and 360px captures without clipping, even though no @container rules were found", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "focus probe shows 3px focus box-shadows/outlines on sampled links, buttons and inputs; mobile controls are visibly touch-sized", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/platform-a11y-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "title, branded navigation and article H1 make the publication and reading purpose explicit; sign-in has a single clear continuation", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "The article mobile capture remains blocked by the consent-or-pay dialog; the only primary actions are “Accept all” and “Reject all and subscribe”.", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F6" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual inspection", "evidence": "representative 404 clearly says the page cannot be served, explains mistyped/outdated URLs, and links to the homepage", "pathIds": [ "error" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured FCP 5.9s, LCP 8.8s, TTI 9.3s and performance 0.60; the raw-CDP trace under a lighter desktop profile measured LCP 2.10s, showing condition sensitivity but confirming mobile risk.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F7" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "raw-CDP layouts observed CLS 0 on home and article at 360px; Lighthouse CLS was 0.009", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "trace found 2 long tasks, 61.88ms TBT, and Lighthouse TBT was 50ms, indicating bounded main-thread blocking despite slow loading", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "Lighthouse reports 820ms redirect savings, 153KiB cache-lifetime savings, font-display issues and 149KiB image savings; HAR records 108 requests and 1.14MB transferred.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F8" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimates 187KiB unused JS, 24KiB duplicated JS and 28KiB legacy JS; HAR records 44 script requests and 412,622 transferred script bytes.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F9" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "Lighthouse fails button-name and aria-required-children; the direct probe counted one unnamed button.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/platform-a11y-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "Lighthouse accessibility run reported no color-contrast failure and high-contrast screenshot remained legible", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "Lighthouse fails the list audit and agent accessibility-tree audit, although the direct focus probe shows a visible 3px blue focus treatment on sampled controls.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/platform-a11y-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual inspection", "evidence": "article uses a clear heading hierarchy and readable column typography; 360px capture shows no clipped body copy", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "viewport permits user scaling, 360px layouts reflow without overflow, sampled primary controls are touch-sized, and the detected video exposes a text track", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/platform-a11y-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "Lighthouse best-practices score is 1.00 and reported no console-error audit failure", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "The images primitive found 98 of 100 images without width/height attributes. Although observed CLS was low in this run, the markup leaves stability dependent on CSS and timing.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "Lighthouse best-practices score is 1.00; no permission prompt appeared and Permissions-Policy disables sensitive capabilities", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "homepage and article DOM contain descriptive unique titles and meta descriptions", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "SSR anchors have real href values, viewport meta is present, and raw robots allows ordinary public content paths", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "Lighthouse fails canonical and robots.txt validity; the requested /sitemap.xml returns 404 while robots points to HTTP news/video sitemap URLs. 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Cookie inspection found two first-party cookies without Secure and all seven set SameSite=None.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "HAR records 105 cross-origin requests by origin classification and 968KB, including 12 Sourcepoint and 10 Ophan requests; aborted Ophan URLs include attention, performance, experiments and consent-view events.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/trackers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual inspection", "evidence": "no permission prompt appeared on load; sensitive permissions are disabled by policy; sign-in offers Google, Apple and email/passcode rather than requiring a password", "pathIds": [ "signin" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/signin-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "HSTS preload, nosniff, SAMEORIGIN, Referrer-Policy and a restrictive Permissions-Policy are all present", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "discoverability comparison found 100% content coverage in raw HTML, no empty app mount and no JS shell", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-discoverability.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual inspection", "evidence": "consent dialog fits both desktop and 360px mobile viewports and focusable controls retain visible focus treatment", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative route and feature recon", "evidence": "This public news publication is content-first rather than an installable app. It provides a manifest but an offline application experience is not required for the primary reading model.", "reason": "This public news publication is content-first rather than an installable app. It provides a manifest but an offline application experience is not required for the primary reading model." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual inspection", "evidence": "representative 404 is a complete server-rendered recovery page with explanatory copy and a homepage action", "pathIds": [ "error" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "document declares html lang=en and content reading order is correct; article markup is semantic and translation-readable", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "UK edition and article render publication data in locale-appropriate English day-month-year form", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "article publication context explicitly uses the UK edition/time-zone label rather than presenting an ambiguous numeric timestamp", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "The modal offers “Accept all” versus “Reject all and subscribe” with no equally prominent free rejection path, coupling privacy refusal to a £5/month purchase.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "sign-in and newsletter fields use native email types and labels; no premature error was shown before interaction", "pathIds": [ "signin" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/signin-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "Article form inspection found type=email and a visible label but autocomplete is empty; the account sign-in email field correctly uses autocomplete=email.", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json", "evidence/signin-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual inspection", "evidence": "sign-in clearly states account purpose and terms, offers federated and email options, and keeps password sign-in as an explicit alternative", "pathIds": [ "signin" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/signin-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "The image probe reports 89 of 100 images without srcset, 100 legacy-format URLs, 14 below-fold images not lazy-loaded and two oversized images.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "HAR captures repeated Ophan attention, performance, experiment and component events while the consent wall is still the only usable surface.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cross-path visual/objective evidence review against the mapped Modern Web Guidance", "evidence": "Of 1.14MB transferred, fonts account for 252KB and Sourcepoint consent resources 202KB; the single Notice script is 94.9KB.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative route and feature recon", "evidence": "The robots policy explicitly prohibits listed AI/agent crawlers and the publication does not declare an agent-facing capability intent, so structured agent actions are outside the intended surface.", "reason": "The robots policy explicitly prohibits listed AI/agent crawlers and the publication does not declare an agent-facing capability intent, so structured agent actions are outside the intended surface." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative route and feature recon", "evidence": "No user task in the audited publication requires built-in on-device inference, and the site explicitly restricts AI use of its content.", "reason": "No user task in the audited publication requires built-in on-device inference, and the site explicitly restricts AI use of its content." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "after 10 representative carousel advances heap self-size grew about 1.6% (29.69MB to 30.15MB), not evidence of unbounded retained growth in this bounded test", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-post-carousel.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "heap baseline was 29.69MB self-size with 473,334 nodes, proportionate to a very long media-rich news front", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser probe/tool measurement", "evidence": "baseline/post summaries show only modest bounded total growth after 10 carousel advances and no Detached* constructor among top retained populations", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-post-carousel.json" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F1" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F2" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F3" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F4", "F5" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F6" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F7", "F8", "F9" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F10", "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F14", "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F16", "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F18", "F19", "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "Every check was judged not applicable for this explicitly non-agent-facing publication." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Homepage and consent entry state; represents the main news front, global navigation, and first-visit experience.", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "conditions": [ "desktop 780x493", "mobile 360x800", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "prefers-contrast: more", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "keyboard focus", "10 carousel advances" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "section", "description": "World section listing; represents section/index templates. Other section pages sharing this template were not duplicated.", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world", "conditions": [ "desktop", "first visit" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "article", "description": "Long-form lifestyle article; represents article/content templates, reading, metadata, embedded forms, and mobile reflow.", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/18/sports-stars-on-sleep-tips-ezri-konsa-katarina-johnson-thompson-adam-peaty", "conditions": [ "mobile 360x800", "structured metadata", "form inspection" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "newsletters", "description": "Newsletter listing; represents subscription discovery and newsletter entry flows.", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters", "conditions": [ "mobile 360x800", "first visit" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "error", "description": "A representative missing/search URL to assess HTTP failure recovery. The Guardian delegates site search to Google, so this path represents the 404 template rather than a supported search-results template.", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/search?q=climate", "conditions": [ "mobile 360x800" ], "result": "pass" }, { "id": "signin", "description": "Guardian account sign-in entry; represents authentication and account continuation.", "url": "https://profile.theguardian.com/signin?INTCMP=DOTCOM_NEWHEADER_SIGNIN", "conditions": [ "mobile 360x800", "form/auth inspection" ], "result": "pass" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F1", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "The main Guardian site is fixed to a light color scheme.", "evidence": "The dark-mode screenshot is pixel-identical in composition and colours to the default capture; the DOM reports html color-scheme: light and body background rgb(255,255,255).", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Declare light dark support in the head and root, then theme surfaces and browser UI from prefers-color-scheme using color-scheme and semantic color tokens.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F2", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "consistent-cross-document-transitions", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "Page and route changes do not use View Transitions.", "evidence": "The reduced-motion/source probe found no view-transition rules, and navigation is conventional full-document replacement.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-motion.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Progressively enhance eligible same-origin navigation with cross-document View Transitions, preserving an instant fallback and disabling non-essential motion under reduced motion.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F3", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "scrollability-affordance-hints", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "pathId": "article", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/18/sports-stars-on-sleep-tips-ezri-konsa-katarina-johnson-thompson-adam-peaty", "summary": "Long article chrome provides no visible scroll progress or scroll-state response.", "evidence": "The long article template has many sections, while DOM/CSS inspection found no scroll-state container behaviour and the captured header is static.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json", "evidence/article-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a restrained article progress affordance using declarative scroll-driven styling, with reduced-motion treatment.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F4", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "A full-viewport consent-or-pay dialog obscures all content on first visit.", "evidence": "Desktop and mobile first-load screenshots show the article/front content dimmed and inaccessible behind a fixed aria-modal dialog covering the viewport.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/newsletters-mobile.png", "evidence/section-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Replace the blocking first-load wall with a proportionate consent surface that allows an equally prominent privacy-preserving continuation and keeps core journalism readable.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F5", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "guidanceId": "platform-controls-dismiss-dialog", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "pathId": "article", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/18/sports-stars-on-sleep-tips-ezri-konsa-katarina-johnson-thompson-adam-peaty", "summary": "Rich overlays use custom role=dialog divs rather than native dialog semantics.", "evidence": "Article DOM inspection found gallery overlays as DIV role=dialog, while the consent system is an iframe wrapped by a custom aria-modal DIV.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json", "evidence/platform-a11y-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use native dialog for modal flows, with labelled headings, focus return, Escape handling, and platform close semantics; use popover for transient non-modal UI.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F6", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "primary-flow-completion", "guidanceId": "privacy", "guidanceCategory": "privacy", "pathId": "article", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/18/sports-stars-on-sleep-tips-ezri-konsa-katarina-johnson-thompson-adam-peaty", "summary": "The primary reading journey cannot continue without accepting personalised advertising or purchasing Ad-Lite.", "evidence": "The article mobile capture remains blocked by the consent-or-pay dialog; the only primary actions are “Accept all” and “Reject all and subscribe”.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Provide a direct, equally prominent “Reject optional cookies and continue” path and move subscription promotion into a separate, non-blocking choice.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F7", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "Mobile synthetic load performance misses the good LCP range.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured FCP 5.9s, LCP 8.8s, TTI 9.3s and performance 0.60; the raw-CDP trace under a lighter desktop profile measured LCP 2.10s, showing condition sensitivity but confirming mobile risk.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Profile the mobile LCP element, prioritise its discovery, reduce document/consent latency, defer non-critical work, and verify against mobile Lighthouse and field CWV.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F8", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "Critical delivery includes avoidable latency, cache and font/image inefficiencies.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reports 820ms redirect savings, 153KiB cache-lifetime savings, font-display issues and 149KiB image savings; HAR records 108 requests and 1.14MB transferred.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove the root-to-edition redirect where possible, tighten cache lifetimes, use font-display with stable fallbacks, and correctly prioritise only the LCP image.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F9", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "The initial load ships substantial unused, duplicated and legacy JavaScript.", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimates 187KiB unused JS, 24KiB duplicated JS and 28KiB legacy JS; HAR records 44 script requests and 412,622 transferred script bytes.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use coverage and long-animation-frame attribution to remove duplicate modules, stop sending legacy code to modern browsers, and conditionally load commercial/consent features.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F10", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "Some controls and composite widgets have incomplete accessible semantics.", "evidence": "Lighthouse fails button-name and aria-required-children; the direct probe counted one unnamed button.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/platform-a11y-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Give every button an accessible name and repair required child roles using native elements where possible; retest the accessibility tree and keyboard flow.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F11", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "List and accessibility-tree structure is malformed in parts of the homepage.", "evidence": "Lighthouse fails the list audit and agent accessibility-tree audit, although the direct focus probe shows a visible 3px blue focus treatment on sampled controls.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/platform-a11y-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Ensure lists contain only valid list children, preserve logical landmark/heading order, and verify the repaired accessibility tree with assistive technology.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F12", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "Most homepage images omit intrinsic dimensions.", "evidence": "The images primitive found 98 of 100 images without width/height attributes. Although observed CLS was low in this run, the markup leaves stability dependent on CSS and timing.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Emit width and height (or an equivalent intrinsic aspect ratio) from image metadata for every content image.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F13", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "Homepage canonical and robots/sitemap signals are inconsistent for automated audits.", "evidence": "Lighthouse fails canonical and robots.txt validity; the requested /sitemap.xml returns 404 while robots points to HTTP news/video sitemap URLs. The rendered final URL is /uk but canonical is the root.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/robots-manifest.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Align edition canonical policy with the final URL, serve valid sitemap discovery endpoints over HTTPS, and keep robots syntax consumable by common validators.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F14", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "CSP and cookie settings leave avoidable browser-enforced security gaps.", "evidence": "Headers include HSTS and nosniff but CSP allows unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval. Cookie inspection found two first-party cookies without Secure and all seven set SameSite=None.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Move toward nonce/hash-based CSP without unsafe-eval, mark all cookies Secure, and use Lax/Strict unless a documented cross-site use requires None.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F15", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "guidanceCategory": "privacy", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "The first-visit page makes a broad analytics and consent-related request footprint before a choice.", "evidence": "HAR records 105 cross-origin requests by origin classification and 968KB, including 12 Sourcepoint and 10 Ophan requests; aborted Ophan URLs include attention, performance, experiments and consent-view events.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/trackers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Minimise pre-consent telemetry to essential events, batch allowed analytics after choice, and document each cross-origin processor and retention purpose.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F16", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "no-dark-patterns", "guidanceId": "privacy", "guidanceCategory": "privacy", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "The consent choice uses asymmetric accept-or-pay framing.", "evidence": "The modal offers “Accept all” versus “Reject all and subscribe” with no equally prominent free rejection path, coupling privacy refusal to a £5/month purchase.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Separate consent from subscription, offer symmetric accept/reject controls, and make optional processing off by default without confirmshaming or forced continuity.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F17", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "guidanceId": "forms", "guidanceCategory": "forms", "pathId": "article", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/18/sports-stars-on-sleep-tips-ezri-konsa-katarina-johnson-thompson-adam-peaty", "summary": "The embedded newsletter email field omits an autocomplete token.", "evidence": "Article form inspection found type=email and a visible label but autocomplete is empty; the account sign-in email field correctly uses autocomplete=email.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json", "evidence/signin-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add autocomplete=email to newsletter email fields and preserve the existing explicit label and input type.", "effort": "trivial" }, { "id": "F18", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "Image delivery does not consistently use responsive source selection or modern formats.", "evidence": "The image probe reports 89 of 100 images without srcset, 100 legacy-format URLs, 14 below-fold images not lazy-loaded and two oversized images.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Serve AVIF/WebP through picture or content negotiation, emit srcset/sizes from known renditions, and lazy-load below-fold imagery while keeping the LCP image eager.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F19", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "no-wasteful-work", "guidanceId": "deprioritize-background-fetches", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "Background analytics and experiment traffic starts on the blocked first-visit state.", "evidence": "HAR captures repeated Ophan attention, performance, experiment and component events while the consent wall is still the only usable surface.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Defer non-essential analytics until consent and idle time, coalesce events, and stop session-wide attention updates when the page is obscured or backgrounded.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F20", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk", "summary": "Consent and font resources consume a disproportionate share of the first-load budget.", "evidence": "Of 1.14MB transferred, fonts account for 252KB and Sourcepoint consent resources 202KB; the single Notice script is 94.9KB.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Subset and consolidate fonts, cache them aggressively, and reduce/defer consent-vendor code so the first visit prioritises journalism.", "effort": "large" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T1", "title": "Replace the consent-or-pay wall with symmetric, non-blocking privacy choices", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F4", "F6", "F16" ], "guidanceId": "privacy", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T2", "title": "Fix mobile LCP and first-load critical delivery", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F7", "F8", "F9" ], "guidanceId": "performance", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T3", "title": "Harden CSP and cookie attributes", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F14" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T4", "title": "Repair button, list and accessibility-tree semantics", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F10", "F11" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T5", "title": "Modernise responsive image delivery and intrinsic sizing", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F12", "F18" ], "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T6", "title": "Reduce pre-consent analytics, consent code and font overhead", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F15", "F19", "F20" ], "guidanceId": "deprioritize-background-fetches", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T7", "title": "Add a system-driven dark theme", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F1" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T8", "title": "Align canonical, robots and sitemap signals", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F13" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T9", "title": "Use native overlay primitives and add newsletter autocomplete", "priority": 9, "findingIds": [ "F5", "F17" ], "guidanceId": "forms", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T10", "title": "Progressively enhance route and article navigation cues", "priority": 10, "findingIds": [ "F2", "F3" ], "guidanceId": "consistent-cross-document-transitions", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "wallClockSeconds": 1800, "pathCount": 6, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-18T21-20-50-631Z" }