{ "url": "https://ssc.gov.in", "auditedAt": "2026-07-19T03:41:08.418Z", "mode": "report", "status": "completed", "statusDetail": "Coverage-complete agentic audit of representative public, content, listing, resource, login, and failure-state surfaces.", "page": { "appType": "spa", "framework": "Angular", "notes": "Public Indian government recruitment portal. 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"carousel-snap-highlights", "child-state-based-styling", "complex-shapes", "component-specific-light-dark-theme", "conditional-async-dependencies", "consistent-cross-document-transitions", "content-based-styling", "coordinate-global-events", "cross-document-transitions", "css", "css-layout", "custom-select-picker-layouts", "customize-scrollbar-color-and-thickness", "dark-mode", "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "defer-work-until-scroll-ends", "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "deprioritize-background-fetches", "design-token-reactivity", "detect-initial-visibility-state", "directional-navigation-transitions", "dynamic-sibling-animations", "dynamic-sibling-styling", "efficient-background-processing", "export-html-media-from-canvas", "expose-canvas-content-to-browser-features", "faster-spa-view-transitions", "flicker-free-client-side-ab-testing", "fluid-scaling", "form-fields-automatically-fit-contents", "format-human-readable-durations", "forms", "full-session-analytics", "group-element-transitions", "highlight-text-ranges", "html", "identify-heavy-scripts", "identify-inp-causes", "improve-next-page-load-performance", "improve-text-layout-and-legibility", "individual-transform-properties", "interactions-in-complex-layouts", "interactive-content-in-3d-scenes", "interactive-content-reveal", "interest-triggered-action-previews", "interest-triggered-tooltips", "language-detection", "language-model", "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "manage-recurring-intervals", "model-partial-time-concepts", "move-dom-element-without-losing-state", "navigation-drawer", "optimize-image-priority", "optimize-preload-priority", "optimize-script-priority", "overflow-clipping-control", "parallax-scroll-effects", "passkey-authentication", "passkey-conditional-create", "passkey-management", "passkey-reauthentication", "passkey-registration", "passkeys", "performance", "persistent-app-tours", "persistent-toast-notifications", "persistent-top-layer-ui", "physics-based-easing", "platform-controls-dismiss-dialog", "position-aware-tooltips", "precise-text-alignment", "prevent-text-wrapping", "privacy", "pull-to-reveal", "reduce-style-repetition", "required-field-feedback", "resilient-context-menus-and-nested-dropdowns", "resolution-optimized-pseudo-elements", "rich-media-picker", "same-document-transitions", "schedule-tasks-by-priority", "scroll-entry-exit-effects", "scroll-position-aware-elements", "scroll-progress-indicator", "scroll-snap-realtime-feedback", "scroll-snap-state-sync", "scroll-target-on-load", "scrollability-affordance-hints", "scrollytelling", "search-hidden-content", "security", "select-menu-interaction", "sequence-distributed-events", "shaped-cutouts", "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "size-aware-styling", "soft-edge-content-fade", "stabilize-reactive-state", "stack-drill-down", "style-parent-with-has", "summarizer", "support-global-calendar-systems", "swipe-to-remove", "translator", "validate-input-after-interaction", 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"Browser-rendered homepage", "findingIds": [ "F-027" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "No-JS crawler homepage", "findingIds": [ "F-027" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "caption": "Full Lighthouse result", "findingIds": [ "F-018" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "caption": "Selected Lighthouse scores and diagnostics", "findingIds": [ "F-010", "F-011", "F-013", "F-014", "F-015", "F-016", "F-017", "F-020" ] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-baseline-mobile.heapsnapshot", "caption": "Baseline mobile heap summary", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-post-nav.heapsnapshot", "caption": "Heap summary after ten menu open/close cycles", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/headers.json", "caption": "Security response headers", "findingIds": [ "F-023", "F-026" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/cookies.json", "caption": "Cookie audit", "findingIds": [ "F-024" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/trackers.json", "caption": "Third-party tracker inventory", "findingIds": [ "F-024", "F-033" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/images.json", "caption": "Image audit", "findingIds": [ "F-017", "F-031" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/secrets.json", "caption": "Client-side secret scan", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/platform-probe.json", "caption": "Focus, target size, DOM, and modern CSS probe", "findingIds": [ "F-004", "F-005", "F-007", "F-008", "F-015" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/login-probe.json", "caption": "Login semantics, metadata, auth, and form probe", "findingIds": [ "F-006", "F-009", "F-014", "F-019", "F-020", "F-022", "F-025", "F-029", "F-030" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-recon.json", "caption": "Homepage routes, metadata, and visible content probe", "findingIds": [ "F-019", "F-028" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/not-found.json", "caption": "Unknown-route rendered text probe", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/resource-metadata-probe.json", "caption": "Script delivery and indexing metadata probe", "findingIds": [ "F-012", "F-021" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/motion-modern-css.json", "caption": "Reduced-motion and modern CSS probe", "findingIds": [ "F-002", "F-003" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/robots.txt", "caption": "robots.txt response body", "findingIds": [ "F-021" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/sitemap.xml", "caption": "sitemap.xml response body", "findingIds": [ "F-021" ] } ], "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": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The dark-mode screenshot is visually identical to the default light screenshot, and computed styles report color-scheme: normal with a white surface.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-001" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Emulated prefers-reduced-motion: reduce and inspected active animations/CSS.", "evidence": "No animations were running; Bootstrap transition rules explicitly disable transitions under reduce.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/motion-modern-css.json" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": 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authenticated completion was not claimed or required to verify public journey continuity.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/calendar-desktop.png", "evidence/script-eval-desktop.png", "evidence/login-desktop.png" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "After requestSubmit() on the empty login form, the captured state shows no inline error, summary, or recovery instruction, only unchanged required-field labels.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-empty-submit.png", "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-009" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured LCP 12.9s, FCP 5.5s, Speed Index 10.9s, and TTI 18.2s; the independent trace measured LCP 4.86s. Both LCP results exceed the good threshold.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-010" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Ran desktop/mobile layout-shift observers and Lighthouse CLS.", "evidence": "Observed CLS was 0.0027 desktop and 0.00044 mobile; Lighthouse CLS was effectively 0.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-layout.json", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reported about 3.0s main-thread work and 250ms TBT; the trace found two long tasks up to 100ms.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-011" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The HAR recorded 72 requests and 3.34MB transferred, including 1.61MB across 14 fonts; multiple large text resources were uncompressed, and a preloaded banner URL returned 404.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/resource-metadata-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-012" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 430KiB unused CSS and 362KiB unused JS, including both Angular bundles and legacy jQuery/Bootstrap assets.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-013" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The login DOM probe found labels:null and aria:null for username/password inputs; Lighthouse also reported a visible-label/accessibility-name mismatch elsewhere.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-014" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Used Lighthouse automated contrast audit and visual captures.", "evidence": "Lighthouse color-contrast audit passed with no failing nodes on the homepage.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed landmark-one-main; DOM probes found navigation landmarks but no main, while several buttons had no outline or focus shadow.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-015" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Reviewed desktop/mobile screenshots and representative long-form/resource layouts.", "evidence": "Body text remains readable with reasonable line spacing and no observed clipping on sampled pages.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/script-eval-desktop.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Used mobile reflow screenshot, layout metrics, viewport inspection, and Lighthouse target-size audit.", "evidence": "The viewport permits scaling, mobile content reflows without overflow, Lighthouse target-size passed, and no essential timed media was present.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Lighthouse captured a 404 for /assets/banner/New%20SSC%20Banners%2001%201.webp; the HAR recorded the same failed image.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-016" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured the banner at 3.43:1 versus its natural 4.95:1 ratio; the images primitive found 84/84 images missing a complete width/height pair.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-017" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reported missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript and three BFCache failure reasons.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-018" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The login route reports “Home | Staff Selection Commission | GoI” and the same generic description as the homepage, so route metadata is not unique.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json", "evidence/home-recon.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-019" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed crawlable-anchors and the login probe counted 34 elements without href; affected links include key navigation and View All actions.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-020" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "No canonical or hreflang links were present, /robots.txt returned 404, and /sitemap.xml was rewritten to the Angular shell instead of serving an XML sitemap.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/resource-metadata-probe.json", "evidence/robots.txt", "evidence/sitemap.xml" ], "findingIds": [ "F-021" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The route probe found zero JSON-LD blocks and zero Open Graph properties despite the site representing a government organization and publishing notices.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-022" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The headers primitive confirmed HTTPS but no CSP, HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, frame protection, Referrer-Policy, or Permissions-Policy.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-023" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The trackers primitive observed Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics on load, with four third-party requests and three first-party _ga cookies; the page provides no visible privacy choice in the tested first viewport.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-024" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The login probe found no WebAuthn/passkey integration; username and password inputs both have autocomplete=\"off\". No permission prompt fired on load.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json", "evidence/login-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-025" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The response lacks HSTS, clickjacking protection, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, and CSP frame-ancestors; no equivalent defenses were observed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-026" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Discoverability measured only 1% raw-to-rendered content coverage: raw HTML contained 39 text characters versus 14,162 rendered and no h1, identifying an Angular JS shell.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-027" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Exercised routes, menus, scrolling, and representative content at desktop/mobile sizes.", "evidence": "Representative routes stabilized and no clipped overlay or broken async state was observed.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/calendar-desktop.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Checked manifest/service-worker signals against site purpose.", "evidence": "This is primarily a public information and account portal, not an install-promoted app; offline installability is contextual. Core no-JS resilience is judged separately and fails.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "reason": "This is primarily a public information and account portal, not an install-promoted app; offline installability is contextual. Core no-JS resilience is judged separately and fails." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Navigated to a nonexistent route and captured the rendered state.", "evidence": "The site presents a clear branded 404 page stating that the requested page cannot be found, with global recovery navigation.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/not-found.png", "evidence/not-found.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Inspected html language, language selector, and CSS logical-property signals.", "evidence": "The English route declares lang=\"en\", exposes English/Hindi selection, and sampled framework CSS includes logical inline properties.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json", "evidence/platform-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The homepage shows fixed strings such as “Jul 16 2026” and the selected Hindi/English interface has no evidence that visible dates are formatted through Intl for the active locale.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-recon.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-028" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Reviewed visible exam dates and representative site flows.", "evidence": "The sampled public content uses calendar dates without cross-time-zone event times, recurrence, or DST-sensitive scheduling.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-recon.json", "evidence/calendar-desktop.png" ], "reason": "The sampled public content uses calendar dates without cross-time-zone event times, recurrence, or DST-sensitive scheduling." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Reviewed homepage, login, notices, and resource flows.", "evidence": "No confirmshaming, disguised advertising, forced continuity, consent wall, or misleading pricing was observed.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/login-desktop.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The empty-submit screenshot contains no field-level message, error summary, aria-invalid state evidence, or clear next recovery step.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-empty-submit.png", "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-029" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Both username and password controls report autocomplete=\"off\" and have no semantic autocomplete tokens.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-030" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Reviewed the candidate login surface and recovery affordance.", "evidence": "No commercial commitment exists; login clearly labels candidate/admin modes and exposes Forgot Password without deceptive continuity.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-desktop.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The images primitive found 84 missing complete intrinsic dimensions, 77 below-fold images without lazy loading, 24 without responsive sources, and three oversized images.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-031" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The HAR shows duplicate browse-exam API requests, 72 total requests, uncompressed CSS/document/API payloads, and legacy jQuery alongside Angular.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "findingIds": [ "F-032" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct evidence from the cited browser artifact(s), judged against the mapped Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The HAR transferred 3.34MB, including 1.61MB across 14 fonts and 169KB from Google Tag Manager; font bytes exceed all scripts combined.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/trackers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-033" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Inspected site purpose, scripts, metadata, and representative forms.", "evidence": "No declared agent-facing intent or structured transaction surface was found; emerging WebMCP capability is not required for this public information portal.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "reason": "No declared agent-facing intent or structured transaction surface was found; emerging WebMCP capability is not required for this public information portal." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Inspected scripts and page purpose for built-in AI use cases.", "evidence": "No summarization or language-model feature is offered where on-device inference is an expected product capability.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "reason": "No summarization or language-model feature is offered where on-device inference is an expected product capability." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Compared mobile heap summaries before and after ten open/close navigation cycles.", "evidence": "Heap self-size changed from 26.07MB to 26.49MB (about 1.6%) after ten cycles, with no evidence of unbounded retained growth in this bounded exercise.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline-mobile.heapsnapshot", "evidence/heap-post-nav.heapsnapshot" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Captured heap summary and DOM count on the representative homepage.", "evidence": "The loaded Angular page used about 26MB heap self-size and 1,130 DOM elements, proportionate to the sampled portal page.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline-mobile.heapsnapshot", "evidence/platform-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Compared native heap summaries before/after repeated menu toggles and inspected summary constructors.", "evidence": "The summaries did not surface a Detached* constructor population, and bounded growth after ten cycles did not indicate accumulating detached DOM/listeners.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline-mobile.heapsnapshot", "evidence/heap-post-nav.heapsnapshot" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-001", "F-002" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-003" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-004", "F-005" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-006" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-007", "F-008" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-009" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-010", "F-011", "F-012", "F-013" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-014", "F-015" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-016", "F-017", "F-018" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-019", "F-020", "F-021", "F-022" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-023", "F-024", "F-025", "F-026" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-027" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-028" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-029", "F-030" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-031", "F-032", "F-033" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "No declared agent-facing intent or structured transaction surface was found; emerging WebMCP capability is not required for this public information portal. No summarization or language-model feature is offered where on-device inference is an expected product capability." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Homepage: portal identity, notices, primary actions, responsive layout, preferences, performance, network, security, discoverability, and memory.", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "conditions": [ "desktop", "viewport: 360x800", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "prefers-contrast: more", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "keyboard focus probe" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "chairman", "description": "Representative editorial/content route and breadcrumb/navigation state.", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/chairman-message", "conditions": [ "desktop" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "calendar", "description": "Representative structured listing/table route for examination planning.", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/for-candidates/examination-calendar", "conditions": [ "desktop" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "resource", "description": "Representative candidate resource/detail route with downloadable PDFs.", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/for-candidates/script-evaluation", "conditions": [ "desktop" ], "result": "pass" }, { "id": "login", "description": "Primary account form, semantics, autofill/auth posture, and empty-submit recovery.", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/login", "conditions": [ "desktop", "empty submit" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "not-found", "description": "Unknown-route HTTP/runtime recovery state.", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/this-route-does-not-exist", "conditions": [ "desktop" ], "result": "pass" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F-001", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The interface ignores the user’s dark color-scheme preference.", "evidence": "The dark-mode screenshot is visually identical to the default light screenshot, and computed styles report color-scheme: normal with a white surface.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme and provide system-driven dark surface, text, border, icon, and form colors using light-dark() or prefers-color-scheme.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-002", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-contrast", "guidanceId": "adapt-scrollbar-to-contrast-preferences", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "The page does not adapt to increased-contrast preferences.", "evidence": "The prefers-contrast: more capture is pixel-equivalent in appearance to the default, and no contrast-preference CSS was found. Baseline contrast is generally good, so this is a preference-adaptation gap rather than an immediate legibility failure.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-contrast.png", "evidence/motion-modern-css.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add prefers-contrast and forced-colors treatments that preserve visible boundaries and platform colors for controls.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F-003", "pathId": "chairman", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "same-document-transitions", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "SPA route changes use abrupt state swaps rather than View Transitions.", "evidence": "The CSS/API probe found no view-transition rules on this Angular SPA, while representative routes replace the main content area.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/motion-modern-css.json", "evidence/chairman-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Use same-document View Transitions for route changes, with a reduced-motion fallback.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-004", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "scroll-progress-indicator", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "The long homepage has static navigation chrome with no scroll-position feedback.", "evidence": "The homepage is 3,695 CSS px tall, but the CSS probe found no scroll-state container query or progress indicator.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-layout.json", "evidence/platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a lightweight scroll-state-aware header or progress affordance where it improves orientation.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F-005", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "anchored-positioning", "guidanceId": "position-aware-tooltips", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Dropdown navigation relies on custom Bootstrap positioning rather than anchored, edge-aware platform positioning.", "evidence": "DOM inspection shows nested Bootstrap dropdown divs and no anchor-name, position-anchor, or position-try CSS.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use popover plus CSS anchor positioning and position-try fallbacks for menus where supported.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-006", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Rich navigation controls use ad-hoc div-based dropdown structures instead of semantic platform primitives.", "evidence": "The DOM contains no dialog, popover, or details elements; navigation dropdowns are nested div structures with manual Bootstrap behavior.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Move transient navigation UI to popover-backed controls with declarative light dismiss and correct button semantics.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-007", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "size-aware-styling", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Reusable components are driven only by viewport-era layout CSS, not container context.", "evidence": "The stylesheet probe found no @container/container-type rules across the representative component-heavy homepage.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Introduce container-type on reusable cards and container queries for local layout changes where components occur in different widths.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-008", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Several interactive targets are too small and some buttons lack a visible focused state.", "evidence": "The focus/size probe measured language and menu buttons at 20px high, pagination arrows at 30px, and multiple buttons with outline:none and box-shadow:none after programmatic focus.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Provide at least 44x44 CSS px touch areas and a strong :focus-visible style for every control.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F-009", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/login", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "guidanceId": "accessible-error-announcement", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Empty login submission provides no visible, actionable field feedback.", "evidence": "After requestSubmit() on the empty login form, the captured state shows no inline error, summary, or recovery instruction, only unchanged required-field labels.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-empty-submit.png", "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Validate after interaction, identify each invalid field, move/announce focus appropriately, and preserve the entered state.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F-010", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The primary page loads far too slowly in a mobile Lighthouse run.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured LCP 12.9s, FCP 5.5s, Speed Index 10.9s, and TTI 18.2s; the independent trace measured LCP 4.86s. Both LCP results exceed the good threshold.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Prioritize and preload the true LCP asset, reduce server/resource latency, remove unnecessary startup work, and retest under mobile conditions.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F-011", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "guidanceId": "break-up-long-tasks", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Startup JavaScript creates avoidable main-thread work.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reported about 3.0s main-thread work and 250ms TBT; the trace found two long tasks up to 100ms.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Split startup work, remove redundant libraries, and schedule non-critical tasks after the critical rendering path.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-012", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-preload-priority", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Resource delivery is heavy and inefficient for a public information homepage.", "evidence": "The HAR recorded 72 requests and 3.34MB transferred, including 1.61MB across 14 fonts; multiple large text resources were uncompressed, and a preloaded banner URL returned 404.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/resource-metadata-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Compress text, subset/consolidate fonts, remove the broken preload, use long immutable caching for versioned assets, and shorten the critical chain.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F-013", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page ships large amounts of unused CSS and JavaScript.", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 430KiB unused CSS and 362KiB unused JS, including both Angular bundles and legacy jQuery/Bootstrap assets.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Tree-shake and route-split Angular code, purge unused styles, and remove jQuery/duplicate Bootstrap behavior where the app does not require it.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F-014", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/login", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The login fields are not programmatically associated with their visible labels.", "evidence": "The login DOM probe found labels:null and aria:null for username/password inputs; Lighthouse also reported a visible-label/accessibility-name mismatch elsewhere.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Associate each visible label with its input using for/id, preserve matching accessible names, and replace generic image alt values such as “img”.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F-015", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Pages lack a main landmark and visible focus is inconsistent.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed landmark-one-main; DOM probes found navigation landmarks but no main, while several buttons had no outline or focus shadow.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Wrap primary content in one
, keep heading levels page-specific, and define consistent :focus-visible states.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F-016", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "no-console-errors", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "A broken banner preload generates a console/network error.", "evidence": "Lighthouse captured a 404 for /assets/banner/New%20SSC%20Banners%2001%201.webp; the HAR recorded the same failed image.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Correct or remove the stale preload URL and monitor production console/network errors.", "effort": "trivial" }, { "id": "F-017", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The homepage banner is rendered at the wrong aspect ratio and many images omit intrinsic dimensions.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured the banner at 3.43:1 versus its natural 4.95:1 ratio; the images primitive found 84/84 images missing a complete width/height pair.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Preserve intrinsic aspect ratios, add width and height to images, and use object-fit only when intentional cropping has a meaningful art-directed source.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-018", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The app has avoidable platform diagnostics and BFCache blockers.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reported missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript and three BFCache failure reasons.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Publish protected production source maps for diagnostics and remove unload/cache-control or other BFCache blockers identified by DevTools.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-019", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/login", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "title-and-description", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Distinct routes reuse the homepage title and generic description.", "evidence": "The login route reports “Home | Staff Selection Commission | GoI” and the same generic description as the homepage, so route metadata is not unique.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json", "evidence/home-recon.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Set descriptive route-specific titles and meta descriptions for login, calendar, candidate resources, and content pages.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F-020", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Many navigation links have no href and therefore are not crawler-reachable.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed crawlable-anchors and the login probe counted 34 elements without href; affected links include key navigation and View All actions.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json", "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use real anchor href values for navigable destinations and reserve buttons for actions.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-021", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Public routes lack canonical/indexing infrastructure.", "evidence": "No canonical or hreflang links were present, /robots.txt returned 404, and /sitemap.xml was rewritten to the Angular shell instead of serving an XML sitemap.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/resource-metadata-probe.json", "evidence/robots.txt", "evidence/sitemap.xml" ], "suggestedFix": "Serve valid robots.txt and sitemap.xml, add route-specific canonical URLs, and provide hreflang for actual localized route variants.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-022", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The public government site exposes no structured or social preview metadata.", "evidence": "The route probe found zero JSON-LD blocks and zero Open Graph properties despite the site representing a government organization and publishing notices.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add accurate Organization/WebSite JSON-LD and route-specific Open Graph/Twitter metadata that matches visible content.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F-023", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Core transport security headers are absent.", "evidence": "The headers primitive confirmed HTTPS but no CSP, HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, frame protection, Referrer-Policy, or Permissions-Policy.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Deploy a restrictive nonce/hash-based CSP, HSTS, nosniff, frame-ancestors, Referrer-Policy, and a least-privilege Permissions-Policy.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-024", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "guidanceCategory": "privacy", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Analytics tracking starts by default without an evident consent or minimisation control.", "evidence": "The trackers primitive observed Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics on load, with four third-party requests and three first-party _ga cookies; the page provides no visible privacy choice in the tested first viewport.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Document the lawful purpose, minimize events and retention, delay optional analytics until consent where required, and batch only necessary measurements.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-025", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/login", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "guidanceId": "passkey-authentication", "guidanceCategory": "passkeys", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Candidate authentication appears password-only and explicitly disables browser autofill.", "evidence": "The login probe found no WebAuthn/passkey integration; username and password inputs both have autocomplete=\"off\". No permission prompt fired on load.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json", "evidence/login-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Support passkeys/WebAuthn and use correct username/current-password autocomplete tokens while retaining a secure recovery path.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F-026", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "defensive-browser-policies", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Browser-enforced defensive policies are not configured.", "evidence": "The response lacks HSTS, clickjacking protection, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, and CSP frame-ancestors; no equivalent defenses were observed.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Configure HSTS, frame-ancestors, strict referrer handling, least-privilege permissions, and Trusted Types where the Angular app’s XSS surface warrants it.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-027", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "progressive-enhancement", "guidanceId": "stabilize-reactive-state", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Core notices and navigation disappear without JavaScript.", "evidence": "Discoverability measured only 1% raw-to-rendered content coverage: raw HTML contained 39 text characters versus 14,162 rendered and no h1, identifying an Angular JS shell.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Server-render or pre-render core public content and real links, then hydrate enhancements so notices and candidate information remain usable without JavaScript.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F-028", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-internationalised", "principleCheckId": "locale-aware-data", "guidanceId": "support-global-calendar-systems", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Dates are rendered with hand-arranged English abbreviations instead of locale-aware formatting.", "evidence": "The homepage shows fixed strings such as “Jul 16 2026” and the selected Hindi/English interface has no evidence that visible dates are formatted through Intl for the active locale.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-recon.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Format dates, numbers, and counts with Intl APIs using the selected language/locale, and test Hindi output.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-029", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/login", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "humane-error-handling", "guidanceId": "validate-input-after-interaction", "guidanceCategory": "forms", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Required login errors are not visibly explained after submission.", "evidence": "The empty-submit screenshot contains no field-level message, error summary, aria-invalid state evidence, or clear next recovery step.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-empty-submit.png", "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use post-interaction validation with specific messages, aria-describedby, aria-invalid, and an announced error summary.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F-030", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/login", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "guidanceId": "autofill-sign-in-form", "guidanceCategory": "forms", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The login form blocks standard autofill assistance.", "evidence": "Both username and password controls report autocomplete=\"off\" and have no semantic autocomplete tokens.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use autocomplete=\"username\" and autocomplete=\"current-password\" (plus appropriate new-password tokens on registration) rather than disabling autofill.", "effort": "trivial" }, { "id": "F-031", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Images are modern-format but not responsively or dimensionally optimized.", "evidence": "The images primitive found 84 missing complete intrinsic dimensions, 77 below-fold images without lazy loading, 24 without responsive sources, and three oversized images.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Add intrinsic dimensions, lazy-load below-fold media, and provide srcset/sizes or art-directed picture sources at appropriate resolutions.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F-032", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "no-wasteful-work", "guidanceId": "deprioritize-background-fetches", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page performs redundant work and transfers uncompressed application resources.", "evidence": "The HAR shows duplicate browse-exam API requests, 72 total requests, uncompressed CSS/document/API payloads, and legacy jQuery alongside Angular.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "suggestedFix": "Deduplicate API calls, compress text responses, remove redundant runtime libraries, and defer non-critical background work.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F-033", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://ssc.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "efficient-background-processing", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The font and analytics budget is disproportionate to a text-heavy government information page.", "evidence": "The HAR transferred 3.34MB, including 1.61MB across 14 fonts and 169KB from Google Tag Manager; font bytes exceed all scripts combined.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/trackers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Subset and consolidate font families/weights, prefer system fallbacks where possible, and defer/minimize analytics.", "effort": "medium" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T-001", "title": "The primary page loads far too slowly in a mobile Lighthouse run.", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F-010" ], "guidanceId": "performance", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-002", "title": "Resource delivery is heavy and inefficient for a public information homepage.", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F-012" ], "guidanceId": "optimize-preload-priority", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-003", "title": "The page ships large amounts of unused CSS and JavaScript.", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F-013" ], "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-004", "title": "Many navigation links have no href and therefore are not crawler-reachable.", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F-020" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-005", "title": "Core transport security headers are absent.", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F-023" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-006", "title": "Browser-enforced defensive policies are not configured.", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F-026" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-007", "title": "Core notices and navigation disappear without JavaScript.", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F-027" ], "guidanceId": "stabilize-reactive-state", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-008", "title": "The login form blocks standard autofill assistance.", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F-030" ], "guidanceId": "autofill-sign-in-form", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-009", "title": "The interface ignores the user’s dark color-scheme preference.", "priority": 9, "findingIds": [ "F-001" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-010", "title": "Several interactive targets are too small and some buttons lack a visible focused state.", "priority": 10, "findingIds": [ "F-008" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-011", "title": "Empty login submission provides no visible, actionable field feedback.", "priority": 11, "findingIds": [ "F-009" ], "guidanceId": "accessible-error-announcement", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-012", "title": "Startup JavaScript creates avoidable main-thread work.", "priority": 12, "findingIds": [ "F-011" ], "guidanceId": "break-up-long-tasks", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-013", "title": "The login fields are not programmatically associated with their visible labels.", "priority": 13, "findingIds": [ "F-014" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-014", "title": "Pages lack a main landmark and visible focus is inconsistent.", "priority": 14, "findingIds": [ "F-015" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-015", "title": "A broken banner preload generates a console/network error.", "priority": 15, "findingIds": [ "F-016" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-016", "title": "The homepage banner is rendered at the wrong aspect ratio and many images omit intrinsic dimensions.", "priority": 16, "findingIds": [ "F-017" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-017", "title": "Distinct routes reuse the homepage title and generic description.", "priority": 17, "findingIds": [ "F-019" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-018", "title": "Public routes lack canonical/indexing infrastructure.", "priority": 18, "findingIds": [ "F-021" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-019", "title": "The public government site exposes no structured or social preview metadata.", "priority": 19, "findingIds": [ "F-022" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-020", "title": "Analytics tracking starts by default without an evident consent or minimisation control.", "priority": 20, "findingIds": [ "F-024" ], "guidanceId": "privacy", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-021", "title": "Candidate authentication appears password-only and explicitly disables browser autofill.", "priority": 21, "findingIds": [ "F-025" ], "guidanceId": "passkey-authentication", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-022", "title": "Dates are rendered with hand-arranged English abbreviations instead of locale-aware formatting.", "priority": 22, "findingIds": [ "F-028" ], "guidanceId": "support-global-calendar-systems", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-023", "title": "Required login errors are not visibly explained after submission.", "priority": 23, "findingIds": [ "F-029" ], "guidanceId": "validate-input-after-interaction", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-024", "title": "Images are modern-format but not responsively or dimensionally optimized.", "priority": 24, "findingIds": [ "F-031" ], "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-025", "title": "The page performs redundant work and transfers uncompressed application resources.", "priority": 25, "findingIds": [ "F-032" ], "guidanceId": "deprioritize-background-fetches", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-026", "title": "The font and analytics budget is disproportionate to a text-heavy government information page.", "priority": 26, "findingIds": [ "F-033" ], "guidanceId": "efficient-background-processing", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-027", "title": "The page does not adapt to increased-contrast preferences.", "priority": 27, "findingIds": [ "F-002" ], "guidanceId": "adapt-scrollbar-to-contrast-preferences", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-028", "title": "SPA route changes use abrupt state swaps rather than View Transitions.", "priority": 28, "findingIds": [ "F-003" ], "guidanceId": "same-document-transitions", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-029", "title": "The long homepage has static navigation chrome with no scroll-position feedback.", "priority": 29, "findingIds": [ "F-004" ], "guidanceId": "scroll-progress-indicator", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-030", "title": "Dropdown navigation relies on custom Bootstrap positioning rather than anchored, edge-aware platform positioning.", "priority": 30, "findingIds": [ "F-005" ], "guidanceId": "position-aware-tooltips", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-031", "title": "Rich navigation controls use ad-hoc div-based dropdown structures instead of semantic platform primitives.", "priority": 31, "findingIds": [ "F-006" ], "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-032", "title": "Reusable components are driven only by viewport-era layout CSS, not container context.", "priority": 32, "findingIds": [ "F-007" ], "guidanceId": "size-aware-styling", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-033", "title": "The app has avoidable platform diagnostics and BFCache blockers.", "priority": 33, "findingIds": [ "F-018" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 6, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-19T03-41-08-418Z" }