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"path": "evidence/article-discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "article discoverability rendered" }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/article-discoverability.json", "caption": "article discoverability" }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/article-dom.json", "caption": "article dom" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/article-metadata.json", "caption": "article metadata" }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json", "caption": "article mobile layout", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F02", "F29" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/article-mobile.png", "caption": "article mobile", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F15", "F26", "F27" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/consent-controls.json", "caption": "consent controls" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/content-links.json", "caption": "content links" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/contrast-preference-probe.json", "caption": "contrast preference probe", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F23" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/form-error-probe.json", "caption": "form error probe", "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/guidance-consulted.txt", "caption": "guidance consulted" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-consented-desktop.png", "caption": "home consented desktop" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-consented-mobile.png", "caption": "home consented mobile", "condition": "viewport: 360x800" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-cookies.json", "caption": "home cookies", "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-dark.png", "caption": "home dark", "condition": "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-desktop.png", "caption": "home desktop", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F03", "F13", "F23", "F25", "F26", "F32" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "home discoverability crawler", "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "home discoverability rendered" }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/home-discoverability.json", "caption": "home discoverability" }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/home-dom.json", "caption": "home dom", "findingIds": [ "F06", "F07" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-headers.json", "caption": "home headers", "findingIds": [ "F19", "F22" ] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "caption": "home heap baseline", "findingIds": [ "F33", "F34" ] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/home-heap-post.json", "caption": "home heap post", "findingIds": [ "F33", "F34" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-images.json", "caption": "home images", "findingIds": [ "F12", "F17", "F30" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "caption": "home lighthouse", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F08", "F09", "F12", "F13", "F16", "F18" ] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "caption": "home mobile layout", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F02", "F15", "F18" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-mobile.png", "caption": "home mobile", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02", "F15", "F23" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "caption": "home platform probe", "findingIds": [ "F05", "F06", "F07", "F10", "F12", "F14", "F21", "F24", "F29" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-preferences-probe.json", "caption": "home preferences probe", "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-recon.json", "caption": "home recon" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-secrets.json", "caption": "home secrets" }, { "type": "har-summary", "path": "evidence/home-summary.json", "caption": "home summary", "findingIds": [ "F10", "F11", "F16", "F20", "F30", "F31", "F32" ] }, { "type": "trace-summary", "path": "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "caption": "home trace summary", "findingIds": [ "F08", "F09" ] }, { "type": "trace", "path": "evidence/home-trace.json", "caption": "home trace", "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-trackers.json", "caption": "home trackers", "findingIds": [ "F20", "F31" ] }, { "type": "har", "path": "evidence/home.har", "caption": "home", "findingIds": [ "F10", "F11", "F20" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/indexing-http.txt", "caption": "indexing http" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/pwa-probe.json", "caption": "pwa probe" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/results-mobile.png", "caption": "results mobile", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F26" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/results-probe.json", "caption": "results probe", "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/section-metadata.json", "caption": "section metadata" }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/section-mobile-layout.json", "caption": "section mobile layout", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F02", "F29" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/section-mobile.png", "caption": "section mobile", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F26" ] } ], "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 visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "The dark screenshot is byte-for-byte visually identical to the light capture; under emulated prefers-color-scheme: dark, computed color-scheme remains normal and body background remains rgb(253,233,235).", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-preferences-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "evaluate under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "evidence": "Emulated reduced-motion matched and getAnimations() returned no active animations, so no non-essential motion continued.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-preferences-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Under prefers-contrast: more, computed colors remain unchanged. Lighthouse measures 2.83:1 for orange links/buttons and 2.29:1 for “Preferenze”, below 4.5:1.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/contrast-preference-probe.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "view-transitions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Rendered DOM/source feature probe found no view-transition-name, @view-transition, or related API marker on the multi-page news experience.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM/source feature scan and animation probe", "evidence": "No active animations, scroll timeline markers, or scroll-linked visual effects were present, so no main-thread scroll animation anti-pattern was observed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM interaction/feature inspection", "evidence": "Representative news, article, section and results paths used native links and scrolling; no custom pointer gesture handlers or platform-fighting gesture UI was observed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "The homepage DOM is over 22,000px tall, while the feature probe found no scroll-state query, scroll timeline, or progress treatment.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative-route recon.", "evidence": "No tooltip, contextual menu, or edge-anchored transient overlay was present in the representative reading, section, and live-results paths.", "reason": "No tooltip, contextual menu, or edge-anchored transient overlay was present in the representative reading, section, and live-results paths.", "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM and metadata review", "evidence": "Descriptive section/article links, sequential headings, main/nav landmarks and article metadata provide a clear information hierarchy across representative paths.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/section-metadata.json", "evidence/article-metadata.json" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Desktop and 360px screenshots show the page blurred and inert behind a modal on first load. The only prominent choices are “ACCETTA E CONTINUA” and “RIFIUTA E ABBONATI”; the latter does not provide a free rejection path.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/results-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "DOM inspection reports zero and zero popover elements; the visible 624x444 fixed overlay is a DIV role=dialog.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "reduced-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "No-JS crawler screenshot shows header/navigation followed by roughly 250px of blank reserved space; no headline appears in the first viewport.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-discoverability-crawler.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "At a 360x800 device viewport, layout reports a 1125 CSS-pixel viewport rendered at scale 0.32 because meta viewport is width=1120, initial-scale=0.70. Screenshots show tiny consent text and controls across home, article, section and live-results templates.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/section-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "component-level-responsiveness", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Feature probe found no @container/container-type markers, while all three tested templates retained the 1125px CSS viewport on a 360px device.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/section-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F29" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Focus/target probe found visible controls under 44px; the Abbonamenti link computes outline: none when focused, while many other links retain the UA outline.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Across home, article, section and results screenshots, users see the policy wall instead of headlines, scores or article content.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/section-mobile.png", "evidence/results-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Direct navigation to a representative article still shows only the consent-or-subscribe wall over blurred editorial content.", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "404 response and rendered-state probe", "evidence": "A deliberately invalid URL returned a clear Italian not-found explanation, a home action, search guidance and navigation links.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/404-probe.json", "evidence/indexing-http.txt" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Raw-CDP trace measured FCP 2.83s and LCP 4.12s; Lighthouse’s separate run measured LCP 33.5s and performance 0.48.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "layout-shift observer across templates", "evidence": "Observed CLS stayed low: 0.0002 on home, 0.0045 on section and 0.0014 on article during capture.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/section-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Trace reports two long tasks, the longest 229ms, and 206ms total blocking time; Lighthouse reports 342ms TBT.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F09" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "HAR records 163 requests and 5.88MB transferred, including 2.36MB script, 2.58MB images and 682KB fonts. Parser-inserted orchestrator scripts in have neither async nor defer.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "The HAR contains 62 script requests totaling 2.36MB; Google Tag Manager alone transfers 798KB and multiple advertising/tracking bundles are among the largest resources.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "findingIds": [ "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Images primitive found 43 of 100 images missing alt text. Lighthouse confirms missing alt on sponsor/footer images; DOM probe finds two search inputs without associated labels.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reports 2.83:1 for orange-on-white links and white-on-orange buttons, and 2.29:1 for “Preferenze”, against a required 4.5:1.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Focus/target probe found visible controls under 44px; the Abbonamenti link computes outline: none when focused, while many other links retain the UA outline.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "A 360px device receives a 1125 CSS-pixel layout at 0.32 scale. Consent copy and controls become extremely small despite technically allowing zoom.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "A 360px device receives a 1125 CSS-pixel layout at 0.32 scale. Consent copy and controls become extremely small despite technically allowing zoom.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Lighthouse records a 404 for https://dimages2.gazzettaobjects.it/favicon.ico.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Of 100 images, 80 lack explicit width/height, 35 are oversized, 41 below-fold images are not lazy-loaded and 37 use legacy formats.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse best-practices and DOM inspection", "evidence": "Lighthouse and DOM inspection found valid baseline platform usage with no permission prompt on load or deprecated-API finding beyond the separately recorded console/resource error.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Rendered metadata probes", "evidence": "Home, section, article and results pages each expose descriptive titles and meta descriptions.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-recon.json", "evidence/section-metadata.json", "evidence/article-metadata.json", "evidence/results-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Lighthouse flags a registration anchor with no href. The viewport is hard-coded to width=1120, producing a scaled desktop layout on mobile.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Metadata, Lighthouse SEO, and direct HTTP probes", "evidence": "Home and representative pages returned 200, expose canonical URLs and index/follow signals; robots.txt is valid and sitemap.xml responds.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-metadata.json", "evidence/section-metadata.json", "evidence/indexing-http.txt" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Article metadata parse", "evidence": "The article includes NewsArticle and BreadcrumbList JSON-LD plus matching Open Graph title, description, image and URL.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-metadata.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "HTTPS is used, but headers primitive finds no CSP, HSTS or X-Content-Type-Options. Cookie audit finds 25 cookies flagged insecure and SameSite=None.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-cookies.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Tracker probe finds 30 third-party origins and five known trackers, including DoubleClick, Google Tag Manager and Facebook. HAR attributes 158 requests and 5.75MB to non-main origins.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "DOM probe finds multiple text/password sign-in forms with empty autocomplete tokens and no WebAuthn/passkey marker in rendered source.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/form-error-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "No CSP/frame-ancestors, X-Frame-Options, HSTS, Permissions-Policy or nosniff header is present; Referrer-Policy remains no-referrer-when-downgrade.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "discoverability raw-HTML comparison", "evidence": "Raw HTML retains 92% of home content words and 84% of article content words, including title, h1 and description; neither page is a JS shell.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-discoverability.json", "evidence/article-discoverability.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM, screenshot and layout review", "evidence": "Representative server-rendered pages loaded stable navigation/content DOM, and the consent overlay remained within viewport bounds in desktop and mobile captures.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article-dom.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative-route recon.", "evidence": "This public news publication is content-oriented rather than an installable application; offline/PWA installability is not required for the audited core reading journey.", "reason": "This public news publication is content-oriented rather than an installable application; offline/PWA installability is not required for the audited core reading journey.", "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "404 HTTP/rendered-state probe", "evidence": "The 404 path provides an explicit explanation and actionable route home/search instead of a blank shell or infinite spinner.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/404-probe.json", "evidence/indexing-http.txt" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative-route recon.", "evidence": "The publication is deliberately Italian-language and Italy-focused, with no language/locale switch exposed in the audited scope; html lang=it-IT is correct.", "reason": "The publication is deliberately Italian-language and Italy-focused, with no language/locale switch exposed in the audited scope; html lang=it-IT is correct.", "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative-route recon.", "evidence": "The audited editorial and scores surfaces are deliberately single-locale Italian; multi-locale data formatting was not an offered capability.", "reason": "The audited editorial and scores surfaces are deliberately single-locale Italian; multi-locale data formatting was not an offered capability.", "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative-route recon.", "evidence": "No cross-time-zone scheduling or user-authored event flow was part of the representative Italian news journeys.", "reason": "No cross-time-zone scheduling or user-authored event flow was part of the representative Italian news journeys.", "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "The modal pairs “ACCETTA E CONTINUA” with “RIFIUTA E ABBONATI”; declining profiling is framed as a paid path, while settings is a lower-emphasis orange link.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/contrast-preference-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Invalid empty-submit DOM probe", "evidence": "Login inputs are labelled and use native required constraints; an empty submit leaves both required fields invalid without premature custom blame messaging.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/form-error-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Rendered form probe shows search, username/text and password fields with empty autocomplete tokens.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/results-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "The blocking wall says users can choose a paid plan but the “RIFIUTA E ABBONATI” action displays no price, term or cancellation information before the click.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Images probe finds 35 oversized images, 37 legacy-format images, 23 without srcset, and only one modern-format image among 100.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F30" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Initial load transfers 5.88MB in 163 requests, with 30 third-party origins and multiple tracking bundles even while the blocking consent wall is displayed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-trackers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F31" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "Non-main origins account for 158 requests and 5.75MB. Scripts and images total 4.94MB while the visible state is only a consent wall.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F32" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative-route recon.", "evidence": "No declared agent-facing transaction or tool surface exists; the emerging WebMCP opportunity is not treated as a failure.", "reason": "No declared agent-facing transaction or tool surface exists; the emerging WebMCP opportunity is not treated as a failure.", "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from representative-route recon.", "evidence": "On-device inference is not necessary to complete the publication’s reading and live-score tasks; absence is not a defect.", "reason": "On-device inference is not necessary to complete the publication’s reading and live-score tasks; absence is not a defect.", "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "After GC, baseline heap was 769,639 nodes/51.1MB; after accepting the wall and ten alternating top/bottom scrolls it retained 1,417,924 nodes/83.8MB, with closures rising from 36,691 to 98,366. The consent state change is a confound, so leak attribution is medium confidence.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-heap-post.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, accessibility, security, or memory evidence as cited by the linked finding.", "evidence": "A settled baseline after GC contains 769,639 heap nodes and 51.1MB self size; the exercised state retains 83.8MB and 1.42 million nodes.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-heap-post.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F34" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "GC heap-summary constructor comparison", "evidence": "Neither heap summary shows a Detached* constructor among the dominant retained populations; direct evidence does not show a prominent detached-DOM class, though the general growth issue is recorded separately.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-heap-post.json" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F03", "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F07", "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F02", "F29", "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F26", "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F08", "F09", "F10", "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F12", "F13", "F14", "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F16", "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F19", "F20", "F21", "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "The publication is deliberately Italian-language and Italy-focused, with no language/locale switch exposed in the audited scope; html lang=it-IT is correct. The audited editorial and scores surfaces are deliberately single-locale Italian; multi-locale data formatting was not an offered capability. No cross-time-zone scheduling or user-authored event flow was part of the representative Italian news journeys." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F23", "F24", "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F30", "F31", "F32" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "No declared agent-facing transaction or tool surface exists; the emerging WebMCP opportunity is not treated as a failure. On-device inference is not necessary to complete the publication’s reading and live-score tasks; absence is not a defect." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F33", "F34" ] } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Homepage and primary headline-discovery template; tested initial consent state, desktop/mobile, preferences, performance, network, privacy, accessibility and memory.", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "conditions": [ "desktop 780x500", "viewport: 360x800", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "prefers-contrast: more", "fresh consent state" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "section", "description": "World Cup section/listing archetype representing topical indexes and navigation into story/video content.", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Mondiali/", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800", "fresh consent state" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "article", "description": "Representative current NewsArticle detail page, including crawler visibility, metadata and core reading flow.", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Inter/21-07-2026/nicolo-barella-l-intervista-gazzetta-tra-inter-e-nazionale-resto-a-vita-champions.shtml", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800", "JavaScript and raw no-JS HTML", "fresh consent state" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "results", "description": "Live-results interactive destination representing the scores journey and shared forms/navigation shell.", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it/risultati-live/", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800", "fresh consent state" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "error404", "description": "Deliberately invalid route representing HTTP/network recovery behavior.", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it/definitely-not-a-real-page-web-uplift", "conditions": [ "normal network" ], "result": "pass" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F01", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "A full-screen consent-or-subscribe wall obscures all editorial content on every tested entry page.", "evidence": "Desktop and 360px screenshots show the page blurred and inert behind a modal on first load. The only prominent choices are “ACCETTA E CONTINUA” and “RIFIUTA E ABBONATI”; the latter does not provide a free rejection path.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/results-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Let visitors reject non-essential processing without being forced into a subscription, keep a concise non-modal notice where lawful, and use a native dialog only when blocking interaction is essential.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F02", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "guidanceCategory": "css", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Mobile uses a scaled 1120px desktop canvas instead of a readable reflowed layout.", "evidence": "At a 360x800 device viewport, layout reports a 1125 CSS-pixel viewport rendered at scale 0.32 because meta viewport is width=1120, initial-scale=0.70. Screenshots show tiny consent text and controls across home, article, section and live-results templates.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/section-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use width=device-width, initial-scale=1; build fluid layouts with intrinsic sizing and responsive type, then verify each template at 320–412 CSS pixels.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F03", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page ignores the user’s dark color-scheme preference.", "evidence": "The dark screenshot is byte-for-byte visually identical to the light capture; under emulated prefers-color-scheme: dark, computed color-scheme remains normal and body background remains rgb(253,233,235).", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-preferences-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme: light dark and retint surfaces, text, controls and overlays with prefers-color-scheme or light-dark().", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F04", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "High-contrast preference does not change controls, and the consent UI already contains low-contrast orange text and buttons.", "evidence": "Under prefers-contrast: more, computed colors remain unchanged. Lighthouse measures 2.83:1 for orange links/buttons and 2.29:1 for “Preferenze”, below 4.5:1.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/contrast-preference-probe.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Increase foreground/background contrast to WCAG minimums and add a prefers-contrast/forced-colors treatment that preserves borders and focus indicators.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F05", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "same-document-transitions", "guidanceCategory": "animation", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Route and state changes have no View Transition integration.", "evidence": "Rendered DOM/source feature probe found no view-transition-name, @view-transition, or related API marker on the multi-page news experience.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Progressively enhance same-origin article and section navigation with cross-document View Transitions, preserving an instant fallback.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F06", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "guidanceCategory": "css", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Long pages expose no scroll-state-aware header or reading-position feedback.", "evidence": "The homepage DOM is over 22,000px tall, while the feature probe found no scroll-state query, scroll timeline, or progress treatment.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add lightweight scroll-state-aware chrome or article progress where it improves orientation, with no-JS and reduced-motion fallbacks.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F07", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The blocking consent overlay is a custom DIV with role=dialog rather than a native dialog and has no light-dismiss path.", "evidence": "DOM inspection reports zero and zero popover elements; the visible 624x444 fixed overlay is a DIV role=dialog.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use for genuinely modal consent settings, label it accessibly, manage focus, and offer a clear close/reject action.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F08", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Initial rendering is slow and misses the good LCP threshold.", "evidence": "Raw-CDP trace measured FCP 2.83s and LCP 4.12s; Lighthouse’s separate run measured LCP 33.5s and performance 0.48.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Prioritize the true LCP resource, shorten the critical path, defer non-essential advertising/tracking, and test under representative mobile throttling.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F09", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "guidanceId": "break-up-long-tasks", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Long tasks and heavy scripting block the main thread.", "evidence": "Trace reports two long tasks, the longest 229ms, and 206ms total blocking time; Lighthouse reports 342ms TBT.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Profile the 229ms task, break app work into schedulable chunks, and delay advertising/analytics work until after core content is interactive.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F10", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page delivers a very large, script-heavy critical path.", "evidence": "HAR records 163 requests and 5.88MB transferred, including 2.36MB script, 2.58MB images and 682KB fonts. Parser-inserted orchestrator scripts in have neither async nor defer.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Defer non-critical classic scripts, reduce dependency chains, subset/preload only required fonts, and prioritize only the hero image.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F11", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "break-up-long-tasks", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "JavaScript and third-party code dominate page weight.", "evidence": "The HAR contains 62 script requests totaling 2.36MB; Google Tag Manager alone transfers 798KB and multiple advertising/tracking bundles are among the largest resources.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "suggestedFix": "Audit code coverage, remove duplicate/legacy bundles, and load advertising and analytics conditionally after consent and user-value content.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F12", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Many images and search fields lack accessible alternatives or labels.", "evidence": "Images primitive found 43 of 100 images missing alt text. Lighthouse confirms missing alt on sponsor/footer images; DOM probe finds two search inputs without associated labels.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Provide meaningful alt text or alt=\"\" for decorative images and programmatic labels for search fields; verify names and roles with axe/Lighthouse.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F13", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Consent links and primary controls fail WCAG contrast.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reports 2.83:1 for orange-on-white links and white-on-orange buttons, and 2.29:1 for “Preferenze”, against a required 4.5:1.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Darken the orange or change text colors so normal text and controls meet at least 4.5:1 in every state.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F14", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Some primary interactive elements are under target size or suppress focus indication.", "evidence": "Focus/target probe found visible controls under 44px; the Abbonamenti link computes outline: none when focused, while many other links retain the UA outline.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Give controls at least a 44x44 CSS-pixel activation area and use :focus-visible with a high-contrast outline on every control.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F15", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The mobile experience shrinks a desktop canvas rather than reflowing text and controls.", "evidence": "A 360px device receives a 1125 CSS-pixel layout at 0.32 scale. Consent copy and controls become extremely small despite technically allowing zoom.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Adopt device-width responsive reflow and test at 320 CSS pixels and 200% zoom without two-dimensional panning or tiny targets.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F16", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "no-console-errors", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page logs a resource error on load.", "evidence": "Lighthouse records a 404 for https://dimages2.gazzettaobjects.it/favicon.ico.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Serve the referenced favicon or remove the broken request, then verify a clean console/network load.", "effort": "trivial" }, { "id": "F17", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Image markup and delivery are structurally weak.", "evidence": "Of 100 images, 80 lack explicit width/height, 35 are oversized, 41 below-fold images are not lazy-loaded and 37 use legacy formats.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Emit intrinsic width/height or aspect-ratio, responsive srcset/sizes, modern formats, and native lazy loading below the fold.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F18", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "A link is not crawlable and the viewport signal is not genuinely mobile-friendly.", "evidence": "Lighthouse flags a registration anchor with no href. The viewport is hard-coded to width=1120, producing a scaled desktop layout on mobile.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Give navigation anchors real href values and switch to width=device-width, initial-scale=1 with responsive templates.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F19", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Core transport defenses and cookie flags are missing.", "evidence": "HTTPS is used, but headers primitive finds no CSP, HSTS or X-Content-Type-Options. Cookie audit finds 25 cookies flagged insecure and SameSite=None.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-cookies.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Deploy a restrictive CSP, HSTS and nosniff; mark every HTTPS cookie Secure and choose Lax/Strict unless cross-site use truly requires None.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F20", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "guidanceCategory": "privacy", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The initial load has an extensive tracking and third-party footprint.", "evidence": "Tracker probe finds 30 third-party origins and five known trackers, including DoubleClick, Google Tag Manager and Facebook. HAR attributes 158 requests and 5.75MB to non-main origins.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "suggestedFix": "Minimize vendors and events, keep optional tags behind granular consent, batch necessary analytics, and enforce vendor budgets.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F21", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Visible sign-in forms rely on password fields without modern authentication or correct autofill metadata.", "evidence": "DOM probe finds multiple text/password sign-in forms with empty autocomplete tokens and no WebAuthn/passkey marker in rendered source.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/form-error-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add username/current-password autocomplete now and offer passkey/WebAuthn sign-in and reauthentication alongside existing methods.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F22", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "defensive-browser-policies", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Browser-enforced defensive policies are largely absent.", "evidence": "No CSP/frame-ancestors, X-Frame-Options, HSTS, Permissions-Policy or nosniff header is present; Referrer-Policy remains no-referrer-when-downgrade.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add frame-ancestors (or X-Frame-Options fallback), strict-origin-when-cross-origin Referrer-Policy, a least-privilege Permissions-Policy, HSTS, nosniff and CSP.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F23", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "no-dark-patterns", "guidanceId": "custom-button-actions", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Consent choice is bundled with subscription pressure rather than offering an equivalent reject action.", "evidence": "The modal pairs “ACCETTA E CONTINUA” with “RIFIUTA E ABBONATI”; declining profiling is framed as a paid path, while settings is a lower-emphasis orange link.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/contrast-preference-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Offer reject-all and accept-all with equal prominence, separate consent from subscription sales, and retain easy preference reversal.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F24", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "guidanceId": "forms", "guidanceCategory": "forms", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Search and sign-in fields omit autocomplete assistance.", "evidence": "Rendered form probe shows search, username/text and password fields with empty autocomplete tokens.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/results-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add search, username, current-password and other purpose-specific autocomplete tokens so browser assistance works reliably.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F25", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "guidanceId": "forms", "guidanceCategory": "forms", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The subscription alternative is introduced as the only rejection path without showing price or commitment in the decision UI.", "evidence": "The blocking wall says users can choose a paid plan but the “RIFIUTA E ABBONATI” action displays no price, term or cancellation information before the click.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Provide a free reject path; for any subscription CTA, disclose price, billing cadence, commitment and cancellation before the user proceeds.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F26", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "guidanceId": "improve-text-layout-and-legibility", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The first viewport prioritizes a long policy wall over the site’s news purpose and reading action.", "evidence": "Across home, article, section and results screenshots, users see the policy wall instead of headlines, scores or article content.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/section-mobile.png", "evidence/results-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Keep the publication purpose and primary content visible; reduce consent copy and avoid blocking the content hierarchy.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F27", "pathId": "article", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Inter/21-07-2026/nicolo-barella-l-intervista-gazzetta-tra-inter-e-nazionale-resto-a-vita-champions.shtml", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "primary-flow-completion", "guidanceId": "forms", "guidanceCategory": "forms", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The core reading flow is blocked until the visitor accepts profiling or enters a subscription path.", "evidence": "Direct navigation to a representative article still shows only the consent-or-subscribe wall over blurred editorial content.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Allow the public article flow to continue after rejecting optional processing, reserving subscription gates for clearly identified paid content.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F28", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "reduced-chrome", "guidanceId": "improve-text-layout-and-legibility", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The content-first crawler view gives most of the first viewport to empty advertising space.", "evidence": "No-JS crawler screenshot shows header/navigation followed by roughly 250px of blank reserved space; no headline appears in the first viewport.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-discoverability-crawler.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Reduce or collapse empty ad slots before content and ensure at least one meaningful headline enters the initial viewport.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F29", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "guidanceCategory": "css", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "The component system shows no container-query adaptation and remains tied to the desktop canvas.", "evidence": "Feature probe found no @container/container-type markers, while all three tested templates retained the 1125px CSS viewport on a 360px device.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/section-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use container queries for reused cards/navigation modules and retain viewport queries only for page-level composition.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F30", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Images are frequently oversized, legacy-formatted and missing responsive delivery.", "evidence": "Images probe finds 35 oversized images, 37 legacy-format images, 23 without srcset, and only one modern-format image among 100.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Generate AVIF/WebP variants and responsive srcset/sizes, and right-size author avatars and cards to rendered dimensions.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F31", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "no-wasteful-work", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page performs substantial background advertising and tracking work before content access.", "evidence": "Initial load transfers 5.88MB in 163 requests, with 30 third-party origins and multiple tracking bundles even while the blocking consent wall is displayed.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-trackers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Defer optional vendors until consent and idle time, remove redundant calls, and establish request/byte/CPU budgets.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F32", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Third-party scripts and media are disproportionate to first-viewport user value.", "evidence": "Non-main origins account for 158 requests and 5.75MB. Scripts and images total 4.94MB while the visible state is only a consent wall.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Set strict third-party and media budgets, self-host essential assets, and lazy-load below-fold media only as it approaches the viewport.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F33", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "principleCheckId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "guidanceId": "manage-recurring-intervals", "guidanceCategory": "javascript", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Retained heap grows sharply after entering the site and repeatedly traversing the long feed.", "evidence": "After GC, baseline heap was 769,639 nodes/51.1MB; after accepting the wall and ten alternating top/bottom scrolls it retained 1,417,924 nodes/83.8MB, with closures rising from 36,691 to 98,366. The consent state change is a confound, so leak attribution is medium confidence.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-heap-post.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Repeat baseline/target/final snapshots in one consented session, identify retaining paths, and dispose observers, listeners, timers and ad/feed objects when no longer needed.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F34", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.gazzetta.it", "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "principleCheckId": "bounded-footprint", "guidanceId": "manage-recurring-intervals", "guidanceCategory": "javascript", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page has a very large live heap for a news homepage.", "evidence": "A settled baseline after GC contains 769,639 heap nodes and 51.1MB self size; the exercised state retains 83.8MB and 1.42 million nodes.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-heap-post.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Reduce simultaneously live cards, ad SDKs and duplicated libraries; virtualize deep feeds and enforce heap/node budgets in regression tests.", "effort": "large" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T01", "title": "Replace the consent-or-subscribe wall with equal, non-blocking consent choices", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F01", "F23", "F25", "F26", "F27" ], "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T02", "title": "Ship a true device-width responsive layout and accessible mobile reflow", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F02", "F15", "F18", "F29" ], "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T03", "title": "Reduce critical-path, third-party, and background payload", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F08", "F09", "F10", "F11", "F20", "F31", "F32" ], "guidanceId": "performance", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T04", "title": "Add CSP, HSTS, secure cookie flags, and defensive browser policies", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F19", "F22" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T05", "title": "Fix consent/UI contrast, labels, alt text, focus and target sizing", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F04", "F12", "F13", "F14" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T06", "title": "Modernize and right-size responsive image delivery", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F17", "F30" ], "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T07", "title": "Investigate and cap retained heap growth in the feed", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F33", "F34" ], "guidanceId": "manage-recurring-intervals", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T08", "title": "Honor color-scheme and improve route/scroll orientation", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F03", "F05", "F06", "F28" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T09", "title": "Add autofill tokens and passkey-capable authentication", "priority": 9, "findingIds": [ "F21", "F24" ], "guidanceId": "forms", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T10", "title": "Repair console and crawlability defects", "priority": 10, "findingIds": [ "F16", "F18" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 5, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-21T01-09-36-438Z" }