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"evidence/discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "Rendered browser view", "condition": "JavaScript enabled", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "Crawler/no-JS view", "condition": "JavaScript disabled", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/home-dom.json", "caption": "Rendered DOM and styles", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/recon.json", "caption": "Route/link/form/metadata recon", "findingIds": [ "F03", "F17", "F18", "F19", "F20" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/page-probe.json", "caption": "Semantic, responsive-feature and control probe", "findingIds": [ "F02", "F06", "F11", "F13", "F14", "F15" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/interaction-probe.json", "caption": "Focused input and rendered recommendation-text probe", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F06", "F13", "F25" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/reduced-motion.json", "caption": "Reduced-motion active 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"F08", "F09", "F10", "F11", "F12", "F25", "F26", "F27" ] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "caption": "Baseline heap summary", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-post.json", "caption": "Heap after ten search-field interaction cycles", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/headers.json", "caption": "Security response headers", "findingIds": [ "F21", "F23" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/cookies.json", "caption": "Cookie audit", "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/trackers.json", "caption": "Third-party tracker audit", "findingIds": [ "F22", "F25", "F28" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/secrets.json", "caption": "Client secret scan", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/images.json", "caption": "Image delivery/accessibility audit", "findingIds": [ "F15", "F26" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/raw-home.html", "caption": "Raw server HTML", "findingIds": [ "F03", "F16" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/script.js", "caption": "First-party script source", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/style.css", "caption": "First-party stylesheet source", "findingIds": [ "F05", "F16", "F24" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "coverage-manifest.json", "caption": "Atomic check manifest and evidence plan", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/guidance-searches.ndjson", "caption": "Pinned Modern Web Guidance searches", "findingIds": [] } ], "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 inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Dark-emulated screenshot remains the same white surface as light mode; CSS feature probe found theme declarations but the rendered page did not retint.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, getAnimations() returned no active animations; the simple landing state has no auto-advance.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/reduced-motion.json" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Forced-colors screenshot preserves visible text, search outline, icons and footer links with system high-contrast colors.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-contrast.png" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "view-transitions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The primary search changes from this page to an external results document with no transition treatment; CSS/source probe found no view-transition usage.", "pathIds": [ "search-flow" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-redirect-probe.json", "evidence/page-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No parallax, scrollytelling, reveal, carousel, or other scroll-linked motion exists on this single-view search landing page.", "reason": "There is no scroll-linked interaction to implement." }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The core interaction is a native text input and Enter-key submission; source inspection found no custom pointermove or gesture implementation fighting platform behavior.", "pathIds": [ "search-flow" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/raw-home.html", "evidence/script.js" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The core landing viewport does not scroll at 360x800 or desktop, and there is no progress-dependent chrome.", "reason": "No meaningful scroll state exists on the core page." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "DOM and source inspection found no tooltip, menu, popover, or transient overlay requiring anchored positioning.", "reason": "No anchored overlay exists." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Four prominent footer destinations (How Search works, Terms, FAQs, About) all use href=\"#\" and do not move users to the promised destination.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/raw-home.html" ], "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Initial desktop and mobile screenshots show the search task unobscured, with no load-time modal, banner, or interstitial.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "DOM probe found zero dialog, popover, or details surfaces and the page presents no overlay control.", "reason": "No overlay or disclosure interaction exists." }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "reduced-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The simple search landing loads a large recommendation/advertising feed: the rendered DOM text contains dozens of Taboola-style headlines and Lighthouse measured a 2,852px mobile body.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/interaction-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "At a 360x500 viewport, layout reported 500px content width and 140px horizontal overflow; the short-height media query hard-codes the search UI to 500px.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/layout-mobile-landscape.json", "evidence/home-mobile-landscape.png", "evidence/style.css" ], "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "component-level-responsiveness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The page has no reused component rendered in materially different containers; its one search shell is page-level.", "reason": "No reusable multi-container component was identified." }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Focused search input computes outline:none, border:0 and box-shadow:none; several footer links are only about 35.5px high, below a comfortable touch target.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/interaction-probe.json", "evidence/page-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "First-viewport screenshots show a conventional search logo and a single visually dominant search field with no competing primary CTA.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Loading the supported q=modern web flow redirected end-to-end to a Yahoo results URL carrying the query and rendered a retry-capable search-results state.", "pathIds": [ "search-flow" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-redirect-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "A representative unknown URL returns a generic Cloudflare R2 bucket-owner 404 with only an external Public Access documentation link and no route back to search.", "pathIds": [ "not-found" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/not-found-mobile.png", "evidence/not-found-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured LCP 8.3s and TTI 8.4s (performance 0.69), despite low CLS; trace corroborated a 2.07s LCP in a separate warm/desktop-style run, so load speed is variable and poor under Lighthouse mobile conditions.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/load-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Layout observers measured CLS 0.0002 desktop, 0.017 at 360x800 and 0.032 at 360x500; Lighthouse CLS was 0.046, all within the good range.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/layout-desktop.json", "evidence/layout-mobile.json", "evidence/layout-mobile-landscape.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Trace recorded zero long tasks and 0ms TBT; layout observers also recorded no long tasks, while Lighthouse TBT was 80ms.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/load-trace-summary.json", "evidence/layout-desktop.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "HAR recorded 41 requests/727KB with parser-blocking Bootstrap and local CSS plus a non-deferred head script; Lighthouse estimated 1,040ms render-blocking savings and 93KiB cache savings.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/network-summary.json", "evidence/resource-markup.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F09" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 172KiB unused Taboola JavaScript and 38KiB unused CSS, including 97% of Bootstrap.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Lighthouse found the search input has no label/name and the logo image has no alt attribute; DOM also found no main landmark.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/page-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Lighthouse found repeated ad-branding text at 2.84:1 contrast (#999 on white), below the 4.5:1 minimum for 11px text.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The page has no headings or main landmark, and the focused search input has no visible outline, border or shadow.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/page-probe.json", "evidence/interaction-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Desktop, mobile and forced-color screenshots show core search and footer text without clipping at standard portrait sizes; text remains readable.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-contrast.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The 360x500 reflow condition overflows horizontally by 140px and footer targets are about 35.5px high; the viewport itself permits scaling.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/layout-mobile-landscape.json", "evidence/page-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Lighthouse errors-in-console audit scored 1 with no error rows.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Doctype/UTF-8/viewport are valid, but the 1692px-wide PNG logo renders at 65px without width/height attributes; image audit reports seven unsized image elements.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/page-probe.json", "evidence/images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Source contains duplicate id=\"lucky_button\" controls and a malformed unitless max-width media query; Lighthouse also reported inspector issues and legacy JavaScript savings.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/raw-home.html", "evidence/style.css", "evidence/lighthouse-details.txt" ], "findingIds": [ "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The title is only “Search” and no meta description exists in rendered or raw HTML; Lighthouse meta-description audit failed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Viewport and robots are valid, but four descriptive footer labels resolve only to the same-page # fragment rather than crawlable destination content.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/site-files.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The public page returns 200 and robots allows search, but it has no canonical URL and /sitemap.xml returns 404.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/site-files.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "DOM probe found zero JSON-LD blocks and no Open Graph metadata, leaving this public search product without a reliable share preview or organization/site entity description.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "HTTPS is used and no first-party cookies were found, but CSP, HSTS and X-Content-Type-Options are all absent.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Tracker audit found 10 third-party origins and eight known tracker hosts; HAR recorded 35 third-party requests and 411KB, including Taboola/Criteo event and sync traffic.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/network-summary.json", "evidence/lighthouse-details.txt" ], "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No authentication flow or permission request is part of this public search landing page; Notification remained default and no prompt appeared.", "reason": "No auth or permission-requiring feature exists." }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Header inspection found no clickjacking defense, Referrer-Policy or Permissions-Policy in addition to missing HSTS/CSP.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Discoverability comparison found 100% rendered-word coverage in raw HTML, no JS shell, and equivalent core landing content without JavaScript.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The suggestion box is manually absolutely positioned with invalid unitless offsets, while the 360x500 condition expands layout to 500px; this is fragile near viewport edges.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/style.css", "evidence/layout-mobile-landscape.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "This search gateway is intrinsically online and exposes neither a manifest nor an active service-worker controller.", "reason": "Offline search results cannot fulfill the product’s core purpose; installability was judged out of scope." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Unknown routes show storage-provider diagnostics and no recovery to the product; the tested external results state did at least offer a search-again control.", "pathIds": [ "not-found", "search-flow" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/not-found-mobile.png", "evidence/not-found-probe.json", "evidence/search-redirect-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The document declares html lang=\"en\" and the CSS feature probe found logical-property usage; no conflicting direction was present.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/page-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The page renders no dates, numbers, currencies, durations, or calendar data.", "reason": "No locale-sensitive data exists." }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The page has no event or time data.", "reason": "No time-zone-sensitive feature exists." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The core search page initializes Taboola/Criteo tracking and can inject a long feed of sensational recommendation headlines beneath the task, while no consent or preference surface appeared.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/interaction-probe.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The only input is a free-text search field with no constrained validity or required-field error state.", "reason": "No validation flow exists." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The site collects no address, payment, account, or other autofill-appropriate personal information.", "reason": "No personal-data form exists." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No checkout, subscription, consent choice, authentication, or account-management flow exists.", "reason": "No commercial or account flow exists." }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "The 1692×2358 PNG logo is displayed at 65×90 and transfers about 106KB; Lighthouse estimated about 106KB savings for it and 148KiB total image-delivery savings.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/network-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "A minimal search shell makes 41 requests; 35 are third-party and Lighthouse found 172KiB unused Taboola JavaScript plus 38KiB unused CSS.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/network-summary.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Third parties account for 411KB across 35 requests, over half the 727KB transfer, dominated by advertising/tracking scripts rather than the search task.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/network-summary.json", "evidence/trackers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The emerging WebMCP surface was absent and this externally redirected search gateway exposes no safe site-owned action beyond a simple crawlable input.", "reason": "No declared agent-facing intent; absence is an opportunity, not a failing." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon, rendered DOM, source and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No summarisation, generation, or other inference task is presented where on-device AI would clearly improve this minimal gateway.", "reason": "No relevant inference use case was identified." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "After ten focus/type/input/blur/clear cycles, heap self-size decreased from 9,719,098 to 9,710,411 bytes and node count decreased from 167,590 to 167,488.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-post.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Heap summary measured about 9.7MB self-size for the loaded state; despite third-party code, the captured footprint remained bounded and did not grow in the exercised session.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-post.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct inspection using the referenced screenshot/DOM/evaluate/layout/trace/HAR/Lighthouse/security/heap evidence", "evidence": "Before/after heap summaries contained no Detached* constructor among reported constructors, and aggregate node/closure counts did not grow after repeated interaction.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-post.json" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F05", "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F08", "F09", "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F12", "F13", "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F15", "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F17", "F18", "F19", "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F21", "F22", "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F24", "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F26", "F27", "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "No declared agent-facing intent; absence is an opportunity, not a failing. No relevant inference use case was identified." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Homepage/search landing: the only first-party page template; audited at desktop, mobile portrait, 360x500 short-mobile, dark, forced-colors, reduced-motion, no-JS, performance, network, security and memory conditions.", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/", "conditions": [ "desktop", "viewport: 360x800", "viewport: 360x500", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "forced-colors: active", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "JavaScript disabled", "keyboard focus", "repeated input interaction" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "search-flow", "description": "Primary search journey using q=modern web, representing end-to-end redirect to the configured external provider.", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/?q=modern%20web", "conditions": [ "live network" ], "result": "pass" }, { "id": "not-found", "description": "Representative invalid first-party route, selected to test HTTP error and recovery behavior.", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/not-a-real-page", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800" ], "result": "issues" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F01", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Dark preference does not produce a dark theme", "evidence": "Dark screenshot remains white and visually matches the light screenshot.", "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme: light dark and use prefers-color-scheme or light-dark() for every surface and control.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F02", "severity": "low", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "directional-navigation-transitions", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Search navigation swaps documents abruptly", "evidence": "The tested query jumps directly from the landing page to an external Yahoo results document; no view-transition CSS exists.", "suggestedFix": "Where same-origin navigation is available, add cross-document View Transitions with a reduced-motion fallback; preserve a stable search-shell cue across the redirect.", "effort": "medium", "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-redirect-probe.json", "evidence/page-probe.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F03", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "directs-attention", "guidanceId": "navigation-drawer", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Footer navigation promises destinations but goes nowhere", "evidence": "How Search works, Terms, FAQs and About all resolve to #.", "suggestedFix": "Link each label to a real, unique URL and provide current-location/state cues.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/raw-home.html" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F04", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "reduced-chrome", "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Advertising recommendations overwhelm a minimal search task", "evidence": "Rendered DOM evidence contains dozens of recommendation headlines and Lighthouse measured a 2,852px mobile body.", "suggestedFix": "Remove the recommendation feed from the task page, or defer it behind a clearly labelled, user-requested disclosure below results.", "effort": "medium", "artifacts": [ "evidence/interaction-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F05", "severity": "high", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "guidanceId": "css-layout", "guidanceCategory": "css-layout", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Short mobile viewports force a 500px desktop layout", "evidence": "Layout at 360x500 reports 140px horizontal overflow due to fixed 500px widths in the max-height media query.", "suggestedFix": "Replace fixed 500px widths with min(500px, 90vw) or intrinsic sizing and test narrow landscape/reflow conditions.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/layout-mobile-landscape.json", "evidence/home-mobile-landscape.png", "evidence/style.css" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F06", "severity": "high", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Keyboard focus is invisible and targets are undersized", "evidence": "Focused input computes no outline, border, or shadow; footer links are around 35.5px high.", "suggestedFix": "Use :focus-visible with a high-contrast outline and make interactive targets at least 44×44 CSS px or provide equivalent spacing.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/interaction-probe.json", "evidence/page-probe.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F07", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "guidanceId": "persistent-toast-notifications", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The 404 state strands users in storage-provider diagnostics", "evidence": "Unknown route shows “Is this your bucket?” and only links to Cloudflare R2 documentation.", "suggestedFix": "Serve a branded 404 with a search field, Home link, concise explanation and retry/back recovery.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/not-found-mobile.png", "evidence/not-found-probe.json" ], "pathId": "not-found", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/not-a-real-page" }, { "id": "F08", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Mobile load is too slow and variable", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured 8.3s LCP, 8.4s TTI and performance 69.", "suggestedFix": "Remove/defer advertising code, prioritize the actual LCP asset, and retest LCP/INP/CLS under mobile throttling.", "effort": "medium", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/load-trace-summary.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F09", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-script-priority", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Render-blocking and cache policy delay the small page", "evidence": "Bootstrap/local CSS and a non-deferred head script block parsing; Lighthouse estimated 1,040ms render-blocking savings and 93KiB cache savings.", "suggestedFix": "Inline critical CSS, remove Bootstrap, defer the local script, and give versioned static assets long immutable cache lifetimes.", "effort": "medium", "artifacts": [ "evidence/network-summary.json", "evidence/resource-markup.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F10", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Most shipped framework and ad code is unused", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 172KiB unused Taboola JS and 38KiB unused CSS, including 97% of Bootstrap.", "suggestedFix": "Remove Bootstrap for the small bespoke layout and load recommendation code only after explicit user demand.", "effort": "medium", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F11", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Core search UI lacks accessible names and semantics", "evidence": "Search input has no label, logo has no alt, and the document has no main landmark.", "suggestedFix": "Wrap core content in main, add a visible or visually hidden Search label, and give the logo meaningful alt text or mark it decorative.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/page-probe.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F12", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Advertising attribution text fails contrast", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured repeated 11px #999-on-white branding at 2.84:1.", "suggestedFix": "Use text/background colors meeting at least 4.5:1 and avoid relying on tiny, faint attribution.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F13", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Page structure and focus indication are missing", "evidence": "There are no headings or main landmark, and the focused input has no visible focus styling.", "suggestedFix": "Add a logical h1/main structure and a persistent :focus-visible indicator that follows DOM reading order.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/page-probe.json", "evidence/interaction-probe.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F14", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Reflow and target sizing fail on a common narrow condition", "evidence": "360x500 produces 140px overflow and several links are under 44px high.", "suggestedFix": "Use fluid/intrinsic widths and enlarge or space targets so 320px/reflow layouts work without two-dimensional scrolling.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/layout-mobile-landscape.json", "evidence/page-probe.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F15", "severity": "low", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Logo asset is unsized and grossly oversized", "evidence": "1692px logo renders at 65px with no width/height attributes; image audit found seven unsized elements.", "suggestedFix": "Export an appropriately sized AVIF/WebP/PNG and include explicit width and height attributes.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/page-probe.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F16", "severity": "low", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Markup and CSS contain avoidable structural defects", "evidence": "Duplicate lucky_button IDs and an invalid unitless max-width query are present; Lighthouse reports inspector issues.", "suggestedFix": "Use unique IDs, fix the media query to include px, validate HTML/CSS, and remove legacy payload.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/raw-home.html", "evidence/style.css", "evidence/lighthouse-details.txt" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F17", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "title-and-description", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Search result snippet metadata is weak", "evidence": "Title is generic “Search” and meta description is absent in raw and rendered HTML.", "suggestedFix": "Write a unique product/site title and concise meta description explaining what this search page provides.", "effort": "trivial", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/discoverability.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F18", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Prominent informational links are not crawlable destinations", "evidence": "Four footer links point only to #.", "suggestedFix": "Publish real Terms, About, FAQ and How Search Works URLs with descriptive anchor text.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/site-files.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F19", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Canonical and sitemap signals are absent", "evidence": "No canonical link exists and sitemap.xml returns 404 although robots allows indexing.", "suggestedFix": "Add a self-referencing canonical and a valid sitemap referenced from robots.txt.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/site-files.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F20", "severity": "low", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Share and entity metadata is absent", "evidence": "No Open Graph tags or JSON-LD blocks are present.", "suggestedFix": "Add accurate Open Graph/Twitter preview data and WebSite/Organization JSON-LD matching visible content.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F21", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Foundational security headers are missing", "evidence": "CSP, HSTS and X-Content-Type-Options are absent despite HTTPS delivery.", "suggestedFix": "Deploy a restrictive CSP, HSTS and nosniff after report-only testing; secure all future cookies.", "effort": "medium", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F22", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "guidanceCategory": "privacy", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Tracking footprint is disproportionate to the search task", "evidence": "Ten third-party origins, eight known tracker hosts, 35 third-party requests and 411KB load by default.", "suggestedFix": "Remove nonessential trackers, gate recommendations behind consent/demand, minimize event fields, batch necessary analytics, and document retention/purpose.", "effort": "large", "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/network-summary.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F23", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "defensive-browser-policies", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Browser-enforced defenses are absent", "evidence": "No frame protection, Referrer-Policy or Permissions-Policy was returned.", "suggestedFix": "Add frame-ancestors (or X-Frame-Options fallback), strict-origin-when-cross-origin or stricter Referrer-Policy, and a least-privilege Permissions-Policy.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F24", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "guidanceId": "resilient-context-menus-and-nested-dropdowns", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Suggestion overlay positioning is brittle", "evidence": "Suggestion box uses absolute positioning with unitless top/bottom values and the same short viewport overflows by 140px.", "suggestedFix": "Use normal flow or anchored/top-layer positioning with explicit fallback positions and intrinsic inline sizing.", "effort": "medium", "artifacts": [ "evidence/style.css", "evidence/layout-mobile-landscape.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F25", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "no-dark-patterns", "guidanceId": "privacy", "guidanceCategory": "privacy", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Recommendation and tracking behavior is not transparent or user-controlled", "evidence": "Taboola/Criteo initialize on load and inject sensational recommendation content without a visible consent/preferences surface in tested states.", "suggestedFix": "Default to no recommendation tracking, clearly label paid content, expose understandable privacy choices, and make refusal as easy as acceptance.", "effort": "large", "artifacts": [ "evidence/interaction-probe.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F26", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The logo wastes image bytes", "evidence": "A 1692×2358 PNG transfers ~106KB for a 65×90 rendering; Lighthouse estimates ~106KB savings.", "suggestedFix": "Export a correctly sized modern-format image and supply intrinsic dimensions/density variants.", "effort": "small", "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F27", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "no-wasteful-work", "guidanceId": "efficient-background-processing", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Background advertising work dominates a tiny page", "evidence": "A minimal shell triggers 41 requests and Lighthouse finds large unused JS/CSS.", "suggestedFix": "Do not initialize recommendations until requested or visible; remove unused dependencies and pause nonessential background work.", "effort": "medium", "artifacts": [ "evidence/network-summary.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" }, { "id": "F28", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "deprioritize-background-fetches", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Third-party bytes are disproportionate", "evidence": "Third parties account for 411KB across 35 requests, over half the transfer.", "suggestedFix": "Set a strict third-party budget, remove Criteo/Taboola from initial load, and defer any retained integration behind user value.", "effort": "large", "artifacts": [ "evidence/network-summary.json", "evidence/trackers.json" ], "pathId": "home", "url": "https://go.search-start.org/" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T01", "title": "Remove or explicitly gate the advertising/tracking stack", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F04", "F08", "F10", "F22", "F25", "F27", "F28" ], "guidanceId": "privacy", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T02", "title": "Restore semantic, labelled and visibly focusable search UI", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F06", "F11", "F13", "F14" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T03", "title": "Fix narrow/short viewport reflow with intrinsic sizing", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F05", "F14", "F24" ], "guidanceId": "css-layout", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T04", "title": "Deploy a tested security-header baseline", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F21", "F23" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T05", "title": "Cut render-blocking resources and optimize/cache the logo", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F09", "F15", "F26" ], "guidanceId": "performance", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T06", "title": "Publish real navigation, metadata, canonical and sitemap signals", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F03", "F17", "F18", "F19", "F20" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T07", "title": "Replace the storage-provider 404 with product recovery", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F07" ], "guidanceId": "persistent-toast-notifications", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T08", "title": "Add preference-aware dark theming", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F01" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 3, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-21T05-21-25-940Z" }