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Transaction completion was not attempted.", "pathIds": [ "search", "product", "cart", "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Cart screenshot, 404 response, and validation probe.", "evidence": "Empty cart offers Login and Continue Shopping; the tested 404 explains the missing page and links home; invalid login gives visible corrective text.", "pathIds": [ "cart", "error", "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/cart-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured LCP 4.0 s, TBT 470 ms, Speed Index 7.7 s and interactive 18.1 s (performance 0.65).", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "The layout observer measured CLS 0.083 on product and 0.106 on cart, with the cart shift concentrated in a 0.106 event.", "pathIds": [ "cart" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/cart-layout.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Lighthouse TBT was 470 ms; traces found 3 long tasks on both home and product, and the product trace recorded 120 ms TBT.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "The home HAR records 123 requests and 3.44 MB transferred, including 2.81 MB of script; product transfers 3.31 MB with 2.86 MB script. Parser-initiated modules were confirmed deferred, leaving the stylesheet and sheer startup graph as the concern.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Home loads 27 script requests/2.81 MB and search still loads polyfills plus analytics/tag-manager scripts; script is over 80% of transferred bytes.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "axe found 14 missing image alternatives, critical unlabeled form elements, and three unnamed links on home; login has an unnamed button, unlabeled input, ten images without alt, and four unnamed links.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-axe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "axe reported five contrast failures on home and twenty on login, including form/help text and policy links; Lighthouse also failed color-contrast.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-axe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "The product has no main landmark and duplicate contentinfo landmarks; home has no main/nav landmarks. Focus probes show outline:none on search fields and many links across search/login.", "pathIds": [ "product" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/product-axe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "The 360 px search capture scales a 980 px, 10,183 px desktop page to 36.7%, and the login capture similarly miniaturises the whole form/footer.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Home/product declare user-scalable=no; search/login omit viewport meta and render at 980 px. axe flags the viewport setting as critical.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-axe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Lighthouse recorded three console failures: one 401 unread-count request and two 406 analytics collector requests.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Image inspection found 45/97 homepage images and 18/64 product images without dimensions; 54 homepage images use legacy formats and six are oversized.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse and DOM interaction probes.", "evidence": "Lighthouse best-practices scored 0.96; no on-load permission prompt, deprecated-API audit failure, paste prevention, or broken image aspect ratio was observed.", "pathIds": [ "home", "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Direct DOM probes found meta[name=description] absent on home, search, product, login, and cart, although titles were descriptive; Lighthouse observed a homepage description in a separate run, indicating inconsistent output.", "pathIds": [ "product" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/product-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Search has no viewport meta and is scaled to 980 px; Lighthouse found one non-crawlable anchor and the live home probe found one anchor without href.", "pathIds": [ "search" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Metadata probes, robots.txt, and HTTP responses.", "evidence": "Home and product expose canonical URLs; robots.txt is reachable and declares product/store sitemaps; cart is intentionally noindex/disallowed.", "pathIds": [ "home", "product", "cart" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/robots.txt" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Product and home metadata probes.", "evidence": "Product exposes matching Product JSON-LD, title, canonical and og:image; homepage exposes Organization JSON-LD and Open Graph title/URL.", "pathIds": [ "home", "product" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/product-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "HTTPS and CSP are present, but HSTS and nosniff are missing; CSP permits unsafe-inline/unsafe-eval. Cookie audit reports 14 SameSite=None cookies and 8 without Secure.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Tracker capture found eight cross-origin origins and active New Relic endpoints; the HAR attributes 121/123 requests and 3.27 MB to other origins (mostly Flipkart CDNs, plus monitoring).", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "The sampled login page requests email/mobile and Request OTP; no password is collected, but no WebAuthn/passkey option or credential affordance appears. No permission prompt appeared on load.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-empty-submit.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F29" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Headers inspection found no HSTS, frame-ancestors/X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, or nosniff, and CSP allows unsafe-inline/unsafe-eval.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F30" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Discoverability primitive and crawler screenshots.", "evidence": "Core home and product content remains visible without JavaScript; crawler captures are populated and raw/rendered word coverage is 62%/55%, not a JS shell.", "pathIds": [ "home", "product" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/product-discoverability-crawler.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "The 360 px homepage capture shows the modal extending beyond both sides, with its left content and create-account action cut off.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F31" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Home/product/search probes found no link rel=manifest; no install surface was present.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F32" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "HTTP headers and rendered 404 body.", "evidence": "A tested HTTP 404 returns a clear moved/deleted explanation and a GO TO HOMEPAGE recovery action rather than a blank shell.", "pathIds": [ "error" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/sitemap.xml" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "lang is present (en/en-IN), but fetched CSS across representative templates contains zero logical margin/padding/inset properties and no authored dir adaptation.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-css-features.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Product and cart DOM probes.", "evidence": "Sampled prices use the Indian rupee symbol and Indian-facing number formatting consistently; lang is en-IN on home/product/cart.", "pathIds": [ "product", "cart" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/product-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from recon and representative-path inspection.", "evidence": "The representative public paths exposed no event scheduling, stored time, recurrence, or cross-time-zone workflow to judge.", "reason": "The representative public paths exposed no event scheduling, stored time, recurrence, or cross-time-zone workflow to judge." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "The homepage opens the login prompt automatically over product content, while login is also available in the header; this creates an avoidable account-pressure interruption.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F34" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "After empty Request OTP, text says “Please enter valid Email ID/Mobile number”, but every sampled input still has aria-invalid=null, :user-invalid=false, and no native validationMessage.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-validation.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F35" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Login probe shows the identity field with autocomplete=off and no label/aria-label; search fields also use autocomplete=off.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F36" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Product/cart/login screenshots and probes.", "evidence": "Product pricing, discount, variants, offers, and Protect Promise fee are visible; empty cart offers reversible navigation and login; OTP terms/privacy links are adjacent to continuation.", "pathIds": [ "product", "cart", "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/product-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "Homepage image audit found 54 legacy-format images, six oversized images, and 45 without dimensions; product found 28 legacy and three oversized.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F37" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "The homepage makes 123 requests including 25 fetch/XHR; Lighthouse logs a predictable 401 and two 406 collector calls, while traces record repeated long tasks.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F38" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "HAR reports 3.27 MB/3.44 MB and 121/123 homepage requests from origins other than www.flipkart.com; 2.81 MB is script and New Relic tracking is active. Most byte-heavy origins are Flipkart CDNs, but they still consume user resources.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F39" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence across planned representative paths.", "evidence": "The product is reasonably crawlable and has JSON-LD, but no WebMCP/agentic form registration was observed on search, product, login, or cart.", "pathIds": [ "product" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/product-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F40" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Applicability judgement from recon and representative-path inspection.", "evidence": "No sampled task requires generative summarisation or language-model inference; adding on-device AI solely to satisfy this check would not improve the core commerce journey.", "reason": "No sampled task requires generative summarisation or language-model inference; adding on-device AI solely to satisfy this check would not improve the core commerce journey." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Repeated-interaction metrics plus baseline/post heap summaries.", "evidence": "After ten login modal close/open cycles, DOM nodes fell from 2,062 to 2,040 and JS heap rose only 1.46 MB (~3.7%); the independent post heap snapshot was smaller than baseline. No monotonic leak signal was established.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/memory-metrics-login-cycle.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Performance memory metric and heap summary.", "evidence": "A loaded home state used about 39 MB JS heap with 2,062 DOM elements in the interaction probe; the heap summary was 60.9 MB, proportionate to a dense commerce homepage though optimisation is warranted.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Repeated interaction and constructor summaries.", "evidence": "DOM count decreased across ten modal cycles and neither heap summary listed Detached constructors among top retained constructors. No accumulating detached-node signal was observed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-post-login-cycle.json" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02", "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F05", "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F07", "F08", "F09" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F10", "F11", "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": 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"findingIds": [ "F37", "F38", "F39" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F40" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Homepage and global navigation, promotion, search entry, and automatic login-overlay archetype.", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "conditions": [ "desktop 1440x1000", "mobile 360x800", "dark scheme", "increased contrast", "reduced motion", "no JavaScript crawler" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "search", "description": "Search/listing archetype for the core product-discovery journey, including filters and long-page scrolling.", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/search?q=mobile", "conditions": [ "mobile 360x800", "desktop scroll interaction" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "product", "description": "Representative product-detail archetype with pricing, variants, offers, metadata, and product imagery.", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/vivo-t5-lite-44w-5g-wave-blue-128-gb/p/itm5420c578ec2df?pid=MOBHNDTD5AWH5FJT", "conditions": [ "desktop 1440x1000", "mobile 360x800", "no JavaScript crawler" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "login", "description": "Authentication/form archetype, including empty submission, validation feedback, and mobile reflow.", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/account/login?ret=/", "conditions": [ "mobile 360x800", "empty form submission", "keyboard focus probe" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "cart", "description": "Empty-cart and recovery state in the shopping journey.", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/viewcart?marketplace=FLIPKART", "conditions": [ "mobile 360x800", "anonymous session" ], "result": "pass" }, { "id": "error", "description": "Representative 404 response and recovery page, observed at /sitemap.xml.", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/sitemap.xml", "conditions": [ "HTTP 404", "no interaction" ], "result": "pass" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F01", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The interface remains light under a dark system preference.", "evidence": "The dark-scheme screenshot is visually the same light white/grey UI as the default, and the fetched 458 KB CSS contains no prefers-color-scheme rule.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme and define preference-driven surface/text tokens, using light-dark() or a prefers-color-scheme query.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F02", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-reduced-motion", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Animations continue when reduced motion is requested.", "evidence": "The reduced-motion probe found five running animations, including durations of 4.72 s and 5.33 s; CSS feature inspection found no prefers-reduced-motion rule.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-reduced-motion.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Disable non-essential animation and auto-advance inside prefers-reduced-motion: reduce.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F03", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-contrast", "guidanceId": "adapt-scrollbar-to-contrast-preferences", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "No authored high-contrast adaptation is present.", "evidence": "Fetched CSS contains no prefers-contrast or forced-colors rules; the increased-contrast capture does not establish a purpose-built high-contrast treatment.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-contrast.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Add forced-colors and prefers-contrast adaptations for controls, focus indicators, and custom chrome.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F04", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "same-document-transitions", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Route and modal state changes do not use authored View Transitions.", "evidence": "CSS inspection across home, search, and product found zero view-transition declarations; the modal-cycle video shows an abrupt custom state swap.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-modal-cycle.mp4" ], "suggestedFix": "Use same-document View Transitions for modal/state changes and cross-document transitions for compatible route changes, with reduced-motion handling.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F05", "pathId": "search", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/search?q=mobile", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "scroll-progress-indicator", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Long listing navigation does not provide scroll-state guidance.", "evidence": "The listing scroll video and CSS inspection show no progress indicator, shrinking header, scroll-state query, or equivalent positional feedback on a 10,183 px page.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-scroll.mp4" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a lightweight scroll progress or state-aware sticky header using declarative scroll-state techniques.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F06", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "anchored-positioning", "guidanceId": "position-aware-tooltips", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Menus and the login overlay are manually positioned rather than anchored.", "evidence": "CSS inspection found zero anchor-name, position-anchor, or position-try declarations on the sampled templates.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-css-features.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use CSS anchor positioning with fallback positions for menus and transient UI near viewport edges.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F07", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "A login interstitial obscures the homepage on load.", "evidence": "The desktop and mobile first-load screenshots show a dimmed page covered by a large login prompt before user intent; on mobile the overlay is clipped.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Do not open authentication on load. Trigger it from an explicit user action and retain an obvious dismiss path.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F08", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The login modal is an unlabelled custom div, not a semantic dialog.", "evidence": "DOM/probe evidence reports dialog=0, ariaModal=0 and a full-viewport custom DIV while the screenshot clearly shows modal behavior.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Implement the flow with , accessible naming, focus trapping/restoration, Escape and platform dismissal.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F09", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "reduced-chrome", "guidanceId": "overflow-clipping-control", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Promotional chrome and the account prompt crowd out shopping content.", "evidence": "The first viewport is dominated by the account modal, header categories, and ad creative; core product content is mostly obscured.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove the automatic modal and reduce competing first-viewport promotion so search and products remain primary.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F10", "pathId": "search", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/search?q=mobile", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Search and login templates ship a 980 px desktop viewport to 360 px devices.", "evidence": "At a requested 360x800 viewport, layout reports clientWidth=980, scale=0.367 and hasViewportMeta=false for search and login, making text and controls tiny; the homepage modal also scrolls to 370 px.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a valid responsive viewport on every template and rebuild fixed desktop grids/forms with intrinsic fluid layouts. Do not disable zoom.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F11", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/account/login?ret=/", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "size-aware-styling", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Shared search/auth components do not adapt consistently by container.", "evidence": "Search/login render as scaled desktop pages while product/cart use true 360 px layouts; all three CSS probes report zero @container/container-type usage.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Make shared header, filters, cards, and auth panel container-responsive and test each template at narrow sizes.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F12", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Many controls are undersized and several suppress focus indication.", "evidence": "The home probe found 42/96 visible interactive targets under 44 px; search found 50/88. Focused search inputs/buttons computed outline:none.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Meet touch target spacing/sizing and provide clear :focus-visible styles without removing the native outline unless replaced.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F13", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Mobile lab loading misses the good LCP and responsiveness bar.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured LCP 4.0 s, TBT 470 ms, Speed Index 7.7 s and interactive 18.1 s (performance 0.65).", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Prioritise the LCP element, reduce startup JavaScript, and schedule non-critical work after interaction readiness.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F14", "pathId": "cart", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/viewcart?marketplace=FLIPKART", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "visual-stability", "guidanceId": "visually-stable-font-fallbacks", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Product and cart views shift materially after load.", "evidence": "The layout observer measured CLS 0.083 on product and 0.106 on cart, with the cart shift concentrated in a 0.106 event.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/cart-layout.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Reserve space for late content and stabilise image, offer, and empty-state dimensions before paint.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F15", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "guidanceId": "break-up-long-tasks", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Startup JavaScript blocks the main thread.", "evidence": "Lighthouse TBT was 470 ms; traces found 3 long tasks on both home and product, and the product trace recorded 120 ms TBT.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Break up long tasks, defer non-critical modules, and schedule analytics/background work at lower priority.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F16", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-script-priority", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Critical delivery is script-heavy.", "evidence": "The home HAR records 123 requests and 3.44 MB transferred, including 2.81 MB of script; product transfers 3.31 MB with 2.86 MB script. Parser-initiated modules were confirmed deferred, leaving the stylesheet and sheer startup graph as the concern.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Reduce the critical dependency graph, preload only proven critical assets, and improve caching for stable bundles.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F17", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Large legacy and instrumentation bundles dominate page weight.", "evidence": "Home loads 27 script requests/2.81 MB and search still loads polyfills plus analytics/tag-manager scripts; script is over 80% of transferred bytes.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use coverage and bundle analysis to remove unused/duplicate code, conditionally load legacy support, and gate instrumentation.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F18", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Core controls and images lack accessible names or labels.", "evidence": "axe found 14 missing image alternatives, critical unlabeled form elements, and three unnamed links on home; login has an unnamed button, unlabeled input, ten images without alt, and four unnamed links.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-axe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add visible labels and programmatic names, meaningful alt text, and correct button/link semantics.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F19", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/account/login?ret=/", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Text and links fail WCAG contrast.", "evidence": "axe reported five contrast failures on home and twenty on login, including form/help text and policy links; Lighthouse also failed color-contrast.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-axe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Adjust color tokens to meet WCAG AA in default, hover, focus, disabled, and error states.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F20", "pathId": "product", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/vivo-t5-lite-44w-5g-wave-blue-128-gb/p/itm5420c578ec2df?pid=MOBHNDTD5AWH5FJT", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Landmarks and visible focus are inconsistent.", "evidence": "The product has no main landmark and duplicate contentinfo landmarks; home has no main/nav landmarks. Focus probes show outline:none on search fields and many links across search/login.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/product-axe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a single main landmark, unique landmarks, logical headings, and strong :focus-visible treatment in DOM order.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F21", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/account/login?ret=/", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "legible-text", "guidanceId": "improve-text-layout-and-legibility", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Desktop scaling makes mobile listing and login text illegible.", "evidence": "The 360 px search capture scales a 980 px, 10,183 px desktop page to 36.7%, and the login capture similarly miniaturises the whole form/footer.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Use responsive typography and reflowed single-column layouts rather than viewport-scale shrinkage.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F22", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Several templates prevent zoom or omit the responsive viewport.", "evidence": "Home/product declare user-scalable=no; search/login omit viewport meta and render at 980 px. axe flags the viewport setting as critical.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-axe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove user-scalable=no, add width=device-width, initial-scale=1 consistently, and verify 200% zoom/reflow.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F23", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "no-console-errors", "guidanceId": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The homepage emits failed network requests in the console.", "evidence": "Lighthouse recorded three console failures: one 401 unread-count request and two 406 analytics collector requests.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Avoid unauthenticated requests that predictably fail and suppress/retry telemetry only when valid.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F24", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Many images lack intrinsic dimensions and use legacy formats.", "evidence": "Image inspection found 45/97 homepage images and 18/64 product images without dimensions; 54 homepage images use legacy formats and six are oversized.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Set width/height or aspect-ratio, preserve correct aspect ratios, and serve efficient modern formats at responsive sizes.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F25", "pathId": "product", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/vivo-t5-lite-44w-5g-wave-blue-128-gb/p/itm5420c578ec2df?pid=MOBHNDTD5AWH5FJT", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "title-and-description", "guidanceId": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Rendered representative pages do not expose meta descriptions consistently.", "evidence": "Direct DOM probes found meta[name=description] absent on home, search, product, login, and cart, although titles were descriptive; Lighthouse observed a homepage description in a separate run, indicating inconsistent output.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/product-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Emit stable, unique descriptions in server HTML for public templates and retain them after hydration.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F26", "pathId": "search", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/search?q=mobile", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "guidanceId": "html", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Public listing pages are not mobile-friendly and one anchor is not crawlable.", "evidence": "Search has no viewport meta and is scaled to 980 px; Lighthouse found one non-crawlable anchor and the live home probe found one anchor without href.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Provide real hrefs and a responsive viewport on every public template; keep descriptive link text.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F27", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Transport policy and cookie flags are weaker than expected.", "evidence": "HTTPS and CSP are present, but HSTS and nosniff are missing; CSP permits unsafe-inline/unsafe-eval. Cookie audit reports 14 SameSite=None cookies and 8 without Secure.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Enable HSTS and nosniff, tighten CSP away from unsafe directives, and mark cookies Secure with the narrowest viable SameSite policy.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F28", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Analytics and third-party activity are broad for an anonymous first load.", "evidence": "Tracker capture found eight cross-origin origins and active New Relic endpoints; the HAR attributes 121/123 requests and 3.27 MB to other origins (mostly Flipkart CDNs, plus monitoring).", "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Classify corporate CDNs separately, then minimise monitoring/marketing collection, batch events, and load non-essential analytics after consent or need.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F29", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/account/login?ret=/", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "guidanceId": "passkeys", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Login offers OTP only, with no visible passkey route.", "evidence": "The sampled login page requests email/mobile and Request OTP; no password is collected, but no WebAuthn/passkey option or credential affordance appears. No permission prompt appeared on load.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-empty-submit.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Offer passkeys as the preferred phishing-resistant sign-in path while retaining OTP recovery.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F30", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "defensive-browser-policies", "guidanceId": "security", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Defensive response policies are incomplete.", "evidence": "Headers inspection found no HSTS, frame-ancestors/X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, or nosniff, and CSP allows unsafe-inline/unsafe-eval.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add frame-ancestors, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, HSTS and nosniff; adopt nonces/hashes and Trusted Types where feasible.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F31", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "guidanceId": "resilient-context-menus-and-nested-dropdowns", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The custom login overlay is clipped on narrow screens.", "evidence": "The 360 px homepage capture shows the modal extending beyond both sides, with its left content and create-account action cut off.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Use a semantic responsive dialog constrained with logical insets/max-size and test focus/dismissal at viewport edges.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F32", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "offline-and-installable", "guidanceId": "detect-initial-visibility-state", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The commerce experience is not installable from the sampled pages.", "evidence": "Home/product/search probes found no link rel=manifest; no install surface was present.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Provide a valid web app manifest and an intentional offline fallback for navigation and saved/cart state where business rules permit.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F33", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-internationalised", "principleCheckId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "guidanceId": "translator", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "International layout support is incomplete.", "evidence": "lang is present (en/en-IN), but fetched CSS across representative templates contains zero logical margin/padding/inset properties and no authored dir adaptation.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-css-features.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Adopt logical properties and verify translated/RTL layouts; set dir explicitly when locale direction can vary.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F34", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "no-dark-patterns", "guidanceId": "custom-button-actions", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Authentication is nagged before the user asks for it.", "evidence": "The homepage opens the login prompt automatically over product content, while login is also available in the header; this creates an avoidable account-pressure interruption.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Keep anonymous browsing unobstructed and ask for authentication only at an action that requires it.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F35", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/account/login?ret=/", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "humane-error-handling", "guidanceId": "accessible-error-announcement", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Login errors are visible but not exposed as invalid state.", "evidence": "After empty Request OTP, text says “Please enter valid Email ID/Mobile number”, but every sampled input still has aria-invalid=null, :user-invalid=false, and no native validationMessage.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-validation.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Associate the message with the field, set aria-invalid after interaction, and announce the error through an appropriate live region.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F36", "pathId": "login", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/account/login?ret=/", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "guidanceId": "autofill-sign-in-form", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Sign-in and search inputs disable autocomplete and lack visible labels.", "evidence": "Login probe shows the identity field with autocomplete=off and no label/aria-label; search fields also use autocomplete=off.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use a visible label and the correct username/email/tel and one-time-code autocomplete tokens; do not disable autofill.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F37", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Image delivery still wastes bytes and layout certainty.", "evidence": "Homepage image audit found 54 legacy-format images, six oversized images, and 45 without dimensions; product found 28 legacy and three oversized.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Serve AVIF/WebP where appropriate, right-size responsive sources, and reserve dimensions.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F38", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "no-wasteful-work", "guidanceId": "efficient-background-processing", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Anonymous loads perform avoidable failing and analytics work.", "evidence": "The homepage makes 123 requests including 25 fetch/XHR; Lighthouse logs a predictable 401 and two 406 collector calls, while traces record repeated long tasks.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove predictable failing calls, batch telemetry, and deprioritise background collection until idle/consent.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F39", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "deprioritize-background-fetches", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The startup budget is dominated by cross-origin scripts.", "evidence": "HAR reports 3.27 MB/3.44 MB and 121/123 homepage requests from origins other than www.flipkart.com; 2.81 MB is script and New Relic tracking is active. Most byte-heavy origins are Flipkart CDNs, but they still consume user resources.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Set an explicit script/third-party budget, defer monitoring, and cache/version CDN assets aggressively.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F40", "pathId": "product", "url": "https://www.flipkart.com/vivo-t5-lite-44w-5g-wave-blue-128-gb/p/itm5420c578ec2df?pid=MOBHNDTD5AWH5FJT", "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "principleCheckId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "guidanceId": "webmcp", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "High-value commerce actions are not exposed as structured agent tools.", "evidence": "The product is reasonably crawlable and has JSON-LD, but no WebMCP/agentic form registration was observed on search, product, login, or cart.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/product-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Treat this as an emerging opportunity: expose narrowly scoped, user-confirmed search/cart capabilities through WebMCP when support and risk controls are ready.", "effort": "large" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T1", "title": "Repair mobile viewport, zoom, and true reflow across search/login/home dialog", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F10", "F11", "F21", "F22" ], "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T2", "title": "Remove the automatic login interruption and rebuild it as an accessible responsive dialog", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F07", "F08", "F31", "F34" ], "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T3", "title": "Fix accessible names, labels, landmarks, focus, contrast, and touch targets", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F18", "F19", "F20", "F12" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T4", "title": "Cut startup JavaScript and main-thread work to meet LCP/TBT targets", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F13", "F15", "F16", "F17" ], "guidanceId": "break-up-long-tasks", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T5", "title": "Harden response headers, CSP, and cookie attributes", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F27", "F30" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T6", "title": "Add dark, reduced-motion, and high-contrast preference adaptations", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02", "F03" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T7", "title": "Stabilise image dimensions and modernise asset delivery", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F14", "F24", "F37" ], "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T8", "title": "Make login validation and autofill assistive and announce errors", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F35", "F36" ], "guidanceId": "accessible-error-announcement", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T9", "title": "Reduce anonymous telemetry, failing calls, and cross-origin script budget", "priority": 9, "findingIds": [ "F28", "F38", "F39", "F23" ], "guidanceId": "efficient-background-processing", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T10", "title": "Stabilise SEO descriptions, crawlable links, and mobile metadata", "priority": 10, "findingIds": [ "F25", "F26" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 6, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-21T14-26-30-176Z" }