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"home summary", "findingIds": [ "F14", "F15", "F22", "F24", "F25", "F26", "F27", "F28" ] }, { "type": "trace-summary", "path": "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "caption": "home trace summary", "findingIds": [ "F12", "F13" ] }, { "type": "trace", "path": "evidence/home-trace.json", "caption": "home trace", "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "type": "har", "path": "evidence/home.har", "caption": "home", "findingIds": [ "F14", "F22" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "caption": "lighthouse home", "findingIds": [ "F03", "F12", "F13", "F15", "F16", "F17", "F18", "F26" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/manifest.json", "caption": "manifest" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/preferences-probe.json", "caption": "preferences probe", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/robots-sitemap.txt", "caption": "robots sitemap" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/secrets.json", "caption": "secrets" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/section-mobile.png", "caption": "section mobile" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/trackers.json", "caption": "trackers", "findingIds": [ "F22", "F24", "F27" ] } ], "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": "Emulated dark media screenshot plus computed-style/CSS probe.", "evidence": "Under emulated prefers-color-scheme: dark, body remained rgb(255,255,255) on rgb(0,0,0), color-scheme computed as normal, and the dark screenshot was byte-identical to light.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", 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layout and robots inspection.", "evidence": "Lighthouse passed crawlable anchors, robots.txt validity, crawlability, and viewport; the mobile layout has no overflow.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/robots-sitemap.txt" ], "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Metadata probes, discoverability HTTP results, and robots/sitemap fetch.", "evidence": "Homepage and article return 200, declare self-canonicals, are index/follow, and robots/sitemap endpoints are available.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json", "evidence/article-quality-probe.json", "evidence/robots-sitemap.txt", "evidence/article-discoverability.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Article JSON-LD/Open Graph probe.", "evidence": "The article contains NewsArticle JSON-LD and matching Open Graph title, description, URL, author, image, and update time.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-quality-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Headers and cookies primitives.", "evidence": "HTTPS and HSTS are present, but CSP and X-Content-Type-Options are absent; four analytics cookies are not Secure and all eight observed cookies were flagged insecure by the cookie audit.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Trackers primitive, HAR summary, and fresh-load consent screenshot.", "evidence": "The load contacted 22 third-party origins and seven known tracker domains; 74 third-party requests transferred 2.37MB before a consent choice.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Fresh-load runtime/visual inspection and representative-flow applicability review.", "evidence": "No notification/geolocation permission prompt fired on load; authentication is not part of the representative public-news journey.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-quality-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Security headers primitive.", "evidence": "CSP/frame-ancestors or X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, and nosniff are all absent; only HSTS is present.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Discoverability raw-versus-rendered comparison.", "evidence": "Raw HTML preserved 96% of homepage and 93% of article rendered content; both titles/descriptions survive without JavaScript and the article H1 does too.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-discoverability.json", "evidence/article-discoverability.json", "evidence/home-discoverability-crawler.png", "evidence/article-discoverability-crawler.png" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Mobile layout and rendered control inspection.", "evidence": "The responsive pages retained navigation and content structure at 360px with no overflow; the consent overlay fit the viewport and exposed explicit choices.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/article-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Manifest and service-worker capability probe.", "evidence": "A valid standalone manifest exists, but this live breaking-news publication is intrinsically network-current; an offline app experience was not treated as required.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/manifest.json", "evidence/home-quality-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "reason": "Offline content freshness/installability is contextual for this network-current news publication." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "HTTP and rendered 404 inspection.", "evidence": "An unknown route resolves to an HTTP 404 page with a descriptive title and retained navigation rather than a blank shell.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/error-404-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "DOM language/navigation and fetched stylesheet probe.", "evidence": "The Greek site declares html lang=el, uses logical CSS properties, and provides a visible English-site switch; Greek is left-to-right so an explicit dir is not required.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json", "evidence/home-controls.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Rendered DOM/time element and language navigation inspection.", "evidence": "Rendered dates use Greek relative-time strings and machine-readable ISO datetime values; a dedicated English edition is linked.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-controls.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Article Open Graph and DOM datetime inspection.", "evidence": "Article metadata and visible time elements carry unambiguous ISO offsets such as +03:00 and updated_time values.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-quality-probe.json", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Fresh-load screenshot plus trackers, cookies, and HAR evidence.", "evidence": "The first screen is a dense consent wall naming 1,726 partners; tracking requests and analytics cookies are already present before the user chooses, undermining an informed, honest default.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Lighthouse label audit and 404 inspection.", "evidence": "The public content flow has no required form; Lighthouse found form controls labelled and the 404 state uses a clear title with recovery navigation.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/error-404-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Representative route and form-purpose inspection.", "evidence": "No address, payment, sign-in, or sign-up data-entry flow is present in the representative public-news paths.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "reason": "Only site search/utility inputs were present; the personal-data autofill scenarios in this check do not apply." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Representative route and navigation inspection.", "evidence": "No checkout, subscription purchase, authentication, or account-management flow was exposed on the representative public-news paths.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-recon.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "reason": "No commercial or account flow was present in the audited scope." }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Images primitive and HAR resource totals.", "evidence": "Of 100 inspected images, 93 lack srcset, 95 lack dimensions, 17 use legacy formats, and seven are oversized; images transferred 1.11MB.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR and Lighthouse unused-code diagnostics.", "evidence": "The initial load makes 126 requests and ships 1.68MB of scripts; Lighthouse estimates 603KiB unused JavaScript.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR third-party byte accounting and trackers primitive.", "evidence": "Third parties account for 74 requests and 2.37MB, including 1.12MB from Google Tag Manager alone, disproportionate for the initial text-news view.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/trackers.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Raw/rendered discoverability and source feature probe.", "evidence": "The site publishes crawler-readable HTML and JSON-LD but declares no agent-facing transactional capability; WebMCP was not treated as required for this public news surface.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-discoverability.json", "evidence/article-quality-probe.json", "evidence/home-quality-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "reason": "No agent-facing action surface or declared WebMCP intent was identified; this emerging check is contextual." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Fetched script feature probe and task applicability review.", "evidence": "No user task in the representative paths requires on-device inference, and no built-in language-model API use was found.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "reason": "Built-in on-device inference is an optional emerging enhancement, not required for basic news reading." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Baseline and post-interaction heap summaries using repeated real scrolling.", "evidence": "After ten full-document scroll cycles, the post heap was smaller than baseline: 959,239 vs 997,826 nodes and 52.18MB vs 53.60MB self size.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-post-scroll.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Heap summary totals judged against page purpose and HAR/script weight.", "evidence": "A fresh homepage heap contains 997,826 nodes and 53.60MB self size, a large footprint for a document whose core task is reading news.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ], "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Before/after heap constructor and total comparison.", "evidence": "No Detached* constructor appeared among the top heap constructors, and node count fell by 38,587 after repeated scrolling rather than growing.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-post-scroll.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] } ], "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" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F12", "F13", "F14", "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F16", "F17", "F18", "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F21", "F22", "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", 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ordinary mode already has 3.68:1 text.", "suggestedFix": "Add forced-colors and prefers-contrast styles, preserving system colors and visible boundaries.", "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ] }, { "id": "F04", "severity": "low", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "cross-document-transitions", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Content navigation does not use View Transitions.", "evidence": "No view-transition usage was found in first-party CSS/JS.", "suggestedFix": "Progressively enhance same-origin article and section navigation with cross-document View Transitions.", "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F05", "severity": "low", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Sticky navigation is driven by a JavaScript plugin rather than scroll-state-aware CSS.", "evidence": "DOM uses data-plugin-stickit; no scroll-state query was found.", "suggestedFix": "Replace eligible sticky-header state toggling with scroll-state container queries and a fallback.", "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-quality-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F06", "severity": "low", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "anchored-positioning", "guidanceId": "position-aware-tooltips", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Menus/overlays do not use anchor positioning.", "evidence": "No anchor-name/position-anchor CSS was found; consent is a fixed high-z div.", "suggestedFix": "Use popover plus CSS anchor positioning/position-try for anchored menus where applicable.", "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-controls.json", "evidence/home-quality-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F07", "severity": "high", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "confidence": "high", "summary": "A full-screen consent wall blocks every primary content path.", "evidence": "Fresh desktop/mobile/article screens show only the long consent copy and controls.", "suggestedFix": "Use a concise, non-blocking consent surface with equal choices; defer non-essential partners until consent.", "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png" ] }, { "id": "F08", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "guidanceId": "Overlay UI is built from nested divs rather than native top-layer primitives.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "role=dialog exists, but there are zero , popover, or details elements.", "evidence": "Use for the modal flow and popover/details for transient/disclosure UI with platform dismissal.", "suggestedFix": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json", "evidence/home-controls.json" ] }, { "id": "F09", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "reduced-chrome", "guidanceId": "The homepage is exceptionally dense before users reach a story.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "475 visible controls and a 41,385px mobile document accompany the blocking consent layer.", "evidence": "Reduce duplicated modules/chrome and prioritise a smaller set of top stories and clear section paths.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ] }, { "id": "F10", "severity": "low", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "Reusable cards rely on page-level responsiveness only.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "No @container rule was found in first-party styles.", "evidence": "Give reusable card/list modules containment and adapt their internals with container queries.", "suggestedFix": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F11", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "Many interactive targets are too small.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "90 visible controls measured below 24px in width or height.", "evidence": "Increase hit areas toward WCAG 2.2 target-size guidance while retaining visible focus.", "suggestedFix": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json" ] }, { "id": "F12", "severity": "critical", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "Largest Contentful Paint is extremely slow.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Lighthouse LCP was 15.5s, performance 57, Speed Index 9.3s, and TTI 18.4s.", "evidence": "Prioritise the LCP image/content, cut early third-party work, and defer non-critical scripts/styles.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json" ] }, { "id": "F13", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "guidanceId": "The page becomes interactive slowly.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Lighthouse TBT was 290ms and TTI 18.4s; trace found a 72ms long task.", "evidence": "Break up long tasks and schedule/defer analytics, players, and below-fold modules by priority.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ] }, { "id": "F14", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "The initial dependency graph is heavy.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "126 requests/3.34MB, including 54 scripts/1.68MB and parser-blocking styles.", "evidence": "Shorten critical chains, remove duplicate tags, defer third parties, and optimise LCP discovery.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/home-dom.json" ] }, { "id": "F15", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "Large unused JS/CSS payloads ship on first load.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Lighthouse estimates 603KiB unused JS and 49KiB unused CSS.", "evidence": "Conditionally load players, CMP modules, and analytics destinations; split the site stylesheet by template.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ] }, { "id": "F16", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "Many links and images lack accessible names.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Lighthouse found unnamed social/mainLink anchors and missing-alt images; probe counted 174 unnamed controls.", "evidence": "Give icon/overlay links accessible names and meaningful images alt text, hiding decorative images correctly.", "suggestedFix": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/home-quality-probe.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ] }, { "id": "F17", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "Secondary text fails WCAG contrast.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Lighthouse measured 3.68:1 for navigation, tabs, and timestamps.", "evidence": "Darken the muted text token to achieve at least 4.5:1 for normal text.", "suggestedFix": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ] }, { "id": "F18", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "The homepage heading hierarchy is broken.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The H1 is empty and Lighthouse found H3/H4 level skips.", "evidence": "Add one meaningful H1 and make section/card headings descend sequentially.", "suggestedFix": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json", "evidence/home-recon.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ] }, { "id": "F19", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "guidanceId": "Small targets and uncaptionsed video reduce comparable access.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "90 targets are under 24px and the detected video has no captions track.", "evidence": "Enlarge hit areas and provide captions/transcripts for editorial video.", "suggestedFix": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json", "evidence/home-layout-mobile.json" ] }, { "id": "F20", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "Image markup lacks intrinsic and responsive sizing.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "95/100 images lack dimensions and 93/100 lack srcset.", "evidence": "Emit width/height or aspect-ratio and responsive srcset/sizes for every editorial image.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-quality-probe.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ] }, { "id": "F21", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "Security headers and cookie flags are incomplete.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "No CSP or nosniff; four analytics cookies are not Secure.", "evidence": "Deploy a measured CSP, nosniff, and Secure/Lax cookie defaults, then tighten via report-only telemetry.", "suggestedFix": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ] }, { "id": "F22", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "Tracking starts with a very large third-party footprint.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "22 third-party origins, seven known trackers, and 2.37MB third-party bytes were observed before choice.", "evidence": "Block non-essential tags until consent and consolidate to a minimal, privacy-preserving measurement plan.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ] }, { "id": "F23", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "defensive-browser-policies", "guidanceId": "Most browser-enforced defensive policies are absent.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "No CSP/frame-ancestors, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, or nosniff.", "evidence": "Add CSP frame-ancestors, nosniff, strict referrer policy, and a minimal Permissions-Policy.", "suggestedFix": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ] }, { "id": "F24", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "no-dark-patterns", "guidanceId": "Consent defaults are not trustworthy.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The wall names 1,726 partners while trackers/cookies activate before a user choice.", "evidence": "Adopt privacy-by-default: no optional tags before consent, concise purposes, and equivalent accept/reject controls.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ] }, { "id": "F25", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "Editorial images are not consistently responsive or modern.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "93 images lack srcset, 17 are legacy format, and seven are oversized.", "evidence": "Generate AVIF/WebP variants and accurate srcset/sizes with intrinsic dimensions.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ] }, { "id": "F26", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "no-wasteful-work", "guidanceId": "The initial page performs substantial avoidable work.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "126 requests, 1.68MB scripts, and 603KiB estimated unused JS.", "evidence": "Load modules only near use, remove duplicate analytics, and pause/deprioritise background work.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ] }, { "id": "F27", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "Third-party cost dominates the first view.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Third parties transfer 2.37MB; Google Tag Manager origins alone transfer 1.12MB.", "evidence": "Set a third-party byte/request budget and enforce delayed, consent-gated loading.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/trackers.json" ] }, { "id": "F28", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "principleCheckId": "bounded-footprint", "guidanceId": "The fresh homepage has a large memory footprint.", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Heap summary reports 997,826 nodes and 53.60MB self size.", "evidence": "Reduce duplicated DOM/modules and only instantiate below-fold widgets when near the viewport.", "suggestedFix": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.protothema.gr", "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ] } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T01", "title": "Make privacy consent genuinely opt-in and gate all optional tags", "priority": 1, "guidanceId": "batch-analytics-events", "findingIds": [ "F07", "F22", "F24" ], "status": "open" }, { "id": "T02", "title": "Cut LCP and first-load JavaScript/third-party cost", "priority": 2, "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "findingIds": [ "F12", "F13", "F14", "F15", "F26", "F27" ], "status": "open" }, { "id": "T03", "title": "Repair accessible names, heading structure, contrast, targets, and captions", "priority": 3, "guidanceId": "accessibility", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F16", "F17", "F18", "F19" ], "status": "open" }, { "id": "T04", "title": "Harden response headers and cookie flags", "priority": 4, "guidanceId": "security", "findingIds": [ "F21", "F23" ], "status": "open" }, { "id": "T05", "title": "Build a responsive image pipeline with dimensions and modern formats", "priority": 5, "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "findingIds": [ "F20", "F25" ], "status": "open" }, { "id": "T06", "title": "Add dark, reduced-motion, and high-contrast preference layers", "priority": 6, "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02", "F03" ], "status": "open" }, { "id": "T07", "title": "Reduce homepage DOM/chrome and instantiate below-fold modules lazily", "priority": 7, "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "findingIds": [ "F09", "F28" ], "status": "open" }, { "id": "T08", "title": "Modernise overlays, sticky state, navigation transitions, and component responsiveness", "priority": 8, "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F05", "F06", "F08", "F10" ], "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 5, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-21T19-34-42-914Z" }