{ "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com", "auditedAt": "2026-07-22T01:13:46.519Z", "mode": "report", "status": "completed", "statusDetail": "Coverage-complete audit of six representative paths. Video/gallery templates and authenticated/purchase completion were not covered because they duplicate media/listing patterns or require credentials/payment; login entry was inspected without solving CAPTCHA.", "page": { "appType": "hybrid", "framework": "Next.js / React (server-rendered content with client hydration)", "notes": "Public cricket scores, editorial news, schedules, media and account surfaces. Browser access required a normal Chrome user-agent because the default HeadlessChrome UA received an Akamai Access Denied page; all evidence was still gathered over raw CDP." }, "evidenceUsed": [ "raw-CDP screenshot", "structured DOM/evaluate probes", "layout metrics and layout-shift observer", "performance trace", "HAR summary", "Lighthouse", "headers", "cookies", "trackers", "secrets scan", "image audit", "discoverability/no-JS comparison", "heap before/after comparison", "robots.txt and sitemap inspection", "Modern Web Guidance search/retrieve" ], "guidanceConsulted": [ "dark-mode", "accessibility", "fluid-scaling", "improve-text-layout-and-legibility", "performance", "break-up-long-tasks", "identify-heavy-scripts", "optimize-image-priority", "deprioritize-background-fetches", "security", "privacy", "batch-analytics-events", "forms", "autofill-sign-in-form", "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "visually-stable-font-fallbacks", "reduce-style-repetition", "same-document-transitions", "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "position-aware-tooltips", "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "size-aware-styling", "accessible-error-announcement", "coordinate-global-events", "manage-recurring-intervals", "html" ], "artifacts": [ { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/article-mobile.json", "caption": "article mobile evidence captured during this run", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/article-mobile.png", "caption": "article mobile evidence captured during this run", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F08", "F27" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/article.json", "caption": "article evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/article.png", "caption": "article evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/cookies.json", "caption": "cookies evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-article-crawler.png", "caption": "discoverability article crawler evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-article-rendered.png", "caption": "discoverability article rendered evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/discoverability-article.json", "caption": "discoverability article evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-home-crawler.png", "caption": "discoverability home crawler evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-home-rendered.png", "caption": "discoverability home rendered evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/discoverability-home.json", "caption": "discoverability home evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-live-crawler.png", "caption": "discoverability live crawler evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-live-rendered.png", "caption": "discoverability live rendered evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/discoverability-live.json", "caption": "discoverability live evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/headers.json", "caption": "headers evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F24", "F26" ] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "caption": "heap baseline evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F34" ] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-post.json", "caption": "heap post evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-dark-reduce.json", "caption": "home dark reduce evidence captured during this run", "condition": "prefers-color-scheme: dark; prefers-reduced-motion: reduce; prefers-contrast: more", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-dark-reduce.png", "caption": "home dark reduce evidence captured during this run", "condition": "prefers-color-scheme: dark; prefers-reduced-motion: reduce; prefers-contrast: more", "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-desktop.png", "caption": "home desktop evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/home-dom.json", "caption": "home dom evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-light.json", "caption": "home light evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F03", "F04", "F05", "F07", "F09", "F18", "F20", "F34" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-light.png", "caption": "home light evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F04" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-mobile.json", "caption": "home mobile evidence captured during this run", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F09" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-mobile.png", "caption": "home mobile evidence captured during this run", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "type": "har-summary", "path": "evidence/home-summary.json", "caption": "home summary evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F08", "F14", "F25", "F32", "F33" ] }, { "type": "trace-summary", "path": "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "caption": "home trace summary evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F13" ] }, { "type": "trace", "path": "evidence/home-trace.json", "caption": "home trace evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-ua.json", "caption": "home ua evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-ua.png", "caption": "home ua evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "type": "har", "path": "evidence/home.har", "caption": "home evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F14", "F25", "F33" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/images.json", "caption": "images evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F21", "F31" ] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/layout-article-mobile.json", "caption": "layout article mobile evidence captured during this run", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F12", "F19" ] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/layout-home-desktop.json", "caption": "layout home desktop evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/layout-home-mobile.json", "caption": "layout home mobile evidence captured during this run", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/layout-live-score.json", "caption": "layout live score evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/lighthouse-article-selected.json", "caption": "lighthouse article selected evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/lighthouse-article.json", "caption": "lighthouse article evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F10", "F11", "F12", "F13", "F17", "F19" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/lighthouse-home-selected.json", "caption": "lighthouse home selected evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F15", "F22" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "caption": "lighthouse home evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F02", "F06", "F07", "F11", "F13", "F15", "F16", "F17", "F18", "F19", "F20", "F22", "F32" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/live-score.json", "caption": "live score evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/live-score.png", "caption": "live score evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/login-invalid.json", "caption": "login invalid evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F16", "F29", "F30" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/login-invalid.png", "caption": "login invalid evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/login.json", "caption": "login evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/login.png", "caption": "login evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F29" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/not-found.json", "caption": "not found evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/not-found.png", "caption": "not found evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/pwa.json", "caption": "pwa evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/recon-ua.json", "caption": "recon ua evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/recon.json", "caption": "recon evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/robots-headers.txt", "caption": "robots headers evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/robots.txt", "caption": "robots evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/schedule.json", "caption": "schedule evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F27", "F28" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/schedule.png", "caption": "schedule evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/secrets.json", "caption": "secrets evidence captured during this run" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/sitemap.xml", "caption": "sitemap evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/trackers.json", "caption": "trackers evidence captured during this run", "findingIds": [ "F25" ] } ], "config": { "loaded": false }, "coverage": { "catalogVersion": "modern-web-guidance@0.0.172", "catalogChecksum": "sha256:78ccfdb2d483f4c57d9dafed80fd86c6265585a56457c8dcfddc254b80fb44d7", "expected": 58, "recorded": 58, "judged": 58, "blocked": 0, "notRun": 0, "missing": 0, "unknown": 0, "duplicates": 0, "complete": true }, "checkOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-color-scheme", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The dark/reduced/contrast capture remains the same light rgb(236, 240, 241) surface with black text as the light capture; computed color-scheme is normal and inspected CSS has no prefers-color-scheme rule.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.png", "evidence/home-dark-reduce.png", "evidence/home-dark-reduce.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Emulated reduced-motion capture reported zero active homepage animations after consent rejection; no autoplay carousel motion was observed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark-reduce.json" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Under prefers-contrast: more the CSS probe found no prefers-contrast or forced-colors rules; Lighthouse reports 3.92:1 for GET APP and lower ratios in consent controls.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark-reduce.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "view-transitions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "CSS inspection across representative pages found no view-transition declarations; navigation uses ordinary links and abrupt document/state replacement.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.json", "evidence/live-score.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement against the check’s contextual trigger.", "evidence": "Context reviewed across all representative paths.", "reason": "No scroll-linked parallax, scrollytelling, or reveal animation was present on the representative paths, so there is no scroll-driven effect to implement." }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "The mobile score/video rails use native horizontal layout with CSS scroll-snap present; no custom pointermove gesture layer was observed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Desktop captures show a static header and the CSS probe found no scroll-state container queries or scroll-driven progress treatment across a long 8,636px homepage.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.png", "evidence/home-light.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The site exposes several dropdown navigation menus, while CSS inspection found no anchor-name, position-anchor, or fallback position rules.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Mobile navigation keeps a persistent bottom bar with Home visibly active, while live-score pages expose a descriptive H1 and contextual navigation.", "pathIds": [ "home", "live-score" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The initial 1440x1000 screenshot is dimmed behind a centered consent dialog; users must choose before reading scores or news. Reject is available and visually equal, which limits severity.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-ua.png", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The CMP is a div with role=dialog rather than ; across inspected pages there are zero dialog, popover, or details elements despite menus and disclosures.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/home-light.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "reduced-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Mobile first viewports contain an install banner, top ad, in-feed video ad, GET APP promo, and fixed bottom navigation; the HAR records 81 third-party requests before the core page settles.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Layout metrics report zero horizontal overflow at 360px for homepage and article; screenshots show a purpose-built mobile layout and viewport meta is present.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/layout-home-mobile.json" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "component-level-responsiveness", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Desktop/mobile layouts do adapt, but inspected CSS across reused cards contains no @container rules.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.json", "evidence/home-mobile.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F09" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The focused logo link reports outline none; structured probes found 12–30 visible controls below 24px on representative pages, and Lighthouse flags 56x14px sponsored controls on the article.", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile.json", "evidence/lighthouse-article.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "First viewports immediately expose current scores, article headline/content, schedule dates, and clearly labelled primary navigation.", "pathIds": [ "home", "live-score", "article", "schedule" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.png" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "The public core journeys from homepage to live score, schedule and article all loaded with usable content and stable onward links without an account wall.", "pathIds": [ "home", "live-score", "article", "schedule" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/live-score.png" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "The invalid route shows “Nothing to show”, explains unavailability, and offers direct links to home, live scores, schedule, archives, news and photos.", "pathIds": [ "not-found" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/not-found.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reports homepage LCP 3.4s, CLS 0.155, TBT 300ms and article LCP 2.7s, CLS 0.22, TBT 340ms; performance scores are 0.68 and 0.69.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/lighthouse-article.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The layout observer measured CLS 0.110 on the mobile homepage and 0.191 on the mobile article; Lighthouse measured 0.155 and 0.22 respectively.", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/layout-home-mobile.json", "evidence/layout-article-mobile.json", "evidence/lighthouse-article.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measures 300–340ms TBT and 18.9–19.7s Time to Interactive; the custom post-load trace saw no long tasks, indicating the main cost is concentrated during load.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/lighthouse-article.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "HAR captured 140 requests and 2,218,614 transferred bytes, including 69 scripts; 81 third-party requests transferred 1,627,042 bytes. Parser-inserted stylesheets and high-priority script chains start at navigation.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home.har", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimates 769 KiB unused JavaScript and 36 KiB unused CSS; top waste includes Taboola, GPT, GTM, CleverTap, and k-words scripts.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home-selected.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Lighthouse finds the logo and carousel links have no discernible name; login inspection finds an email input with no label, aria-label, id/name, required state, or autocomplete.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/login-invalid.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reports 3.92:1 for 14px GET APP controls and lower ratios in consent UI; article ad attribution also measures about 4.14:1 at small text sizes.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/lighthouse-article.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Lighthouse flags an H3 Featured Videos heading that skips hierarchy on the homepage; the first logo link is focusable but computed outline is none.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/home-light.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Desktop and 360px article screenshots show unclipped body copy with comfortable line length, spacing and clear headline hierarchy.", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Every inspected page uses maximum-scale=1.0 and user-scalable=no; Lighthouse fails meta-viewport and also flags small article targets. Layout otherwise reflows without horizontal overflow at 360px.", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/lighthouse-article.json", "evidence/layout-article-mobile.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The homepage probe captured CORS failure for Amazon APS and HTTP 400 from prebid-server; Lighthouse independently fails errors-in-console.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Document doctype and UTF-8 charset are valid, but the image audit found one image missing dimensions and eight 400–640px team images rendered at only 24px.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reports deprecated Topics API use from sdk.k-words.io, cookie inspector issues, and a BFCache eviction caused by an advertising frame redirect.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home-selected.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Homepage, article, live score and schedule expose unique descriptive titles and meta descriptions; Lighthouse title/description audits pass.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article", "live-score", "schedule" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "robots.txt says User-agent: * followed by Disallow: /, while only named crawlers such as Googlebot receive exceptions. The site is public and has a current sitemap, so generic and many AI/search crawlers cannot crawl it.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/robots.txt", "evidence/sitemap.xml", "evidence/discoverability-home.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Representative pages return 200, expose canonical URLs, and a current sitemap enumerates key templates; the invalid route carries noindex.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article", "live-score", "schedule", "not-found" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/sitemap.xml" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Probes found 6–10 JSON-LD blocks plus Open Graph and Twitter metadata on representative entity pages.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article", "live-score", "schedule" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "HTTPS, HSTS, nosniff, and SAMEORIGIN are present, but CSP is missing; all 11 observed first-party cookies lack Secure and many use SameSite=None, including long-lived analytics/ad identifiers.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Tracker capture found 31 third-party origins and 12 known tracker domains; HAR shows 81 third-party requests transferring 1.63 MB, including Taboola, DoubleClick, GTM, Criteo, CleverTap, Amazon Ads, and ScorecardResearch.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "No permission prompt appeared on load; sign-in offers passwordless email plus Google and Apple rather than a password-only flow.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Headers inspection found no CSP, Referrer-Policy, or Permissions-Policy; HSTS max-age is only 86400 seconds. Clickjacking and nosniff protections are present.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "No-JavaScript/raw HTML retains 85% of homepage, 53% of article and 71% of live-score rendered words; none is an empty JS shell and article H1/meta survive.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article", "live-score" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability-article.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Consent dialog remained within desktop/mobile viewports, representative pages settled without clipping, and live content continued to expose navigation and state.", "pathIds": [ "home", "live-score", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement against the check’s contextual trigger.", "evidence": "Context reviewed across all representative paths.", "reason": "The audited core is a public news/live-score site whose live data is intrinsically network-dependent; no developer intent requested installability. Progressive enhancement and recovery are judged separately." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "A deliberately invalid route renders a useful recovery state with multiple actionable destinations instead of a blank shell.", "pathIds": [ "not-found" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/not-found.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "All representative pages declare html lang=en; LTR is correct for the rendered English content and inspected shared CSS includes logical inline properties.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article", "schedule" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The server identified the visitor as GB, but the schedule and article render US-style JUL 23 and “Tue, Jul 21, 2026 • 6:10 PM” with no locale control or locale-specific formatting signal.", "pathIds": [ "schedule" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/schedule.json", "evidence/article-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The schedule displays dates/times for a global audience without a timezone label or user-zone affordance; the article timestamp similarly gives 6:10 PM without a zone.", "pathIds": [ "schedule" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/schedule.json", "evidence/article.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Consent presents equal “Do not consent” and “Consent” actions; sign-in consent is unchecked by default and sponsored recommendations are labelled.", "pathIds": [ "home", "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-ua.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The email, agreement, and CAPTCHA controls are not programmatically required; Continue is disabled with no inline explanation or aria-live error state, and the blank-state probe found no :invalid or role=alert feedback.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login.png", "evidence/login-invalid.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F29" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "The email field is type=text and has empty autocomplete, name and id values, with only “Email Id” as a placeholder.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-invalid.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F30" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Sign-in clearly identifies privacy/terms consent, offers passwordless/social choices, and does not preselect consent; no purchase commitment occurs on this entry step.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Image audit found eight team images naturally 400–640px wide but displayed at 24px; although the image CDN often negotiates WebP, source URLs request 0x0 originals.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F31" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "69 script requests transfer 1.53 MB, while Lighthouse estimates 769 KiB unused JS and TTI near 19 seconds; several auction/tracking calls also fail.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F32" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Third parties account for 81 of 140 requests and 1,627,042 of 2,218,614 transferred bytes (73%); the largest scripts are Taboola, DoubleClick, GTM, CleverTap, and ad bidders.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "findingIds": [ "F33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement against the check’s contextual trigger.", "evidence": "Context reviewed across all representative paths.", "reason": "No agent-facing transaction or declared WebMCP surface exists; this emerging capability is explicitly contextual and absence is not penalised." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement against the check’s contextual trigger.", "evidence": "Context reviewed across all representative paths.", "reason": "No user task on the inspected public score/news surfaces requires on-device inference; this emerging capability is contextual." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "After 10 carousel/scroll cycles, heap self size rose only 142,790 bytes (0.39%) and V8 node count by 469 (0.08%), with no unbounded retained-growth signal.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-post.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual/objective evidence on representative paths using screenshots, structured DOM/CDP probes and the specialised artifact named below.", "evidence": "Performance metrics show about 10,474 DOM nodes, 1,713 event listeners and 28.2 MB JS heap used after consent rejection; the heap snapshot contains 617,337 V8 nodes and 36.3 MB self size.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.json", "evidence/heap-baseline.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F34" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct representative-path inspection using the referenced visual/objective artifact.", "evidence": "Before/after heap summaries show no Detached* constructor among retained populations and only small bounded growth after repeated interaction.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-post.json" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F06", "F07", "F08" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F09", "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F11", "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", "F21", "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F24", "F25", "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F27", "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F29", "F30" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F31", "F32", "F33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "No agent-facing transaction or declared WebMCP surface exists; this emerging capability is explicitly contextual and absence is not penalised. No user task on the inspected public score/news surfaces requires on-device inference; this emerging capability is contextual." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F34" ] } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Homepage and live-score dashboard, the primary entry surface; tested on desktop/mobile and under dark, reduced-motion and increased-contrast preferences.", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/", "conditions": [ "desktop 1440x1000", "mobile 360x800", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "prefers-contrast: more", "consent rejected" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "live-score", "description": "Live match commentary and score detail, representing the highest-value real-time task.", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/live-cricket-scores/162110/nz-vs-wi-5th-odi-new-zealand-tour-of-west-indies-2026", "conditions": [ "desktop 1440x1000", "live updating state", "consent rejected" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "article", "description": "News article detail, representing editorial content and share/discovery metadata; 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computed color-scheme is normal and inspected CSS has no prefers-color-scheme rule.", "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme: light dark and provide preference-driven dark tokens with light-dark() or prefers-color-scheme.", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.png", "evidence/home-dark-reduce.png", "evidence/home-dark-reduce.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F02", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "High-contrast preferences are not explicitly supported and existing contrast failures remain.", "evidence": "Under prefers-contrast: more the CSS probe found no prefers-contrast or forced-colors rules; Lighthouse reports 3.92:1 for GET APP and lower ratios in consent controls.", "suggestedFix": "Add forced-colors and prefers-contrast adaptations, and raise all essential text/control contrast to WCAG minimums.", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark-reduce.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F03", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Route and state changes do not use View Transitions.", "evidence": "CSS inspection across representative pages found no view-transition declarations; navigation uses ordinary links and abrupt document/state replacement.", "suggestedFix": "Add progressive cross-document or same-document View Transitions to high-frequency navigation and tab changes, with reduced-motion fallbacks.", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "same-document-transitions", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.json", "evidence/live-score.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F04", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Navigation chrome does not react to scroll state.", "evidence": "Desktop captures show a static header and the CSS probe found no scroll-state container queries or scroll-driven progress treatment across a long 8,636px homepage.", "suggestedFix": "Use scroll-state queries or a lightweight sticky-header treatment to preserve context without consuming excess space.", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.png", "evidence/home-light.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F05", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Dropdown/menu positioning does not use anchor positioning.", "evidence": "The site exposes several dropdown navigation menus, while CSS inspection found no anchor-name, position-anchor, or fallback position rules.", "suggestedFix": "Use CSS anchor positioning with position-try fallbacks for menus and contextual overlays.", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "anchored-positioning", "guidanceId": "position-aware-tooltips", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F06", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "A full-screen consent interruption obscures all content on first load.", "evidence": "The initial 1440x1000 screenshot is dimmed behind a centered consent dialog; users must choose before reading scores or news. Reject is available and visually equal, which limits severity.", "suggestedFix": "Keep consent legally compliant but minimise its footprint, retain an immediate equal reject option, and avoid blocking non-personalised core content where policy allows.", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-ua.png", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F07", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Transient UI relies on custom role-based markup instead of native overlay primitives.", "evidence": "The CMP is a div with role=dialog rather than ; across inspected pages there are zero dialog, popover, or details elements despite menus and disclosures.", "suggestedFix": "Use native dialog/popover/details primitives for authored overlays and disclosures, preserving third-party CMP accessibility requirements.", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/home-light.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F08", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Advertising and app-promotion chrome competes heavily with cricket content.", "evidence": "Mobile first viewports contain an install banner, top ad, in-feed video ad, GET APP promo, and fixed bottom navigation; the HAR records 81 third-party requests before the core page settles.", "suggestedFix": "Reduce ad density above and within primary content, defer recommendation units, and reserve the first viewport for scores/articles and essential navigation.", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "reduced-chrome", "guidanceId": "deprioritize-background-fetches", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F09", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Responsive layouts are viewport-driven rather than component-driven.", "evidence": "Desktop/mobile layouts do adapt, but inspected CSS across reused cards contains no @container rules.", "suggestedFix": "Introduce size container queries for reused score, video, and article cards so they respond to their available space.", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "size-aware-styling", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-light.json", "evidence/home-mobile.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F10", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Some controls have weak focus treatment or undersized targets.", "evidence": "The focused logo link reports outline none; structured probes found 12–30 visible controls below 24px on representative pages, and Lighthouse flags 56x14px sponsored controls on the article.", "suggestedFix": "Provide a strong :focus-visible style and ensure every independent target has at least 24x24 CSS pixels of safe clickable area, preferably 44x44 for primary touch controls.", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile.json", "evidence/lighthouse-article.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "article", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/139609/ipl-2009-fema-case-lalit-modi-bcci-get-major-relief" }, { "id": "F11", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Lab Core Web Vitals miss the good range on primary pages.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reports homepage LCP 3.4s, CLS 0.155, TBT 300ms and article LCP 2.7s, CLS 0.22, TBT 340ms; performance scores are 0.68 and 0.69.", "suggestedFix": "Prioritise the LCP element, reserve all dynamic slots, and delay third-party execution until after core content becomes interactive.", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/lighthouse-article.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F12", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Late content causes visible cumulative layout shift, especially on mobile article pages.", "evidence": "The layout observer measured CLS 0.110 on the mobile homepage and 0.191 on the mobile article; Lighthouse measured 0.155 and 0.22 respectively.", "suggestedFix": "Reserve stable dimensions for ad/CMP/app-promo slots and images, and prevent late modules from displacing read content.", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "visual-stability", "guidanceId": "visually-stable-font-fallbacks", "artifacts": [ "evidence/layout-home-mobile.json", "evidence/layout-article-mobile.json", "evidence/lighthouse-article.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "article", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/139609/ipl-2009-fema-case-lalit-modi-bcci-get-major-relief" }, { "id": "F13", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Third-party work delays interactivity despite a clean short trace window.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measures 300–340ms TBT and 18.9–19.7s Time to Interactive; the custom post-load trace saw no long tasks, indicating the main cost is concentrated during load.", "suggestedFix": "Defer and chunk non-critical scripts, use priority-aware scheduling, and keep advertising/analytics off the critical interaction path.", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "guidanceId": "break-up-long-tasks", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/lighthouse-article.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F14", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The critical load has a long, third-party-heavy dependency surface.", "evidence": "HAR captured 140 requests and 2,218,614 transferred bytes, including 69 scripts; 81 third-party requests transferred 1,627,042 bytes. Parser-inserted stylesheets and high-priority script chains start at navigation.", "suggestedFix": "Shorten critical dependency chains, self-host/trim critical fonts, defer ad technology, and apply useful cache policies to remaining resources.", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home.har", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F15", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Large amounts of shipped JavaScript and CSS are unused on initial load.", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimates 769 KiB unused JavaScript and 36 KiB unused CSS; top waste includes Taboola, GPT, GTM, CleverTap, and k-words scripts.", "suggestedFix": "Conditionally load monetisation and analytics integrations, remove overlapping tags, and split page code by actual feature use.", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home-selected.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/" }, { "id": "F16", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Important links and the email input lack accessible names/labels.", "evidence": "Lighthouse finds the logo and carousel links have no discernible name; login inspection finds an email input with no label, aria-label, id/name, required state, or autocomplete.", "suggestedFix": "Give icon links explicit accessible names and pair every input with a visible