{ "url": "https://girlschannel.net", "auditedAt": "2026-07-23T01:22:49.489Z", "mode": "report", "status": "completed", "statusDetail": "Coverage complete across 58 atomic checks and five representative paths. Live comment submission was excluded as destructive; the associated validation-only check was explicitly not applicable.", "page": { "appType": "mpa", "framework": "Server-rendered multi-page site with adaptive desktop/mobile templates", "notes": "Representative coverage: homepage/ranking, new listing, topic detail/comment surface, search results and 404 recovery. Account/checkout surfaces do not exist in the public journey. Not covered: destructive live comment/topic publishing, exhaustive historical topics, native apps." }, "evidenceUsed": [ "screenshot", "dom", "layout-metrics", "evaluate-probe", "trace", "har", "discoverability", "images", "headers", "cookies", "trackers", "secrets", "heap-summary", "lighthouse", "robots+sitemap" ], "guidanceConsulted": [ "privacy", "security", "accessibility", "performance", "dark-mode", "html", "forms", "optimize-image-priority", "directional-navigation-transitions", "deliver-optimized-decorative-images" ], "artifacts": [ { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-desktop.png", "caption": "Desktop homepage: content-first two-column ranking.", "condition": "viewport: 1440x1000", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-mobile.png", "caption": "Mobile homepage: overlapping ranking tabs/date and cramped cards.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F-002", "F-005" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-dark-reduce.png", "caption": "Dark/reduced-motion emulation leaves the light palette unchanged.", "condition": "prefers-color-scheme: dark; prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "findingIds": [ "F-001" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/new-mobile.png", "caption": "New-topic list with overlapping tab/date chrome.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F-005" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/topic-mobile.png", "caption": "Topic detail and comment controls at mobile width.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F-004", "F-005" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/search-mobile.png", "caption": "Completed search results flow for AI.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/404-mobile.png", "caption": "Clear 404 recovery page with return action.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "Browser-rendered homepage.", "condition": "JavaScript enabled", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "Crawler/no-JavaScript homepage retains content.", "condition": "JavaScript disabled", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "caption": "Homepage mobile layout/CLS/long-task metrics.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/topic-layout.json", "caption": "Topic reports 88px horizontal overflow and 139,047px height.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F-004", "F-005" ] }, { "type": "trace", "path": "evidence/home-trace.json", "caption": "DevTools load trace.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F-008" ] }, { "type": "trace-summary", "path": "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "caption": "Trace timing and long-task summary.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F-008" ] }, { "type": "har", "path": "evidence/home.har", "caption": "Network archive for homepage load.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F-009" ] }, { "type": "har-summary", "path": "evidence/home-summary.json", "caption": "Network totals, third-party, blocking and hygiene signals.", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F-009", "F-010", "F-014", "F-017" ] }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/discoverability.json", "caption": "Raw versus rendered content comparison with 100% coverage.", "condition": "JavaScript enabled/disabled", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/lighthouse.json", "caption": "Mobile Lighthouse report: performance 0.28, accessibility 0.48.", "condition": "Lighthouse mobile default", "findingIds": [ "F-002", "F-006", "F-007", "F-008", "F-009", "F-011", "F-017" ] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "caption": "Baseline topic heap summary.", "condition": "topic after load", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-post-scroll-valid.json", "caption": "Heap after ten full-page bottom/top scroll cycles.", "condition": "10x repeated scroll", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/headers.json", "caption": "Security response-header audit.", "condition": "homepage", "findingIds": [ "F-013" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/cookies.json", "caption": "Cookie flags and lifetime audit.", "condition": "homepage", "findingIds": [ "F-013", "F-014" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/trackers.json", "caption": "Third-party tracker inventory.", "condition": "homepage", "findingIds": [ "F-014" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/images.json", "caption": "Image dimensions, lazy loading, format and alt inventory.", "condition": "homepage", "findingIds": [ "F-006", "F-010" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/secrets.json", "caption": "Client-side secret scan; zero findings.", "condition": "homepage", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/home-dom.json", "caption": "Rendered homepage DOM metadata and HTML/CSS capture.", "condition": "homepage", "findingIds": [ "F-015" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-probe.json", "caption": "Home semantics, form, focus and metadata probe.", "condition": "homepage", "findingIds": [ "F-001", "F-003", "F-006", "F-007", "F-012", "F-016" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/topic-probe.json", "caption": "Topic semantics, form, focus and CSS feature probe.", "condition": "topic", "findingIds": [ "F-003", "F-006", "F-007", "F-015", "F-016" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/platform-probe.json", "caption": "Runtime memory, resources, permissions and manifest probe.", "condition": "homepage", "findingIds": [ "F-009" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/robots-sitemap.json", "caption": "robots.txt and sitemap index inspection.", "condition": "homepage", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/recon.json", "caption": "Route, metadata, link and form reconnaissance.", "condition": "homepage", "findingIds": [ "F-012" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/guidance-consulted.md", "caption": "Retrieved Modern Web Guidance used to set the audit bar.", "condition": "catalog 0.0.172", "findingIds": [] } ], "config": { "loaded": false }, "coverage": { "catalogVersion": "modern-web-guidance@0.0.172", "catalogChecksum": "sha256:78ccfdb2d483f4c57d9dafed80fd86c6265585a56457c8dcfddc254b80fb44d7", "expected": 58, "recorded": 58, "judged": 58, "blocked": 0, "notRun": 0, "missing": 0, "unknown": 0, "duplicates": 0, "complete": true }, "checkOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-color-scheme", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Screenshot under dark emulation plus computed styles", "evidence": "Dark preference leaves light surfaces unchanged.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark-reduce.png", "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-001" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Animation probe under representative templates", "evidence": "getAnimations() returned zero and no auto-advance or non-essential motion was visible.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse contrast audit and preference screenshot", "evidence": "Several text styles fail WCAG contrast and there is no contrast-mode adaptation.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-002" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "view-transitions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "CSS/animation probe across navigation templates", "evidence": "No view-transition declarations or transition animations were found for route/state changes.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-003" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "CSS and runtime animation probe", "evidence": "No scroll-linked animation or custom animated scrollytelling exists, so no main-thread scroll animation anti-pattern was observed.", "pathIds": [ "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Visual walkthrough and runtime probe", "evidence": "The site relies on native page scrolling and link activation; no custom pointer gesture that fights platform behaviour was observed.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/topic-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Long-page layout and screenshots", "evidence": "The 139,047px topic page has static chrome and no progress/scroll-state response.", "pathIds": [ "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-layout.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-004" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM primitive/probe for overlay primitives", "evidence": "No tooltip, popover or anchored menu was present on the representative templates.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-probe.json" ], "reason": "No anchored overlay exists to position." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Cross-template screenshots and CSS probe", "evidence": "Pagination/list-to-topic changes have no directional transition or destination highlight, and overlapping mobile tabs weaken orientation.", "pathIds": [ "home", "new", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/new-mobile.png", "evidence/topic-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-004" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Initial-load screenshots on four templates", "evidence": "No full-screen popup, consent wall or content-obscuring interstitial appeared on load.", "pathIds": [ "home", "new", "topic", "search" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/search-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "DOM primitive and representative walkthrough", "evidence": "No transient modal overlay was triggered in tested flows; disclosures and navigation remained ordinary document content.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "reduced-chrome", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Desktop/mobile screenshots", "evidence": "The visual frame is simple and topic/list content occupies the main surface without ornamental application chrome.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/topic-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "360px layout metrics and screenshots", "evidence": "Topic overflows by 88px and list navigation overlaps at narrow width.", "pathIds": [ "home", "new", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-layout.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-005" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "component-level-responsiveness", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Computed/CSS probe plus reused component screenshots", "evidence": "No container-responsive component was found and reused ranking/new tabs visibly collide at 360px.", "pathIds": [ "home", "new" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/new-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F-005" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Programmatic focus and target-size probe", "evidence": "Many links remove focus outlines; pagination targets measure 34x28px.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-007" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "First-viewport screenshots and heading/link inspection", "evidence": "Ranking, new topics, search and comment actions are visible and Japanese labels make each template purpose clear.", "pathIds": [ "home", "new", "topic", "search" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/topic-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Listing to topic and search results walkthrough", "evidence": "Users can open topics, paginate comments and complete a search without an account wall or dead end.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic", "search" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-mobile.png", "evidence/search-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Invalid-route recovery walkthrough", "evidence": "The 404 state explains the problem and provides a prominent return-to-top action.", "pathIds": [ "not-found" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/404-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse plus DevTools trace summary", "evidence": "Lighthouse LCP is 8.6s and TBT 10,680ms; performance score is 0.28.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-008" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Layout-shift observer on homepage and topic", "evidence": "Homepage CLS was 0 and topic CLS was 0.0011, both in the good range.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/topic-layout.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse and trace long-task analysis", "evidence": "TBT is 10,680ms in Lighthouse; trace also observed a 199ms long task.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-008" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR summary confirmed against live script attributes", "evidence": "A non-deferred classic script, render-blocking CSS, uncached font and uncompressed script are present.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-009" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse coverage diagnostics and HAR", "evidence": "Estimated savings are 189KiB JS and 15KiB CSS; two large Google tag bundles appear in the Lighthouse load.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-009" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility audits, image and form probes", "evidence": "Missing alt, unnamed links/iframes and unlabeled inputs were directly enumerated.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-006" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse color-contrast audit", "evidence": "Pink on white is measured at 2.2:1 and other grey labels at 3.94:1.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-002" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Landmark audit and keyboard focus probe", "evidence": "No main landmark and multiple focused links have no visible outline.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/topic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-006", "F-007" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Narrow screenshots and overflow metrics", "evidence": "Tabs overlap dates/labels and topic content exceeds the viewport, harming reading and scanability.", "pathIds": [ "home", "new", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/topic-layout.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-005" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse viewport audit and target measurement", "evidence": "Mobile markup disables user scaling and pagination targets are only 34x28px.", "pathIds": [ "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/topic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-007" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse console audit", "evidence": "errors-in-console passed with no captured console errors.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM, Lighthouse and image audit", "evidence": "Doctype/charset exist, but image accessibility/responsiveness is poor and asset structure causes multiple audits to fail.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-010" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse deprecation/Inspector audits", "evidence": "Synchronous XHR and deprecated Topics API use were captured, and Inspector Issues failed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-011" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM metadata probe across homepage/topic", "evidence": "Homepage and topic have descriptive titles; homepage has a substantive meta description.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/topic-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM/Lighthouse/robots inspection", "evidence": "Links use href and robots allows crawling, but mobile zoom is disabled and narrow content overflows.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/robots-sitemap.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-005", "F-007" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "HTTP/raw metadata, robots and sitemap inspection", "evidence": "HTTP is 200, canonical is present, robots allows public pages and advertises a current sitemap index.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/robots-sitemap.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "DOM metadata and JSON-LD probe", "evidence": "Open Graph/Twitter tags exist, but no JSON-LD structured entity was found for content/discussion templates.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/recon.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-012" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Headers and cookies primitives", "evidence": "HTTPS is used, but CSP/HSTS/nosniff are absent and two cookies are not Secure.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-013" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR, tracker and cookie primitives", "evidence": "14 of 19 requests and 258,759 bytes are third-party; known trackers and 400-day cookies are active.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/trackers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-014" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Runtime permission/auth surface probe", "evidence": "No geolocation/notification request and no authentication flow was present in scope.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/platform-probe.json" ], "reason": "The public anonymous content/search flow has no authentication or permission request to assess." }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Headers and cookies primitives", "evidence": "HSTS, clickjacking protection, Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy are all absent.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-013" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Discoverability primitive with JavaScript disabled", "evidence": "Raw HTML returned 200 with 100% content coverage; title, H1 and description survive without JavaScript.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Representative list/topic/search walkthrough", "evidence": "Core MPA navigation and search rendered without fragile shell, cut-off overlay or async blank state.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic", "search" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-mobile.png", "evidence/search-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Manifest/service-worker surface probe", "evidence": "No manifest is exposed; this is a public discussion/content MPA rather than an installable application.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/platform-probe.json" ], "reason": "Offline installability is not necessary for this public content/community MPA." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Representative 404 route test", "evidence": "The invalid route has clear Japanese error copy and a working route back to the homepage.", "pathIds": [ "not-found" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/404-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM and topic metadata probe", "evidence": "Desktop/topic variants return an empty html lang for Japanese content.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/topic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-015" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Content/field inspection", "evidence": "The scoped flows show Japanese-relative timestamps and no user-entered currency/calendar data requiring multi-locale formatting.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json" ], "reason": "The service is deliberately Japanese-only in the inspected scope and exposes no locale-switching or locale-sensitive transaction data." }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Content/field inspection", "evidence": "No scheduling, cross-zone event or editable time concept exists in the representative journeys.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json" ], "reason": "No cross-time-zone scheduling or date-entry task is present." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Initial/load and core-flow screenshots", "evidence": "No consent wall, confirmshaming, forced subscription or disguised primary control appeared in the tested journeys.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic", "search" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/topic-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Form inventory and non-destructive walkthrough", "evidence": "Search has no invalid state and posting was not submitted to avoid publishing content to a live community.", "pathIds": [ "search", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-probe.json" ], "reason": "No safe, non-destructive validation failure exists; live comment submission was intentionally not performed." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Form/attribute probe", "evidence": "Search and comment inputs lack labels and useful autocomplete metadata.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/topic-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-016" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon of representative links/forms", "evidence": "No checkout, subscription, account or authentication flow exists in the public anonymous journey.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json" ], "reason": "No commercial or account-management flow is present." }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Images primitive and HAR", "evidence": "97 below-fold images are not lazy, with oversized/legacy/non-responsive assets.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-010" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse main-thread/coverage and HAR analysis", "evidence": "Heavy unused JavaScript and analytics work produces 10.68s TBT for a text-focused page.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-008", "F-017" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR and Lighthouse third-party analysis", "evidence": "Third parties are 78% of transfer bytes and duplicate analytics bundles dominate script cost.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F-017" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM/discoverability inspection", "evidence": "Content is fully available in raw HTML, but no agent action surface or developer intent for agent tooling is evident.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json" ], "reason": "This public discussion reader exposes no safe transactional capability that requires WebMCP tooling." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Runtime/source surface probe", "evidence": "No summarisation or inference feature exists, and on-device AI is not necessary to complete the core reading/search journey.", "pathIds": [ "home", "search" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/platform-probe.json" ], "reason": "No user-facing inference task is part of the current product." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Baseline and post-10x long-page scroll heap summaries", "evidence": "After ten bottom/top scroll cycles, heap self-size changed from 37,604,766 to 37,681,075 bytes (~0.2%) and node count fell from 562,666 to 562,204, showing no unbounded retained growth.", "pathIds": [ "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-post-scroll-valid.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Heap summary plus Performance.memory/DOM metrics", "evidence": "Topic heap is ~37.6MB despite a very long comment page; homepage uses ~3.9MB JS heap with 4,659 live DOM elements, proportionate to the rendered feed.", "pathIds": [ "home", "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/platform-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Before/after heap summary comparison", "evidence": "The valid repeated-scroll run did not increase node count and total heap remained effectively flat; no accumulating DOM population was observed.", "pathIds": [ "topic" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-post-scroll-valid.json" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-001", "F-002" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-003" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-004" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-005", "F-007" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-008", "F-009" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-006", "F-002", "F-007", "F-005" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-010", "F-011" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-005", "F-007", "F-012" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-013", "F-014" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-015" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-016" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F-010", "F-008", "F-017" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "All checks were judged not applicable to this site and scope." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Homepage/ranking template, primary discovery journey; inspected desktop, narrow mobile, dark preference, raw HTML, network, performance and accessibility.", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/", "conditions": [ "1440x1000", "360x800", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "JavaScript disabled crawler" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "new", "description": "New-topic listing archetype, representing alternate list state and navigation.", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/new/", "conditions": [ "360x800" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "topic", "description": "High-traffic topic detail and comment-reading/posting archetype, including pagination and long-session behaviour.", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/topics/6212587/", "conditions": [ "360x800", "keyboard focus probe", "repeated scroll memory exercise" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "search", "description": "Search results journey for query AI, covering search completion and filter/results state.", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/topics/search/?q=AI", "conditions": [ "360x800" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "not-found", "description": "Invalid route used to inspect HTTP/error recovery state.", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/this-route-does-not-exist-audit", "conditions": [ "360x800" ], "result": "pass" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F-001", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "summary": "The interface is hard-coded to a light palette.", "evidence": "The dark-preference screenshot remains white/beige/pink, while the computed root color-scheme is normal and body background is rgb(250, 243, 234).", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark-reduce.png", "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme and map surface/text/accent tokens through prefers-color-scheme or light-dark(), preserving contrast in both themes.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/" }, { "id": "F-002", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "summary": "Low-contrast text and controls fail the accessibility floor.", "evidence": "Lighthouse accessibility is 0.48 and reports contrast ratios as low as 2.2:1 for pink text on white, below the required 4.5:1; the page also has no contrast preference adaptation.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Darken pink and grey text tokens to meet WCAG AA in every state and add forced-colors/prefers-contrast handling.", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/" }, { "id": "F-003", "severity": "low", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "directional-navigation-transitions", "summary": "Listing, topic and pagination navigation swaps abruptly without directional continuity.", "evidence": "The CSS/animation probe found no View Transition usage and no active animations across the listing and topic templates.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-probe.json", "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use same-origin cross-document View Transitions for list-to-topic and pagination changes, with reduced-motion respected.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "pathId": "topic", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/topics/6212587/" }, { "id": "F-004", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "directs-attention", "guidanceId": "directional-navigation-transitions", "summary": "Very long pages provide weak position and attention cues.", "evidence": "The topic detail is 139,047px tall, yet screenshots and CSS probes show no reading progress, scroll-state-aware chrome, or transition/highlight cue; navigation is static.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-layout.json", "evidence/topic-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a compact sticky reading/progress control and preserve/highlight the destination after pagination or reply navigation.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "pathId": "topic", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/topics/6212587/" }, { "id": "F-005", "severity": "high", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "guidanceId": "html", "summary": "Core listing and topic components do not reliably reflow on narrow screens.", "evidence": "At 360px, topic layout reports 448px scroll width (88px overflow). Homepage/new tabs overlap dates and each other, and topic links measured around 552px wide.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-layout.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/new-mobile.png", "evidence/topic-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove desktop minimum widths, use intrinsic grid/flex sizing and overflow-wrap, then make reused list/header components respond to their container.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "topic", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/topics/6212587/" }, { "id": "F-006", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "summary": "Essential controls, images and page regions are not exposed cleanly to assistive technology.", "evidence": "Lighthouse accessibility is 0.48: image-alt, link-name, frame-title and main-landmark audits fail. The image primitive found 99/100 sampled images missing alt, and search/comment controls lack labels.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/topic-probe.json", "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a main landmark, explicit form labels, accessible names for icon links/iframes, and meaningful alt or alt=\"\" for decorative thumbnails.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/" }, { "id": "F-007", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "summary": "Keyboard focus and target sizing are inadequate, and zoom is disabled on mobile.", "evidence": "Focused links repeatedly compute to outline-style none and no box shadow; pagination targets are 34x28px. Lighthouse reports user-scalable=no/maximum-scale restrictions.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/topic-probe.json", "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Provide a strong :focus-visible ring, increase targets to at least 44x44 CSS px where practical, and remove zoom restrictions.", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "topic", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/topics/6212587/" }, { "id": "F-008", "severity": "critical", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "summary": "Mobile loading and main-thread responsiveness are critically slow.", "evidence": "Lighthouse performance is 0.28 with LCP 8.6s, TBT 10,680ms and interactive 17.1s. The first-party trace corroborates a 199ms long task and 149ms TBT in a lighter run.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Profile and remove synchronous/third-party work from startup, prioritize the LCP resource, and defer/chunk non-critical scripts.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/" }, { "id": "F-009", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "summary": "Resource delivery includes blocking, uncached and largely unused work.", "evidence": "HAR shows a parser stylesheet, a non-deferred classic script, an uncompressed script and a font without cache headers; Lighthouse estimates 189KiB unused JS and 15KiB unused CSS.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Split by template, defer non-critical classic scripts, compress/cache static assets, and remove duplicated/unused analytics and discovery code.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/" }, { "id": "F-010", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "summary": "Long listings eagerly load poorly described, non-responsive image assets.", "evidence": "The image audit sampled 100 images: 97 below-fold images are not lazy-loaded, five are oversized, five use legacy formats and nearly all lack srcset.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Lazy-load below-fold thumbnails, generate AVIF/WebP variants with srcset/sizes, and avoid empty image requests.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/" }, { "id": "F-011", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "guidanceId": "html", "summary": "Third-party integrations use deprecated and main-thread-hostile browser behaviour.", "evidence": "Lighthouse best-practices is 0.58 and records synchronous XHR from adg-script-loader plus deprecated Topics API use; inspector issues also fail.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove or update vendors that use synchronous XHR/deprecated APIs and gate non-essential ad/analytics integrations.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/" }, { "id": "F-012", "severity": "low", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "guidanceId": "html", "summary": "Topic entities lack machine-readable structured data.", "evidence": "The content is fully server rendered and has social tags, but the DOM probe finds no JSON-LD on the homepage and no structured entity evidence for the inspected topic.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/recon.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add accurate schema.org DiscussionForumPosting/BreadcrumbList JSON-LD aligned with visible topic metadata.", "effort": "small", "confidence": "medium", "pathId": "topic", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/topics/6212587/" }, { "id": "F-013", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "summary": "The HTTPS response omits all major defensive security headers and analytics cookies are insecurely scoped.", "evidence": "Headers audit finds no CSP, HSTS, nosniff, clickjacking protection, Referrer-Policy or Permissions-Policy. Both 400-day analytics cookies lack Secure and use SameSite=None.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Roll out a nonce/hash CSP, HSTS, nosniff, frame-ancestors, strict referrer and minimal permissions policies; mark HTTPS cookies Secure with an appropriate SameSite value.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/" }, { "id": "F-014", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "summary": "Tracking and third-party work dominate the small content-page transfer budget.", "evidence": "HAR records 14/19 requests and 258,759/332,623 transferred bytes as third-party; tracker evidence finds Google Analytics/Tag Manager and Teads, with 400-day analytics cookies.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Audit necessity, load analytics only after the relevant consent basis, shorten retention, and remove redundant tags/vendors.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/" }, { "id": "F-015", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-internationalised", "principleCheckId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "guidanceId": "html", "summary": "Some served templates omit the document language.", "evidence": "Desktop homepage DOM and the topic probe return an empty html lang despite Japanese content; this impairs pronunciation and language detection.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/topic-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Set consistently on every desktop and mobile template, and retain language metadata through variants.", "effort": "trivial", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "topic", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/topics/6212587/" }, { "id": "F-016", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "guidanceId": "forms", "summary": "Search and comment inputs lack labels and useful autofill/input assistance.", "evidence": "Search text input has no label, aria-label or autocomplete; topic textarea, file/name/url controls are also largely unlabeled and have empty autocomplete.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/topic-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add visible labels, search/name autocomplete tokens, input purpose attributes and contextual help without relying on placeholder text.", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "topic", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/topics/6212587/" }, { "id": "F-017", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "performance", "summary": "Third-party JavaScript is disproportionate to the core text-listing experience.", "evidence": "Third parties account for 78% of captured transferred bytes; Lighthouse loads two large Google tag bundles and estimates 189KiB unused JavaScript while TBT reaches 10.68s.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Set a third-party byte/CPU budget, consolidate analytics, and defer ads/discovery code until it approaches the viewport or user intent is clear.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://girlschannel.net/" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T-001", "title": "Remove startup third-party/main-thread bottlenecks and prioritize LCP", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F-008", "F-009", "F-017" ], "guidanceId": "performance", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-002", "title": "Repair mobile reflow, component sizing, focus targets and zoom", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F-005", "F-007" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-003", "title": "Establish accessible names, labels, landmarks, alt text and contrast", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F-002", "F-006", "F-016" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-004", "title": "Deploy defensive headers and secure cookie/privacy defaults", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F-013", "F-014" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-005", "title": "Lazy-load and responsively encode listing images", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F-010" ], "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-006", "title": "Remove deprecated vendor APIs and synchronous XHR", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F-011" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-007", "title": "Add a preference-driven dark palette", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F-001" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-008", "title": "Add long-page position cues and optional directional transitions", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F-003", "F-004" ], "guidanceId": "directional-navigation-transitions", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T-009", "title": "Set Japanese document language consistently and add topic JSON-LD", "priority": 9, "findingIds": [ "F-012", "F-015" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 5, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-23T01-22-49-489Z" }