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"html", "reduce-style-repetition", "security", "privacy", "batch-analytics-events", "full-session-analytics", "calculate-total-foreground-time", "passkeys", "passkey-registration", "passkey-authentication", "passkey-reauthentication", "passkey-conditional-create", "passkey-management", "flicker-free-client-side-ab-testing", "consistent-cross-document-transitions", "stabilize-reactive-state", "resilient-context-menus-and-nested-dropdowns", "persistent-top-layer-ui", "detect-initial-visibility-state", "sequence-distributed-events", "translator", "language-detection", "support-global-calendar-systems", "capture-location-agnostic-data", "format-human-readable-durations", "manage-recurring-intervals", "calculate-event-differentials", "coordinate-global-events", "model-partial-time-concepts", "search-hidden-content", "select-menu-interaction", "style-parent-with-has", "autofill-address-form", "autofill-payment-form", "autofill-sign-in-form", "autofill-sign-up-form", 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"home heap post scroll", "findingIds": [ "F34" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-images.json", "caption": "home images", "findingIds": [ "F14", "F16", "F20", "F32" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "caption": "home lighthouse", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F13", "F15", "F16", "F17", "F19", "F20", "F21" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-memory-metrics.json", "caption": "home memory metrics", "findingIds": [ "F33", "F34", "F35" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-mobile-dark.png", "caption": "home mobile dark", "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "caption": "home mobile layout", "findingIds": [ "F03", "F07", "F18" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-mobile.png", "caption": "home mobile", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F04", "F06", "F07", "F18" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-probe.json", "caption": "home probe", "findingIds": [ "F02", "F03", "F05", "F06", "F07", "F08", "F09", "F28" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-recon.json", "caption": "home recon", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-reduced-motion-probe.json", "caption": "home reduced motion probe", "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "type": "video", "path": "evidence/home-scroll.mp4", "caption": "home scroll", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-secrets.json", "caption": "home secrets", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "har-summary", "path": "evidence/home-summary.json", "caption": "home summary", "findingIds": [ "F14", "F25", "F32", "F33" ] }, { "type": "trace-summary", "path": "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "caption": "home trace summary", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F13" ] }, { "type": "trace", "path": "evidence/home-trace.json", "caption": "home trace", "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-trackers.json", "caption": "home trackers", "findingIds": [ "F25", "F33" ] }, { 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"other", "path": "evidence/not-found-probe.json", "caption": "not found probe", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/not-found.png", "caption": "not found", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/robots-sitemap.json", "caption": "robots sitemap", "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/secrets-context.json", "caption": "secrets context", "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": "Paired screenshots under light and dark preference", "evidence": "Light/dark captures are 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"issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Cross-template CSS/DOM inspection", "evidence": "No view-transition use was found for MPA navigation.", "pathIds": [ "home", "news", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/news-probe.json", "evidence/article-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Visual/CSS inspection of representative pages", "evidence": "No intentional parallax, scrollytelling, or scroll-linked reveal requiring a scroll timeline was identified on sampled templates.", "reason": "No intentional parallax, scrollytelling, or scroll-linked reveal requiring a scroll timeline was identified on sampled templates." }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Interaction inventory and DOM/CSS 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"evidence/article-discoverability-rendered.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM primitive inventory", "evidence": "Blocking modal uses generic divs; no dialog/popover exists.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "reduced-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Screenshot and DOM-density analysis", "evidence": "Homepage contains 1,427 links/438 images plus blocking and promotional chrome.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "360×800 layout 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"F09" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "First-viewport and heading/link inspection", "evidence": "Brand, news headlines, section labels and article titles make the editorial purpose and next reading actions clear.", "pathIds": [ "home", "news", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-recon.json" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Fresh-session reading journey", "evidence": "Consent modal blocks the representative read-an-article flow.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/article-discoverability-rendered.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Invalid-route exercise", "evidence": "Unknown URL shows a specific error heading and a home-page recovery link.", "pathIds": [ "not-found" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/not-found.png", "evidence/not-found-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse on home/article plus trace", "evidence": "LCP 9.6–11.3s, TBT 2.04–2.74s, CLS up to 0.32.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Layout-shift observer and image audit", "evidence": "Article CLS 0.466; 23/23 sampled article images lacked dimensions.", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DevTools trace and Lighthouse", "evidence": "23 long tasks and severe TBT.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR summary confirmed against image DOM", "evidence": "607 requests/16.98MB and extensive unoptimized image delivery.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse code-coverage diagnostics", "evidence": "2.8–2.9MiB unused JavaScript and 500–568KiB unused CSS estimated.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility and image DOM audit", "evidence": "Unnamed links/buttons and missing image alternatives were found.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse contrast audit", "evidence": "Five home and two article contrast failures.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Keyboard focus probe and heading inventory", "evidence": "First 25 sampled controls showed no visible focus; consent adds multiple H1s to document structure.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/home-recon.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F09" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "360px visual/reflow inspection", "evidence": "Fixed 1240px canvas shrinks Hebrew text to an illegible scale on mobile.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Viewport, target and media probe", "evidence": "Shrink-to-fit viewport, hundreds of tiny targets, and captionless article video.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse console audit", "evidence": "16 home and 7 article console errors.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Document and image audit", "evidence": "Doctype/charset pass, but nearly all homepage images lack intrinsic dimensions and many are oversized.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse best-practices/inspector audits", "evidence": "Inspector issues and broken source-map mappings were 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"be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Canonical/robots/sitemap fetch and metadata probe", "evidence": "Pages have canonicals and robots is reachable, but /sitemap.xml is a 404 and no sitemap is advertised.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/robots-sitemap.json", "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "JSON-LD/Open Graph inspection", "evidence": "Editorial templates expose 2–3 JSON-LD blocks and 6–7 Open Graph fields matching visible titles.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/article-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Headers/cookies primitives", "evidence": "Missing HSTS/nosniff/referrer/permissions headers and insecure cookie attributes.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-cookies.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Tracker and HAR primitives plus consent flow", "evidence": "71 third-party origins and 27 known trackers with asymmetric consent choices.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/consent-flow.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Login DOM/source probe", "evidence": "No on-load permission request was detected, but relevant auth flow lacks passkeys.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-flow-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Security header and cookie inspection", "evidence": "Frame protection exists, but HSTS, robust CSP directives, nosniff, Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy are absent.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-cookies.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Raw HTML/rendered DOM comparison with crawler screenshots", "evidence": "Article/news are classified as JS shells with 4–5% content overlap and blank crawler views.", "pathIds": [ "article", "news" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-discoverability.json", "evidence/article-discoverability-crawler.png", "evidence/news-discoverability-crawler.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Representative load/overlay/recovery exercise", "evidence": "Across five templates, content rendered, consent could be managed, and the explicit invalid route reached a stable recovery page.", "pathIds": [ "home", "not-found" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/consent-flow.json", "evidence/not-found-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Manifest/service-worker probe and site-type judgement", "evidence": "This public news MPA is not presented as an installable app; no offline app intent is declared, so PWA installability is not required for this check.", "reason": "This public news MPA is not presented as an installable app; no offline app intent is declared, so PWA installability is not required for this check." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Invalid HTTP route exercise", "evidence": "A missing URL produces a specific “page does not exist” state and a link back home rather than a blank shell.", "pathIds": [ "not-found" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/not-found.png", "evidence/not-found-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Root attributes, computed direction and CSS signal probe", "evidence": "lang=he but computed direction is ltr; physical CSS overwhelmingly dominates.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/article-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Rendered locale/content inspection across home, breaking news and weather links", "evidence": "Dates, temperatures, breaking-news times and surrounding labels are rendered in Hebrew conventions consistently on sampled pages.", "pathIds": [ "home", "breaking" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/breaking-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Journey and data-surface inventory", "evidence": "No user-created event, cross-time-zone schedule, recurring interval, or editable time data was present in the sampled editorial/login journeys.", "reason": "No user-created event, cross-time-zone schedule, recurring interval, or editable time data was present in the sampled editorial/login journeys." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Consent choice walkthrough", "evidence": "No initial Reject all; Manage options exposes 289 toggles with 63 checked.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/consent-buttons.json", "evidence/consent-flow.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F29" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Empty email submission exercise", "evidence": "No error, aria-invalid, describedby, focus move or invalid state appeared.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-invalid-flow.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F30" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Login input inspection", "evidence": "Visible email field has no autocomplete token.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-flow-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F31" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Account entry and consent-flow walkthrough", "evidence": "Sign-in lacks passkeys/autofill assistance, and account entry remains behind asymmetric consent UI.", "pathIds": [ "login" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-flow-probe.json", "evidence/consent-flow.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F26", "F29", "F31" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR/image primitive", "evidence": "10.27MB/403 image requests with extensive legacy, oversized and eager assets.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F32" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Trace and repeated-scroll resource/memory probe", "evidence": "Large startup workload and 74 new resource entries during repeated traversal.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-memory-metrics.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR and tracker primitives", "evidence": "71 third-party origins, 5.46MB scripts, and 27 known tracking endpoints are disproportionate.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Agent API/source and site-intent inspection", "evidence": "No agent-facing capability or declared agent integration intent was present; for this emerging contextual principle, absence is an opportunity rather than a failure.", "reason": "No agent-facing capability or declared agent integration intent was present; for this emerging contextual principle, absence is an opportunity rather than a failure." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Built-in AI/source and site-intent inspection", "evidence": "No product task requiring on-device inference was exposed in the sampled editorial/login journeys, and no agent-facing intent is declared.", "reason": "No product task requiring on-device inference was exposed in the sampled editorial/login journeys, and no agent-facing intent is declared." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Garbage-collected baseline/post heap plus in-session metrics after 10 scroll cycles", "evidence": "Heap/DOM grew materially after repeated traversal; confidence is medium because dynamic feed loading may explain part of growth.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-heap-post-scroll.json", "evidence/home-memory-metrics.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F34" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Heap summary and live DOM sample", "evidence": "Baseline is 147.4MB/2.05M heap nodes and 13,735 live DOM elements.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-memory-metrics.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F35" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Before/after heap constructor summary inspection", "evidence": "No Detached* constructor appeared among the largest retained constructor populations; listener accumulation was not directly exposed, so confidence is medium.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-heap-post-scroll.json" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F05", "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F07", "F08", "F09" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "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", "F09", "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", 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No product task requiring on-device inference was exposed in the sampled editorial/login journeys, and no agent-facing intent is declared." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F34", "F35" ] } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Homepage: primary news discovery, navigation, consent, responsive, performance and network template.", "url": "https://www.ynet.co.il", "conditions": [ "fresh session", "desktop", "360x800", "dark preference", "reduced motion", "increased contrast", "keyboard focus", "repeated scroll" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "news", "description": "News section listing: representative section/index template and no-JS discoverability.", "url": "https://www.ynet.co.il/news", "conditions": [ "fresh session", "JavaScript disabled crawler comparison" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "article", "description": "News article: representative content/detail template, media, stability, accessibility and no-JS rendering.", "url": "https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/b1yqo5grfx", "conditions": [ "fresh session", "360x800", "JavaScript disabled crawler comparison" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "breaking", "description": "Breaking-news listing: dense frequently updated list and target-size/navigation behavior.", "url": "https://www.ynet.co.il/news/category/184", "conditions": [ "fresh session", "keyboard focus" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "login", "description": "Account entry: representative form/auth journey, autocomplete, invalid input and modern authentication.", "url": "https://www.ynet.co.il/plus/newpaywall/login?redirect=/plus", "conditions": [ "fresh session", "empty submission" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "not-found", "description": "Invalid URL: HTTP/error recovery state.", "url": "https://www.ynet.co.il/definitely-not-a-real-page-web-uplift", "conditions": [ "fresh session" ], "result": "pass" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F01", "severity": "high", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "summary": "The interface does not meaningfully adapt to dark, reduced-motion, or increased-contrast preferences.", "evidence": "Light and dark mobile screenshots are visually identical; under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, ten animations remain running (including four 6–17.2s animations and six infinite animations); the contrast probe found no prefers-contrast/forced-colors CSS.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-mobile-dark.png", "evidence/home-reduced-motion-probe.json", "evidence/home-contrast-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Define semantic light/dark color tokens with color-scheme and prefers-color-scheme, stop non-essential motion under prefers-reduced-motion, and add forced-colors/prefers-contrast adaptations.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F02", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "cross-document-transitions", "summary": "Navigation changes are abrupt and do not use View Transitions.", "evidence": "Rendered CSS/DOM probes on five templates found no view-transition signal; the site is an MPA with many cross-document navigation links.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/news-probe.json", "evidence/article-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add @view-transition { navigation: auto } for same-origin pages, with reduced-motion handling and stable view-transition-name assignments for shared elements.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F03", "severity": "low", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "summary": "Long pages do not expose modern scroll-state-aware navigation chrome.", "evidence": "The 15,291px homepage and 7,467px article probes found no scroll-state/container-query or scroll-progress implementation.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use a sticky header with scroll-state container queries or a lightweight scroll progress indicator, while respecting reduced motion.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F04", "severity": "high", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "summary": "A consent interstitial blocks the full page on every fresh visit.", "evidence": "Desktop, mobile, article, and crawler-rendered screenshots show an opaque modal and dimmed page before any interaction; initial actions are only “Consent” and “Manage options”.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article-discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/consent-buttons.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Present a compact, non-obscuring consent notice where lawful, include equally prominent accept/reject controls, and preserve access to core editorial content.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F05", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "summary": "The blocking consent UI is built from generic divs rather than a dialog primitive.", "evidence": "DOM probes found zero or popover elements while a fixed .fc-consent-root/.fc-dialog-overlay covered most of the viewport.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Implement modal behavior with , labelled by visible headings, with correct focus containment, escape/cancel behavior, and a non-modal fallback.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F06", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "reduced-chrome", "guidanceId": "reduce-style-repetition", "summary": "The homepage is extremely dense with repeated navigation, cards, ads, and recommendation chrome.", "evidence": "The first mobile capture is a scaled 15,291px page with a blocking modal; the DOM includes 1,427 links and 438 images.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Reduce duplicate navigation and recommendation modules, prioritize editorial hierarchy, and defer secondary/ad content below the initial reading task.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "medium", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F07", "severity": "critical", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "summary": "The site forces a 1,240px desktop layout on a 360px mobile viewport.", "evidence": "meta viewport is width=1240 on all five templates; at a 360×800 device viewport Chrome scales the 1,241px layout to 0.29, making text and controls tiny.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/home-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use width=device-width, initial-scale=1, remove fixed 1,240px page assumptions, and rebuild key grids with intrinsic fluid sizing.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F08", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "size-aware-styling", "summary": "Components rely on physical fixed-layout CSS rather than container-responsive composition.", "evidence": "CSS probes on all five templates found no @container/container-type signal and hundreds of physical left/right declarations.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/news-probe.json", "evidence/article-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Introduce container-type on reusable card/list regions and @container rules for compact and expanded variants.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "medium", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F09", "severity": "high", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "summary": "Touch targets and keyboard focus are not reliably usable.", "evidence": "The homepage probe counted 331 visible controls below 24px in at least one dimension and all first 25 sampled controls had no visible outline or box shadow after focus; breaking news had 517 small targets.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/breaking-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Provide visible :focus-visible styles and increase interactive hit areas to at least 24×24 CSS px, preferably 44×44 for primary mobile controls.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F10", "severity": "high", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "primary-flow-completion", "guidanceId": "primary-user-journey-task-completion", "summary": "Reading primary content is gated by a full-page consent decision.", "evidence": "Every representative editorial path loaded behind the same blocking consent interstitial; the article’s rendered screenshot is not readable until a choice is made.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/article-discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/consent-flow.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Keep core news content readable while consent choices are pending and defer non-essential advertising/personalization requests until a choice.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F11", "severity": "critical", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "summary": "Load and interaction performance are far outside good ranges.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured homepage performance 0.23, LCP 11.3s, TBT 2,040ms, Speed Index 25.4s and TTI 60.1s; the article scored 0.10 with LCP 9.6s, TBT 2,740ms and CLS 0.32.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Set performance budgets, prioritize the LCP asset, eliminate non-essential startup scripts, and delay ad/recommendation stacks until after core content is interactive.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F12", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "visual-stability", "guidanceId": "visually-stable-font-fallbacks", "summary": "Article content shifts substantially during load.", "evidence": "The mobile article layout observer recorded CLS 0.466, including a single 0.286 shift; all 23 sampled article images lacked width/height attributes.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Reserve image/ad/media space with width, height, and aspect-ratio; use metric-compatible font fallbacks and avoid late insertion above content.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F13", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "guidanceId": "break-up-long-tasks", "summary": "Heavy scripting repeatedly blocks the main thread.", "evidence": "The trace recorded 23 long tasks, a 161ms longest task, and 662ms trace TBT; Lighthouse measured 2,040–2,740ms TBT.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Profile script execution, remove or delay low-value third parties, split long tasks, and schedule remaining work by user-visible priority.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F14", "severity": "critical", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "summary": "The homepage transfers an excessive network and image payload.", "evidence": "HAR captured 607 requests and 16.98MB transferred: 403 image requests/10.27MB and 80 scripts/5.46MB. The image audit found 99/100 without dimensions, 79 below-fold images not lazy, 30 oversized, and 76 without srcset.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har", "evidence/home-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Lazy-load below-fold media, emit responsive srcset/sizes and explicit dimensions, consolidate requests, cache immutable assets, and prioritize only the LCP image.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F15", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "summary": "Large amounts of unused JavaScript and CSS ship on initial load.", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 2,809KiB unused JavaScript and 500KiB unused CSS on home, and 2,935KiB unused JavaScript/568KiB CSS on the article.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Route-split template code, remove duplicate/legacy bundles, and conditionally load ad, video, accessibility, and recommendation integrations only where needed.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F16", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "summary": "Important links, buttons, and images lack accessible names.", "evidence": "Lighthouse home found 20 unnamed links, 3 unnamed buttons, and 9 images without alt; article image inspection reported 11/23 without alt (including third-party player assets).", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/article-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add accurate accessible names and meaningful alt, hide decorative/duplicate assets from assistive technology, and verify third-party embeds expose usable controls.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F17", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "summary": "Text contrast fails on representative surfaces.", "evidence": "Lighthouse found five insufficient-contrast nodes on home and two on article; accessibility scores were 0.61 and 0.80.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Adjust semantic foreground/background tokens to meet WCAG AA in all states and verify them in light, dark, and high-contrast modes.", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F18", "severity": "critical", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "summary": "Mobile reflow and media accessibility are seriously compromised.", "evidence": "width=1240 forces browser shrink-to-fit on 360px screens; probes found hundreds of undersized targets and two article videos without caption tracks.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Enable device-width reflow and user scaling, enlarge targets, and supply captions/transcripts for editorial video.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F19", "severity": "high", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "no-console-errors", "guidanceId": "html", "summary": "Representative pages log many browser errors.", "evidence": "Lighthouse found 16 console errors on home and 7 on article; source-map processing also reported out-of-bounds mappings.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Fix runtime/network errors, publish correct source maps, and add console-error regression checks for each template.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F20", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "html", "summary": "Document assets are not soundly sized and browser inspector issues remain.", "evidence": "Image audit found 99/100 homepage images without width/height and 30 oversized; Lighthouse reported inspector issues and broken source-map mappings.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Emit intrinsic dimensions and correctly sized responsive assets, repair source maps, and resolve DevTools inspector/deprecation findings.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F21", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "guidanceId": "html", "summary": "Mobile and crawler signals are inconsistent.", "evidence": "Lighthouse found six non-crawlable links on home and two on article; the site declares width=1240 rather than device-width, and raw-content coverage was only 4–10%.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-discoverability.json", "evidence/article-discoverability.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use real href links, device-width viewport metadata, and server-render the primary article/listing content rather than only metadata and a thin shell.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F22", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "guidanceId": "html", "summary": "The standard sitemap endpoint is missing and robots.txt does not advertise an alternative.", "evidence": "GET /sitemap.xml returned the HTML 404 page; robots.txt returned 200 but contained no Sitemap directive.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/robots-sitemap.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Publish a current XML sitemap (or sitemap index) and advertise its absolute URL in robots.txt.", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F23", "severity": "low", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "title-and-description", "guidanceId": "html", "summary": "The login template has no meta description.", "evidence": "The login probe found a descriptive title but an empty/missing meta description; editorial templates had both.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a concise, unique meta description for the sign-in/subscription entry template.", "effort": "trivial", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F24", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "summary": "Security headers and cookie attributes are materially incomplete.", "evidence": "HTTPS and frame restrictions are present, but HSTS, nosniff, Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy are absent; 13/13 observed cookies were flagged insecure and several are long-lived SameSite=None analytics cookies.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-cookies.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Deploy HSTS and nosniff, explicit Referrer/Permissions policies, strengthen CSP beyond frame-ancestors, and mark all HTTPS cookies Secure with the narrowest workable SameSite.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F25", "severity": "critical", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "summary": "The page activates an extreme tracking and third-party footprint before a clear rejection choice.", "evidence": "Tracker capture found 71 third-party origins and 27 known tracker endpoints; HAR recorded 607 requests. Initial consent UI has no reject action, while Manage options exposes 289 toggles with 63 checked.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/consent-flow.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Default non-essential purposes off, add an equally prominent Reject all action, block tracker requests until valid consent, and remove vendors without measurable editorial value.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F26", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "guidanceId": "passkey-authentication", "summary": "The account flow offers email/social sign-in but no passkey path.", "evidence": "The visible login surface offers email, Google, and Apple; source and UI probes found no passkey text or navigator.credentials/PublicKeyCredential integration.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-flow-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add passkey registration and conditional authentication while retaining account-recovery and federated fallbacks.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "login" }, { "id": "F27", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "progressive-enhancement", "guidanceId": "consistent-cross-document-transitions", "summary": "Core article and listing content is largely unavailable without JavaScript.", "evidence": "Discoverability measured raw-content overlap of 4% for article and 5% for news, classified both as JS shells; crawler screenshots are blank while rendered screenshots contain the page/modal.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-discoverability.json", "evidence/article-discoverability-crawler.png", "evidence/article-discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/news-discoverability-crawler.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Server-render the complete headline, article body, byline, key media alternatives, and listing links; layer interactivity and ads on afterward.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F28", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-internationalised", "principleCheckId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "guidanceId": "translator", "summary": "Hebrew pages compute left-to-right direction and depend heavily on physical CSS.", "evidence": "All five probes report lang=he but computed dir=ltr; article CSS signal found 1,032 physical left/right declarations versus 4 logical-property uses.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/article-probe.json", "evidence/login-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Set dir=rtl on the root and migrate layout to inline/block logical properties, testing mixed Hebrew/Latin content and controls.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F29", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "no-dark-patterns", "guidanceId": "custom-button-actions", "summary": "Consent choices are asymmetric and many purposes are preselected.", "evidence": "Initial UI offers Consent and Manage options, not Reject all. Manage options shows Accept all/Confirm choices and 289 toggles, 63 checked.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/consent-buttons.json", "evidence/consent-flow.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Provide equally prominent Accept all and Reject all controls, default optional purposes off, group vendors intelligibly, and keep refusal as easy as acceptance.", "effort": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "login" }, { "id": "F30", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "humane-error-handling", "guidanceId": "accessible-error-announcement", "summary": "Submitting the empty email step provides no visible or accessible error state.", "evidence": "After activating Continue with an empty visible email field, the field still reported valid=true, no aria-invalid/describedby, no alert, and focus did not move to the field.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-invalid-flow.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use required/type=email validation after interaction, move focus to the invalid field, set aria-invalid/aria-describedby, and announce a specific correction in a live region.", "effort": "small", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "login" }, { "id": "F31", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "guidanceId": "autofill-sign-in-form", "summary": "The visible email sign-in field omits autocomplete metadata.", "evidence": "Login probe found type=email with an empty autocomplete attribute; no passkey-assisted flow was present.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/login-flow-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use autocomplete=email or username as appropriate and add webauthn to the token when conditional passkey UI is supported.", "effort": "trivial", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "login" }, { "id": "F32", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "summary": "Image delivery is wasteful for a text-led news homepage.", "evidence": "403 image requests transferred 10.27MB; 99/100 audited images were classified legacy, 30 oversized, 76 missing srcset, and 79 below-fold images not lazy.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Adopt responsive format=auto/AVIF/WebP delivery, right-size each slot, lazy-load below the fold, and remove duplicate hidden image instances.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F33", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "deprioritize-background-fetches", "summary": "Third-party scripts and background work dominate the resource budget.", "evidence": "71 third-party origins, 80 scripts/5.46MB and 607 total requests were observed; ten repeated scroll cycles added 74 resource entries and raised live DOM nodes from 13,735 to 16,209.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-memory-metrics.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Create a vendor budget, remove low-value integrations, load ads/recommendations only near view, and stop background work when hidden or consent is absent.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F34", "severity": "medium", "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "principleCheckId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "guidanceId": "manage-recurring-intervals", "summary": "Repeated navigation-like scrolling grows retained heap and DOM materially.", "evidence": "Garbage-collected heap summaries grew from 147.4MB/2.05M nodes to 163.8MB/2.33M after ten top-to-bottom cycles; in-session used heap rose 124.5MB→179.3MB and DOM nodes 13,735→16,209.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-heap-post-scroll.json", "evidence/home-memory-metrics.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Profile retained paths after repeated feed traversal, dispose players/ads/listeners on exit, bound caches, and virtualize or remove offscreen feed modules.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "medium", "pathId": "home" }, { "id": "F35", "severity": "high", "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "principleCheckId": "bounded-footprint", "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "summary": "The initial page footprint is disproportionate for a news index.", "evidence": "Baseline heap after garbage collection contained 2,051,937 nodes and 147.4MB self size; live DOM contained 13,735 elements before scrolling.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.json", "evidence/home-memory-metrics.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Reduce duplicate hidden DOM, virtualize long lists, defer recommendation/ad trees, and avoid instantiating media players until requested or near view.", "effort": "large", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "home" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T1", "title": "Rebuild mobile layout around device-width reflow and accessible targets", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F07", "F08", "F09", "F18", "F28" ], "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T2", "title": "Cut startup network, script, image, tracker and memory cost", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F11", "F12", "F13", "F14", "F15", "F32", "F33", "F34", "F35" ], "guidanceId": "performance", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T3", "title": "Make consent symmetric, non-blocking and privacy-preserving", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F04", "F05", "F10", "F25", "F29" ], "guidanceId": "privacy", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T4", "title": "Server-render complete article and listing content", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F21", "F27" ], "guidanceId": "consistent-cross-document-transitions", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T5", "title": "Repair accessibility names, contrast, focus and captions", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F09", "F16", "F17", "F18" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T6", "title": "Harden security headers and cookie policy", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F24" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T7", "title": "Make sign-in humane and passkey/autofill-ready", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F26", "F30", "F31" ], "guidanceId": "passkey-authentication", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T8", "title": "Repair crawl/index metadata and sitemap delivery", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F22", "F23" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 6, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-24T08-56-12-753Z" }