Manifest position 897 · CrUX rank bucket 1000

https://www.infobae.com

Coverage complete

Coverage complete across 58 registered checks and five representative paths. Excluded archetypes: checkout and editorial/admin surfaces were not publicly exposed; country sections share the audited listing templates.

Attempts
1 / 3
Judged checks
58 / 58
Blocked
0
Not run
0
This report has no published overall score. Blocked and not-run checks are not passes. A coverage-complete report means every check has a judged outcome; it does not mean every check passed.

All 58 atomic check outcomes

Principle / checkStatusConfidenceEvidence or reason
respect-user-preferences
respects-color-scheme
issueshighDark-emulation screenshot is visually identical to the light surface; computed html color-scheme is normal and the page remains white beneath the modal.
F01 medium: The site remains light under the user’s dark preference.
respect-user-preferences
respects-reduced-motion
issueshighUnder prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, four live blink animations remain running at 3000 ms and no reduced-motion CSS rule was found.
F02 medium: Live indicators keep blinking when reduced motion is requested.
respect-user-preferences
respects-contrast
passhighLighthouse and the rendered page remained operable under the tested contrast-related baseline; the only measured contrast failures are recorded separately under be-inclusive.
implement-natural-interactions
view-transitions
passhighStatic CSS probe found 4 view-transition references on route-capable navigation.
implement-natural-interactions
scroll-driven-animations
passhighStatic CSS probe found a scroll animation timeline and trace showed only 31 ms TBT in the direct trace capture.
implement-natural-interactions
physical-gestures
passhighThe representative mobile news surfaces use native scrolling and links; no custom pointer gesture surface that fights platform behavior was observed.
provide-guided-navigation
scroll-state-aware-chrome
passhighRendered navigation remains available and CSS includes a scroll timeline used for scroll-aware treatment.
provide-guided-navigation
anchored-positioning
passhighStatic CSS probe found 3 anchor-positioning declarations; no clipped tested overlay edge was observed.
provide-guided-navigation
directs-attention
passhighNavigation labels are descriptive, all 866 homepage anchors have hrefs, and article/listing hierarchy directs users into stories.
maximize-content-reduce-noise
no-intrusive-interruptions
issueshighLoad screenshots on homepage, listing, and article show a blocking consent modal covering the primary content.
F03 high: Consent and notification prompts obscure the primary content on first load.
maximize-content-reduce-noise
semantic-dismissible-primitives
issueshighThe visible consent surface is a DIV with role=dialog rather than a native dialog; no dialog or popover element was found.
F04 medium: The blocking consent overlay is custom role-based chrome rather than a native dialog primitive.
maximize-content-reduce-noise
reduced-chrome
issueshighThe first viewport contains a full modal over content plus a separate notification-subscription card behind it.
F03 high: Consent and notification prompts obscure the primary content on first load.
adapt-to-the-form-factor
responsive-no-horizontal-scroll
passhighAt 360x800, layout measured scrollWidth=clientWidth=360 with 0 px horizontal overflow and a scalable viewport meta tag.
adapt-to-the-form-factor
component-level-responsiveness
passhighHomepage, latest listing, and article reflow into narrow layouts; the visual evidence shows cards and typography adapting without overflow.
adapt-to-the-form-factor
input-modality-aware
issueshighProgrammatically focused first visible link computed outline-style none and box-shadow none, so keyboard focus is not visibly indicated.
F05 high: Keyboard focus is not visibly indicated on the first primary link.
support-core-task-success
clear-purpose-and-primary-action
passhighHomepage, latest listing, and article expose descriptive headlines and direct story links; article has 7,313 characters of readable body content.
support-core-task-success
primary-flow-completion
issueshighAnonymous story discovery and reading are interrupted on every representative template by mandatory consent chrome.
F03 high: Consent and notification prompts obscure the primary content on first load.
support-core-task-success
clear-system-state-and-recovery
issueshighA deliberately unknown URL silently redirected to /america/ and displayed the homepage, with no not-found explanation or recovery state.
F14 medium: Unknown URLs silently become the homepage instead of a useful not-found state.
be-fast-and-stable
good-core-web-vitals
issueshighLighthouse performance was 0.48 with simulated LCP 6,014 ms and TBT 521 ms; CLS was excellent at 0.000056.
F06 high: The cold-load experience is slow and script-heavy.
be-fast-and-stable
visual-stability
passhighMobile layout observer measured CLS 0.0000556 with one tiny shift; images generally reserve dimensions.
be-fast-and-stable
efficient-main-thread
issueshighLighthouse measured 521 ms TBT and 25.24 s time-to-interactive; the direct trace also recorded three long tasks.
F06 high: The cold-load experience is slow and script-heavy.
be-fast-and-stable
efficient-resource-delivery
issueshighHAR recorded 112 requests and 3,555,827 transferred bytes, including 2,940,302 script bytes; Lighthouse flagged render-blocking and font-display opportunities.
F06 high: The cold-load experience is slow and script-heavy.
be-fast-and-stable
trim-unused-and-duplicate-code
issueshighLighthouse estimated 1,096 KiB unused JavaScript and 127 KiB unused CSS across 18 resources.
F07 high: Large amounts of JavaScript and CSS are shipped but unused during the homepage load.
be-inclusive
names-roles-labels
issueshighLighthouse found 9 visible-label/accessibility-name mismatches; the image probe also found 11 images lacking alt attributes.
F08 medium: Some controls have mismatched accessible names and visible labels, and some images lack alt attributes.
be-inclusive
sufficient-contrast
issueshighLighthouse found 3 insufficient-contrast instances.
F08 medium: Some controls have mismatched accessible names and visible labels, and some images lack alt attributes.
be-inclusive
structure-and-focus
issueshighHeading order and landmarks passed Lighthouse, but a focused first link had no outline or focus shadow.
F05 high: Keyboard focus is not visibly indicated on the first primary link.
be-inclusive
legible-text
passhighHomepage, listing, and article screenshots show readable typography and article body layout without clipping.
be-inclusive
zoom-reflow-targets-and-media
passhighViewport allows user scaling, 360 px reflow has no overflow, and Lighthouse target-size audit passed.
follow-best-practices
no-console-errors
passhighLighthouse reported no browser errors logged to the console.
follow-best-practices
sound-document-and-assets
issueshighDocument has HTML doctype and UTF-8, but Lighthouse found an incorrect image aspect ratio and low-resolution image; image probe found 4 missing dimensions.
F09 medium: Image sizing and responsive delivery are inconsistent.
follow-best-practices
browser-platform-hygiene
issueshighLighthouse found missing source maps for 3 large first-party scripts and Chrome Inspector issues, though deprecated API and BFCache checks passed.
F10 low: Large first-party scripts lack source maps and Chrome reports inspector issues.
be-discoverable
title-and-description
passhighHomepage and article have descriptive, unique titles and meta descriptions.
be-discoverable
crawlable-and-mobile-friendly
passhighAll 866 homepage anchors have hrefs, viewport metadata is present, robots allows indexing, and Lighthouse SEO scored 1.00.
be-discoverable
canonical-and-indexing-signals
passhighHomepage/article expose canonicals, index/follow, localized hreflang entries; robots.txt is 200 and declares multiple sitemap feeds.
be-discoverable
structured-and-shareable-metadata
passhighHomepage has NewsMediaOrganization JSON-LD and the article has NewsArticle plus BreadcrumbList and complete Open Graph fields.
be-private-and-secure
secure-transport-and-headers
issueshighHTTPS and HSTS are present, but CSP allows unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval; nosniff is missing and all 13 observed cookies were flagged insecure.
F11 high: Browser security policy and cookie hardening are incomplete.
be-private-and-secure
data-minimisation-and-third-parties
issueshighTracker probe found 43 third-party origins and 8 known tracker families; consent text states data may be shared with 231 partners.
F12 high: The anonymous homepage activates an unusually broad tracking and partner footprint.
be-private-and-secure
in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth
issueshighNo permission prompt fired on load, but the observed login is email/password only and exposes no passkey/WebAuthn affordance.
F13 high: The login and consent/account handoff lacks humane validation and modern input assistance.
be-private-and-secure
defensive-browser-policies
issueshighHeaders probe found no frame protection, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, or X-Content-Type-Options; CSP lacks frame-ancestors and allows unsafe script modes.
F11 high: Browser security policy and cookie hardening are incomplete.
be-resilient
progressive-enhancement
passhighDiscoverability found 92% raw-HTML content coverage and no JS shell; browser/crawler screenshots both contain core news content.
be-resilient
resilient-runtime-behaviour
passhighRepresentative templates rendered stable content and navigation; no clipped menu or broken async shell was observed.
be-resilient
offline-and-installable
not-applicablehighApplicability judgement: Infobae is a public multi-page news publication rather than an app-like workflow; installability and offline app-shell behavior are not required for the representative reading journey.
be-resilient
network-and-http-failure-states
issueshighUnknown URL redirected to the normal homepage without identifying the failure or preserving the requested context.
F14 medium: Unknown URLs silently become the homepage instead of a useful not-found state.
be-internationalised
lang-dir-and-logical-properties
passhighhtml lang=es, extensive hreflang coverage, and 26 logical-property CSS uses support localized variants.
be-internationalised
locale-aware-data
passhighRendered dates use Spanish ordering and localized month text across the Spanish-language surface.
be-internationalised
time-zone-correctness
passhighArticle timestamp visibly includes EST, making the event time zone explicit rather than ambiguous.
be-trustworthy
no-dark-patterns
issueshighConsent gives prominent “accept and keep reading” but labels refusal “reject and register”, while citing 231 partners; refusal is coupled to account conversion.
F03 high: Consent and notification prompts obscure the primary content on first load.
be-trustworthy
humane-error-handling
issueshighSubmitting the visible login with empty email/password produced no validation message, role=alert, aria-invalid state, or native invalidity.
F13 high: The login and consent/account handoff lacks humane validation and modern input assistance.
be-trustworthy
trustworthy-input-assistance
issueshighVisible email and password fields have labels but both autocomplete attributes are empty.
F13 high: The login and consent/account handoff lacks humane validation and modern input assistance.
be-trustworthy
safe-commercial-and-account-flows
issueshighThe account entry flow is password-only, lacks passkey/autocomplete assistance, and is promoted as the alternative to consent.
F13 high: The login and consent/account handoff lacks humane validation and modern input assistance.
be-sustainable
optimised-assets
issueshighOf 100 images, 88 use legacy formats, 79 lack srcset, 5 are oversized, and 5 below-fold images are not lazy-loaded.
F09 medium: Image sizing and responsive delivery are inconsistent.
be-sustainable
no-wasteful-work
issueshighThe cold load makes 112 requests, ships 2.94 MB scripts, and Lighthouse identifies more than 1 MB unused JavaScript.
F15 high: Network, third-party, and legacy-image costs are disproportionate to the text-led page.
be-sustainable
third-party-and-media-budget
issueshighHAR transferred 3.56 MB and tracker evidence found 43 third-party origins, disproportionate for a text-led news homepage.
F15 high: Network, third-party, and legacy-image costs are disproportionate to the text-led page.
be-agent-ready
structured-agent-capabilities
not-applicablehighApplicability judgement: No declared agent-facing transaction or tool surface was found; this emerging capability is optional for this publisher.
be-agent-ready
on-device-inference
not-applicablehighApplicability judgement: No user task in the audited anonymous news-reading scope requires on-device inference; absence is not a failure for this emerging check.
be-memory-efficient
no-leak-under-repeated-interaction
passmediumAfter ten menu toggles, heap self-size rose 605,668 bytes (1.1%) and nodes rose 9,362 (1.0%); this small one-pair delta is not evidence of unbounded retained growth.
be-memory-efficient
bounded-footprint
issueshighA settled homepage heap contained 961,911 nodes and 55,031,124 self-size bytes, including 58,508 closures, which is disproportionate for a news listing.
F16 medium: The settled homepage has a very large heap and object population for a news listing.
be-memory-efficient
no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners
passmediumNeither summary exposed a Detached* constructor among retained top constructors; repeated toggling did not show a large accumulation signal.

Provenance

Canonical report: results/atomic/reports/0897-www_infobae_com.json
Report SHA-256: ea240a38af92d627e119b87e4cf0ca239feafdfdf7df416f4c99363b136f29aa
Local retained report: runs/2026-07-17T17-27-24-856Z/atomic-reports/www_infobae_com/2026-07-23T17-21-29-405Z/report.json
Local evidence root: runs/2026-07-17T17-27-24-856Z/atomic-reports/www_infobae_com/2026-07-23T17-21-29-405Z
Catalog SHA-256: sha256:78ccfdb2d483f4c57d9dafed80fd86c6265585a56457c8dcfddc254b80fb44d7

Raw screenshots, HARs, traces, heaps, and other browser artifacts are retained at the local evidence root and intentionally are not committed. Artifact paths in the canonical report are relative to that root.