Web.dev Fails Its Own Audit
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The screenshot shows Google's web.dev "Measure" page with the text "See how well your website performs. Then, get tips to improve your user experience. Sign in to track your progress over time," plus a "SIGN IN WITH GOOGLE" button. The measured URL is "https://web.dev/measure/" with "Last audit: Jan 22, 2:38 AM," "View Report," "SWITCH URL," and "RUN AUDIT" visible; the score cards show Performance 93, Accessibility 72, Best Practices 100, and SEO 93, with the score scale labeled 0-49, 50-89, and 90-100. The metrics list First Contentful Paint 1.3 s, Speed Index 3.3 s, Largest Contentful Paint 2.2 s, Time to Interactive 4.7 s, Total Blocking Time 150 ms, and Cumulative Layout Shift 0.12, followed by "Core Web Vitals assessment. To learn more, see Web Vitals." The audit table columns read "IMPACT," "CATEGORY," "AUDIT," and "GUIDE," with rows including "Remove unused CSS," "Preload key requests," ARIA role child issues, invalid aria attributes, missing image alt attributes, form elements without associated labels, "Minify JavaScript," "Remove unused JavaScript," insufficient color contrast, and non-sequential heading order. The humor is that the tool for judging web quality is shown giving Google's own web.dev page a notably weak accessibility score.
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Running Lighthouse on web.dev is the web platform equivalent of making the compiler compile itself and then filing accessibility bugs.
how the turntables... Comment deleted
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