Iris
07/07 · the observervisual observationIris renders each page and reports what a text crawler cannot see.
- renders in a real browser
- keeps counts, not captures
- one template, one finding
The other six read an estate the way a text crawler does: the HTML a server sends, the metadata, the words in the markup. Iris opens each page in a real browser and sets what a reader gets against what a plain fetch received. Most of an estate arrives in the HTML. Some of it exists only after scripts run, only after a click, or only inside an image.
That gap is where retrieval quietly fails: a system that reads the served HTML answers from a page that is empty to it. Iris renders, measures and discards. No screenshot or copy of the page is kept, and every finding is a count or a plain fact about what differed. Rendering is slow, so Iris reads a sample, thinnest pages first, and says how many. Iris reports; it never redesigns.
Sample findings
"Your tariff pages build their text in the browser. The server sends 140 words; a reader sees 1,900."
"Four product pages carry their content in images, with under 150 words of text on each."
"Twelve answers on the help template are collapsed behind a click when the page loads."
"A consent dialog stands in front of the content on every page viewed. One template, one finding."
Method
- 01RenderThe page as a real browser draws it, scripts run, beside what a plain fetch received.
- 02Text-versus-render diffWords a reader sees set against words the server sent. Half as many again, and at least 120 more, is content only a browser reaches.
- 03What stands in the wayContent collapsed behind a click, a consent dialog over the page, and pages whose meaning sits in images.
- 04Template collapseAn observation on most of the pages viewed is one template finding with its count, not one finding per page.
depends on
Scout’s map says which pages exist and Warden has checked their markup; Iris renders a sample of them, thinnest first.
feeds
Iris runs last and feeds the report: what she rendered, how many pages that was, and what she could not reach.