Kept by incident.synthetic@web-summit.dinis, 2026-11-11, 12:20 UTC
Synthetic visitors on /guide/, run 5: sherpa@'s v5, with a check of v6
The four people below are invented. This is not user research. Never quote them as real readers. The same personas and entry points as before. They walked v0.1.1058 to v0.1.1060 (sherpa@'s v5, 72419d4) on a 390 × 664 phone, between 12:16 and 12:20 UTC, with Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control on. sherpa@'s v6 (516583a) went live during the run. Its claims were checked by incident.synthetic@ on v0.1.1065 in Chromium (section at the end); that was a measurement pass, not a persona walk. The seconds, taps and pixels are measured. The words are the sub-agents'.
| Persona (invented) | Entry | g-1 | g-2 | g-3 | g-4 | g-5 | Main answer: seconds, taps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stranded | /guide/stranded/ | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Carris limited (FACT) in 34 s, 1 tap; Fertagus normal at 40 s. Metro: the mayor's word (EVIDENCE) at 30 s. "Not stated" list at 57 s, 2 taps |
| Flight | /guide/lisbon/ | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Flight card in 9 s, 1 tap (H2 at 2,014 px). Done in 34 s of 45 |
| Wire reporter | /guide/media/ | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | What is in force in 5 s, 0 taps. The day's main change in 35 s from the lead, or about 2 min through "Changed today" |
| Funchal | /guide/ | 3 | 3 | 3.5 | 3 | 4 | Funchal flights in 22 s; Madeira schools in 40 s, both 1 tap (was 88 s, 2 taps, cut). Mainland scope and the Porto Santo ferry at 58 s |
Fixed in v5
- Cut rows: none on screen on any page. sherpa@ traced the cause to an index passed as the cut length.
- Carris and Fertagus: each now has its own FACT row, and the "not stated" line reads only "Taxis and ride-hailing".
- Madeira: schools are among "Decisions stated", in full ("closed on Wednesday morning, reopening from 13:00"). The mainland alert's scope is stated, and the Porto Santo ferry is in "not stated".
- Stranded heading: moved up to 946 px (it was at 1,586).
- Metro: the "(announced by the mayor)" credit is now in the Metro row on /guide/lisbon/.
Ranked findings, run 5 (v5)
- Costly (reporter): "Changed today" moved to about 10 screens down on /guide/media/, at 6,603 px under Madeira. Its 3 visible rows (São Bento, Vasco da Gama, Fertagus) left out the warning change, which was row 16 of 24. Duplicate pairs remained: the flight counts 208 and 222, the sea bars, Vasco da Gama, Fertagus (both 10:40), and Funchal centre (also in the Madeira section). This is why the reporter's score fell from 4 to 3.
- Costly (stranded): "NOT READ" reads as a service status. For about 2 s the all-caps chip on the Metro row (3,865 px) reads as "not running". The note beneath explains the site's terms and "on Dinis's list", which means nothing to a visitor. The mayor's word that the Metro runs is 1,100 px lower, with no link to it. Change: a neutral lower-case label ("we do not read this site"), one line pointing to the mayor's statement, and the licence detail folded away.
- Minor (flight, stranded):
• The jump row is still at 734 px, 70 px under the fold.
• "↑ The seven questions" still jumps down (v5).
• The old green bridge row still sits under the newer limit (v5).
• The Metro caveat ("No Metro notice on metrolisboa.pt") is still only under "Changed today".
• A second shelter row had arunningchip (v5).
• The Carris Metropolitana row is taken for city Carris.
• Section 4 comes before section 3, which sherpa@ says is deliberate. - Minor (Madeira):
• The Madeira in-force line ("No orange or red IPMA warning for Madeira") is the 7th block, 1,600 px into the fold. Change: open the fold with it.
• A Tuesday regional civil protection page, tagged FACT (2,844 px), "lists the warnings in force by area", including sea warnings until 21:00 Wednesday, which reads against "no orange or red in force". Change: say it is Tuesday's list, with levels not stated, or move it to Deeper.
• Thursday's schools are not mentioned, and the past red warning has no "past" mark (sherpa@: not yet done). - Minor (reporter):
• The menu rows show "Dat" and "D" at the right edge of screen 1.
• 11 of 21 folded rows end mid-quote with "…" after a long quote; this is not the old bug.
• The desk still promises no reply time.
v6 (v0.1.1065), checked by incident.synthetic@ at about 12:22 UTC
| sherpa@'s claim | Measured |
|---|---|
| "Changed today" puts IPMA's warning changes first | Yes. On all four pages row 1 is "IPMA lowers Lisbon's wind warning from red to orange…" (FACT). |
| "Changed today" sits below the reader's own answer | It is still at 6,757 px on /guide/media/ and 7,268 px on /guide/stranded/. For the reporter, whose question is what changed, that is about 10 screens down. Still costly for /guide/media/: on the journalist page, put it near the top. |
| Shelter row gets a neutral "shelter at night" chip | Yes. No shelter row shows "running". |
| Metro de Lisboa reads "not read" with the press decision below | Yes, but the chip is still all-caps "NOT READ" (see run-5 finding 2). |
| "↑ Top · All seven questions ↓" ends each section | Yes on the focused pages. |
| Cut rows | 0 on screen on all four pages. |
| Label key on /guide/media/ | Not located by this check; left for the next walk. |
| CP "(12:00 to 15:00 forecast…)" | Still on /guide/stranded/ and /guide/lisbon/; held with the conductor. |
| Jump row above the fold, past Madeira red marked past | Not done (sherpa@ says so). |
Does anything read like advice or a forecast from us?
No.
- /guide/media/ says "Nothing here is a forecast or advice of ours" (7,760 px).
- Credited to their sources: Lusoponte's advice, the sea worsening until 12:00 Thursday, Madeira civil protection's "asked not to go to affected areas", and ANA's "cancellations expected".
- Held with the conductor: the CP parenthesis.
Data: findings-guide-5.json; the walks are in guide-5/<persona>.json.