core(anchor-elements): don't consider ancestorListeners

core/audits/seo/crawlable-anchors.js

@@ -57,12 +57,10 @@ class CrawlableAnchors extends Audit {
       href,
       attributeNames = [],
       listeners = [],
-      ancestorListeners = [],
     }) => {
       rawHref = rawHref.replace( /\s/g, '');
       name = name.trim();
       role = role.trim();
-      const hasListener = Boolean(listeners.length || ancestorListeners.length);
 
       if (role.length > 0) return;
       // Ignore mailto links even if they use one of the failing patterns. See https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/11443#issuecomment-694898412
@@ -86,7 +84,8 @@ class CrawlableAnchors extends Audit {
         !attributeNames.includes('href') &&
         hrefAssociatedAttributes.every(attribute => !attributeNames.includes(attribute))
       ) {
-        return hasListener;
+        // If it has an even listener (e.g. onclick) then we can't assume it's a placeholder. Therefore we consider it failing.
+        return Boolean(listeners.length);
       }
 
       if (href === '') return true;

core/gather/gatherers/anchor-elements.js

@@ -157,33 +157,17 @@ class AnchorElements extends BaseGatherer {
 
     // DOM.getDocument is necessary for pushNodesByBackendIdsToFrontend to properly retrieve nodeIds if the `DOM` domain was enabled before this gatherer, invoke it to be safe.
     await session.sendCommand('DOM.getDocument', {depth: -1, pierce: true});
-    const anchorsWithEventListeners = anchors.map(async anchor => {
-      const listeners = await getEventListeners(session, anchor.node.devtoolsNodePath);
-
-      /** @type {Set<{type: string}>} */
-      const ancestorListeners = new Set();
-      const splitPath = anchor.node.devtoolsNodePath.split(',');
-      const ancestorListenerPromises = [];
-      while (splitPath.length >= 2) {
-        splitPath.length -= 2;
-        const path = splitPath.join(',');
-        const promise = getEventListeners(session, path).then(listeners => {
-          for (const listener of listeners) {
-            ancestorListeners.add(listener);
-          }
-        }).catch(() => {});
-        ancestorListenerPromises.push(promise);
-      }
-
-      await Promise.all(ancestorListenerPromises);
 
-      return {
-        ...anchor,
-        listeners,
-        ancestorListeners: Array.from(ancestorListeners),
-      };
+    const anchorsWithEventListeners = anchors.map( anchor => {
+      return getEventListeners(session, anchor.node.devtoolsNodePath).then(listeners => {
+        return {
+          ...anchor,
+          listeners,
+        };
+      });
     });
 
+
     const result = await Promise.all(anchorsWithEventListeners);
     await session.sendCommand('DOM.disable');
     return result;

core/scripts/generate-timing-trace.js

@@ -43,7 +43,19 @@ function saveTraceFromCLI() {
     printErrorAndQuit('Lighthouse JSON results not found.');
   }
 
-  const lhrObject = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(filename, 'utf8'));
+  let text = fs.readFileSync(filename, 'utf8');
+  // Support reading from HTML too.
+  if (filename.endsWith('.html') || text.startsWith('<')) {
+    const startMarker = '__LIGHTHOUSE_JSON__ = ';
+    const start = text.indexOf(startMarker) + startMarker.length;
+    const end = text.indexOf(';</script>', start);
+    if (start === -1 || end === -1) {
+      printErrorAndQuit('No Lighthouse JSON found in HTML file.');
+    }
+    text = text.slice(start, end);
+  }
+
+  const lhrObject = JSON.parse(text);
   const jsonStr = createTraceString(lhrObject);
 
   const pathObj = path.parse(filename);

core/test/audits/seo/crawlable-anchors-test.js

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ function runAudit({
     (rawHref || href) ? 'href' : null, role ? 'role' : null, name ? 'name' : null,
   ].filter(Boolean),
   listeners = onclick.trim().length ? [{type: 'click'}] : [],
-  ancestorListeners = [],
   node = {
     snippet: '',
     devtoolsNodePath: '',
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ function runAudit({
       href,
       name,
       listeners,
-      ancestorListeners,
       onclick,
       role,
       node,
@@ -105,19 +103,13 @@ describe('SEO: Crawlable anchors audit', () => {
       rawHref: 'javascript:void(0)',
       listeners: [{type: 'nope'}, {type: 'another'}, {type: 'click'}],
     });
-    assert.equal(auditResultWithInvalidHref, 0, 'invalid href with any event listener is a faile');
+    assert.equal(auditResultWithInvalidHref, 0, 'invalid href with any event listener is a fail');
 
     const auditResultWithNoHref = runAudit({
       listeners: [{type: 'nope'}, {type: 'another'}, {type: 'click'}],
     });
     assert.equal(auditResultWithNoHref, 0, 'no href with any event listener is a fail');
 
-    const auditResultWithParentListenerNoHref = runAudit({
-      ancestorListeners: [{type: 'nope'}, {type: 'another'}, {type: 'click'}],
-    });
-    assert.equal(auditResultWithParentListenerNoHref, 0,
-      'no href with any event listener on a parent is a fail');
-
     const auditResultNoListener = runAudit({
       rawHref: '/validPath',
     });

types/artifacts.d.ts

@@ -363,9 +363,6 @@ declare module Artifacts {
     listeners?: Array<{
       type: Crdp.DOMDebugger.EventListener['type']
     }>
-    ancestorListeners?: Array<{
-      type: Crdp.DOMDebugger.EventListener['type']
-    }>
   }
 
   type BFCacheReasonMap = {