“Manifest does not have short_name” failure even though the name is <12 characters

[westonruter]

Provide the steps to reproduce

1. Run LH PWA audit on https://elsoberano.org/

What is the current behavior?

The PWA audit flags the absence of short_name:

Nevertheless, the manifest has a name that is short already (11 characters): “El Soberano”.

The page still is offered to be installed as a PWA in Chrome, so this is not actually blocking the installability.

What is the expected behavior?

If the short_name is absent and the name is less than 12 characters (the recommended length) then nothing should be raised as an issue.

If the name is longer than 12 characters, then the Lighthouse audit should say something like, “The name is longer than 12 characters so a short_name is required.”

Environment Information

• Affected Channels: DevTools
• Lighthouse version: 5.2.0
• Chrome version: 78.0.3904.108 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• Operating System: MacOS

[connorjclark]

This makes sense to me. I understand Chrome and Firefox don't explicitly require a short_name, (or even a short name), so I don't quite understand why this is an "Installable" check. Also, feels safe to assume that no other PWA installable platforms are hard-checking this.

[adrianaixba]

As per Chrome’s updated Installability Criteria, Lighthouse will be deprecating the PWA category in the next upcoming release. For future PWA testing, users will be directed to use the updated PWA documentation. Marking this as closed!