Bill 96 Bulk Storefront Auditor: French-Parity at Scale

Audits a list of Shopify and other storefronts for French-language parity under Quebec's Bill 96 / Charter of the French language. Each store is one dataset item. The score is the MasterInvictus French-parity score (not legal advice), from 0 to 100.

This is an automated heuristic, not legal advice and not a finding by the Office québécois de la langue française.

Input: storefrontUrls[] (required; defaults to https://www.ssense.com), maxPagesPerStore (default 5, max 50), maxConcurrency (default 4), requestTimeoutSecs (default 20), respectRobotsTxt (default on). An empty input audits that one store and stops after 5 pages.

What is crawled, per store: the homepage, then key pages up to the page cap. Candidates come from Sitemap: lines in /robots.txt, from /sitemap.xml (including nested sitemap indexes), and from same-origin links on the homepage. Collections, products, policies, cart, and the checkout entry are taken first. Standard Shopify paths (/cart, /checkout, /collections/all, /policies/…) are requested only when that kind of page was not already found. A fallback that 404s is recorded as not found and is not billed. robots.txt disallow rules are honored (including a crawl-delay, capped at 5 seconds). Requests time out individually and stay within maxConcurrency.

French pairing: each discovered page is matched to one French counterpart. The actor reads <link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr"> (fr, fr-CA, or any fr-*), then tries locale swaps (/en-xx/ to /fr-xx/, /en/ to /fr/, en. to fr., and ?lang=fr) and keeps the first URL that returns 200. When that French page exists, its content is what gets audited, and the result records the pair (enUrl, frUrl). The same pair is checked once. A missing-French issue is recorded only when no French version can be found. Confirming the counterpart does not add a second page-checked charge.

Checks on each page:

• French version available (the page is French, or a confirmed hreflang / locale counterpart returned 200)
• French at least as prominent (French text is not outweighed by English, and a separate French URL is at least as long)
• Untranslated product titles and descriptions, judged on the French page when a counterpart exists
• English-only policies
• Images whose alt text is English-only, judged on the French page when a counterpart exists
• Visible language switcher (a Français link, locale option, or an English link on either side of the pair)

Language detection is the same franc-based logic as bill96-french-parity-checker, copied into this actor because each actor image only contains its own directory.

Output: one dataset item per store with score, scoreLabel (MasterInvictus French-parity score (not legal advice)), scoreBreakdown, pages[] (issues and fix suggestions per page), and store-level fixSuggestions. A summary CSV is saved in the key-value store as SUMMARY.csv.

The run fails when the input is invalid or when zero pages could be checked.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

Event	Price
run-started, once per run after at least one page is fetched successfully	$0.02
page-checked, once per logical page checked successfully (a French counterpart fetch is not a second charge)	$0.004

Failed pages are free. Do not enable apify-actor-start. See PRICING.md.

Score

The MasterInvictus French-parity score (not legal advice) is a weighted average of the checks that could be assessed: French availability (25), French prominence (20), product translation (20), policies (15), image alt text (10), and a homepage language switcher (10). A category with nothing to assess (no product pages, for example) is left out and the other weights are renormalized. 100 means every assessed check passed.

Limits

Visible HTML only. JavaScript-only storefronts show little text. Text inside images is judged from the alt attribute, not from pixels. Short strings under 20 characters are not language-detected.

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Français / French summary

Auditeur de vitrines — parité française (Loi 96)

Vérifie une liste de boutiques en ligne. Pour chaque boutique, il parcourt les pages clés (accueil, collections, produits, panier, entrée du paiement, politiques, pied de page) et signale l'absence de version française, une version française moins présente que l'anglaise, des titres ou descriptions de produits non traduits, des politiques uniquement en anglais, des textes de remplacement d'images uniquement en anglais, et l'absence d'un sélecteur de langue.

Chaque boutique reçoit le MasterInvictus French-parity score (not legal advice), de 0 à 100, avec les problèmes par page et des pistes de correction. Un CSV de synthèse est enregistré. Indicateur automatisé : ce n'est pas un avis juridique sur la Charte de la langue française.

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