Signals How it behaves
Fixed pixel widths that will overflow a phone
- Category
- How it behaves
- Direction
- Pushes the score up
- Weight
- +8
What it is
Weight, mobile, accessibility, SEO — where the money leaks. One signal is not a verdict. The score is the whole weighted set, not any single line of it.
How it is weighted
8 points is mid-weight: real evidence, not a smoking gun. On its own it moves the number a few points.
What to do about it
Replace the fixed pixel widths with max-width and fluid units, and let tables and wide media scroll inside their own container. Then check it at 375px.
Where it fires
Of the homepages we scan as worked examples, this signal fired on 14:
- stripe.com 15/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- linear.app 8/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- notion.so 13/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- figma.com 6/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- apple.com 8/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- nytimes.com 4/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- bbc.com 10/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- webflow.com 23/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- framer.com 9/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- cloudflare.com 17/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- openai.com 11/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- lovable.dev 21/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- base44.com 82/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.
- webflow.io 23/100 — Hard pixel widths wider than a phone. Layouts break at sizes nobody prompted for, because desktop was the only viewport that got looked at.