Signals How it behaves
A form that submits into the void
- Category
- How it behaves
- Direction
- Pushes the score up
- Weight
- +14
- Floor
- 62
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
14 points puts this in the upper tier — strong evidence, though the curve saturates, so it means far more on a clean page than as the tenth tell on a page already covered in them.
It also carries a floor of 62. When this fires the score is not allowed to fall below that number, however much craft the rest of the page shows — some tells settle the question rather than contribute to it.
What to do about it
Wire the form to something real and send yourself a test submission. Then confirm the success message only appears after the request succeeds — not before it.
Where it fires
None of our worked examples trip this one, which is itself informative — it means the pattern is rarer than the tells that fire constantly, so when it does show up it is worth paying attention to.