Signals Leftovers
Placeholder image services
- Category
- Leftovers
- Direction
- Pushes the score up
- Weight
- +12
What it is
Scaffolding never cleaned up. One signal is not a verdict. The score is the whole weighted set, not any single line of it.
How it is weighted
12 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 placeholder services with real images, and set explicit width/height so nothing shifts on load.
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.