Signals Layout and architecture
Everything centred
- Category
- Layout and architecture
- Direction
- Pushes the score up
- Weight
- +7
What it is
The shape a page takes when nobody asks what it needs to say. One signal is not a verdict. The score is the whole weighted set, not any single line of it.
How it is weighted
7 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
Left-align the body copy and the long headings. Keep centring for short hero text only — it needs an anchor to read against.
Where it fires
Of the homepages we scan as worked examples, this signal fired on 7:
- wikipedia.org 8/100 — 17 centred blocks. Long centred text is measurably harder to read, and with no left-aligned anchor the hierarchy flattens.
- vercel.com 21/100 — 10 centred blocks. Long centred text is measurably harder to read, and with no left-aligned anchor the hierarchy flattens.
- tailwindcss.com 75/100 — 38 centred blocks. Long centred text is measurably harder to read, and with no left-aligned anchor the hierarchy flattens.
- figma.com 6/100 — 8 centred blocks. Long centred text is measurably harder to read, and with no left-aligned anchor the hierarchy flattens.
- nytimes.com 4/100 — 6 centred blocks. Long centred text is measurably harder to read, and with no left-aligned anchor the hierarchy flattens.
- cloudflare.com 17/100 — 15 centred blocks. Long centred text is measurably harder to read, and with no left-aligned anchor the hierarchy flattens.
- bolt.new 15/100 — 18 centred blocks. Long centred text is measurably harder to read, and with no left-aligned anchor the hierarchy flattens.