Signals Colour, type and surface
hover:scale-105 on everything
- Category
- Colour, type and surface
- Direction
- Pushes the score up
- Weight
- +9
What it is
The visual defaults, applied unedited. Looks are the weakest evidence in the whole set. Anyone can reach for a gradient on purpose, which is why craft damps this entire category.
How it is weighted
9 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
Drop the grow-on-hover. Use a border, background or colour shift so hover doesn't shift layout or fight the reduced-motion setting.
Where it fires
Of the homepages we scan as worked examples, this signal fired on one:
- cloudflare.com 17/100 — 4 elements grow when you look at them.