Signals Source and build
Only the happy path was built
- Category
- Source and build
- Direction
- Pushes the score up
- Weight
- +7
What it is
What is visible in the shipped code. 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
Build the other three states: loading, empty and error. The happy path is the easy quarter of the work.
Where it fires
Of the homepages we scan as worked examples, this signal fired on 2:
- tailwindcss.com 75/100 — A client-rendered page with no loading, empty or error affordance anywhere in the markup — not even a <noscript>. Slow network, zero results, failed request: blank screen.
- basecamp.com 7/100 — A client-rendered page with no loading, empty or error affordance anywhere in the markup — not even a <noscript>. Slow network, zero results, failed request: blank screen.