Signals Human craft
No utility-class soup
- Category
- Human craft
- Direction
- Pulls the score down
- Weight
- −7
What it is
Evidence of deliberate decisions. Finding this does not make a page good. It makes it deliberate, which is a different and smaller claim.
How it is weighted
This is a craft marker, so it pulls the score down rather than up — 7 points of evidence that somebody made a decision here.
Craft does double duty in the scoring. It subtracts directly, and it also damps the aesthetic categories: the more deliberate craft a page shows, the less its gradients and rounded corners are allowed to say about it.
How to earn it
Nothing to fix — this one only ever counts in your favour. It is here so the score has something to weigh against the tells.
Where it fires
Of the homepages we scan as worked examples, this signal fired on 10:
- motherfuckingwebsite.com 12/100 — Not one Tailwind utility class in the markup.
- berkshirehathaway.com 12/100 — Not one Tailwind utility class in the markup.
- craigslist.org 14/100 — Not one Tailwind utility class in the markup.
- news.ycombinator.com 12/100 — Not one Tailwind utility class in the markup.
- wikipedia.org 8/100 — Not one Tailwind utility class in the markup.
- figma.com 6/100 — Not one Tailwind utility class in the markup.
- basecamp.com 7/100 — Not one Tailwind utility class in the markup.
- apple.com 8/100 — Not one Tailwind utility class in the markup.
- nytimes.com 4/100 — Not one Tailwind utility class in the markup.
- framer.com 9/100 — Not one Tailwind utility class in the markup.