AI Slop Websites
Tell · Layout and structure

Pill badge above the headline

A small rounded pill with a sparkle and "New" or "Now with AI" sitting above the H1, followed by a filled button and a ghost button, on a page that is announcing nothing.

Medium tell · 7 points

The pill is a product-launch device. Generated pages put one on a dentist’s site because the hero template has a slot for it. Together with the filled-plus-ghost button pair it is the shape of the 2025 default hero, and a medium tell because real product teams use it too, on purpose.

Other tells in layout and structure

  • Bento grid for no reason: A grid of unequal rounded tiles with a sentence in each, used for content that has no reason to be tiled.
  • Everything centred: Every heading, paragraph and button centred, with no left edge anywhere on the page.
  • The conveyor belt: Hero, three features, a testimonial row, a pricing table and a final call to action, in that order, with nothing specific to this business anywhere in the sequence.
  • Three icon cards: A row of three identical cards, each with an icon in a tinted rounded square, a four-word heading and two lines of text that say the same thing three ways.

Score a site against every tell in Layout and structure