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8slop score / 100
Hand-Crafted
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Is latimes.com built or slop?

Slopdar scanned latimes.com and gave it a Slop Score of 8/100 (Hand-Crafted). 2 AI / vibe-coding tells were found. These are signals, not proof.

“This is what websites looked like before the great slop flood.”

Caught on camera
Screenshot of latimes.com
The usual suspects
Bootstrap

The receipts

2 tells found
01
Bento-grid layout+9
Bento-style grid markup: a default AI landing-page pattern.
Layout tell
02
Three-feature-card grid+6
The hero-plus-three-cards layout AI builders default to.
Layout tell
Signs a human was here
✓
Real site pages-4
Links to genuine pages (about, blog, pricing, docs) suggest real effort.
Human signal
✓
Considered metadata-2
A real meta description plus Open Graph tags show care.
Human signal
✓
Custom typography-2
Self-hosted or custom web fonts, not just system defaults.
Human signal
✓
Custom favicon-2
A real, non-default favicon, a small sign someone cared.
Human signal

Slopdar reports signals, not proof. A high score means a site smells templated, not that no human was ever involved.

Fix your slop

up to 15 points on the table

Every tell below can be cleared. Do it by hand, or copy the fix prompt and paste it into whatever built this (Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, you name it). Then re-scan and watch the score drop.

01
Bento-grid layoutclears +9
The bento grid is the default AI landing-page shape. Rework it into a layout that fits your actual content.
02
Three-feature-card gridclears +6
The hero-plus-three-cards layout is the AI default. Vary it if your content allows.
Quick winshuman signs the radar rewards
+
Link your GitHubIf the project is open source or you have a real profile, link it.

The prompt only removes the tells Slopdar can see. Making the site genuinely good is still on you.