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by rikroots 2099 days ago
Agreed. I tested two of my personal websites[1][2]. The one with the text-heavy poetry scored 38% with a "meh" comment. The one with the gratuitously oversized banner image got 72% with a "oh yeah!" comment.

It does have an AI running the analysis. I like my poetry website. Maybe the AI was trained on good poetry and reacted poorly to my stuff?

[1] - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/

[2] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/

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Tested my own site as well that has no hero image and it got a 26. https://myraah.io/index.php/visualmind/report/aHR0cDovL2V2ZX...
I got 72% on my largely-text-only website, so either it likes white-on-black text or it's heavily overweighting the little photo of me in the top-left corner. https://myraah.io/index.php/visualmind/report/aHR0cDovL2Nhcn...
If it likes hero images, the black background might look suspiciously like an image to the algorithm if they haven't explicitly done something to ensure similar results on color inversion.