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Scan rule · RSC-ARC-008

Placeholder content in the shipped state

Architecture & SEOSeverity: Low

Scans the visible text of the reached pages for dummy copy, sample details and unreplaced template fields — and the embedded images for placeholder services such as picsum.photos or placehold.co.

Why this matters

Until 2026-08-30 the scan looked at exactly one field here: the page title. The visible text went unchecked — although the same kind of leftover sits there and, unlike the title, every visitor sees it.

This is not a security question, but it is the first thing people notice, and it answers for them whether anyone went back over this. In generated apps it always arises the same way: the generator fills every section with sample copy so nothing looks empty while building, and whatever nobody touched ships that way.

We only report what is a placeholder **in full** — a sample street name, “Lorem ipsum”, an unreplaced template variable. Nothing keys on word fragments: those occur in real company names and real copy. Legal pages are excluded; a separate, stricter rule covers them.

Since 2026-09-22 images from services that only serve random pictures or grey boxes count too (picsum.photos, placehold.co, dummyimage.com and similar). Only what the page actually loads as an image counts — a sentence about these services or a link to them does not. Unsplash stays out, those are real photos.

Scan tier

External scan (anonymous)

How to fix it

Replace the quoted spots with real content and placeholder images with your own — or remove the section if there is none yet.

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