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Built your website with AI? What to check before you launch it
AI tools can produce a good-looking website in an afternoon. They also leave behind problems that are easy to miss because the site looks finished. Here's what to check before real visitors arrive.
Updated · by Adeoje Afeez
AI website builders and coding assistants are good at layout and confident-sounding copy. They're less good at knowing what's true about your business, and they don't click through every link on a phone. The result is a site that looks right on the first screen of a laptop and falls apart under a closer look.
None of this means AI-built sites are bad. It means the last 10% (the checking) is still your job.
1. Copy the AI made up
Generated copy fills gaps with plausible details. Read every sentence and ask whether it's true.
Invented numbers and claims
“Trusted by 10,000 teams”, “4.9 stars”, “99.9% uptime”. If you can't back it up, remove it. Invented proof does more damage than no proof once someone notices.
Made-up testimonials
Generated quotes with stock names are common in AI templates. Replace them with real ones or remove the section.
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Features you don't have
AI copy tends to list what products like yours usually do. Check every feature claim against what you've actually built.
Claims that contradict each other
Generated pages are often written separately, so prices, limits and numbers drift between them.
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Generic headlines
“Revolutionize your workflow with our all-in-one platform” could describe anything. Say what it is, who it's for and what changes for them.
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Leftover placeholders
Search for lorem ipsum, “Your Company”, example email addresses, “#” links and template names.
2. Things that look right but don't work
Links that go nowhere
Generated navigation and footers often point to pages that were never created.
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Buttons with no destination
Click every button. Some are styled links with an empty or “#” address.
Forms that don't send
Contact and sign-up forms are often wired to nothing. Submit each one and confirm the message arrives.
Missing images
Images referenced but never uploaded, or pointing at the builder's preview server.
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Errors in the browser console
Generated code can throw errors that break parts of the page in some browsers.
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3. Phones
AI previews are often judged on a desktop screen. Most visitors won't see it that way.
The page fits a narrow screen
Wide tables, fixed-width sections and long words cause sideways scrolling on phones.
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The first mobile screen still makes sense
Headline, what it is and the main button should all be visible on a phone without scrolling.
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Menus open and close
Generated mobile menus sometimes don't open, can't be closed, or cover the page.
4. The details that make a business look real
Who you are and how to reach you
AI templates rarely include a real name, location or support address. Add them.
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Policies that are linked
Your site needs the policies that fit what it does, linked from every page.
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Policies that are true
A generated privacy policy or terms page may describe data practices you don't have. Rewrite it to match what your site actually does.
A favicon and page titles
Builders often leave the default icon and the same title on every page.
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Meta descriptions and alt text
Often left empty or filled with generic text.
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5. Settings left over from development
Search engines are allowed in
Remove any “noindex” tags and check robots.txt doesn't block everything.
HTTPS and the real domain
The site should load on your own domain over HTTPS, and preview or staging addresses shouldn't be the ones you share.
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Analytics is yours and works
Make sure analytics and pixels use your own account IDs, not the template's. Our scan checks that they send data when a page loads; the account IDs are yours to confirm.
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No test data in public
Check for sample users, test products and demo content that shouldn't be visible.
Have it read by something that doesn't know what you meant
Our scan reads your public pages like a first-time visitor: it checks the technical basics marked above, compares claims across pages, and every finding quotes the page it comes from, so you can see exactly what to change.
It doesn't log in, submit forms or test checkout, so check those yourself.