Did placeholder text make it to production?
Paste your page and we scan the visible copy for lorem ipsum, 'under construction', and the staging placeholders that sometimes ship live by mistake. Free, no signup.
What we check
We read the visible copy on the page you submit and look for the tell-tale markers of unfinished or staging content - lorem ipsum, 'under construction', 'dummy copy', 'example headline', 'test page' - the filler that's supposed to get replaced before launch and sometimes doesn't. The obvious ones we flag anywhere on the page.
We're deliberately stricter about your most visible slots. Words like 'placeholder', 'todo', 'staging', and 'coming soon' are flagged when they land in your title, headline, or a button, because that's almost always a mistake a visitor sees first - but not when they appear in body text, since those words show up in plenty of legitimate copy (a real 'coming soon' teaser, a to-do app, placeholder avatars). This is a match against known filler markers, not a judgment of whether your writing is good.
Why it matters
Placeholder text ships more often than anyone admits. You scaffold a section with lorem ipsum, mean to come back to it, then a deploy goes out and the dummy paragraph is sitting on your live pricing page. It looks fine in your editor because you've stopped reading the parts you 'already finished' - the filler hides in plain sight.
A visitor reads it as 'this site isn't done' and leaves. It's the kind of thing you never catch yourself, because you're looking at the design, not re-reading every line. A quick scan of what's actually published catches the lorem ipsum before a customer does.
Questions
What placeholder text do you look for?
Known filler markers like 'lorem ipsum', 'under construction', 'dummy copy', 'example headline', and 'test page', which we flag anywhere on the page. Plus ambiguous words like 'placeholder', 'todo', 'staging', and 'coming soon' - but only when they appear in your title, headline, or a button, where they're almost always a mistake.
Why don't you flag 'coming soon' in my body text?
Because it's often real copy. 'Coming soon', 'placeholder', and 'to-do' show up legitimately all the time - a genuine teaser, a to-do app, placeholder avatars. Flagging them everywhere would cry wolf, so we only flag them in prominent slots where they signal an unfinished page.
Do you check spelling or grammar?
No. This isn't a writing-quality or grammar check. We match against a specific list of staging and placeholder markers - the unfinished-content tells that aren't supposed to reach production - not the quality of your actual copy.
Is it really free?
Yes. Paste a URL and run it, no account needed. The same scan also runs all of CopyMosaic's other checks, and you can open the full report to see them.