Screwfix
over time
Screwfix's homepage, one archived capture a year from 2004 to 2025: what it led with, quoted from each capture, and how it looked. Screwfix publishes too few dated blog posts or press releases to measure its writing.
- Homepage captures
- 9
- First capture
- 2004
- Latest capture
- 2025
- Pages measured
- 8
8 pages only. Screwfix publishes too few dated blog posts or press releases to measure its writing, so this page shows its homepage over time instead.
01 · Homepage
One capture a year
Screwfix's homepage from 2004 to 2025, closest to 1 July, from the Internet Archive. Pick a year or press play. Each headline is quoted from its capture and links to the archived copy.
Screenshot of Screwfix’s homepage (screwfix.com) as archived by the Internet Archive on 1 Jul 2025. © Screwfix or its licensors. Shown for comparison and review; not endorsed by Screwfix.
Homepage
2025
No headline in this capture
Page title
Screwfix | The UK's Leading Retailer of Trade Tools & Hardware | Screwfix
- 2016Welcome please select your location close X
- 2018Hot Weather Essentials
- 2019More great offers
- 2021Top Summer Deals
9 captures. Screenshots are rendered from the archive and can pull in images archived later than the page itself; dates come from the capture. Years without a capture are greyed out in the strip.
02 · Every page
All 10 pages, by year
The full list behind every number above, with links to the live page or the archived copy. 8 count towards the measures; the rest were not measured (1 under 150 words of text, 1 mostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose). Pages with no reliable date count in the overall numbers but in no year.
In the overall numbers, no year8 pages
- Rewiring a Houseundated · blog · 2,941 wordsNo date found: in the overall numbers, not in any year
- How to Fit a Toiletundated · blog · 2,360 wordsNo date found: in the overall numbers, not in any year
- What is an RCD? RCD Meaningundated · blog · 2,005 wordsNo date found: in the overall numbers, not in any year
- How to Solder Copper Pipeundated · blog · 1,374 wordsNo date found: in the overall numbers, not in any year
- Pressure Washer Buying Guideundated · press · 3,379 wordsNo date found: in the overall numbers, not in any year
- Making Mortarundated · blog · 2,247 wordsNo date found: in the overall numbers, not in any year
- Underfloor heating systems: types and costsundated · blog · 3,291 wordsNo date found: in the overall numbers, not in any year
- Best Drills Guideundated · blog · 1,723 wordsNo date found: in the overall numbers, not in any year
Not measured2 pages
- Home Improvements Hubundated · blog · 112 wordsUnder 150 words of text: too short to measure
- Building & Door Guidesundated · blog · 319 wordsMostly short lines (lists, tables, link pages) rather than prose
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03 · Method
How this was measured
The pages
Screwfix's own blog posts, press releases and announcements, fetched from the live site in 2026 and from the Internet Archive for 2015 to November 2022. Homepages are shown as captures; product and help pages are not measured.
The measures
Code counts from ScriptGrain’s writing instruments: sentence length and rhythm, contractions, pronouns, punctuation, long words, and three published lists of AI-associated words. No AI model reads or judges any page.
What it cannot say
These measures describe style. They cannot tell who or what wrote a page, and nothing here says or implies that any brand used AI to write.
Sample sizes
Every number carries its page count. Years under 10 pages, and before-and-after comparisons with under 10 pages on a side, are shown as context only.
- Sentence length
- Average words per sentence.
- Sentence rhythm
- How much sentence length varies (standard deviation over mean). Higher reads less even.
- Contractions
- Contractions (we're, you'll, it's) per 1,000 words. A rough gauge of how conversational the writing is.
- "You"
- Share of I/we/you pronouns that are "you": how much the writing addresses the reader.
- "We"
- Share of I/we/you pronouns that are "we": how much the writing talks about the organisation.
- Questions
- Question marks per 1,000 words.
- Exclamations
- Exclamation marks per 1,000 words.
- Long words
- Share of words with seven or more letters.
- Em dashes
- Em dashes per 1,000 words.
- AI-associated words
- Words from SGR-007's three AI-associated lists, per 1,000 words. These are style markers that people used long before ChatGPT; a higher rate says nothing about who or what wrote the page.
- AI-era marketing words
- Marketing words that became more common in AI-era copy (seamless, elevate, unlock...), per 1,000 words. A style measure only.
- Quieter LLM-favoured words
- Everyday words language models are known to over-use, per 1,000 words. A style measure only.
- AI-associated sentence shapes
- Sentence patterns such as "not just X, but Y", found by ScriptGrain's cliche checker, per 1,000 words. A style measure only.
- Page length
- Average words per page.
Studies: SGR-009: Do brands in the same sector sound the same? · SGR-010: How UK brands write · SGR-011: Did brand writing change after ChatGPT?.