Fair and self hosted web analytics / Get started / Any feedback welcome

by Hendrik

Hello everyone

Offen is an ethical alternative to common web analytics tools. Pay respect to your users while gaining insight into their behavior. Self hosted, open source and free.

This is our get started page for the alpha release. Any feedback welcome.

https://www.offen.dev/get-started/

Thanks!

Hendrik

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on March 16, 2020

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Hey Hendrik!

First, I really am a fan of making better compromises on user data and behaviors. Excited to see where this goes!

As for the landing page, get-started seems pretty confusing. The colors are very intense and there isn't a lot of hierarchy to guide someone that gets to this page for the first time. I would recommend making the section titled "Test Offen Today" larger and more important than the "Kick Things Off" section. How do we do this?
1. Center the title and caption, putting the two CTA buttons below.
2. Increase the size of the title so there's more contrast in scale
3. Make the button you want people to click most solid filled color (rather than outline) so that it stands out from the other button
I would also try to change your navbar to avoid the white logo on a yellow background. With a quick contrast accessibility check, you'll learn that it fails to meet recommendations for A11y contrast minimums! It's really hard to make white/yellow work, so maybe experiment with a different color for the logo.

That's all I'll say for now, but I hope this has been helpful! Definitely hit me up once you've made changes—I'd love to see the results :)

Best,
Arix
arixking

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  Ok here a update for the index and get-started page.
  
  https://www.offen.dev
  https://www.offen.dev/get-started
  
  The layouts are cleaner and much better that way! Concerning the orange / yellow contrast we decided to keep going with it. Since it passes the chrome audits that are our benchmark.
  
  Let me know if you find any other things on our website that can be improved. Any feedback welcome!
  
  Thanks and regards from Berlin
  
  Hendrik
  
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    Much better :) Easier to skim down and know what's most important!
    
    You're welcome from New York City!
    
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  Thanks for the detailed feedback Arix!
  
  These are definitely things we'll should be working on. Particularly the contrast / A11y note really helps. I will get back to you when there is an update on this.
  
  Could you describe in more detail why you find the url "get-started" confusing?
  
  Thanks again and regards
  
  Hendrik
  
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    Sorry, I wasn't clear! When I said get-started was confusing, I meant that it seems like a weird first impression. The root offen.dev is probably a better place to have people land (say via advertising) since it has more information about what the product goals/values are. The get-started page is more of a place for people who understand what they're getting into and want to take the next steps.
    
    Hopefully, that makes sense!
    
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      Ok major update to our front page. Please take another look!
      
      https://www.offen.dev/
      
      Any feedback welcome.
      
      Hendrik
      
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      Ah, okay. Yeah, that's how it is at the moment, once we're in beta, we'll have a dedicated landing page.
      
      Hendrik
      
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