PageWatch
Convert better with AI
We just released a major milestone at PageWatch, AI Powered page insights.
Using GPT-4 (Vision), we can now visually inspect your site just like a regular visitor, and automatically suggest improvements.
Making this work reliably was a challenging task with the current AI models, GPT-4 is really good with certain things (like reviewing text), but rather limited in others (such as spatial reasoning). We ended up using GPT combined with more traditional methods, and plain DOM inspections to build a system that can reliably give useful feedback.
There are of course still certain limitations, for example we can only inspect the full page after it loaded, so if a site relies heavily on animations or scroll effects then those will not be seen.
ChatGPT is also not necessarily correct in all feedback it suggests, but for most sites it can provide some great insights into some things you might have missed.
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To see it in action (or test your page for free) check out https://pagewatch.ai/
PageWatch just completed the 2000'th audit, nice number to see after a few months online.
Most of these are free audits, but still.
We changed our system to allow free audits without having to login, that really helps to reduce the friction of getting started.
You can run a free website audit for your site in just a few seconds from https://pagewatch.dev
This is probably a very small number for most, but I'm still happy that we got to 50 followers.
This is mostly from people discovering our site through ProductHunt, Indie Hackers and Hacker News, with some cool reposts from a few other members.
Next step is 100
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Congratulations! Small steps towards goals matter most. All the best :)
Pagewatch was recently featured on madewithvuejs.com, see it here: https://madewithvuejs.com/pagewatch
This has been a surprisingly decent source of traffic, if you use vue.js and feel it might be a good fit, I'd definitely recommend listing there.
They also have some other nice projects that can serve as inspiration.
I just deployed a big new update with some exciting features. The most flashy feature is probably the visual site view where you can see how every one of your pages link to all the rest.
See it in action here (for the SpaceX website):
https://app.pagewatch.dev/bc10b8fdefd9cfbaca5626f6483515fb5c5ec3ea/explore/sitemap
PageWatch is slowly gaining traction, it is hard work to get the work out, but so far we haven't had a single customer churn, so at least that is very encouraging :)
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Congrats! Is the visualization something customers asked for? Or is about eye candy to get them to sign up? It wasn’t clear from the demo how I’d use it for my own sites.
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Its a bit of both. On larger scans people wanted a faster way to verify pages than paging through them 5 at a time, so I looked around at what options I have to do this nicely. (I dont think anyone expected a force directed graph though, thats more me)
I actually found it way more useful than I expected and its now one of the first things I check after I test a site. For example in the SpaceX website, in just a few seconds I can see how every single page looks on desktop and mobile, and spot any issues with interlinking between pages.
The visualization clusters images by how they link to other pages, in the demo you can see the middle pages link out to everything, while those on the edges only link to a few. And I even spotted an issue, the 'Starship' page is duplicated (Some places link to https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/, other to https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/index.html). Normally you want that to be consistent for SEO related reasons.
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I just launched a big update to both the service and our pricing model.
Previously our pricing was per page based, which made sense to me at the time, but a lot of feedback suggested that people would rather pay a flat fee per site (and who really knows how many pages your site has anyway?)
Our new price is per domain based, and should work out cheaper for most people too, excited to see how it works out.
https://pagewatch.dev/
I finally got around to launching on ProductHunt after postponing way too many times.
Will be interesting to see how it goes, posting on a Friday (and really without a useful existing network/hunter) might not be the ideal position, but you have to start somewhere :)
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pagewatch
This was a nice surprise, I saw a sudden spike of users (not huge, maybe about a 100 extra) in my stats, and looking at the referrer I found out PageWatch was listed in the FrontendFocus newsletter :)
The description was "This tool does a fairly basic check for things like broken links, broken images, spelling errors, and potential layout errors (e.g. something overflowing a container)", which I think is underselling it a bit but hey I'l take it!
I just released a new update that adds lighthouse performance tests for every page.
Lighthouse is an advanced analysis tool built by Google and gives insights into why pages are slow to load, along with SEO and other optimization suggestions.
PageWatch will now test every page and give you actionable feedback that you can use to rank better.
It has now been just a bit over two weeks since I first launched, and I have received a ton of valuable feedback.
The number one requested feature was a subscription service. People want to be able to test theirs sites as much as they like for a fixed monthly fee instead of once-off per test, so that is what I have been working on for the last week.
This time has also been a test to see how well our servers can manage to keep up with the work (it is quite demanding to run all the checks), but so far it is has been going better than expected, and allowed me to offer much bigger plans.
Check it out at https://pagewatch.dev/
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