Show HN: How much am I losing?

#1

Post by dequalant » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

Show HN: How much am I losing?
howmuchamilosing.com

Re: Show HN: How much am I losing?

#2

Post by dequalant » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

Calculating a rough estimate about how much you are losing because of your website bad performance score.

Re: Show HN: How much am I losing?

#3

Post by ramimac » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

Interesting proposition. A couple thoughts:

1) Providing the scope in a black box makes this feel far more like a blatant sales pitch, with little inherent value.

2) I'd recommend providing an example target (i.e I ended up just using amazon.com) so folks can have an easy way to give this a shot

Re: Show HN: How much am I losing?

#4

Post by dequalant » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 2:08 PM UTC

ramimac wrote: post #3

Interesting proposition. A couple thoughts: 1) Providing the scope in a black box makes this feel far more like a blatant sales pitch, with little inherent value. 2) I'd recommend providing an example target (i.e I ended up just using amazon.com) so folks can have an easy way to give this a shot

Thank you so much. Really appreciated your feedback. I will definitely look into them.

Could you please elaborate more on "providing scope in black box"?

Re: Show HN: How much am I losing?

#5

Post by ramimac » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

dequalant wrote: post #4

ramimac wrote: post #3

Interesting proposition. A couple thoughts: 1) Providing the scope in a black box makes this feel far more like a blatant sales pitch, with little inherent value. 2) I'd recommend providing an example target (i.e I ended up just using amazon.com) so folks can have an easy way to give this a shot

Thank you so much. Really appreciated your feedback. I will definitely look into them. Could you please elaborate more on "providing scope in black box"?

Whoops - scope -> score.

Right now the site provides no insight on how the calculation was made, or even what the components of the calculation are. The end result is that it really provides no value to a visitor unless they want to take a gamble and pay for vague "conversion optimization" services.

What goes into the "site score"? How do you get from "site score" to conversion percentage?

"Your site score for desktop devices is 61. Your conversion rate is 1.4%. Out of 10.000$, you are losing 8600$."

If I'm converting 14 out of a 1000,shouldn't I be converting 140 out of 10000? so losing $8860?

Re: Show HN: How much am I losing?

#6

Post by dequalant » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 2:27 PM UTC

ramimac wrote: post #5

dequalant wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you so much. Really appreciated your feedback. I will definitely look into them. Could you please elaborate more on "providing scope in black box"?

Whoops - scope -> score. Right now the site provides no insight on how the calculation was made, or even what the components of the calculation are. The end result is that it really provides no value to a visitor unless they want to take a gamble and pay for vague "conversion optimization" services. What goes into the "site score"? How do you get from "site score" to conversion percentage? "Your site score for deskto…

I got your point now : )

I am pulling site score from Google PageSpeed Insights Api. Based on score, i am doing calculation at the backend based on this research here: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/performance/more/website...

But you are definitely right, i should provide more insights where results are coming from.