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Audit Methodology

How We Audit Pages in 30 Seconds

Behind every improve.delights audit is a ruthless, data-driven engine designed to strip away opinions and expose mathematical truths about your conversion funnel.

Phase 1

Deep Context Gathering

We don't just look at source code. Our engine captures the DOM hierarchy, strips away tracking noise, and takes a visual snapshot of the viewport. We evaluate the page exactly as your human visitors see it.

Phase 2

Smart Taxonomy Classification

A checkout page shouldn't be judged by the same rules as a blog post. Our engine instantly classifies your URL into one of five distinct taxonomy types (Hook, Pitch, Funnel, Hub, or Utility) so the correct heuristic rubric is applied.

Phase 3

Context-Aware Scoring

We evaluate the page across dozens of friction points, including Cognitive Load (Hick's Law), Wayfinding, Trust Signals, and Urgency. The final score (0-100) is a weighted calculation benchmarked against industry standards for that specific page type.

Phase 4 (The Differentiator)

Elite Research Grounding

Most tools give generic advice like "make the button bigger." We don't guess. Every single issue identified by improve.delights is strictly grounded in published, statistically significant research.

We enforce citations from elite institutions:
  • Baymard Institute (E-commerce UX)
  • Nielsen Norman Group (General usability)
  • CXL (ConversionXL) (Copy & Psychology)
  • MECLABS (Value Proposition optimization)