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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How AnswerThis ranks

  1. 1.Undermind83
  2. 2.AnswerThis74
  3. 3.Elicit74
  4. 4.Scite71
  5. 5.Consensus70
Fix Trust
74Growth scoreupdated

category scores

Trust68Value props72Information hierarchy74Mobile web76CTA82
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Trust68Value props72Information hierarchy74Mobile web76CTA82

Score over time

908580757065Elicit 74 on Aug 12 (Live)Consensus 70 on Aug 12 (Live)Scite 71 on Aug 12 (Live)Undermind 80 on Jun 4 (Wayback)Undermind 80 on Jun 14 (Wayback)Undermind 82 on Jul 9 (Wayback)Undermind 78 on Jul 19 (Wayback)Undermind 80 on Aug 5 (Wayback)Undermind 81 on Aug 31 (Wayback)Undermind 83 on Sep 21 (Live)AnswerThis 72 on Apr 24 (Wayback)AnswerThis 72 on May 2 (Wayback)AnswerThis 73 on May 11 (Wayback)AnswerThis 74 on May 21 (Wayback)AnswerThis 72 on Jun 16 (Wayback)AnswerThis 74 on Jun 24 (Wayback)AnswerThis 74 on Sep 21 (Live)Apr 24May 2May 11May 21Jun 16Jun 24Sep 21
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  1. Sep 21, 202674LiveValue props +10 · Trust −4Viewing
  2. Jun 24, 202674Overall +2 · Mobile web +6 · CTA +4View →
  3. Jun 16, 202672Overall −2 · CTA −4 · Information hierarchy −2View →
  4. May 21, 202674Overall +1 · Mobile web −6 · Information hierarchy +4View →
  5. May 11, 202673Overall +1 · Trust +8 · Value props −6View →
  6. May 2, 202672Value props +6 · Mobile web −6View →
  7. Apr 24, 202672First tracked report — strongest CTA 80, weakest Value props 62View →

Trust

68Fair

Proof that the product is real, competent, and safe to try.

AnswerThis
Undermind
Trust read
AnswerThis"Trusted by over 1 Million+ researchers" with avatar strip below the Start For Free CTA
Elicit"TRUSTED BY OVER 5 MILLION RESEARCHERS, INCLUDING AT" with B. Braun and NASA logos (mobile)
ConsensusSearch & analyze 200M+ peer reviewed research papers
Scite"Reads across 280M+ full-text scholarly articles" badge directly below the search box
Undermind"1000+ GSK scientists use Undermind" proof card with university logo bar (MIT, Harvard, Caltech, Princeton, Berkeley, Ca

Value props

72Fair

Title, subtitle, hero — do they sell the product's true value?

AnswerThis’s headline undersellsScientific AI For All Verified Research WorkflowsUpload a draft or ask a question, auto evaluate citations from 300M+ papers, trials and PDFs. From Finding Gaps, to Professional Presentation to Complete Prisma / Cochrane Compliant SLRs

Working

  • 300M+ papers is concrete proof
  • Prisma/Cochrane names real outcomes
  • 1M+ researchers social proof

Could improve

  • H1 is abstract, no outcome
  • Subhead crams too many claims
  • Headline could name the user's win

Information hierarchy

74Fair

Does the design help or inhibit what the page is trying to say?

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Duplicate Start For Free — Nav's 'Start For Free' button matches the hero CTA in color and weight, splitting the primary action's attention.
  2. Three dropdown menus — Features, Industries, and Resources dropdowns plus Refer/Enterprise create six exit paths before the visitor reaches the hero CTA.
  3. Video pushed below fold — The product demo video barely enters the viewport, so the fold's only emotional/product visual is a cropped black rectangle.

Mobile web

76Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Start For Free button — Desktop-proportioned button floating at ~40% width instead of a full-bleed thumb target.
  2. Subheadline paragraph — Four dense lines of feature copy delay the scan from headline to CTA.

CTA

82Strong

Copy, size, verb, cost-feel — does the primary CTA earn the click?

AnswerThis
Undermind

Problems

  • generic label, no header echo
  • no payoff named in the click

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop
#1Undermindundermind.ai83
#2AnswerThis74
#3Elicitelicit.com74 #4Scitescite.ai71 #5Consensusconsensus.app70—SciSpacescispace.comfailed