PerseusYC F25 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is CTA.

Fix CTA

Score over time

100806040200Greptile 70 on Jun 24 (Wayback)Greptile 66 on Jul 12 (Wayback)Greptile 69 on Jul 27 (Wayback)Greptile 69 on Aug 6 (Wayback)Greptile 68 on Aug 20 (Wayback)Greptile 75 on Sep 10 (Wayback)Greptile 70 on Sep 21 (Live)Sourcegraph 74 on Jun 29 (Wayback)Sourcegraph 72 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Sourcegraph 70 on Jul 28 (Wayback)Sourcegraph 68 on Aug 10 (Wayback)Sourcegraph 68 on Aug 24 (Wayback)Sourcegraph 72 on Sep 7 (Wayback)Sourcegraph 65 on Sep 22 (Live)Exa (Exa Code) 78 on Feb 10 (Wayback)Exa (Exa Code) 79 on Feb 24 (Wayback)Exa (Exa Code) 80 on Apr 8 (Wayback)Exa (Exa Code) 81 on Jun 30 (Wayback)Exa (Exa Code) 82 on Jul 28 (Live)Relace 70 on Apr 23 (Wayback)Relace 68 on May 11 (Wayback)Relace 65 on Jun 14 (Wayback)Relace 66 on Jul 10 (Wayback)Relace 62 on Jul 19 (Wayback)Relace 62 on Sep 3 (Wayback)Relace 64 on Sep 22 (Live)Morph 72 on Apr 8 (Wayback)Morph 71 on Apr 23 (Wayback)Morph 76 on May 14 (Wayback)Morph 23 on Sep 22 (Live)Perseus 71 on Sep 22 (Live)Sep 22

CTA

62Fair

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

Perseus
Exa (Exa Code)
Greptile
Relace

Problems

  • 'Open' assumes existing user
  • no value promise in label
  • no headline echo
  • weak action verb

Trust

62Fair

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

Perseus
Exa (Exa Code)
Trust read
Perseus"Backed by Y Combinator" badge above the hero headline
Greptile"OVER 22,000+ TEAMS USE GREPTILE" usage banner
SourcegraphVideo card labeled "Agentic Batch Changes — Available today"
Exa (Exa Code)Customer logo wall showing AWS, Databricks, Groq, Gamma, and monday.com
RelaceCode snippet visual ("async function handler...") suggesting a developer-focused product
Morph"#1 on Design Arena" claim in the Kimi K3 link

Value props

72Fair

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

Perseus’s headline undersellsCodebase Search for Coding Agents.

Working

  • Names the category instantly
  • With/without demo shows real pain
  • Concrete grep-vs-3-hits contrast

Could improve

  • No subhead states the outcome
  • Headline is a label, not a claim
  • No numbers on speed or savings

Mobile web

78Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Side-by-side CTA pair — Two half-width buttons split the tap target; 'Open Perseus' should stack full-bleed for the thumb.
  2. Four-line hero headline — Oversized serif wraps into four lines and pushes the CTAs to the bottom third of the fold.
  3. Terminal demo text — Low-contrast monospace output is squinting-small at phone distance.

Information hierarchy

82Strong

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Comparison terminals cut — The Without/With Perseus proof panels enter the fold mid-sentence, so the strongest argument reads as fragments.
  2. Faded 'With Perseus' text — The winning side's terminal copy is rendered in low-contrast muted type, making the payoff harder to read than the failure case.
  3. Duplicate Open Perseus CTA — The nav repeats the hero's primary button at similar weight, splitting attention between two identical actions.