HopperYC F26 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

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Score over time

908070605040Cartesia 64 on Jun 3 (Wayback)Cartesia 64 on Jun 12 (Wayback)Cartesia 68 on Jul 27 (Wayback)Cartesia 66 on Aug 21 (Wayback)Cartesia 66 on Sep 4 (Wayback)Cartesia 69 on Sep 20 (Live)Deepgram 77 on Feb 11 (Wayback)Deepgram 77 on Feb 24 (Wayback)Deepgram 75 on Jul 28 (Live)Rime 74 on Apr 15 (Wayback)Rime 71 on May 9 (Wayback)Rime 71 on May 19 (Wayback)Rime 69 on Jun 12 (Wayback)Rime 77 on Jun 22 (Wayback)Rime 79 on Jun 30 (Wayback)Rime 73 on Sep 20 (Live)Baseten 52 on Feb 12 (Wayback)Baseten 77 on Feb 21 (Wayback)Baseten 47 on May 18 (Wayback)Baseten 77 on Jul 28 (Live)AssemblyAI 60 on Mar 19 (Wayback)AssemblyAI 60 on Apr 9 (Wayback)AssemblyAI 60 on Apr 21 (Wayback)AssemblyAI 61 on May 26 (Wayback)AssemblyAI 62 on Jun 8 (Wayback)AssemblyAI 65 on Jun 30 (Wayback)AssemblyAI 74 on Jul 29 (Live)Hopper 68 on Sep 20 (Live)Sep 20

Trust

38Poor

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

Baseten
Deepgram
Rime
AssemblyAI
Cartesia
Trust read
HopperNo visible trust signal identified.
CartesiaInteractive "Talk to Skylar" voice demo carousel
DeepgramCustomer logo strip: Daily, Cresta, Granola, VAPI, Decagon, kore.ai, NiCE, Cognigy
RimeCustomer logo strip including Mayo Clinic, LiveKit, Daily, and Dialpad below the hero CTAs
BasetenCustomer logo wall featuring Cursor, Notion, HubSpot, Harvey, Descript, and Lovable
AssemblyAIInteractive 'Realtime Speech-to-Text API' demo widget with 'Try it out' button and live code sample

CTA

62Fair

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

Hopper
Deepgram
Rime
AssemblyAI
Baseten
Cartesia

Problems

  • click feels like a sales call
  • four words, over the 3-word limit
  • small footprint vs headline
  • names a person, not the visitor's win

Value props

72Fair

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

Hopper’s headline sellsFast inference for voice.Hopper trains STT, TTS, and speech LLMs on your production calls, then serves and improves them against your live traffic

Working

  • Subhead names exact mechanism
  • Clear ICP: voice AI teams
  • No buzzword abstraction stack

Could improve

  • "Fast" has no number behind it
  • Hero image decorates, not demos
  • No proof points or outcomes

Information hierarchy

82Strong

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture12
  1. Duplicate CTA weight — Nav 'Talk to an Engineer' is styled identically to the hero CTA, splitting scan attention across two equal buttons.
  2. Hero CTA contrast — The grey 'Talk to an Engineer' button is small and low-key relative to the 76px headline, so the action reads quieter than the message.

Mobile web

84Strong

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture1
  1. Talk to an Engineer — Desktop-proportioned pill at ~40% column width; on mobile it should stretch near full-bleed for the thumb.