PgDogYC P25 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is CTA.

Fix CTA

Score over time

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  1. Sep 21, 202675LiveOverall −2 · CTA −8 · Mobile web −6Viewing
  2. Sep 2, 202677Overall −1 · Information hierarchy −4 · Value props −4View →
  3. Aug 25, 202678Overall +2 · CTA +6 · Information hierarchy +4View →
  4. Aug 18, 202676Overall −1 · Information hierarchy −4 · Value props +4View →
  5. Jul 15, 202677Overall −1 · CTA −6 · Value props −4View →
  6. Jun 18, 202678Overall −1 · Trust −6 · CTA +4View →
  7. Jun 10, 202679First tracked report — strongest Value props 82, weakest Information hierarchy 76View →

CTA

72Fair

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

PgDog

Problems

  • vague payoff — get what, exactly?
  • open-source but no 'free' signal
  • 'Call us' header button competes

Mobile web

72Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Code snippet overflow — Line 1 of the helm command clips at the right edge ('https://helm.'), signaling unpatched horizontal overflow on mobile.
  2. Get PgDog button — Primary CTA stays desktop-proportioned at roughly half the column width instead of an easy full-bleed thumb target.

Information hierarchy

76Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Call us button — Styled at the same blue weight as "Get PgDog", splitting the primary action between two corners of the fold.
  2. For enterprise button — Outlined button plus "Read the docs" link sit flush against the primary CTA, giving three equal-footing choices in one row.
  3. Announcement banner link — "Read the post →" is the first interactive element in the scan path and routes attention off the page before the headline.

Value props

78Fair

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

PgDog’s headline sellsScale Postgres n timesConnection pooler, load balancer, distributed database. One executable, deployable anywhere.

Working

  • Headline names the exact job: scaling Postgres
  • Subhead lists concrete components, not buzzwords
  • Diagram shows sharding in action; 3M+ q/s proof

Could improve

  • 'n times' is clever but vague on outcome
  • No emotional hook for scaling pain
  • Subhead reads as feature list, not benefit

Trust

78Fair

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

Trust read
PgDog"3M+ queries/s in production" caption above the Coinbase, Ramp, Modal, Bitstack, Reducto logo row
PgBouncerDated release notes with sha256 checksums and a transparent CVE-2025-12819 advisory detailing vulnerable configurations
PgCatCode editor screenshot with tabs "game.ts", "characters.module.css", "bonus-level.ts"
Citus DataGitHub star count "12,779" in the header
VitessGitHub, Slack, and Stack Overflow community icons in the top nav

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop