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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How smol machines ranks

  1. 1.E2B80
  2. 2.Fly.io (Fly Machines)74
  3. 3.Kata Containers70
  4. 4.Firecracker (AWS)68
  5. 5.smol machines63
  6. 6.Morph Cloud55
Fix Trust
63Growth scoreupdated

category scores

Trust52CTA54Information hierarchy68Value props68Mobile web72
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Trust52CTA54Information hierarchy68Value props68Mobile web72

Score over time

9080706050Firecracker (AWS) 71 on Apr 5 (Wayback)Firecracker (AWS) 72 on Apr 13 (Wayback)Firecracker (AWS) 71 on Jul 23 (Wayback)Firecracker (AWS) 70 on Aug 12 (Wayback)Firecracker (AWS) 72 on Aug 22 (Wayback)Firecracker (AWS) 67 on Sep 7 (Wayback)Firecracker (AWS) 68 on Sep 20 (Live)Fly.io (Fly Machines) 66 on Jun 24 (Wayback)Fly.io (Fly Machines) 70 on Jul 11 (Wayback)Fly.io (Fly Machines) 70 on Jul 24 (Wayback)Fly.io (Fly Machines) 67 on Aug 7 (Wayback)Fly.io (Fly Machines) 72 on Aug 23 (Wayback)Fly.io (Fly Machines) 71 on Sep 6 (Wayback)Fly.io (Fly Machines) 74 on Sep 20 (Live)E2B 80 on May 10 (Wayback)E2B 80 on May 22 (Wayback)E2B 79 on Jun 4 (Wayback)E2B 79 on Jun 16 (Wayback)E2B 79 on Jul 3 (Wayback)E2B 79 on Jul 18 (Wayback)E2B 80 on Jul 31 (Live)Kata Containers 68 on May 29 (Wayback)Kata Containers 67 on Jun 11 (Wayback)Kata Containers 70 on Jul 4 (Wayback)Kata Containers 71 on Aug 3 (Wayback)Kata Containers 69 on Aug 25 (Wayback)Kata Containers 71 on Sep 7 (Wayback)Kata Containers 70 on Sep 20 (Live)Morph Cloud 55 on Sep 20 (Live)smol machines 58 on Jun 27 (Wayback)smol machines 57 on Jul 6 (Wayback)smol machines 56 on Jul 19 (Wayback)smol machines 58 on Aug 7 (Wayback)smol machines 58 on Aug 21 (Wayback)smol machines 60 on Sep 12 (Wayback)smol machines 63 on Sep 20 (Live)Jun 27Jul 6Jul 19Aug 7Aug 21Sep 12Sep 20
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  1. Sep 20, 202663LiveOverall +3 · Trust +8 · CTA +6Viewing
  2. Sep 12, 202660Overall +2 · Mobile web +16 · Trust −14View →
  3. Aug 21, 202658Trust +6 · CTA −2View →
  4. Aug 7, 202658Overall +2 · Information hierarchy +4 · CTA −4View →
  5. Jul 19, 202656Overall −1 · CTA +4 · Value props −4View →
  6. Jul 6, 202657Overall −1 · CTA −11 · Trust +8View →
  7. Jun 27, 202658First tracked report — strongest Value props 72, weakest Trust 44View →

Trust

52Fair

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

smol machines
Firecracker (AWS)
Fly.io (Fly Machines)
Kata Containers
Trust read
smol machinesGitHub star count "6.2k" in the top navigation
Firecracker (AWS)Built on the same Firecracker virtualization powering 15 trillion+ monthly Lambda function invocations
Fly.io (Fly Machines)Customer logo wall: Kilocode, Builder.io, Hatchet, Phonic, Supabase, Firecrawl, Plastic Labs, Replicate, Steel, Delos (m
E2Bimplicit context E2B may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.
Kata Containers"An OpenInfra Foundation Project" header bar
Morph Cloud"one-click VSCode SSH, tmux automation, live previews, and serverless scale-to-zero" feature copy in the Morph Devboxes

CTA

54Fair

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

smol machines
E2B
Fly.io (Fly Machines)
Kata Containers
Morph Cloud

Problems

  • no action verb — reads as nav label
  • noun gives no payoff for the click
  • blends into a row of three peers
  • duplicates nav item, adds no urgency

Information hierarchy

68Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Three equal-weight CTAs — "cloud", "registry", and "docs" sit side by side; only fill color differentiates the primary, so the visitor must parse three labeled options before acting.
  2. Nav duplicates hero CTAs — Top-right "cloud / registry / pricing / docs" plus GitHub 6.2k repeat and compete with the hero buttons, doubling the exit surface above the fold.
  3. Generic CTA labels — "cloud" and "registry" name destinations, not actions — hierarchy gives the visitor no cue which click starts the intended journey.

Value props

68Fair

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

smol machines’s headline sellssmol machinesFast, isolated Linux VMs — the same smol machine on your laptop, in the cloud, or self-hosted.

Working

  • Names the category plainly: Linux VMs
  • Write-once portability promise is clear
  • No buzzword abstraction — dev-honest tone

Could improve

  • No numbers: boot speed, stars, users
  • Logo decorates; nothing shows the product
  • Flat tone — no felt outcome or relief

Mobile web

72Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. cloud CTA button — Desktop-proportioned button floating in the column; not full-width or clearly thumb-sized as the primary action.
  2. three equal buttons row — "cloud", "registry", and "docs" compete side by side with no visual hierarchy beyond a fill color; splits the tap decision.
  3. hero tagline wrap — The one-sentence value statement wraps into three loose lines and reads as body copy, not a headline.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop
#1E2Be2b.dev80 #2Fly.io (Fly Machines)fly.io74 #3Kata Containerskatacontainers.io70 #4Firecracker (AWS)firecracker-microvm.github.io68
#5smol machines63
#6Morph Cloudcloud.morph.so55