Design ArenaYC S25 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Value props.

How Design Arena ranks

  1. 1.Design Arena70
  2. 2.CoArena67
  3. 3.Chatbot Arena (LMArena)66
  4. 4.WebDev Arena62
Fix Value props

Score over time

807570656055CoArena 66 on Aug 15 (Wayback)CoArena 67 on Sep 20 (Live)Chatbot Arena (LMArena) 62 on Jun 30 (Wayback)Chatbot Arena (LMArena) 63 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Chatbot Arena (LMArena) 62 on Jul 24 (Wayback)Chatbot Arena (LMArena) 63 on Aug 6 (Wayback)Chatbot Arena (LMArena) 66 on Aug 24 (Wayback)Chatbot Arena (LMArena) 63 on Sep 5 (Wayback)Chatbot Arena (LMArena) 66 on Sep 20 (Live)WebDev Arena 62 on Sep 21 (Live)Design Arena 73 on Jun 16 (Wayback)Design Arena 69 on Jun 26 (Wayback)Design Arena 72 on Jul 11 (Wayback)Design Arena 66 on Aug 5 (Wayback)Design Arena 74 on Aug 19 (Wayback)Design Arena 72 on Sep 9 (Wayback)Design Arena 70 on Sep 21 (Live)Jun 16Jun 26Jul 11Aug 5Aug 19Sep 9Sep 21
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  1. Sep 21, 202670LiveOverall −2 · Mobile web −14 · Information hierarchy +10Viewing
  2. Sep 9, 202672Overall −2 · Information hierarchy −8 · CTA −2View →
  3. Aug 19, 202674Overall +8 · Trust +12 · Information hierarchy +8View →
  4. Aug 5, 202666Overall −6 · Trust −14 · CTA −6View →
  5. Jul 11, 202672Overall +3 · Information hierarchy +6 · CTA +4View →
  6. Jun 26, 202669Overall −4 · Information hierarchy −12 · Trust −6View →
  7. Jun 16, 202673First tracked report — strongest Mobile web 82, weakest Value props 62View →

Value props

56Fair

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

Design Arena’s headline vagueWhat are you creating today?by Intelligence • 6.6M+ users

Working

  • Capability chips list concrete outputs
  • 6.6M+ users is real social proof
  • Placeholder prompt shows how it works

Could improve

  • H1 could caption any creation tool
  • No subhead explains the arena angle
  • Hero shows empty input, not results

Trust

62Fair

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

Trust read
Design Arena"6.6M+ users" count beneath the headline
CoArena"Backed by Y Combinator" badge above the headline
Chatbot Arena (LMArena)Live "Ask anything…" prompt box with Battle/Auto mode controls showing real product UI
WebDev Arenaimplicit context WebDev Arena may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.

Mobile web

68Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Send arrow button — Small, low-contrast circular submit sits inactive-looking in the input; no full-width tappable CTA on the fold.
  2. Category chip stack — Twelve chips stack into six rows below the input, pushing a wall of competing choices into the second viewport.

Information hierarchy

82Strong

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Grey submit arrow — The primary action is a small, disabled-looking grey circle with less visual weight than the nav's Sign In button.
  2. Twelve category chips — Three rows of equal-weight chips read as a feature index, giving no hierarchy or default path to first use.
  3. Sign In button — The only filled, high-contrast button in the fold sits in the nav, outranking the conversion surface below.

CTA

82Strong

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

Design Arenain-product action

Problems

  • unlabeled icon-only submit arrow
  • submit arrow looks disabled/greyed
  • placeholder truncates on mobile

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop