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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How KERNEL ranks

Fix Trust

75Growth scoreupdated Sep 22, 2026

category scores

Trust72 Mobile web72 Information hierarchy74 CTA78 Value props78

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Trust72 Mobile web72 Information hierarchy74 CTA78 Value props78

Score over time

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Sep 22, 202675LiveOverall +17 · CTA +30 · Mobile web +24Viewing
Jun 29, 202658Overall −1 · Value props −8 · CTA +4View →
May 25, 202659Overall +1 · Value props +4 · CTA +2View →
May 14, 202658Trust +2View →
May 6, 202658First tracked report — strongest Value props 72, weakest CTA 42View →

Trust

72Fair

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

	Trust read
KERNEL	loved by 11,000+ teams building agents
Browserbase	"10,000+ companies building beyond the API" with Microsoft, DeepMind, Amplitude, Ramp, Clay, and Lovable logos
Steel	"1,000,000+ Browser Hours Served" usage stat in the metrics bar
Anchor Browser	"Trusted by teams that power the web" logo bar with Coinbase, 1Password, Asteroid, Intrinsic
Hyperbrowser	Code editor demo "hyperbrowser.py" with real Playwright/Puppeteer imports and a "✓ Connected" status badge
Browserless	"Trusted by 2,000+ teams" logo strip with Microsoft, CVS Health, Heroku, Webflow, Samsara

Mobile web

72Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture

Oversized hero headline — Desktop-scale type wraps into six lines and consumes most of the fold, shoving the CTA to the bottom edge.
Start building button — Desktop-proportioned button floats at half the column width instead of a full-bleed thumb target.
Book demo button — A second stacked CTA at near-equal weight competes with the primary action for the tap.

Information hierarchy

74Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture

Cropped KERNEL wordmark — The oversized wordmark is cut off at the top edge, reading as a rendering error rather than intentional branding.
Nav with six links — Six equal-weight nav items including 'book demo' and 'sign in / up' pull attention before the visitor reaches the hero CTA.
soc2 / hipaa badges — Trust badges float mid-air next to the headline, breaking the scan line instead of anchoring near the CTA or logos.
book demo button — A second CTA sits beside 'start building' at near-equal size, and duplicates the 'book demo' nav link, splitting the primary action.

CTA

78Fair

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

Problems

no 'free' despite open-source pitch
small footprint vs huge headline
outcome of click is ambiguous

Value props

78Fair

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

KERNEL’s headline sellsyou build agents. we give them the internet.crazy fast, open source browser infra. any site, accessible and actionable at scale.

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