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I'm sorry to say this, but your website is awful.

You spell "conversion" incorrectly in two different ways and your grammar is poor ("Why noone...").

If I were you I'd get the site redesigned, preferably by a professional web designer.

Maybe slim the main page down to your banner, a tag-line saying what the product is and a "Try It Now" button. I don't want to sign up for anything; why not let me demo it on your site in real-time?

And where's the initial Wow? There's a heatmap picture on the main page but nothing happens when I click it. Why not have the image work as a heatmap too?

Sorry to be so negative, but maybe you'll get better results if you fix some or all of those things?

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Thanks for the feedback. We really thought of at as an MVP from the beginning and put up a website in one day and spent the rest of the time on the backend. Maybe you're right and that's the reason why we're not seeing any demand.

Well, perhaps I was too negative. As I mention below, and as the others have said, the look is pretty good. The heatmap image is pretty cool which is why I wanted to click on it and see it change. So let me do that!

Also, I did want to see how it actually worked, but I don't want to sign up and install stuff for that...so that's why I wanted a live demo.

I think you should drop the "completing with Google Analytics" angle too. Even if it's true that you're better, no-one will believe it. Why not show how you integrate with it instead? If people are using both and realise themselves that they only need your product, then that's good enough.

Yes, maybe we didn't have enough motivation because of lack of feedback. In fact we did have the live demo planed, but it seemed like an unimportant feature.

We really should put a little more effort into this project.

> I'm sorry to say this, but your website is awful.

I agree about "noone", but I don't think the website can be called awful. It's certainly quite pretty.

Fair enough, I was talking about the content more than the look. The top half is certainly nice enough. The lower half is too noisy with an excess of that "writing" stuff. I didn't get where I am today by reading! I want cool stuff I can click on! ;)

Awful or not, it doesn't make me wanna go try it.

I disagree that the site design is awful. But agree that the spelling and grammar could use a little more attention.

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