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How to check if my website is good, honestly
You built something you are proud of, and you can no longer see it the way a stranger does. Mimiq sends a stranger through the one job your site has and shows the step where they stop.
How do I check if my website is good?
A site is good when a stranger who has never seen it can finish the one job it exists for, without help. Write that job down in one line, send someone through it cold, and read the step where they stop and what they said there. A simulated test adds visitors who do this from their own browsers and report every step they could not finish, so you are not relying on your own opinion.
What this looks like in a report
“The headline says we empower artisans to grow together. I still do not know if this takes orders or sells software, so I am closing it and going back to my spreadsheet.”
The fix. Replace the headline with one sentence that names the product and the customer, such as take custom cake orders from your website. Then rerun the same stranger through the order task and compare the step they reached.
An illustration. Run a test to see your own.See a real sample report
Your own opinion is the worst test, because you already know the answer
You read your homepage knowing what it means, so every sentence makes sense to you. You know the pricing is under the menu, that the trial button is the one at the top, and that the second section is about the product you built. A stranger has none of that. They read the headline, guess what the company does, and the guess decides whether they keep reading. Friends are no better, since they like you. The gap only shows when someone without your context tries to finish the job.
- Write the one job in a single line, such as start a free trial or book a call.
- Check that the first screen says what the product is, in one sentence, without scrolling.
- Count the clicks from the homepage to the job, and check each one has an obvious label.
- Check the job can be finished on a phone as well as a laptop.
How it works
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Pick the one job the site has
Write the single thing a visitor should do on the site, such as starting a free trial or booking a call. If you cannot name it in one line, a visitor will not find it either.
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Send a stranger through that job
Give a visitor who has never seen the site a task in plain words, and watch the steps they take. The task should be the visitor's goal, not a list of pages for them to check.
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Read where they stopped, and why
Note the step where each visitor gave up, and the words they used for it. A visitor who says they cannot tell what the product does has told you more than a vague feeling would.
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Fix that step and run the same visitors again
Change one thing at the step where they stopped, then rerun the same visitors and compare the step they reached. A site is good when the job gets done, not when its owner says it looks clean.
What good means for a page that has one job
A visitor arrives with one purpose, and the site is good for them if it meets that purpose quickly. For a landing page that purpose is usually a sign-up or a request. For a shop it is a purchase, and for a tool it is the first useful action inside the product. Good does not mean beautiful or clever. It means the visitor knows what the site is, finds the next step, and can finish it without guessing. Name the job first, because every other judgment on the site only makes sense against it.
Why your own opinion is the weakest test you have
The owner of a site is the one person who cannot test it. You know the joke in the headline is a joke, so it reads as one. You skip the step that needs a reason to trust the company, because you already trust it. Wrong: a headline that says streamline your workflow, which could describe any product. Right: a headline that says send client invoices from your phone, which tells a stranger what they get and who it is for. You can tell which one is wrong only by watching someone else try to use it.
What a second opinion can and cannot settle
A stranger can settle one thing: whether the first screen says what the product is, and whether the next step has a label they understand. A stranger cannot settle whether your price is right, or whether enough people will arrive to ask. Those need your own data. Analytics shows where people leave, and a live experiment shows which version gets more sign-ups.
Ways to check a site, and what each one misses
| Method | What it shows | What it misses |
|---|---|---|
| Asking friends | Whether they like it | Whether a stranger gets past the first screen |
| Asking a chatbot | A tidy list of possible fixes | What a visitor actually did |
| Analytics | Where people leave, in numbers | Why they left |
| Session replay | What real visitors did on a page | Visitors you have not reached yet |
| Simulated visitors | The step each visitor stopped at, and what they said | Real conversion rates |
Analytics and session replay need traffic.
What you get with Mimiq
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Run it by hand, or on every pull request
Paste a link and a task in the app and watch the visitors work. Or run them on every preview deploy: the GitHub Action comments on the pull request, any other CI can call the MCP endpoint, and your coding agent can run it too.
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Bugs and usability problems in one report
The browser records errors and failed or slow requests on the step they happened. The visitors say where the wording or the steps confused them, and where they left.
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Visitors that behave like your audience
Each visitor is a different profile with a reason to be there, matched to who the page is for, described by you, or built from your own customers.
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A prompt to fix each problem
Every problem comes with a fix to paste into Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable or any coding agent, and one prompt hands over the top problems at once. Then send the same visitors through again.
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Follow every visitor
See each visitor's whole path, step by step with screenshots, and what it was thinking at every step. Ask any visitor a question.
The browser records relevant JavaScript errors and failed or slow app requests encountered during the run, attached to the step where they occurred. The visitors are simulated: they find problems, they do not predict how many real people will convert.
A new headline or pricing change can hide the job again
Copy and layout change every time you add a feature or a new section, and the job a visitor has to finish can move without anyone noticing. Rerun the same stranger through the same task after each change, so you can see whether the step they reached got further or stopped sooner.
Starter
Try it on one launch
About 4 tests of 5 visitors
- Visitors on your landing page, signup and checkout
- Where they left and why, with a fix to copy for each problem
- Run it in the app or on every pull request
- Ask any visitor a question, included
- Test accounts and protected previews
Builder
Test every build
About 20 tests of 5 visitors
- Everything in Starter
- Credits refill each month, and what is left rolls over once
- Cancel anytime
Pro
Test every release, as a team
About 60 tests of 5 visitors
- Everything in Starter
- Credits refill each month, and what is left rolls over once
- Cancel anytime
Scale
Test at scale, every day
About 240 tests of 5 visitors
- Everything in Starter
- Credits refill each month, and what is left rolls over once
- Priority support
- Cancel anytime
Questions
What is the quickest honest check?
Show the homepage to someone who has never seen it, give them one task, and ask them to say out loud what the site does before they click anything. Their first sentence tells you more than your own opinion does.
Can a chatbot tell me if my site is good?
It can read your copy and suggest wording. It has not watched anyone use the site, so its answer tends to be polite and general. It cannot see where a visitor clicked the wrong button.
Does a site that passes the check get more sign-ups?
Not by itself. A clear site still needs people to arrive, and a simulated test does not predict how many of them will sign up. Traffic and sign-up rates come from your analytics and from a live experiment, not from a set of simulated visitors.
Should I check on a phone too?
Yes. Many visitors arrive on a phone, and a page that reads well on a laptop can hide its button or form below the fold on a small screen. Check the job on both.
When is the site good enough to share?
When a stranger finishes the job you wrote down without help, and you have fixed the step where the last stranger stopped. Share it then, and watch what the next visitors do, because each new stranger finds things the last one missed.
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