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We Analysed The Homepages Of 20 Awesome Startups And Here Is What We Learnt
- JohnTHaller 12y agoLove to be able to read this. But a huge full screen non dismissable "share this content" box is blocking the entire thing. The lunacy of asking someone to share an article before they've even read it combines well with the fact that it probably wasn't tested on mobile.
- AdrianRossouw 12y agothere's a greyed out X next to the title, but it's definitely incredibly obnoxious.
- JohnTHaller 12y agoIt doesn't work on Firefox on Android. At least it didn't this morning on my stock Galaxy S4.
- ColinWright 12y agoIt's not non-dismissable - there's a faint (X) at the top right of the box. Why do people do this? Do they not measure their bounce rate?
- BillinghamJ 12y agoKinda amusing given the topic of the article.
- what_ever 12y agoI just clicked outside that box and it disappeared.
- JohnTHaller 12y agoI saw it. I clicked it on Firefox on Android and it did absolutely nothing. I even gave the page full time to load first. Multiple clicks. No response.
- aw3c2 12y agoJust disable Javascript by default.
- JohnTHaller 12y agoA huge chunk of the web doesn't work without Javascript.
- marcvb 12y agoReally sorry about that - we've now disabled this plugin. We were actually having some serious server issues which was making the wrong thing load. Won't be activating it again!
- uberdog 12y agoI guess 10 got lost between creating the URL slug and writing the rest of the article.
- aw3c2 12y agohttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://outside.hotjar.com/2014/08/07/we-analyzed-the-homepages-of-30-successful-startups-and-here-is-what-we-learnt/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... Nothing worth visiting, just marketing for their service.
- remon 12y ago"404: File Not Found" Is that the joke or is it down?
- marcvb 12y agoUnfortunately, our host had serious issues the moment the article trended on HackerNews... very bad timing! We've actually moved server quickly so it should soon be back to normal.
- onion2k 12y agoThere's a smell of survivorship bias to this. The author picked 20 already successful startups and looked for commonality between them. Arguably the 20 that they chose could do anything to their homepages and still soldier on successfully - the fact they all follow the same trends doesn't give any insight in to what works and what doesn't. Take the 'they all have a slogan' lesson as an example: having a slogan might have killed 50,000 startups and these 20 are the set that were lucky enough to have done everything right to survive in spite of that huge error. If you're going to examine homepages to learn what works, you have to look at the failed startups as well as the successful ones. You can't learn anything just looking at one side.
- marcvb 12y agoI agree - but my article isn't about what works or doesn't. It's about getting ideas to test. In fact, as I mentioned in the article, what works for one site definitely might not work for yours - so testing is always the answer. Having said that, I think that it's good to look at what the successful startups are doing to get ideas for testing.