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Twan Mulder
Twan Mulder

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Your website sucks! And I'll tell you why ⚡️

I had some great success critiquing/roasting your websites on Twitter, and I'd love to help tell you why your website sucks

As a CRO Consultant, I have a lot of experience in improving our client's products.

So show me your website, and I'll give you at least one point to improve!

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Jai dewani

my portfolio -> jaid.tech
and my blog -> blogs.jaid.tech

 
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Twan Mulder

Great to hear! You can always make some yourself using your phone camera and setting up some lights around the house 😄 All the best in your career!

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Twan Mulder

Starting of, this is a beautiful website. I can see you put a lot of attention to detail in every single corner of the pages. Everything looks great from animations to accessibility. There are two minor things that I think will improve the usability/experience of your website.

1 Navigation
navigation

The vertical navigation looks great, but my experience tells me that there's a reduced change of people using it accordingly when it doesn't meet their expectations. I'd recommend for it to be placed horizontally on top of the page.

2 A personal touch
contact

At the bottom of your page, you tell a little bit about yourself as a person. Something very important to do. I think this section could be greatly improved and add a little more personal connection by using a (professional) image of yourself.

Besides these small points, a great website! I'd love to see more of your articles on your own website 😄

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Sara Miteva
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Twan Mulder

Thanks for sharing Sara! This site looks great! A lot of attention to detail and all the information provided to the user is beautifully visualized.

homepage

One thing I noticed is an inconsistency in the button styling currently on the website. It seems like the white CTAs look like they are "raising" when a user hovers on them, while the green one actually "descends/lowers". A small tweak in my eyes.

Besides that, a great example of a SaaS company. I especially like the CTA changing on the homepage hero changing its action based on if the user is on mobile or desktop 😄

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Sara Miteva

Thank you so much, Twan! Really appreciate it :)

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Rahman Fadhil

rahmanfadhil.com

Right here!

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Twan Mulder

Thanks for sharing your website! 2 Thing I noticed:

1 About

about

An about section is a great place to tell and show a little more of yourself and your personality. A small, but great addition, would be to add a (professional) image of yourself! Just a little personal touch which will bring a more human connection to your website.

2 Youtube

youtube

Make sure that whenever you send a user to another page that isn't your website and there isn't an incentive on that new page to go back to your website, to open it in a new tab. This ensures that the user can take its time on the other website/platform and (maybe) return to your website when finished.

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Pedro Pimenta

Go on... pimenta.co/

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Ghazi Khan
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Twan Mulder

Thanks for sharing Ghazi! Really cool page, especially the blog.

blog

One point of improvement I noticed, is that on a blog post, all the share functionalities overlap the main content if the viewport is between 769px - 1218px.

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Ghazi Khan

Thanks Twan, for giving your time to review my website. I'll fix this :)

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Pratik Kanthi
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Elango Sundar

Mine - elangovan.in

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Twan Mulder

Thanks for sharing your website 😄 2 things I noticed:

1 homepage icons

icons

Your blog icon currently doesn't have a discernible icon

2 Blog style

blog

Your blog looks very cool, but it isn't very original. It matches almost 100% with Dan Abramov's blog called "Overreacted". It's a theme from Gatsby if I remember correctly, nothing wrong with that, but it would be nice to add your own touches to it.

Thanks for sharing and good luck!

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Jethro May
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Twan Mulder

Thanks for sharing your website, Jethro! All in all, it looks very clean.

Something I noticed though, is that you're currently showing all your blog posts on the homepage and also on the "posts" page. Currently, the "posts" page doesn't add any extra features or functionality to the user. Think about showing less (maybe 3) posts on your homepage, or completely remove the "posts" page if you want to show all posts on the homepage

posts

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Jethro May

Very true, thanks for looking at it will address that. :)

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David Israel
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Deepak Raj • Edited

Here is my site I am not in web development but I am trying to improve.

codeperfectplus.herokuapp.com/

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Sai Krishna • Edited

Mine mine

saikrishna.dev

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Twan Mulder

Thanks for sharing your website!

The thing that I noticed first, is that you're hiding your footer on the homepage of your website. Currently, there's no way of knowing or any incentive for the user to scroll on your homepage. You footer, however, does enable some important functionality of the page. Think about making it more visible, or incentivizing the user to scroll.

homepage

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Sai Krishna

Thank you for the feedback

I will update the page

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Médéric Burlet

mederic.me

I'm aware of the wrong image sizes and more on the other pages than the main one.
I did a few lighthouse report and noticed i need to work on accessibility:

lighthouse

But if you got some other feedback I'd be glad to hear it:

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Twan Mulder

Cool portfolio. The photography looks great! As you may already know, the file size of the images you're using is HUUUUGE. I'd definitely recommend compressing these. This will especially impact mobile users.

The other thing I noticed is that your contact form currently isn't working:
contact

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Médéric Burlet

Oh thanks for the captcha! will fix it asap!

Yeah I have already compressed and resized homepage images but still need to do the background and other pages so it loads very fast too haha.

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Jeff Jadulco