Conversion X-Ray
Your brand
Your page, read from the first word to the last. What it is asking a stranger to believe, the exact line where the argument breaks, the sentence costing you the most money — and the rewrites, already written.
score
Overall score
scored/10
WEIGHTED AVERAGE
on_the_table
Revenue on the table
what the leaks cost
PER MONTH, ESTIMATED
conversion
Conversion rate
your rate
BENCHMARK: category rate
critical
Critical bugs
counted
OF 8 ELEMENTS AUDITED
01 Executive summary
What I found
One paragraph, before any detail: where the argument on your page breaks, and what that break is costing you every month at the traffic you already have.
Your bottleneck is not the page.
I read your page in full and it is not what is holding the sale back. This is: Anything hurting the page that is not on the page.
Why it matters here, not in general.
Better writing does not fix that, so there is no subscription pitch at the end of this document. You still get the complete read of the page in the sections below, because you paid for it and because it still contains corrections worth making. But the real priority is outside the page, and here is what I would do before touching a single line of copy: What to do about it, specifically.
| Metric | Today | Benchmark | Gap |
| Conversion rate | your rate | category rate | the difference |
| Average order value | your average order | category average | the difference |
| Revenue per visitor | yours | category | the difference |
| Current monthly revenue | what it makes now |
| Potential monthly revenue | what it could make |
| Left on the table | what the leaks cost / month |
How I calculated it: potential revenue = monthly traffic (your traffic) × benchmark conversion rate (category rate) × average order value (your average order). The difference between potential and current is what is being left on the table. The estimate is deliberately conservative: it uses the category average, not the top performers.
Top 3 bugs by impact
Bug #1 · The element scoring worst, number 1 — Score scored/10 — Impact: what it costs/month
One line on what is broken and why it is expensive.
Bug #2 · The element scoring worst, number 2 — Score scored/10 — Impact: what it costs/month
One line on what is broken and why it is expensive.
Bug #3 · The element scoring worst, number 3 — Score scored/10 — Impact: what it costs/month
One line on what is broken and why it is expensive.
02 The eight elements, one by one
These are the eight elements promised on the sales page, in the same order, audited on your page. Each one gets what I found, what should be there instead, and why it decides whether the visitor keeps reading or leaves.
2.1 · avatar
out of 10/10
Who the page is really speaking to
Who the page is written for.
Who is actually landing on it
Who is actually landing on it.
Where the message misses them
Where the message misses them.
Why this matters
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
2.2 · one belief
out of 10/10
The one thing they need to believe before they can buy
The one thing a stranger has to believe before buying.
What the page does about it today
What the page does about that today.
What would have to be on the page for them to believe it
What it would take to actually land it.
Why this matters
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
2.3 · offer
out of 10/10
What I found
What is being offered today.
What should be there
How that compares to what else your buyer is looking at.
Pricing and perceived value
How the price is presented, and what that presentation implies.
Why this matters
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
2.4 · proof
out of 10/10
Where trust is being built
The proof that is doing work.
Where your claims are left unsupported
The claims left standing on nothing.
What your reviews are actually saying
What your own reviews say that the page never uses.
Why this matters
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
2.5 · unique mechanism
out of 10/10
What I found
The reason the page gives for why it works.
Why your solution works differently — as the page explains it today
What that mechanism is, in a sentence a buyer repeats.
The mechanism I would name and lead with
The one I would name and lead with instead.
Why this matters
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
2.6 · headline
out of 10/10
Your headline today
"Your headline today, quoted exactly."
Diagnosis
What it is asking a stranger to accept, and why they will not.
Rewritten · ready to paste
"The replacement, written and ready to paste."
The customer sentence that drove this decision
"A sentence your own customers wrote, that drove the rewrite."
where it came from
Why this choice
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
2.7 · objections
out of 10/10
The unanswered doubts giving prospects a reason to hesitate
- A doubt the page never answers — where it belongs on the page
- A doubt the page never answers — where it belongs on the page
- A doubt the page never answers — where it belongs on the page
What the page answers well already
What the page already answers well.
Where each answer belongs on the page
Where each missing answer belongs on the page.
Why this matters
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
2.8 · conversion gaps
out of 10/10
Where attention, belief or intent leak before the sale
What the page skips that the decision needs.
Section map · what you have vs. what I would ship
| # | On the page today | What I would ship |
| 1 | the order today | the order I would ship |
| 2 | the order today | the order I would ship |
| 3 | the order today | the order I would ship |
| 4 | the order today | the order I would ship |
| 5 | the order today | the order I would ship |
| 6 | the order today | the order I would ship |
| 7 | the order today | the order I would ship |
| 8 | the order today | the order I would ship |
The single sentence costing you the most
"The one sentence on your page costing you the most money, quoted exactly as it stands." — Why that sentence and not another one.
Why this matters
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
03 The page on a phone
your share of your traffic arrives on a phone. Mobile is not a smaller version of desktop. It is where most of the reading happens, and where most of the leaving happens.
mobile_experience
out of 10/10
What breaks on a phone
- What breaks on a phone
- What breaks on a phone
- What breaks on a phone
Impact
what it costs
Why this matters
Your own numbers make the case better than any market average would: mobile carries your share of your visits and converts at on a phone, against on desktop on desktop. That gap is the price of every point of friction on the small screen, paid where almost all of your traffic is.
04 Where in the decision your visitor arrives
Nobody arrives at the same point of the decision. Some do not know they have the problem yet; others have already compared you against two competitors and only need a push. Eugene Schwartz called these awareness levels, and there are five. The copy has to start where the person actually is: if your page talks as though everyone already knows the product, and your ads bring people who have never heard of it, the message does not land and the sale dies before the first paragraph.
1 · UNAWARE
2 · PROBLEM
3 · SOLUTION
4 · PRODUCT
5 · MOST
THE LEVEL YOUR COPY ASSUMES
THE LEVEL YOUR TRAFFIC IS ACTUALLY AT
traffic_level
The traffic arrives at: where your visitors actually are
Where the people your ads are paying for sit in the decision when they land.
copy_level
The copy assumes: where your copy assumes they are
Where the page is written as if they already are, which is usually further along.
The gap between those two
Named, with what it costs and which section has to carry the fix.
05 The copy, line by line
I read the page word by word: headline, subhead, body, the small print around the button, the product description. Every piece is judged by what it communicates, what it fails to communicate, and what that does to the decision. Where I flag a problem, the replacement is written for you — not an instruction to go write it yourself.
subhead
Your subhead today
"Your subhead today, quoted exactly."
Diagnosis
What it adds, and what it repeats.
Rewritten · ready to paste
"The replacement, ready to paste."
Why this choice
The reasoning underneath it.
the_button
Your call to action today
"Your button today, word for word."
Diagnosis
What it asks for, and what it costs to say yes to.
Rewritten · ready to paste
"The replacement, ready to paste."
The customer sentence that drove this decision
"The customer sentence behind it."
where it came from
Why this choice
The reasoning underneath it.
body_copy
Diagnosis
What the body copy is doing, and where it stops working.
Specific problems
- Where the argument slips
- Where the argument slips
- Where the argument slips
The paragraph I would rewrite first · ready to paste
The rewritten section, ready to paste.
Why this matters
The reasoning underneath it.
microcopy
What sits around the button
The words around the button: what they promise and what they leave unsaid.
Missing entirely
- A reassurance that is missing next to the button
- A reassurance that is missing next to the button
- A reassurance that is missing next to the button
06 How you read next to your competitors
I read the pages of a competitor and another one, two direct competitors in your market. The point is not to copy them. It is to know what your buyer has already seen before landing on you, and where they left a door open.
I do not score other people's pages here. A score on someone else's page is my opinion dressed up as measurement — I do not have their traffic, their AOV or their funnel to calibrate a number against. What I have is the read, and the read is below.
where_they_beat_you
Where they beat you, and by what argument.
where_you_can_pass_them
Where you already beat them, in their own words.
worth_stealing
- What they do that you could take
- What they do that you could take
- What they do that you could take
07 What each fix is worth
Three scenarios, built on the three fixes prioritised in the next section. The numbers are conservative: they hold your traffic and your average order value exactly where they are today and move only the conversion rate.
| Scenario | Conversion | Revenue/month | Difference vs. today |
| Today | your rate | what it makes now | — |
| Conservative (fix 1 only) | a rate | the revenue | +a lift/mo |
| Realistic (fixes 1 and 2) | a rate | the revenue | +a lift/mo |
| Optimistic (fixes 1, 2 and 3) | a rate | the revenue | +a lift/mo |
What these numbers are, and what they are not: they are arithmetic, not prediction. They show what each percentage point of conversion would be worth on the traffic and the average order value you already have. I do not promise revenue, return on ad spend or cost per acquisition, because I do not control your offer, your price, your checkout, your fulfilment or your media. I guarantee the three things I control: the clock, the scope and the quality of the work.
08 The 3 changes I would make first, in priority order
In order of impact on revenue. The first one alone recovers most of the gap.
priority_01what it is worth/mo
Priority 1
What to change first
what it is worth/mo
DIFFICULTY: easy / medium / hard
TIME: how long it takes
What to do: The change itself, specific enough to hand to whoever builds your pages.
Why this is first
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
priority_02what it is worth/mo
Priority 2
What to change second
what it is worth/mo
DIFFICULTY: easy / medium / hard
TIME: how long it takes
What to do: The change itself, specific enough to hand to whoever builds your pages.
Why this is second
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
priority_03what it is worth/mo
Priority 3
What to change third
what it is worth/mo
DIFFICULTY: easy / medium / hard
TIME: how long it takes
What to do: The change itself, specific enough to hand to whoever builds your pages.
Why this is third
Why this matters here, on this page, for this buyer.
do_this_nowfree · 5 minutes
The five-minute fix
One change you can ship today, in five minutes, for nothing.
Why this works
Why it works, so you can decide whether to believe it.