Roast my landing page
https://www.bondinbox.com
Hey, fellow IH,
I've redesigned the landing page of our upcoming product, private beta to come.
Any positive or negative feedback would be appreciated. 🙏
Thank you!
PS: I used Webflow but it is a bit slow to load. Any idea how I can speed it up?
Hey Thatswam!
I recorded a 5 minute loom video for you with some thoughts and perspectives.
https://www.loom.com/share/563a6cefd2e949d6a9e09f91a360bc0c
As a note, I'm a UX designer and developer with 5+ years experience, working with tech and SAAS companies.
Hope I can provide some insights for ya!
Hey Dakota,
Sorry for my late reply, but really thank you so much for taking the time to record this, it's actually very useful! Just FYI, I intended to replace the "how it works" image with a gif, just need the extension to be ready to be recorded properly :)
Again, I really appreciate what you did here!
PS: I noted that you are a Webflow designer, and I crafted this landing page with Webflow as a total newbie, with the help of a template. As a result I think I might have made many mistakes that affect the page's performance (page speed insight is quite bad). I suspect at least that I did not set up properly the images dimensions constraints, plus also that I used too many classes for the different elements. If you have any idea how I can fix it I'd take it ;)
Cheers!
Glad I could help out!
Yeah I took 10 minutes to put your website in GTMetrix and Google web speed to see what may be causing it to load slow.
Some brief recommendations:
You could probably reduce the size of a few images. I checked your websites code In the google inspector and a saw few which where over 3,000px in width.
A lot of the speed issues seem to be with your JavaScript, and it seems to be in regards to the plug-in itself (Bondinbox). I am not skilled enough in JavaScript to recommend a solution for that, but just wanted to give you the heads up about it.
All the best!
Thanks for taking some time again to take a look at it.
I realized that Webflow now has an image optimization feature which I used, it worked like a charm.
Not sure what to do with the Javascript though, looks like the defer and async do not help a lot with the scripts reported by Page Speed insights. Will keep digging though.
All the best!
The scroll effect is nice but it somehow block the scrolling for a second once the zoom effect is done.
What is the purpose of this part exactly? The questions open a 'mental loop' but don't close it, so it's a bit odd
In general, I'm not sure to understand the whole point of the app. Does it just highlight text? What's the difference with the base highlight/background color from Gmail? Do the recipient need the app to see the stuff?
Someone asked tips for his landing page on IndieHackers today, I made an article from my answer, I think it might help you, so feel free to take a look.
P.S. Cool to see another Frenchie in the indie ecosystem!
Hey @jeannen, Thanks for sharing all the questions that popped into your mind, that was quite enlightening. I'll take a look at your article right away, thanks for this too!
PS: I guess I'm not the only Frenchie out there, but I suspect there might not be tons of them in Indonesia ;)
Glad it could help! 😊
As for Indonesia, yes indeed haha! We are a few in Bali though, but majority is in France