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Urgent
Homepage
Rotating hero without focus
The homepage's hero area is a rotating carousel of unrelated content with no single clear message, diluting the visitor's attention and intent.
⚠ Rotating hero without focusThe hero area rotates through weather, horoscope, events, and sports scores, diluting visitor attention.
Both are photographs of the live page — the right side has the
change applied in the browser.
Evidence
Observed on the live site
✓ Flagged independently by 1 of 7 analysts
- Body_sample shows multiple 'Featured' items: weather, horoscope, events, sports scores, and 'Yahoo Scout' chat prompt, all competing for attention.
Business case
If this change wins
0.4 – 1.6
orders per 1,000 visitors
High
Effort — 5+ days
Not A/B testable
At typical traffic
Detecting this needs about 124,891 visitors per variant. Ship it as a sequenced change and log the date instead.
Prioritisation
PXL score: 5 / 10
Assessed from the live page
| Question | Answer | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Is the change above the fold? | Yes | 1 |
| Is the change noticeable in under 5 seconds? | Yes | 2 |
| Does it add or remove an element? | Yes | 1 |
| Does it run on a high-traffic page? | Yes | 1 |
| Verified by direct technical measurement? | No | 0 |
Criteria that need your data
4 of these could not be answered from the live page. Session recordings, survey or support themes, and analytics access would raise the confidence of this ranking — they do not indicate a weaker finding.
| Question | Answer | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Discovered via user testing? | No | 0 |
| Discovered via qualitative feedback (survey, support)? | No | 0 |
| Supported by heatmaps or session recordings? | No | 0 |
| Found via digital analytics or real-user field data? | No | 0 |
Implementation
Hand this to your developer
- Surface
- Homepage — HOMEPAGE HERO
- Problem
- The homepage's hero area is a rotating carousel of unrelated content with no single clear message, diluting the visitor's attention and intent.
- Current state
- h1: None; cta: See forecast, See more stories on Yahoo 100; notes: The hero rotates through weather, horoscope, events, sports, and a chat prompt, none of which are tied to a clear value proposition or conversion goal.
- Change
- h1: Your daily briefing, personalized; cta: Sign in to get started; notes: Replace the rotating hero with a single, clear value proposition that emphasizes personalization and daily relevance, with a CTA to sign in or customize.
- Acceptance criteria
- GIVEN a first-time visitor on the affected page
WHEN the change is live
THEN Replace the rotating hero with a single, clear value proposition that emphasizes personalization and daily relevance, with a CTA to sign in or customize, with no regression at 375px and 1280px widths. - Tracking
- event: cro_rotating_hero_without_focus on interaction with the changed element; verify it fires in BOTH variants before opening traffic.
- Success metric
- conversion rate on the affected step
- QA checklist
- Chrome / Safari / Firefox · 375px + 1280px · keyboard reachable · screen-reader name present · no CLS introduced
- Effort
- High — 5+ days
- Test plan
- 124,891 visitors per variant (95% significance, 80% power); duration depends on traffic.
- Rollback
- Feature-flag the change; revert the flag if the primary metric drops for 3 consecutive days.