5
High
Navigation
No pricing page link
The navigation lacks any link to a pricing page, making it difficult for users to find pricing information for Yahoo's paid services.
⚠ No pricing page linkThe main navigation lacks any link to a pricing page, making it difficult for users to find pricing information for …
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
- The nav_items on the homepage include 'News', 'Finance', 'Sports', 'Mail', 'Sign in', 'Trending', but no 'Pricing' or 'Premium' link is present. The crawl quality for '/pricing' is 'clean', but the page is not linked from the main navigation.
Business case
If this change wins
0.2 – 1.0
orders per 1,000 visitors
Medium
Effort — 2-5 days
Not A/B testable
At typical traffic
Detecting this needs about 315,206 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
- Navigation — NAV
- Problem
- The navigation lacks any link to a pricing page, making it difficult for users to find pricing information for Yahoo's paid services.
- Current state
- h1: None; cta: Sign in; notes: Users interested in Yahoo's paid offerings (e.g., Yahoo Plus, Fantasy Plus) have no direct path from the homepage to pricing information.
- Change
- h1: None; cta: Sign in, Pricing; notes: Add a 'Pricing' or 'Premium' link to the main navigation to improve discoverability of pricing information.
- Acceptance criteria
- GIVEN a first-time visitor on the affected page
WHEN the change is live
THEN Add a 'Pricing' or 'Premium' link to the main navigation to improve discoverability of pricing information, with no regression at 375px and 1280px widths. - Tracking
- event: cro_no_pricing_page_link 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
- Medium — 2-5 days
- Test plan
- 315,206 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.