The homepage's lack of a clear value proposition and primary CTA, combined with multiple competing CTAs and a rotating hero, dilutes user focus and prevents visitors from understanding Yahoo's core offering, thereby bleeding conversion potential. The most valuable conversion mechanism on this site is personalization (sign-in), but it is buried among other CTAs and not clearly communicated, so users don't see the benefit of signing in.


The homepage lacks an H1 and any clear value proposition, leaving visitors without a reason to engage or convert.

Homepage
Your daily essentials, all in one place.
Secondary: Weather, Horoscope, Events, Sports Scores, Yahoo Scout
The homepage presents multiple competing primary CTAs without a clear primary action, diluting user focus and potentially reducing engagemen


The homepage's hero area is a rotating carousel of unrelated content with no single clear message, diluting the visitor's attention and inte


The homepage displays various prices without context, potentially confusing users about what is being sold and creating hidden cost percepti


The navigation lacks any link to a pricing page, making it difficult for users to find pricing information for Yahoo's paid services.


The homepage navigation presents a high number of links and multiple skip links, potentially overwhelming users and diluting focus on primar
Each surface starts at 100. The worst issue costs its full penalty — Urgent 25, High 12, Medium 5 — and each further issue costs 30% less than the one before, because the fifth problem on a page does not damage it as much as the first.
| Surface | Urgent | High | Score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage | 3 | 1 | 41 | F |
| Navigation | 0 | 3 | 74 | C |
| Sports Article Page | 0 | 2 | 80 | B |
| Trust & Proof | 0 | 1 | 88 | B |
Grades: A 90+, B 80+, C 70+, D 60+, F below 60.
The sum of every finding's individual range. Each row is traffic × conversion × assumed lift band × order value:
| Finding | Lift band | Range |
|---|---|---|
| No H1, no value prop | 2.0–8.0% | 0.4–1.6/1k |
| Multiple competing CTAs | 2.0–8.0% | 0.4–1.6/1k |
| Rotating hero without focus | 2.0–8.0% | 0.4–1.6/1k |
| Unclear pricing signals | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| No pricing page link | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| Choice overload in nav | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| Mega-menu depth and clutter | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| Missing trust signals above the fold | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| Multiple H1s dilute page focus | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
| No author credibility display | 1.0–5.0% | 0.2–1.0/1k |
No traffic or order-value figures were supplied, so the total is a per-1,000-visitor rate against an assumed 2% baseline. Supply real figures and this becomes a dollar range.
Caveat that applies to every row: Across 127,000 experiments, 12% produced a statistically significant improvement on the primary metric; a healthy programme win rate is 10-30%. These are prizes if changes work, not forecasts.
A verified finding was measured directly — real-user field data, security headers, accessibility defects counted in the markup — and is reproducible by anyone. Everything else is expert inspection: valuable, but a hypothesis until tested.