Friction mapping, trust gaps, hierarchy, and mobile review.
UX audit is the structured diagnostic that surfaces friction, hierarchy failure, accessibility gaps, and mobile-experience degradation across a digital product or website. The methodology pairs heuristic evaluation (Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics, Krug's 'don't make me think' principles) with session-replay analysis (Hotjar, FullStory, Microsoft Clarity), funnel-drop quantification, and accessibility testing against WCAG 2.2 AA. Mobile-specific audit covers thumb-reachability, tap-target sizing (44px minimum), viewport-shift cumulative layout score, and one-handed-use feasibility. The output is a prioritised friction inventory ranked by frequency × severity × fix complexity — actionable, not academic.
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Friction mapping, trust gaps, hierarchy, and mobile review.
Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) is the structured improvement of user journeys — pages, forms, messaging, and measurement — to increase the rate at which visitors take valuable actions.
Experimentation
Hypothesis-led testing, measurement design, and learning velocity.
Landing Page Strategy
Message-matched pages that convert search intent into pipeline.
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Deliverable
A usability report that lists every imperfection on a site is a document nobody finishes reading. The output here is a ranked queue, and the ranking method matters more than the findings themselves.
How many people hit the problem, how badly it obstructs them, and how hard it is to fix. A minor irritation on the checkout affects everyone and outranks a serious flaw on a page few visit. Ranking by severity alone — the default in most audits — reliably puts effort in the wrong place.
Each significant finding is tied to a number: the proportion dropping at that step, the share of sessions showing the behaviour, the size of the affected segment. Recommendations without a magnitude attached are opinions, and they lose arguments with engineering roadmaps that have numbers on them.
Analytics show where people leave; recordings show why. Used the other way around — browsing recordings hoping to notice something — the method consumes hours and produces anecdotes. We find the drop first, then watch a sample of the sessions that dropped there.
Contrast that fails, targets too small to hit reliably, forms that cannot be completed by keyboard, and content that breaks at larger text sizes obstruct far more people than the accessibility framing suggests. They appear in the same queue as everything else, ranked the same way, rather than in a separate appendix.
Testing variations of a page with a structural fault produces small differences between two flawed options. The audit's job is to separate the things that should simply be fixed from the things that are genuinely uncertain — and only the second category is worth an experiment.
Most CRO programmes test variations of pages that have fundamental UX problems — solving the wrong question. A UX audit reveals which problems are worth testing solutions to. Skipping audit means experimentation cycles solve marginal issues while load-blocking ones remain unidentified. The audit is the prerequisite, not the alternative.
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Delivery model
We map the technical base, demand signals, market position, and AI-search visibility before writing the plan.
We turn the diagnosis into structured content, clean technical foundations, authority campaigns, and conversion paths.
We measure rank, lead quality, AI mentions, and revenue signals so each month improves the last.
FAQ
Heuristic evaluation is expert-led inspection against established usability principles — fast, cheap, surfaces 70-80% of issues. User testing observes real users completing tasks — slower, more expensive, surfaces issues experts miss (especially around domain knowledge gaps). Heuristic first to fix the obvious problems, then user testing for the residual. Reversing the order wastes budget on observing problems experts could have flagged in hours.
Microsoft Clarity is free and surprisingly capable — adequate for most SMB and mid-market audit needs. Hotjar (paid, mid-market) adds heatmaps and survey integration. FullStory (enterprise) adds detailed event-tracking and React-component awareness. Tool choice matters less than disciplined usage — review sessions weekly for friction patterns, not weekly for activity dashboards.
Score each issue on frequency (% of users affected), severity (% conversion impact), and fix complexity (engineering hours). High-frequency × high-severity × low-complexity issues go first; high-frequency × low-severity get deprioritised below low-frequency × high-severity unless cumulative effect is large. The matrix prevents the common failure of fixing visually obvious issues before economically significant ones.
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Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) is the structured improvement of user journeys — pages, forms, messaging, and measurement — to increase the rate at which visitors take valuable actions.
