I think this thing is just trained to like large hero images. Tried some of the most beautiful sites I know and got scores in the 10s and 20s, presumably from the presence of text.
Then I tried a number of sites with worthless huge hero images and got scores in the 80s.
I mean like all ai, take this with a grain of salt, but I think there is an obvious bias in this to the 'giant hero image that goes all the way to the fold' design that a lot of low effort start-up websites use.
Agreed. I tested two of my personal websites[1][2]. The one with the text-heavy poetry scored 38% with a "meh" comment. The one with the gratuitously oversized banner image got 72% with a "oh yeah!" comment.
It does have an AI running the analysis. I like my poetry website. Maybe the AI was trained on good poetry and reacted poorly to my stuff?
This sounds about right. I got dinged a lot on my website for "Visual Clarity" although imho it's a pretty standard blog page with sidenotes, and the "similar scores" all had a decent amount of text.
Looking at the "similar scores" carousel for higher scores was primarily huge hero images with little text.
I don't find your site's links clear at all by the way. It turns out that emojis are supposed to indicate actions/links, but until that's common you might want to give link text a slightly different color or maybe underline it.
My website's homepage which consists of a 128x128 picture of me, text and a table got 54. I guess the mere presence of a image made the AI like it a bit more.
Hi, Thanks for your feedback you are right. Currently algo evaluate how a user will feel...when they look at your site above the fold...it's like tinder you just look at the pic and decide to swap right or left.. this is based on : Users make lasting judgments about a website’s appeal within a split second. This first impression is influential enough to later affect their opinions of a site’s usability and trustworthiness...of course lot of areas we can improve...hope u enjoyed..
I think your project will not be taken seriously by the target audience if you imply that the AI isnt extremely biased, as any "pretty or not" judgement.
Providing a "what people might like better statistically" service is interesting, claiming you have a "the AI knows how the user will feel" algorithm is not a good strategy
The results under "Here are few websites with similar visual scores as yours" were especially amusing for my site.
I've received a score of 26 and the similar websites were:
- Generic unstyled XML Access Denied document.
- Google account log in page.
- Generic unstyled "Your request has been blocked" text.
- "Please verify you're a human" HTML error message.
- Random JSON error message.
I entered my personal website, https://merely.xyz . That website is served with a single request; perhaps it's been classified as an error page because of that?
I tested https://gildas-lormeau.github.io/ (score 56) which is also a single request website. Almost all the websites with similar visual scores are okay for me.
I also got a 26 for a site I entered. It was a bit confusing because 26 happens to be a fixed point, the site gives you a score (26% of users will like your site) and also ranks you among all the sites people have entered (you scored higher than 26% of all sites entered).
Good ol' metadata strikes again. I wish AWS would make a virtual block device for accessing this content instead of network (at least as an option). Much easier to protect at the OS level.
The v2 service helps with this but it doesn't beat awareness of the issue.
Complete nonsense in the absence of any sense of why a site is designed the way it is. Is it a product brochure? Is it something functional (e.g. a search engine)? Does it target the general public? Or (say) highbrow art appreciators? Or tech geeks? In each case the aesthetic might be deliberately designed to attract/repel according to target audience. There is/can be no generic "attractive".
I'm not very convinced of this AI. I got 96% for http://peppermind.com and only 68% for https://talumriel.de - I'm almost certain that most users would prefer talumriel, and both scores them seem overrated to me. I mean, I really have no clue about design...
Thanks for this really. I looked it and trust me AI has got this completely wrong ..we will include this as exception when we train again.. thanks for trying..
My default Apache 404 page got a 38% of users will like it, 26 points for visually average, 20 for visual and 30 for clarity. After a few different URLs, my fail2ban kicked in, and the site complained about the URL being invalid. Fair enough.
Hilariously my blog (kn100.me) also got 38 percent and the site provides screenshots of other sites with similar scores, which were all 404/500 error pages... I thought my blog looked nice :(
Using my somewhat powerful but also flawed neuro net trained on over 20 years of intensive web usage gives your blog design a thumbs up. One suggestion is adding padding-top: 1em to the "Posts" heading to make it more clearly separated from the quick summary above it and more clearly related to the content below it.
Most of the page contains punctuation errors, even in the title.
Remove the space before the question mark.
In English, it is always an error. There should be no space between a sentence and its ending punctuation, whether that's a period, a question mark, or an exclamation mark. There should also be no space before a colon, semicolon, or comma.
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Input: https://www.wikipedia.org/ Output: 38% of users are expected to like your site
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Then I tried a number of sites with worthless huge hero images and got scores in the 80s.
I mean like all ai, take this with a grain of salt, but I think there is an obvious bias in this to the 'giant hero image that goes all the way to the fold' design that a lot of low effort start-up websites use.
It does have an AI running the analysis. I like my poetry website. Maybe the AI was trained on good poetry and reacted poorly to my stuff?
[1] - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/
[2] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/
Looking at the "similar scores" carousel for higher scores was primarily huge hero images with little text.
https://myraah.io/index.php/visualmind/report/aHR0cDovL2pzen...
[1] https://rassohilber.com
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Providing a "what people might like better statistically" service is interesting, claiming you have a "the AI knows how the user will feel" algorithm is not a good strategy
I've received a score of 26 and the similar websites were:
- Generic unstyled XML Access Denied document.
- Google account log in page.
- Generic unstyled "Your request has been blocked" text.
- "Please verify you're a human" HTML error message.
- Random JSON error message.
I entered my personal website, https://merely.xyz . That website is served with a single request; perhaps it's been classified as an error page because of that?
Visual Mind summary report for http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data
38% of users are expected to like your site
Yup. That's a security hole:
http://13.232.106.1/thumbs/visualmind/aHR0cDovLzE2OS4yNTQuMT...
https://myraah.io/index.php/visualmind/report/aHR0cDovL2F3c2...
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The v2 service helps with this but it doesn't beat awareness of the issue.
Remove the space before the question mark.
In English, it is always an error. There should be no space between a sentence and its ending punctuation, whether that's a period, a question mark, or an exclamation mark. There should also be no space before a colon, semicolon, or comma.