# improve-website

Walks a live but underperforming site through eight phases and turns the findings into a ranked backlog of fixes. Each fix ships as a testable experiment.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2300 installs · ★ 2508
- Author: wondelai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/HEAD/improve-website/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/improve-website

## What it does

The skill diagnoses why visitors don't convert, then works through eight phases: conversion, usability, visual hierarchy, typography, message, speed, memorability, error tolerance. The order matters — each phase feeds the next one. At every decision point it asks you a question and records your answer in the tracker.

It doesn't reinvent the methods. It orchestrates eight separate skills: `cro-methodology`, `ux-heuristics`, `refactoring-ui`, `web-typography`, `storybrand-messaging`, `high-perf-browser`, `made-to-stick`, `design-everyday-things`. If one is missing, it offers to install it with `npx skills add wondelai/skills/<slug> --global`; decline and the phase runs from a short brief instead. Output lands in `docs/` as `WEBSITE.md`, `DESIGN.md`, `IMPROVE-WEBSITE-PLAN.md` and related files, so a journey resumes across sessions.

Before phase one you answer an intake: which page, the one action it should drive, what analytics or visitor feedback you have, roughly how much traffic per week. With no real visitor evidence the first phase has nothing to diagnose from, so the skill leans on the qualitative and heuristic phases instead. It suggests skipping the typography phase when body text already sits at 16px, around 66ch, with 1.5-1.7 line height.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill improve-website -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/improve-website/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/improve-website/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill improve-website -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/improve-website/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill improve-website -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/improve-website/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install wondelai/skills improve-website
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/improve-website/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill improve-website -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/wondelai/skills --path improve-website
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/improve-website/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill improve-website -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/HEAD/improve-website/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find out why visitors leave a landing page without converting
- build a prioritized fix backlog with owners
- check whether copy is readable and the page hierarchy is clear
- see whether the page meets green Core Web Vitals
- resume a site audit in a new session without starting over

## Example prompts
- run the improve-website audit on my landing page, start with the conversion diagnosis
- resume improve-website from the phase we stopped at, read docs/IMPROVE-WEBSITE-PLAN.md first
- check typography and readability on the homepage with improve-website

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: improve-website
description: 'Guided journey from a live website that underperforms to a prioritized, evidence-backed backlog of conversion, usability, message, and speed fixes - each shipped as a testable experiment. Orchestrates eight skills phase by phase - cro-methodology, ux-heuristics, refactoring-ui, web-typography, storybrand-messaging, high-perf-browser, made-to-stick, design-everyday-things - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (WEBSITE.md, DESIGN.md, IMPROVE-WEBSITE-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to fix a landing page that isn''t converting, diagnose why visitors leave, audit for clarity and usability, or says ''the homepage feels off but a redesign didn''t help''. No site yet, create-website; converts but needs traffic, grow-website; if the friction is in a product app, not the marketing site, improve-app; if one specific flow leaks, conversion-optimization. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.'
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: wondelai
  version: "1.0.2"
---

# Improve a Website

An interactive, resumable journey that turns a live-but-underperforming website into a ranked backlog of
defensible fixes. Across eight phases it diagnoses why visitors don't convert, then fixes usability,
hierarchy, typography, message, speed, memory, and errors — asking you at each decision point and
recording results in `docs/`. Each change is tied to a reason; the big ones ship as tests.

## Core Principle

**Diagnose, fix, prove: evidence from real visitors decides what changes, and every fix ships as a
testable hypothesis.** Order is deliberate — research first, then usability, look, message, speed,
memory, and error-tolerance, because each phase's output feeds the next.

This skill sequences the phases, asks the decision questions, and records what you decide. The
constituent skills carry the method — invoke them rather than improvising their frameworks.

## Journey Map

| Phase | Skill | Question it answers | Artifact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cro-methodology | Why don't visitors convert, and which fix moves the most money? | Extends docs/METRICS.md, docs/WEBSITE.md, docs/EXPERIMENTS.md — GATE |
| 2 | ux-heuristics | Where do visitors stumble before they weigh the offer? | Extends docs/DESIGN.md, docs/EXPERIMENTS.md |
```
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