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Lytms reads any B2B homepage the way a buyer does — then scores it across five things and shows every line that costs the visit. What you’re looking at is a live, public scan.
Scored cold, the way a skeptical buyer reads it. No rounding up.
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Homepage scanposthog.comLive · public
Lytms score
6.0 / 10
What a buyer asks in 5 seconds
"What do I do now?"
The verdict

Your hero sells an AI co-pilot; your pricing page never mentions AI once.

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Lytms found 13 places where the story breaks across five scored areas. The top 3 below — each named, quoted, and answered.
The line costing you the most
What the scan flagged

The primary CTA 'Get started - free' has no supporting microcopy — no 'takes 2 minutes,' no 'no credit card required,' no 'install with one command'...

The page never tells a visitor what happens after they click 'Get started - free.
The fix

Add a single line of microcopy beneath the CTA button: 'No credit card. One terminal command.' This closes the commitment-uncertainty gap without redesigning the hero.

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The page never tells a visitor what happens after they click 'Get started - free.' No friction estimate, no setup preview, no time-to-value signal. For product engineers evaluating three tools simultaneously, 'get started' with no context...

Ship this one line, re-scan, watch the score move. This fix is free; the line-by-line rewrites are on Pro.
How a buyer actually reads it

A buyer runs five checks before they act — in this order. Lose one and they never reach the next.

Not five scoring areas. Five questions, asked in sequence. The page is judged on how many it answers before the visitor gives up.

01
"What is this?"
The hero has to say what the product does in plain words before anything else can land.
Half-answered
02
"Is this for me?"
A visitor needs to see their own situation named, or they assume the page is built for someone else.
Half-answered
03
"Why you, not the tool I already have?"
Without a direct contrast against the obvious alternative, the buyer leaves to comparison-shop and rarely comes back.
Half-answered
04
"Can I believe you?"
Your customer section opens with a disclaimer defending the legitimacy of your own logo strip — before the reader has even seen a name. For a Series-C+ platform competing against Amplitude and Mixpanel, product-aware buyers already know...
Half-answered
05
"What do I do now?"
The page never tells a visitor what happens after they click 'Get started - free.' No friction estimate, no setup preview, no time-to-value signal. For product engineers evaluating three tools simultaneously, 'get started' with no context...
Unanswered
The bigger moves

Beyond the line items. The architecture of the story.

4 structural reads
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Strategic framing

The headline "The new way to build products" claims a category shift without naming what PostHog actually is.

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A product engineer landing from a search for "product analytics" or "feature flags" has no confirmation in the first five seconds that they're in the right place — the headline could describe a no-code builder, an AI coding tool, or a project management platform. The subheadline attempts to recover by listing the old way (manual code, analysis, bug diagnosis, dozens of tools) and positioning PostHog as the co-pilot that replaces all of it, but "co-pilot for you and your AI agents to do it all autonomously" is doing too much work for a single sentence and lands as a claim rather than a category. The move: replace the headline with a direct statement of what PostHog is and who it's for — something that lets a product engineer recognize their situation in the first read, before they have to parse the subheadline to understand the category.

Internal contradiction

The page is fighting itself on what its single strongest claim is.

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The hero leads with AI co-pilot and autonomous product development. The body's longest section argues for a unified data platform — one source of truth, warehouse plus analytics plus CDP. The pricing section argues for cost (usage-based, no sales calls, 98% free). The "Why PostHog?" section argues for transparency and culture. Each of these is a legitimate differentiation angle; none of them is the same angle. A product engineer reading top to bottom encounters four different reasons to choose PostHog and leaves without a clear answer to "what does PostHog own that no one else does." Amplitude owns depth of behavioral analytics. Segment owns data routing. PostHog's actual wedge — the only platform where analytics, warehouse, feature flags, and session replay share the same data model so you never stitch tools together — appears in the body copy but never becomes the organizing claim the whole page argues for. Pick the one thing and make every section a proof point for it.

Absence

The social proof section is doing the opposite of what named proof does.

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"VCs love them. Product engineers love them." is a claim about the type of person who uses PostHog, not evidence that real companies get real results from it. The parenthetical — "Yes they actually use us, no it's not just some random engineer who tried us out 2+ years ago" — is self-aware about the problem (logo soup with no depth) but doesn't solve it; it just flags the problem with a joke. The page has a customer section but no named customer, no quoted outcome, no "Stripe's data team cut their analytics stack from four tools to one" — the kind of specific claim that makes a product engineer think "that's my situation." Move at least two named customers with a one-sentence outcome each above the first feature section; the current social proof placement and format earns no trust.

Page architecture

The "Shameless CTA" section at the bottom — fake urgency, "1 left at this price," "$0 off your first order," the floppy disk joke — is a tonal bet that will land differently depending on who reads it.

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For a developer who's been on the page for four minutes and is already sold, it's a funny closer. For a product engineer who scrolled past three feature sections and still isn't sure what PostHog's core claim is, it reads as the brand avoiding the hard work of making a real case. The risk isn't that the humor is wrong for the audience — PostHog's voice is genuinely developer-native and the irreverence is earned elsewhere — the risk is that the joke section is the last thing a skeptical visitor reads before leaving, and it gives them nothing to hold onto. Move the final CTA surface to a direct restatement of the strongest claim with a clear action; keep the humor inside the page, not as the page's closing argument.

From the scan

3 findings, surfaced. 10 more in the full report.

3 shown
13 across the scan
01Major

The page never tells a visitor what happens after they click 'Get started - free.

From the scan

The primary CTA 'Get started - free' has no supporting microcopy — no 'takes 2 minutes,' no 'no credit card required,' no 'install with one command' adjacent to the button. The terminal install command (npx @posthog/wizard) appears later in the body but never connects back to the CTA.

The fix
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02Notable

The customer proof section talks about logos instead of showing them.

From the scan

Here are some of our paying customers. (Yes they actually use us, no it's not just some random engineer who tried us out 2+ years ago.)

The fix
Read the fix →
03Notable

The page makes a strong claim about urgency ('Tons of companies signed up today') but buries it in a section explicitly labeled 'Shameless CTA' — signaling to the reader that the urgency is a joke.

From the scan

The only urgency language on the page ('Hurry: Tons of companies signed up today. Act now') is self-consciously framed as parody inside the 'Shameless CTA' section. No other section creates a reason to act now versus next week. The free tier has no expiry, no founding-pricing window, no limited-availability framing out

The fix
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Every scan reads all five areas. · here’s what’s under 3 of them
Call to action1 finding here
What we score

Call-to-action clarity, visual weight, offer strength, form friction, CTA-to-page match.

Trust1 finding here
What we score

Proof architecture, named-customer recognition, imagery authenticity, claim-vs-evidence gaps.

Message1 finding here
What we score

Hero value, conversion-killing sentences, cliché density, awareness fit, buyer-language gap, competitive differentiation.

Pro

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Pulse

Catch market shifts the day they happen.

A live feed of what the category is moving toward, with a drafted response for the moves worth responding to.

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Competitors

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Audience

The exact phrases buyers use about the brand.

Mine reviews, transcripts, support, social. Ranked, attributed, matched against the homepage.

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Studio

Every fix routed to a queue, ready to ship.

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Action queue · ready to ship
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