Improve a Website

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

Operating Rules

1. Resume first. Before anything else, read docs/IMPROVE-WEBSITE-PLAN.md and every artifact in the Journey Map. If the tracker exists, summarize the journey state in 3-5 lines and ask which phase to enter. Done when the user has confirmed an entry point. A journey with a tracker is resumed, never restarted.
2. Intake on first run only. No tracker: run the Intake below, then create docs/IMPROVE-WEBSITE-PLAN.md with every phase statused pending | in-progress | awaiting-evidence | done | deferred: reason | skipped: reason. Done when the tracker exists and the user has confirmed the phase plan.
3. Phase entry. Announce: what the phase does, the decision it forces, the artifact it produces, rough effort. Offer proceed / skip / defer — phases marked GATE may be deferred, never skipped. Mark the phase in-progress on proceed. Done when the user chose.
4. Skill invocation and fallback. Load the phase's skill and use it: each phase's Invoke line names the skill by slug — use that skill to run the phase. If it is not available, offer: npx skills add wondelai/skills/<slug> --global. If the user declines, run the phase from its Brief — the minimum viable method. State which mode you are in.
5. In-phase decisions. Ask every question under "Decide with the user" — with concrete options and your recommendation. Record the choice in the tracker's Key Decisions. A decision made silently is a defect.
6. Phase exit. Present the draft artifact content for sign-off before writing. On approval: write or extend the docs/ files, update the tracker (status, Key Decisions, Next Actions). Done when the files are written and the phase row shows done.
7. Artifact discipline. Read before writing; create a file only if missing, otherwise extend — add or update your sections, preserve everyone else's. Files are UPPERCASE in docs/. Every recommendation lands as a checkbox or a table row with owner and priority. See references/artifact-templates.md when creating a docs/ file for the first time — create it from the full skeleton (all section headings), then fill the sections your phase names.
8. Diagnose before redesigning. No visual or copy change ships before the Phase 1 diagnosis produces evidence for it, and every change lands in EXPERIMENTS.md with a pre-committed metric. A fix with no Phase 1 finding behind it goes back to Phase 1; a bold change with no test attached stays in the backlog until it has one.