Visual Mind
AI
website visual scoring
SHOW HN2020
111points
171comments
#583of 3,028 in 2020
Top 20%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
12 positive, 45 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 59 critical, out of 122 comments about the project. Thread score -0.39.
Design: 5 for, 12 againstIdea: 1 for, 16 againstExecution: 1 for, 16 againstPerformance: 4 for, 8 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 4 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun idea and a useful extra feedback channel for designers
From 2 comments
My website is a glorified footer and it managed "72% of users are expected to like your site" This is an interesting concept and another way to get feedback besides asking…
thekeele on HNThis is neat, thank you for sharing. I'm using the publii default theme on my website and it ranks quite high. It said to get an even higher ranking I should consider denser…
different_sort on HN
Objections
Scores look arbitrary and mostly driven by large hero images
From 3 comments
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…
donatj on HNIt has a bias and standard score for sites that have large text with images above the fold including it's own site. So https://myraah.io/index.php/visualmind netflix.com…
ajani on HNI dont want to sound like a hater here, but why is it that so many people in this thread claim a 72% score? This whole thing seems to me like it isn't any AI by the common…
lionkor on HN
Results are inconsistent and fail on many sites, including personal sites
From 3 comments
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: -…
merelysounds on HNMy 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,…
heikkilevanto on HNVery cool idea but it just does not seem to work just yet. My blog got 26 which I think looks quite nice (http://granitosaurus.rocks) but some random color rainbow websites score…
wraptile on HN
Accuracy claim of 97% is unexplained and subjective
From 2 comments
The site mentions: > Visual Mind is an AI engine specifically designed for understanding and scoring visual appearance of a website. Visual Mind has analyzed over a million…
niknetniko on HNI dont want to sound like a hater here, but why is it that so many people in this thread claim a 72% score? This whole thing seems to me like it isn't any AI by the common…
lionkor on HN
Tips are generic and not actionable
From 2 comments
“You can improve visual score by using better images and improving site layout to make it little more denser.” These suggestions need to be improved if they are going to be the…
nf__85 on HNI got 84% for my site https://myraah.io/index.php/visualmind/report/aHR0cDovL3BhZ2V3cy5jb20= I usually visit page performance sites to get some tips on things to improve on the…
vicjicama on HN
Security hole: fetches local and internal URLs
From 1 comment
Hrm. Does it really fetch "local" resources? 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…
stevekemp on HN
Requests
Show context such as target audience and purpose
From 2 comments
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…
mikro2nd on HNBeauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. One big missing piece here is context. Attractive to whom? And in what context? My site is all about minimalism -…
andersco on HN
More detailed and actionable design tips
From 2 comments
I got 84% for my site https://myraah.io/index.php/visualmind/report/aHR0cDovL3BhZ2V3cy5jb20= I usually visit page performance sites to get some tips on things to improve on the…
vicjicama on HNI achieved 60 (72% of users will like it) with my side-project[1] which is mostly an artwork, I believe its colorfulness helped the score a lot. I'd love for the algorithm to…
Zealotux on HN
Let users upload own screenshots or rate pages
From 2 comments
@myraahio Given how quickly your site runs, I'm not entirely sure it runs a neural network - seems more like some weighted analysis based on some defined measures on simple…
bArray on HNI gave my website without the login credentials and got 38% for the 401 page. Then I added the credentials and got the same exact percentage. I know the creds worked, because the…
forgotmypw17 on HN
Questions
How is accuracy measured for a subjective score?
From 2 comments
The site mentions: > Visual Mind is an AI engine specifically designed for understanding and scoring visual appearance of a website. Visual Mind has analyzed over a million…
niknetniko on HNI dont want to sound like a hater here, but why is it that so many people in this thread claim a 72% score? This whole thing seems to me like it isn't any AI by the common…
lionkor on HN
What is the training data and how does the algorithm work?
From 2 comments
> Your site is visually VERY GOOD > Your website is better than 72% of millions+ websites analysed by Visual MIND AI for: http://doomlaser.com What's it actually doing under the…
doomlaser on HNHigh scores for my companies website https://thewolf.co.nz Do I wonder how accurate this could be and what the training data is.
godmode2019 on HN
Alternatives named
Page performance sites such as PageSpeed-style tools
From 1 comment
I got 84% for my site https://myraah.io/index.php/visualmind/report/aHR0cDovL3BhZ2V3cy5jb20= I usually visit page performance sites to get some tips on things to improve on the…
vicjicama on HN