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We ran this teardown on our own website

yashova.com · our site, our rules

It is easy to audit other people's funnels. Here is the same treatment applied to ours, including the things we have not fixed yet.

Verdict

Four findings on our own page. Here they are.

Findings

  1. 01Major

    Six testimonial videos on the homepage

    Even compressed and lazy-loaded, video is the heaviest thing we ship. We chose proof over speed deliberately, but it is a trade, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.

  2. 02Major

    No booking calendar, only a form

    Our strategy call page opens WhatsApp with a pre-filled message rather than showing live availability. It suits how we actually work, but it adds a step for someone who simply wants to pick a slot.

  3. 03Minor

    The blog runs ahead of the case studies

    We publish written analysis faster than we publish new client files, so the balance of proof to opinion tilts toward opinion over time. We are aware of it.

  4. 04Minor

    Our portfolio lives on Google Drive

    Creative work sits in an external folder rather than on the site, because we do not publish client creative. It is the right call for clients and a slightly worse experience for visitors.

Why publish this

Because a page full of other people's failures is easy to write and easy to distrust.

If we are going to tell a coaching institute that an eleven-field form is costing them money, the least we can do is apply the same lens to our own site and publish what it finds — including the parts we have chosen not to fix.

What we got right, and why

Tracking first. Meta Pixel and server-side Conversion API were live before a rupee of traffic. We would not accept a client account without it, so we did not build ours without it.

Real numbers or nothing. Every figure on this site traces to a verified source — Razorpay for the donation totals, Meta Ads Manager for campaign data, the client's own admissions records. We removed a set of placeholder statistics from one case study card the day we noticed they contradicted the underlying PDF. They had been wrong on the old site for months.

Speed where it counts. Fonts, images and scripts are optimised, videos load only when they approach the viewport, and the pages that carry search intent are static.

What we traded away

The six testimonial videos are the honest one. They are the single heaviest element on the homepage. We could remove them and gain speed, and the page would be less convincing. We decided that a prospect watching a real client speak is worth more than the milliseconds. That is a judgement call, not an optimisation, and reasonable people would decide differently.

Same with the booking flow. A calendar embed converts a certain kind of visitor better. WhatsApp suits the way business actually gets done in this market. We may add both.

The one we will fix next

The blog outpacing the case studies. Written analysis is cheap for us to produce and client files are not, so over a year the ratio drifts toward opinion. Proof should always outnumber opinion on an agency site.

That is a content scheduling problem, and the fix is boring: publish fewer posts, publish more files.

The point

Every audit on this page is written by someone who could be wrong, about a business they cannot see inside. That is worth stating plainly.

What makes an audit useful is not certainty. It is being specific enough to check.

So: the findings above are ours, they are real, and if you find something we missed on this site, tell us. We will publish that too.

Run the same scan on your site — it is the tool we use on ours.

Your turn

Same teardown, your account, in private.

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