Looking for a Maze alternative?
Maze is built for product teams: you bring a prototype, you recruit people, you write the tasks, and a few weeks later you have an answer. If you are running a website, you have none of those things. You have a live site, traffic that is not converting, and a question you needed answered last week. We read the site you already have and tell you what to fix first.
Maze and you x you i, side by side
| Feature | you x you i ResearchPublished research and standards, your real page, and your real search data | Maze Real dataTasks run with real people you recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Conversions More of your visitors buy | ||
| Tells you why people are not buying | Measured | Not checked |
| Checks your headline says what you sell | Measured | Not checked |
| Checks your buttons and calls to action | Measured | Not checked |
| Checks your pricing is laid out clearly | Measured | Not checked |
| Checks how your pages are laid out | Measured | ChecksNeeds participants |
| Tests with people you recruit | Not checked | Measured |
| Findability More visitors arrive and more of them buy | ||
| Checks the Google basics | Checks | Not checked |
| Checks AI can read and quote your pages | Checks | Not checked |
| Technical health More visitors arrive, more of them buy and more people can use your site | ||
| Checks how fast your pages load | Measured | Not checked |
| Checks it works on phones | Checks | Not checked |
| Checks people with disabilities can use it | Measured | Not checked |
| Trust and brand More visitors trust what they see | ||
| Checks your site looks trustworthy | Checks | Not checked |
| Checks your brand is consistent | Measured | Not checked |
| Predicts where visitors look first | Measured | Not checked |
| Clarity More of your visitors buy | ||
| Checks how hard the page is to take in | Checks | Not checked |
| How it works How each tool is run and priced, and what its scores rest on | ||
| Results in minutes, no traffic needed | ||
| Tells you what to fix, in order | Manual | |
| One audit, no subscription | ||
| Pricing | $5 per audit, no subscription required | Free plan, then custom pricing |
The scoring behind your audit is state of the art: more than a dozen machine-learning models, several built on research published in the last two years, benchmarked on held-out data and calibrated to how thousands of real people rated thousands of real web pages. No other audit at this price grades a site this way.
Grounded in research and web standards
- WCAG 2.2 accessibility standard
- Google Core Web Vitals performance standard
- Usability research usability principles
- Web-credibility research trust
- Eye-tracking research visual attention
- Readability research clarity
- Colour science brand consistency
When to choose Maze
Choose Maze when you are testing something that does not exist yet. If you have a redesign in Figma and you want to know whether people can find the checkout before you pay a developer to build it, that is exactly what Maze is for, and no audit of your current site will answer it. Teams shipping new flows should test them with real people first.
When to choose you x you i
Choose us when the site is live and the question is why it is not selling. No study to design, nobody to recruit, nothing to build: paste the URL and read the report. It costs $5 once, with no subscription required and no seats to buy, so it does not get more expensive because a second person wants to look at it.
What we check that Maze does not
Every one of these is a row in the table above, ticked in our column and blank in theirs.
- Tells you why people are not buying
- Checks your headline says what you sell
- Checks your buttons and calls to action
- Checks your pricing is laid out clearly
- Checks the Google basics
- Checks AI can read and quote your pages
- Connects to Google Search Console
- Shows which searches moved after your audit
- Links your fixes to your Google traffic
- Shows what AI answers cost you in clicks
- Compares your clicks with last year
- Tracks your score against your Google traffic
- Checks how fast your pages load
- Checks it works on phones
- Checks people with disabilities can use it
- Checks your site looks trustworthy
- Checks your brand is consistent
- Predicts where visitors look first
- Checks your writing reads clearly
- Flags copy that sounds AI-written
- Checks how hard the page is to take in
- Results in minutes, no traffic needed
- Emails you what your fixes did, 30 days on
- Scores measured against what real people said, not an opinion
- One audit, no subscription
Maze vs you x you i: common questions
Do I need to recruit anyone?
No. There is nobody to find, no incentives to pay, and no tasks to write. We read your live site directly, so the only thing you provide is the URL.
Can you test a design that is not built yet?
No, and that is a genuine reason to use Maze. We audit a live page. If your site exists, we can read it; if it is still a mockup, test it with people first.
How long does it take?
Minutes. A study run with recruited people takes weeks to design, field and analyse, which is the right investment before a rebuild and far too slow when sales dropped this month.
What does it cost?
One audit, $5, no subscription required and no seats. Maze runs a free plan and quotes you for anything past it.
What is the audit based on?
Our own machine-learning models, each tuned on hundreds of real business pages and checked against the web standards professionals use for speed, accessibility, readability, and brand. Where a single-purpose tool checks one slice of your site, every score here comes from published research and is ranked by what actually moves visitors.