Looking for a Roast My Funnel alternative?
Roast My Funnel takes one idea a long way. Your page is read by a large cast of invented buyers, each given a goal, a doubt and a patience level, and their reactions are tallied so the report can say how many of them tripped over the same thing. It reads well and it is sold for a single payment, which is the same shape as ours. The care needed is in that tally. When invented readers agree with each other, what you have measured is the thing that invented them, and the count is a design choice rather than a finding about your customers.
Roast My Funnel 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 | Roast My Funnel ImpressionInvented readers reacting to your page, counted up |
|---|---|---|
| Conversions More of your visitors buy | ||
| Tells you why people are not buying | Measured | Opinion |
| Checks your headline says what you sell | Measured | Opinion |
| Checks your buttons and calls to action | Measured | Opinion |
| Findability More visitors arrive and more of them buy | ||
| Checks the Google basics | Checks | Not checked |
| Links your fixes to your Google traffic | Measured | 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 people with disabilities can use it | Measured | Not checked |
| Trust and brand More visitors trust what they see | ||
| Checks your site looks trustworthy | Checks | Opinion |
| Clarity More of your visitors buy | ||
| Rewrites your words for you | Not checked | Opinion |
| How it works How each tool is run and priced, and what its scores rest on | ||
| Emails you what your fixes did, 30 days on | ||
| Scores measured against what real people said, not an opinion | ||
| Puts your own logo on the report | ||
| One audit, no subscription | ||
| Pricing | $5 per audit, no subscription required | $9 one-off |
Most website audits are one AI's guess. Every score in yours comes from machine-learning models trained on how thousands of real people rated thousands of real web pages, and checked against the standards professionals use for speed, accessibility, readability, and brand. It is the grading a university lab runs, for the price of a coffee.
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 Roast My Funnel
Roast My Funnel is worth buying if what you want is a rehearsal: a wall of reactions from characters with different worries, arriving in one document for a single small payment, with the objections grouped so the repeated ones stand out. The invented readers each carry a stated goal and a stated hesitation, which makes the output far easier to argue with than a flat list of findings, and they will rewrite your headline for you as part of it.
When to choose you x you i
Choose us when you want the reading anchored to people who actually existed. Our thresholds come from ratings real readers gave real pages, so a weak score is a comparison rather than a character study. We also check speed, phones and whether the page can be operated by somebody using a screen reader, and we follow up on what changed. You pay $5 for the audit and nothing after it, so there is no subscription to forget about.
What we check that Roast My Funnel does not
Every one of these is a row in the table above, ticked in our column and blank in theirs.
- Checks your pricing is laid out clearly
- Checks how your pages are laid out
- 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 people with disabilities can use it
- Checks your brand is consistent
- Predicts where visitors look first
- Flags copy that sounds AI-written
- Checks how hard the page is to take in
- Emails you what your fixes did, 30 days on
- Scores measured against what real people said, not an opinion
Roast My Funnel vs you x you i: common questions
Is a count out of thirty-five a survey?
No, and this is the one thing we would want a buyer to understand. The readers are generated, so how many there are is a setting, and their agreement reflects the model that produced them rather than a room full of customers. It is a useful way to organise a critique. It is not evidence about your buyers.
You have reader types too. What is different?
Ours are six, they sit inside a wider audit rather than being the whole of it, and we do not add them up into a figure that looks like a poll. The scores they sit beside are anchored to ratings collected from real people, which is the part doing the work.
They rewrite my copy. Do you?
That row belongs to them and the table above shows it. They hand back a before and an after you can paste straight in. We tell you what is wrong with the line and why it costs you, and leave the writing to you or your writer.
Both of you charge once. So what decides it?
What the judgement rests on, and whether anything checks it later. Connect Search Console to us and you get an estimate at 30, 60 and 90 days of what your changes did to your traffic, with a stated range rather than a shrug.
What is the audit based on?
Our own models, trained on what real people did on real websites: the pages they left, bought from, read, and trusted, plus the web standards for speed, accessibility, readability, and brand. A chatbot learns from text written about websites; these learn from what actually worked. Every fix comes from published research, ranked by the size of its effect.
Can't an AI chatbot tell me the same thing?
For a decision the business rides on, you want judgment that holds still. Ask a chatbot the same question twice and the answer changes, because it is giving you the average of everything it has read, where the loudest voice often wins. Our scores stay put and point at a specific fix, so you can act on one and defend it to whoever signs off.
Why not just paste my website into a chatbot?
Because a chat ends. It answers the question you thought to ask, and then it is over: it does not know what you changed afterwards, it has never seen your traffic, and it will never come back in October to tell you what the edit you made in July was worth. Ours ranks the fixes in the order worth doing, then watches what your search traffic does and emails you the numbers at 30, 60 and 90 days. You still make the changes. Nothing here decides on its own that your homepage needs rewriting.