What is a self-improving website service?

The three things it has to do

Something that only produces a report is an audit. Something that only makes changes is a liability. To be worth paying for, it has to do all three:

1. Look at the real numbers. Not a score out of a hundred from a testing tool, but what people actually searched for, what they clicked, how fast your pages really load for real visitors, and what is quietly broken.
2. Actually change things. Make the improvement to the real website, one change at a time, each one recorded and each one undoable on its own.
3. Check whether it worked. Wait a set period, then compare against pages that were deliberately left alone.

Skip that third step and you have something that generates activity and calls it progress. Most of this industry skips the third step.

How it differs from the usual website audit

The usual audit produces a long list of problems and hands it to you. But the list was never the hard part. The hard part is the six weeks between getting the list and someone finding time to do anything about it.

A service like this removes that gap for the jobs where nobody’s judgement is needed, and deliberately keeps it for the ones where your judgement is the whole point.

The limits are the product

Anything can rewrite a page heading these days. What actually matters is everything built around it: a published list of what it is allowed to change, an automatic check that rejects a bad change before it can go live, the ability to put any change back in seconds, a written prediction for every change so the result can be judged honestly afterwards, and a group of pages left untouched so you can see what difference it really made.