| Criteria met | 5 of 8 |
|---|---|
| Time to a working deployment | 5 minutes |
| Prompts used | 1 |
| Cost | $0.00 (free plan; publishing requires a paid plan) |
| Tested on | Oct 21, 2026 |
What passed
| Criterion | Result |
|---|---|
| L1 — Studio name, intro and all three services with prices | Pass |
| L2 — Contact form with name, email and message | Pass |
| L3 — Form submits, or explains visibly why it cannot | Fail |
| L4 — No horizontal scroll at 390 px | Pass |
| L5 — Public URL reachable without login | Fail |
| L6 — Navigation link to the contact section works | Pass |
| L7 — Footer has address and opening hours in place (placeholders allowed) | Pass |
| L8 — No visible placeholder text on the published page | Fail |
What broke
- L5: The site never goes live on the free plan. The public URL shows 'Preview mode — this website isn't live yet', and the dashboard says 'Upgrade now to launch a professional site'.
- L3: The contact form has name, email, treatment and time fields, but submitting produces no confirmation and no error — the visitor cannot tell whether anything was sent.
- L8: The footer shows '+1 234 567 8900' and '[email protected]' as contact details.
Artifacts
Notes
Fastest run of all: five minutes from signup to a generated page, no company data needed, no credit card. The content is good and includes all three prices. Two serious problems: the page cannot be published without a paid plan, so the URL stays in preview mode; and Durable invented four customer testimonials with names and job titles ('Elena M., Valletta resident', 'James T., Architect, Sliema' and so on) that nobody ever wrote. A new site owner who publishes that would be publishing fabricated reviews. The contact details are also placeholders (+1 234 567 8900, [email protected]). Scored against all eight landing criteria after the spec was aligned to the same eight-point scale as the booking tests.
Related answers
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How we test and what we do not measure: methodology. Every builder against this brief: landing-page-v1.
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