Kept by incident.synthetic@web-summit.dinis, 2026-11-11, 10:09 UTC
Synthetic visitors, run 3: /welcome/ after envoy@'s 4addc33 and designer@'s round 49
The four people below are invented. This is not user research. Never quote them as real readers. These are the same four personas as runs 1 and 2. Each arrived fresh at /welcome/ and then looked at the front page. Walked between 10:07 and 10:12 UTC on 11 November 2026, on v0.1.810 to v0.1.813, with Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control on. The pixel and click measurements are real. The words are the sub-agents'.
| Persona (invented) | Run 1 (/) | Run 2 | Run 3 | What changed | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visitor, phone 390 × 664 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Finds the Web Summit decision in about 9 s, with no scroll and no tap | visitor |
| Journalist | 3 | 4 | 4 | Gets the news on the first screen. Still nobody to call | journalist |
| Newsroom executive | 2 | 3 | 3 | The human-review sentence works. Still no reuse offer, and cost is in tokens | exec |
| Investor | 2 | 3 | 3 | First screen shows a real decision. No link to the company or pack, no "what next" | investor |
The conductor's question: does the visitor find the summit decision in 10 seconds?
Yes, just. On a 390 × 664 phone, the decision box starts at 401 px and the sentence "Web Summit called off Day 2…" is at about 411 px: inside the first screen, reached in about 9 s. It sits under the H1 and a 4-line paragraph about the agents (to 364 px), in a muted box that reads like a footnote. On the front page / it is unchanged at 1,593 px (screen 3).
Fixed since run 2
- The decision is now on /welcome/ (envoy@).
- "About" opens /welcome/. The breadcrumb and data-room sub-bar are gone, and the H1 moved from 211 to 132 px (designer@).
- "How it is made" (1,619 px) now says a page goes live once the automated gate has checked it, without a person reading it first, and that a person sends every message. The run-2 contradiction is gone.
- The "22 minutes" tile now says what it measures.
- /agents/ now opens with a paragraph for outsiders, and "What Dinis can unblock" moved from 295 px down to about 4,400 px.
- /help/cite.html now gives Apache-2.0 for data and code.
- The header's "LIVE" is now "Updated N min ago".
Ranked findings, run 3
- Blocking (journalist), three runs running: there is still no press contact. The routes are "Tell us what is wrong" (2,564 px), which leads to Contribute (a GitHub issue), and Outreach ("Nobody has been contacted yet"). She gives up after 2 clicks. With Dinis.
- Costly (exec, investor), three runs running: nothing for a newsroom or event that wants to reuse this, and no "what next". /welcome/ has 0 links to web-summit.sgit.ai, and /investors/ still never names Storm Charles. Cost is still only in tokens. Change: a "Could this work for your newsroom or event?" section after "What it is not", with a link to the pack and ROADMAP. With Dinis.
- Costly (journalist, visitor): "A draft for Dinis Cruz: the words are not yet agreed" at 264 px reads as "do not quote". It also casts doubt on the decision box below it. With Dinis.
- Costly (visitor): the decision box reads like a footnote. Change: put it directly under the H1 (~200 px), in body-size type, so it takes about 4 s instead of 9.
- Costly (exec, journalist, visitor): the front page / still gives no clue what the site is, and its decision is on screen 3. The H1 is at about 5,300 px of 5,757. Only the 12 px "New here?" pill says anything, and the Web Summit decision is at 1,593 px on a phone. Change: one line under the warning band: the summit's decision, then "New here? What this site is →" linking to /welcome/.
- Costly (visitor): "are people OK" is still unanswered on /welcome/ and in the first three screens of /. Change: a line from ANEPC when it reports injuries or damage, or "No injury or damage figures from ANEPC in what we have read" (no advice of our own).
- Minor: the agent count still differs: 31 on /welcome/, "about two dozen" on Team, "27 of 31" on Accounts.
- Minor: there is no "Cite this" link on /welcome/ (2 clicks). The tiles have no "About this site" heading. "usually within a minute" doesn't say it is push to served.
- Minor, measured by incident.synthetic@: the nav label "About" is clipped at 1,440 px. The link ends at 1,124 px, but its container clips at 1,103 px, so it reads "Abou". It is fine at 1,366 and 1,920 px. For designer@.
- Held: /agents/ still makes a browser request to api.github.com (gate owner). /accounts/ still opens on the out-of-credit row read at 02:57 UTC (conductor).
Correction to runs 2 and 3: the "walker failed on /entities/organisation/websummit.html" was a fault in our own helper script (SVG links have no innerText), not the site. It is fixed, and the page loads (17,694 px, no outside requests).
Data: findings-run-3.json; the walks are in run-3/<persona>.json.