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Find out why your site looks cheap.

Paste your URL. You get the exact reasons it reads cheap, and the fix for each one, every fix tied to a real design principle. Not vibes. Free instant check, no signup.

Built on a design engine: 161 palettes, 74 font pairings, 99 UX guidelines, and a cited attention canon.

Every fix is tied to a real principle
Lindgaard 50ms first impressionFitts's LawHick's Lawvon Restorff effectWCAG contrast161 palettes74 font pairings99 UX guidelinesAnti-AI-slop gate

No opinions. Each flag cites the rule it breaks. You can check our work.

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Paste your URL. We read it the way a first-time visitor does, in the first 50 milliseconds, and tell you exactly where it loses them.

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It's never one big thing.

It's ten small ones. Spacing that's almost right. A font that's almost right. A hierarchy that makes the eye work too hard. Each one is small. Stacked up, they read cheap. CheapCheck names every one and hands you the fix.

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Graded the way a visitor sees it.

People decide if a site looks credible in about 50 milliseconds (Lindgaard, 2006). CheapCheck reads the same signals: hierarchy, spacing, type, contrast, and hands you a grade with the reasons.

yoursite.com · graded
First-impression grade58 / 100
weak hierarchy3 fontsgood spacing

Fix: drop to one display font. Cites Hick's Law, fewer choices, faster read.

Grounded, not vibes

Every fix cites a principle.

Fitts, Hick, von Restorff, WCAG contrast, and 99 UX guidelines. No opinions. If we flag it, we name the rule it breaks, and an anti-AI-slop gate keeps it from looking generated.

Flagged, with the rule
  • Low text contrast3.9:1 on the hero. WCAG asks 4.5:1.wcag
  • Buttons too smallFitts's Law, 44px min target.fitts
  • AI-slop gradientGeneric hero gradient flagged.gate
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Found signals
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