Pendo.io is a product engagement platform with features for in-app analytics, surveys and feedback, and guidance.
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Siteimprove
Score 9.5 out of 10
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The Siteimprove platform offers tools used to create digital experiences optimized for quality, accessibility, analytics, and SEO. Sitemprove offers content insights and recommendations in a prioritized list to improve the impact of changes. It is available through three solution packages (Inclusivity, Content Experience, and Marketing Performance).
I don't think Pendo.io will be able to 100% replace our onboarding workflow, but for our new users from existing customers, we are launching onboarding guides to help that segment of new users receive more on-demand, self-service training. It is a little tricky to still figure out segments based on our app's ability to have custom user roles, and it would be great to be able to create segments based on whether a user's page has a specific button appear rather than tracking their clicks, since that will inevitably leave some users out of the segment.
Siteimprove works well for managing the health and performance of your customer-facing sites in terms of performance, digital experience, and accessibility. It also helps to define policies to proactively avoid experience breaks or issues for customers before they occur. It can improve by providing more options to configure policies for large sites with thousands of pages.
Creating solutions that you actually need and want to use - no fluff.
Enabling you to adopt those solutions by providing resources and a community for continual learning and improvement.
Everyone at Pendo.io is a rockstar - A-List employees throughout the ranks who are all determined to help you succeed. I'm amazed at all the awesome people I've worked with at Pendo. In 5 years I've never had a less-than-stellar interaction with a Pendozer.
User-friendly customisable dashboards, easy to make a dashboard from a template, or create your own, and add in whichever 'widgets' are relevant for what you are looking at
Flagging words to review, allowing users to check and confirm if the word is 'accepted' or is a misspelling
Pendo.io's Customer Support is sometimes lacking both in terms of response time and clarity/usefulness of the responses
Pendo.io's Customer API could use quite a bit of improvement, both in terms of what kind of functionality it allows but also in terms of the documentation available for it
Pendo.io's built in reporting and analysis building capabilities could be improved to allow more customization and options.
Pendo.io in-product communications (Pendo Guides) could be improved, particularly its out-of-the-box capabilities regarding customization of the interactions that they can "trigger" within the platform it is being used for and the types of "flow"/transitions it can support for walkthroughs. We use custom code (which Pendo Guides do support and that's nice) to make certain things work but it would be better to be able to do these things without it.
I don't like that there are different navigation paths to go from point A to point B. When I want to navigate to a specific place, I have more than one way to get there, which means I have to make a decision about how I want to there and I'd rather the designer make that design based on what would be most efficient for me.
We have had an excellent experience with Pendo. When we've had questions or concerns, Pendo is very quick to respond and communicate with us. We have experienced top-notch customer support and customer engagement. We have actually modeled some of our implementation and product processes after Pendo's examples.
The design of their product is visually appealing, but I find their dashboard capabilities a tad too rudimentary. I also think their guide designs could benefit from ability to customize it a bit more and align to the look and feel of our brand.
Very intuitive UI that allows for quick building of dashboards across multiple metrics and funnels. Navigating to critical areas of focus after building dashboards is key as well.
They've been great anytime that we have needed help with something. They also have some really great help articles. We're able to figure most things out through their articles, but when we've had to call in they've been very helpful and we haven't had any problems. I'd highly recommend working with them.
I've used support often and it has been responsive, thorough and considerate of our needs. I can get a tech right away, they understand the issue, and work with us to resolve it. Often the problem is with the site we are trying to scan, sometimes it is with their product. I appreciate that they go beyond support into continually helping us implement SiteImprove in more places with 3rd party integration.
The training schedule was well thought out and tailored to meet our needs. Chantelle stayed with us through the whole implementation and made sure that we were good to go.
Pendo.io doesn't try to fit every possible product management feature inside the application, rather it focuses on the user experience and analytics part. And they do that beautifully. Because they are focused on their strength so they are best in that, also their pricing is better than all the other competitors.
We have used or tested other tools that get installed on a computer or that are hosted online, but none of them offer the features that come with Siteimprove. TotalValidator Pro will check your site for accessibility issues, but it is a manual check and there is no historical reporting. I can;t remember the names of the other online solutions, but even if they offered similar features as Siteimprove, they were all very expensive .
It has saved us tons of money on marketing. Instead of having our team spend tons of money on advertising for new products and services, we are able to connect with our customers directly in the product, which essentially is free (aside from paying for Pendo).
It has saved us tons of time by not having to do big reach outs to current customers.
It has helped a ton with churn and onboarding. We can quickly figure out which of our customers are and aren't utilizing certain key components within our software.
