Ads scale faster than pages.
A media buyer can ship fifty creatives in an afternoon. The landing page they all point to was written last quarter, by someone who has since moved teams. The gap widens every week the account runs.
// Why this exists
Most paid traffic dies between the click and the answer.
PostClickSignal exists because the largest single lever in paid-ad conversion sits in a place no team owns: the seam between the ad and the landing page. We grade that seam in public, against a published rubric, for free.
Published rubric Public scores Free, no signup
// Thesis
Every click sends a signal. Most landing pages don't answer it. The cost is paid in CPC, in bounce, and in the slow rise of acquisition cost nobody can quite explain.
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The gap is widening.
The same AI that gave a two-person team the throughput of a creative agency did not give them a second pair of eyes for the page the ads point to.
In the last twelve months, the cost of generating an ad creative has effectively gone to zero. The cost of writing a landing page that answers it has not. Tools like Advantage+, Performance Max, and the various ad-copy generators ship dozens of permutations per account per week. The landing page on the other side is still the one human-written artifact in the loop, and it does not regenerate.
The mismatch this produces is mechanical. An ad that promises a fifteen-minute demo points to a page whose hero asks the visitor to "start your free trial." An ad that promises premium points to a page whose top fold is a discount strip. A LinkedIn ad targeting an enterprise buyer drops them into a self-serve flow. Each of these is a separate decision, made by separate people, on separate days, and none of them is wrong on its own. The audit lives between them.
PostClickSignal is the audit between them.
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Why nobody is grading it.
Auditing happens on two screens, separately.
Performance is reviewed inside Ads Manager. Pages are reviewed inside the CMS. The handoff between the two is a tab switch, a vibe check, and a moment of optimism. Nobody scores the seam.
Platform scores are platform metrics.
Quality Score and Ad Strength tell you how the platform feels about the ad. They are silent on whether the page answers the click. They are silent by design: the platform is paid either way.
Agency reports are pitches.
Most public message-match writing is gated PDFs from agencies who want the rebuild contract. The score is generous when the audit is a sales tool. We wrote this rubric because we wanted the audit to be the product.
Four commitments. They are the shape of the product, not features we hope to ship later.
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Public rubric.
Four dimensions, weighted per platform, scored 0 to 10. Posted in full at /methodology. If you disagree with a weight, you can read why it is what it is.
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Public scores.
Every audit gets an indexable URL. Advertisers in the audit library can see exactly where they lost the point and what a 9+ rewrite would look like.
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Public rewrites.
Each report names the specific phrase on the page that hurt the score, and shows the above-the-fold rewrite that would have scored the dimension differently.
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Free, no signup.
A single-ad grade is free, no account, no email gate. A full-account audit is also free; it asks for an email so we can send the PDF when the queue clears. That is the only ask.
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What this site is not.
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Another ad-performance dashboard. Ads Manager already exists. We do not duplicate it.
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A landing-page builder. We grade what is shipped. The rewrite is a diagnostic, not a deployment.
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An AI-creative-generation tool. We measure the gap that AI creative production opens up. We are not in the business of widening it.
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A consultancy with a calendar booking. There is no sales call. The report is the deliverable.
The audit is the product. If we ever build something paid alongside it, we will say so on the report, by name. We will not retroactively gate audits behind a login.
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Who this is for.
Solo founders running their own paid.
You are buying Google and Meta clicks against a landing page you wrote at 11pm. The grader tells you which sentence is leaking spend before you go back in and rewrite it.
In-house performance marketers.
You have a brand designer and a copywriter who do not sit in your standup. The published rubric gives you a shared vocabulary for the meeting where you ask them to change a hero.
Agencies and freelancers.
Every account you inherit has the same problem. A public scorecard is a faster conversation opener than a screenshot deck, and it ages better than a static PDF.
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Who built it.
PostClickSignal is built by the team behind Augmentic, which is dynamic text replacement for modern paid campaigns: a script tag that turns one existing landing page into campaign-specific variants without rebuilding the site. Headlines, CTAs, proof, offers, and selected sections swap by campaign, keyword, source, or audience. Augmentic is the commercial product. This site is the public reference work that sits next to it.
The two are deliberately separable. The grader is useful on its own: you can read the score, copy the rewrite, paste it into your own page, and never touch Augmentic. The audit is the point. If a low score and the suggested rewrite convince you that running one static page across every ad group is the leak, Augmentic is the tool that fixes it without making you rebuild your site. If not, you still have the audit.
// methodology → // audit library →
// Read the rubric, then run a score
The audit is free, and the rubric is on the page above it.
Paste an ad and a landing page URL. Get a four-dimension score, a side-by-side, and a rewrite. Or drop a domain and we will pull and grade every paid ad on your account in 24 hours.