Who is SiteTuners?
Before you commit to any agency, it helps to review what they actually offer, how they price it, and where they focus. Here's what we found when we looked at SiteTuners.
SiteTuners is one of the original CRO agencies. Tim Ash founded it in Tampa, wrote "Landing Page Optimization" (the textbook a lot of CRO practitioners learned from), and built the agency around a neuromarketing-influenced approach to conversion. They've worked with 2,100+ clients and claim $1B+ in revenue generated for them. Real lineage. Real CRO chops. Just not contractor-specific.
Recognition: Founded by Tim Ash (author "Landing Page Optimization") · 2,100+ clients · $1B+ in client revenue generated · Featured at Conversion Conference
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Where SiteTuners excels
Neuromarketing-grounded CRO. SiteTuners pulls from cognitive science research — attention, decision fatigue, persuasion frameworks — and applies it to landing pages and funnels. Their methodology was a major influence on how CRO got taught in the late 2000s and early 2010s. So if you're an SMB doing eCommerce or SaaS lead gen and you want CRO from people who've been in the discipline since before it had a name, the credentials are real.
And if you're a ecommerce contractor specifically, that trade depth counts for something. SiteTuners knows the seasonal surges, the buyer hesitations, and the search patterns that generalist agencies miss entirely.
Our take
SiteTuners' methodology is genuinely strong. Neuromarketing principles, persuasion architecture, evidence-based testing — it's the playbook a lot of in-house CRO teams still reference. But the playbook was built primarily on eCommerce and SaaS test data. A "landing page optimization" framework calibrated for a Shopify product page or a SaaS demo signup doesn't automatically translate to a contractor's "schedule a free estimate" page, where the conversion event is a phone call from a homeowner who needs the service this week. Different decision pressure, different cognitive load, different optimal page.
Who typically hires SiteTuners
eCommerce brands, SaaS companies, and lead-generation businesses doing $1M+ in annual revenue who want neuromarketing-grounded CRO from a senior team. Strong fit for SMB with a checkout funnel or a demo-request flow that's underperforming.
Where Fervor differs as a SiteTuners alternative
SiteTuners and Fervor cover overlapping ground — SEO, Google Ads, conversion work — but the shape is different. SiteTuners runs that playbook across many industries. Fervor runs it for contractors only, and ties every channel to the same number: booked jobs per visitor. So if you're pulling 2,000 visits a month and the phone only rings 9 times, we don't argue about whether the problem is traffic or conversion. We diagnose which one is actually leaking and fix that side of the funnel.
(Quick way to tell where your gap is: check your Google Analytics. Under 500 monthly sessions usually means you need more visibility — SEO, GBP, paid search. Over 1,000 and the phone still isn't ringing means the conversion path is leaking. Fervor works on both, contractor-side.)
Revenue per visitor
Your traffic has a dollar value. But most agencies won't calculate it because the number isn't always flattering. We measure what each visitor is actually worth in booked revenue, then rank your fixes by which ones move that number fastest.
The Site Inspection
Before we recommend a single change, we score your site across 6 categories against 64 national contractor brands. You get a Fervor Grade™ and a ranked fix list. No sales call required. And no money changes hands.
Conversion-first design
Booked by Design™ doesn't start with a homepage mockup. It starts with conversion benchmarks from 18 trades we've already scored. So layout decisions, CTA placement, form position, the order your services appear on the page, even which photo goes above the fold — all of it is backed by what actually gets contractors booked.
Where SiteTuners may fall short for contractors
SiteTuners' case studies, methodology, and benchmark data come almost exclusively from eCommerce and SaaS. There's no published contractor or home services practice. So while the underlying CRO discipline transfers, the trade-specific decisions — how a roofer's "free inspection" CTA performs, why HVAC homepages need an emergency-service treatment in summer, what plumbing buyers click first on mobile — aren't in their reference library.
Choosing the right agency for your business
Choose SiteTuners if:
- You need an agency that only works with ecommerce contractors
- You want ecommerce-specific keyword strategy and campaign management
- You value neuromarketing methodology and tim ash's "landing page optimization" lineage — one of the original cro agencies
Choose Fervor if:
- Your site gets traffic but your close rate from web leads sits under 5%
- You want to know exactly which pages are bleeding leads right now
- You need a website rebuilt around revenue per visitor, not just how it looks
- You want a Canada-based agency that works with US and Canadian contractors
One more thing. SiteTuners and Fervor cover overlapping ground. The honest split is shape, not service line: SiteTuners is built for breadth across industries; Fervor is built for depth across contractor trades, with revenue-per-visitor measurement on every account. Some contractors review both options and pick the fit that matches the way their team thinks about marketing.
Questions to review before hiring SiteTuners
Does SiteTuners work with home service contractors?
No published contractor or home services case studies. Their portfolio is eCommerce, SaaS, healthcare, and education. The CRO methodology transfers in principle, but the trade-specific knowledge a contractor needs isn't their specialty.
Who founded SiteTuners?
Tim Ash, who wrote "Landing Page Optimization" — one of the foundational textbooks in the CRO discipline. He chaired the Conversion Conference for years and built the agency around neuromarketing-grounded testing.
What is "neuromarketing" CRO?
Applying cognitive science research — how attention works, how decisions form, how persuasion functions — to website design and testing. Less guess-and-check, more "here's what we know about decision fatigue, here's how it shows up on this page."
How much does SiteTuners cost?
Pricing varies by scope. Audits typically run $5K-$25K. Ongoing testing programs run $5K-$20K/month. They publish more than most CRO agencies, but specific quotes still come from a discovery call.
How does SiteTuners compare to Fervor Studio?
SiteTuners brings deep CRO methodology built on eCommerce and SaaS test data. Fervor runs SEO, Google Ads, and CRO for contractors only, with conversion benchmarks pulled from 18 trades — what works on roofing pages, what works on plumbing pages, what works on HVAC pages, separately. Same CRO discipline; different reference library and a contractor-specific search and paid-search layer on top.
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