Study template: live website usability test
Watch people use the real thing
Set a task on a real, live website and watch how people get on, screen recorded.Paste your live URL and Fiuto builds this test around it, free, in minutes. Any site works, including one you cannot embed.
A preview player for the live website usability test template. It steps through the 4 blocks a respondent meets, resting on the live website test.
How it works
Fiuto runs your full research loop
Paste a URL and Fiuto takes it from there. No research experience needed.
What you will learn
4 blocks, about 5 minutes to answer.
- Whether people can complete a task on a real, live website
- How easy the task felt once they were done
- Where they got stuck navigating the real thing
The study, block by block
In the order a respondent meets them. Every prompt is rewritten around your product when you paste the URL.
Intake form
A few details before the study starts.
your name, email, your role
Instruction
A quick task on a live site
This task runs on a real website and needs a desktop or laptop. You'll be asked to share your screen before you start so we can see how it goes. Nothing else on your screen is recorded.
Live website
Open the site and try to complete the main task you would do there.
On the live site, screen recorded
What were you trying to do, and how did it go?
How easy was it to complete the task? (5-point scale, Very hard to Very easy)
Open text
Where did you get stuck or feel unsure?
Optional
Who it is for
For anyone with a live site and one task in mind: a founder watching a sign-up, a marketer watching a checkout, a product manager watching a settings change. It suits a task that only shows its problems on the real site, in a real browser, with the real data.
For a prototype rather than a live site, the prototype walkthrough and the single-task usability test do the same job. For a task that spans several screens, the recording still catches all of it.
Make it yours
Each method in this study has its own guide: what it measures, what to change, and what to avoid.
Live website test
Read how the live website test works and how to word it for your product. Live website test guide.
Survey questions
Read how the survey questions works and how to word it for your product. Survey questions guide.
Before you launch
The notes the template ships with, from the researcher who wrote it.
- This is desktop-only by design. Respondents will be asked to share their screen before the task starts, so set that expectation in the instruction.
- Use it for any real, already-live site you have the URL for — including a competitor or a live production site you can't embed. The respondent opens it in their own browser.
- Frame the task as a scenario, then let people work at their own pace. The screen recording shows you exactly where the friction was.
What you get back
AI testers run the study first and report what they found, so you see whether the task reads and whether the questions land before a real person opens the link. Then the real responses arrive: every click, rating, and answer per respondent, and Fiuto's reading of them as findings, a readout you can share behind a link, and a deck.
Your data is yours: results as JSON or CSV through a per-study token, or over MCP from the coding agent you build in.
Frequently asked questions
01How long does the live website usability test take to answer?
About 5 minutes. 4 blocks: the intake, the task or the questions, and the follow-ups. Fiuto shows the estimate to respondents on the study's first screen.
02Can I change the blocks?
Yes, every one. Fiuto rewrites the template around your product when you paste the URL, and you can edit any prompt, add a block, remove one, or change the order before you launch. Save the result as your own template to reuse it.
03Who answers it?
AI testers first, so you see what the study finds before anyone real does. Then real people: recruited from a global panel of 300,000+ participants powered by Prolific, with demographic filters, or your own users when you share the link. Respondents open the link and answer, no account needed.
04Is this template free?
Yes. Every template and every block type is on every plan, including Free. The free plan includes 1 live study a month, 10 responses per study, and 600 AI credits a month. No card, no time limit.