DeskGauge

Free check · about two minutes

What is actually wrong with your setup

Seven questions about how you really sit — not how you sit when someone is watching. At the end you get a ranked list of what to change, cheapest and most effective first.

Nothing is sent anywhere.This runs entirely in your browser. No account, no email, no results page we keep. Most people finish it without needing to buy anything, which is the outcome we would prefer.

Question 1 of 7

Close your eyes, face straight ahead, then open them. Where do they land?

Do it now, sitting how you normally sit. Do not correct your posture first — that defeats the point.

Do you work mainly on a laptop screen?

We mean the built-in screen, not a laptop plugged into a monitor.

Sitting upright with your shoulders relaxed, where is the desk relative to your forearms?

Let your arms hang, then raise the forearms to horizontal without lifting your shoulders.

90°
Where are your feet?

Sitting all the way back in the chair, as you would while typing.

Slide two fingers between the front edge of the seat and the back of your knee.

Sit all the way back against the backrest first, or the answer means nothing.

2 fingers
While you type, are your forearms resting on anything?

The desk or the armrests both count. Hovering does not.

noyes
How often do you actually get up?

Honestly. Not how often you mean to.

Why these seven questions

They are the checks our own guides tell you to run, in the order that matters. Screen height and desk height come first because they are the most common faults and the cheapest to correct. Seat depth comes next because nothing else compensates for getting it wrong. Arm support is fourth and badly underrated — each arm weighs about 5% of you, and if the desk is not holding them up your neck is.

What is deliberately not here: lumbar support, headrests, and anything about how "good posture" looks. A fixed lumbar bulge in the wrong place for your spine is worse than none, headrests do nothing unless you recline, and no single position is good for eight hours including the correct one.

Questions people ask

Is this a medical assessment?

No. It checks the geometry of your workstation against ergonomic guidance, nothing more. Numbness, tingling, pain that wakes you at night, or anything that has not improved after changing your setup are reasons to see a clinician rather than to read another website.

Do you store my answers?

No. Everything runs in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no account and no email box to fill in. Reload the page and it is gone.

What if the result says I do not need anything?

Then buy nothing. That is a real result and a fairly common one — several of our guides end the same way. A site that finds a problem for everyone is not diagnosing, it is selling.