How to tell if your website is costing you work
A website can look perfectly fine and still be losing you jobs every week. Here is how to find out, without paying anyone.
Ten minutes, on your phone.
1. Time it
Open your website on your phone, on mobile data, not on the wifi. Count how long until you can read something.
Over three seconds and you are losing people. They are not waiting. They are going back to the search results and ringing whoever loads first.
2. Search for yourself
Type your trade and your town into Google. Not your business name, that always works.
If you are not on the first page, ask yourself what somebody who has never heard of you would find instead. That is your competition, and right now they are getting the call.
3. Send yourself a message
Fill in your own contact form and send it. Then go and check the inbox it is supposed to land in.
This one catches people out constantly. Forms break quietly. They keep saying thanks for your message and keep sending it nowhere, and every person who used it thinks you ignored them.
4. Try to ring yourself
On your phone, find your own number on your own website and tap it.
If it does not dial, or you had to scroll to find it, fix that before anything else. Most of the people on your site are trying to contact you, not read about you.
5. Check the year
Look at the footer, the last blog post, the newest photo.
If it says 2019, that is what a customer sees. It reads exactly like a dark shop window.
What to do with the answers
If everything passed, your site is doing its job and you do not need us. At least not for your current website. If you are thinking about a booking system, automations, or anything else that would take work off your plate, tell us what you have in mind and we will tell you how we can help.
If two or three failed, that is where the lost work is going. You can fix most of it yourself. Get the phone number visible, test the form, put up recent photos.
If it is slow and invisible, that is not a fix, that is a rebuild.
Or we'll do the checking
Send us your domain and we will run through all of this and tell you what we find. Free, and nothing attached either way.
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