Your website isn't just a digital business card. It's your best salesperson — and if it's broken, it's actively sending customers to your competitor.

You’re busy running your business. You’re not sitting around wondering if your website is working. But here’s the thing: if it isn’t, you’d never know. Customers don’t call to tell you they left your site. They just go somewhere else.

Here are five signs your website is costing you jobs right now.

1. It takes more than 3 seconds to load

Pull up your own website on your phone, on a regular cell connection — not your home Wi-Fi. Count out loud. One. Two. Three.

If the page isn’t fully loaded by three, half your visitors are already gone. Google confirmed this. People don’t wait. They hit back and call the next result.

Speed isn’t a tech problem. It’s a revenue problem.

2. The phone number isn’t clickable on mobile

Go to your site on your phone. Tap your phone number. Does it call you?

If you have to copy and paste a phone number on a phone, something has gone wrong. Most of your visitors are on mobile. A phone number that doesn’t tap-to-call is a lead you didn’t get.

3. It was last updated more than two years ago

When was the last time something on your site changed? If you can’t remember, it’s been too long.

Google notices freshness. More importantly, customers notice. An ”© 2021” in the footer, old service prices, a team photo from three haircuts ago — these details signal: does this business still exist?

4. You have fewer than 10 Google reviews

Your website can be perfect, and it won’t matter if your Google Business Profile looks abandoned. When someone searches for your service in your town, the first thing they see is the map and the reviews.

Three reviews from 2019 won’t win that click.

5. You can’t find yourself when you Google what you do

Search for the service you offer plus your city. “[Your trade] [your town].” Where are you?

If you’re not on page one, you’re effectively invisible to anyone who doesn’t already know your name. And that’s most of your potential customers.

One of these is fixable in an afternoon. All five together require a strategy — and that’s exactly what we’d put together for you in a free Discovery Brief. No pitch. No commitment. Just a clear picture of where you stand and what it would take to fix it.