What a Bad Website Actually Costs Your Business (It's More Than You Think)
"We have a website" and "our website works" are very different sentences. A bad website doesn't just fail to help — it actively sends buyers to your competitors, with your marketing paying for the trip.
The math nobody does
Say 200 people visit your tired site monthly and leave. If just 5 of them would have enquired on a good site, and you close 2 at an average job of R8,000 — that's R16,000/month walking out. R192,000 a year — against a fix that is once-off, and takes about a day.
How sites go bad
- Age: design trust decays; a 2016-looking site reads as a maybe-closed business.
- Mobile rot: built for desktops in a phone-first country.
- Speed: giant images + cheap hosting = visitors gone before the paint loads.
- Dead ends: broken forms, old numbers, no WhatsApp. The visitor tried. The site failed.
The rescue is cheap now
A rebuild costs from R2,500 once-off and takes about 24 hours. We'll even build the new version first so you can compare it against the old one before paying — worst case, you've lost nothing and learned exactly what better looks like.
Recent work
Every one of these was designed in full before the business paid anything.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I know if my website is costing me customers?
Check three things: does it load in under 3 seconds on a phone, does it look current, and can a visitor contact you in one tap? Failing any of these means visitors are leaving for competitors.