Ever lose traffic because of your sites design?

[Grant]

Have you ever lost traffic from the way your website looked or the way it worked? I ask because I know many sites I refused to go to because they either ran like a mess or looked like one. With that being said, have you ever lose traffic to your site because of the sites design? Or did you always have your sites look down for the most part?

 

[Nomad]

I have experienced traffic loss multiple times but I do not know if it was because of the design or content. By the way, how do you know the traffic loss you are experiencing is because of site design? I do not think there is an exact way to learn why you are losing traffic, however, you can just make assumptions based on your SEO audit.

 

[Good-Person]

Have you ever lost traffic from the way your website looked or the way it worked? I ask because I know many sites I refused to go to because they either ran like a mess or looked like one. With that being said, have you ever lose traffic to your site because of the sites design? Or did you always have your sites look down for the most part?

The design of the website could, indeed, play a very important role. No one may be interested in visiting a website that looks spammy. A website with irrelevant and ugly design and pages may not be that appealing. Your website says a lots of things about your business in general.

 

[Debashis]

The design of the website could, indeed, play a very important role. No one may be interested in visiting a website that looks spammy. A website with irrelevant and ugly design and pages may not be that appealing. Your website says a lots of things about your business in general.

True! The first impression is very critical in turning your guests into registered members. As they say, first impression is the last impression. It still holds good today. I myself have been to many websites and directly closed the tab just because of the way it looked or the way it was organized.

 

[Cory]

How exactly are you supposed to know you lose traffic because of your design unless someone directly gives you feedback about it? I imagine if someone were to disregard a site because of the design they'd view the site and then never return.

 

[Heatman]

Have you ever lost traffic from the way your website looked or the way it worked? I ask because I know many sites I refused to go to because they either ran like a mess or looked like one. With that being said, have you ever lose traffic to your site because of the sites design? Or did you always have your sites look down for the most part?

There's a way your website is going to be designed, it's going to be very difficult for members to make use of it. They would find its navigation a bit of a chore and as a result of that challenge, they are going to stop using the website or only use it when they are ready to suffer to move from one section to another. This will definitely make your website lose traffic.

 

[Ja Sa Bong]

I'm not managing any website now. I don't need to worry about losing traffic with the website design. Long time ago when I had one, I didn't redesign the website because I didn't have any reason to. I never lost traffic until when I didn't have time to manage the website. It's how I lost everything on it.

 

[Heatman]

How exactly are you supposed to know you lose traffic because of your design unless someone directly gives you feedback about it? I imagine if someone were to disregard a site because of the design they'd view the site and then never return.

There's a way to monitor the actual activities and traffic that your website is having every day. After having your website redesigned and you check for those activity and traffic parameters, you will know if it's going up or down. If the new design is something that embraced, there's a possibility of getting more traffic.

 

[Cory]

There's a way to monitor the actual activities and traffic that your website is having every day. After having your website redesigned and you check for those activity and traffic parameters, you will know if it's going up or down. If the new design is something that embraced, there's a possibility of getting more traffic.

That makes sense, but if it's a theme you had from the start of that board, that's a little more tricky to dictate whether you're losing traffic because of it or not.

 

[Heatman]

That makes sense, but if it's a theme you had from the start of that board, that's a little more tricky to dictate whether you're losing traffic because of it or not.

Yeah, that's very correct. I would say that everything depends on how your website members receives the new design. When it's of a positive outcome with them, new visitors will definitely like it too.

 

[Shortie]

To my knowledge and as far as I know, I have not as of yet had anyone mention or seen anything that would tell me that I am losing traffic due to my theme or design of the forum.

I would hope that anyone who was having issues would let me know so I could fix the issue but I am seeing traffic coming through and I am seeing new members who are active as well so I believe, no one has had issues.

 

[Cookie Monster]

The design of the website could, indeed, play a very important role. No one may be interested in visiting a website that looks spammy. A website with irrelevant and ugly design and pages may not be that appealing. Your website says a lots of things about your business in general.

That is true. When the ads on a site is big and are obstructing members from navigating through the website, they may end up not coming right back to the site another time too. This is one of the things a site owner should work on to ensure that visitors to his site are comfortable with the user interface on the site.