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Conversion rate optimisation.

Get more out of the visitors you are already paying for.

Conversion work makes a bigger share of your existing visitors do the thing you want: buy, enquire, book. It is the cheapest growth available to most businesses, because every improvement multiplies across all the traffic you already pay for and keeps paying afterwards. The work is diagnostic first: find where people drop out, understand why, fix the biggest leak, measure honestly. No redesigns for the sake of it, and no claiming credit for changes that were never actually tested.

Someone browsing an online shop on their phone

Where do visitors actually drop out?

You can see it yourself, and it is usually not where people assume.

In analytics, compare how many people reach each step of the journey: landing page, product or service page, basket or enquiry form, completion. The biggest percentage fall between two steps is your leak.

Most businesses guess at this and redesign the homepage. The homepage is rarely the problem.

Is it worth testing, or should I just fix it?

Depends entirely on your traffic, and honesty matters here.

Proper A/B testing needs enough visitors to reach a reliable result, which many small businesses simply do not have. Running a test you cannot statistically read and declaring a winner is theatre.

Below that threshold, the answer is to fix obvious problems using judgement and evidence, then watch the numbers over a longer window. We will tell you which camp you are in on the first call.

Charts comparing page speed with how many visitors leave

What kind of fixes actually move the needle?

The boring ones, mostly.

Page speed. Clearer pricing. Removing form fields nobody needs. Answering the objection that stops people buying. Making the next step obvious on a phone. Showing delivery costs before checkout rather than ambushing people at the end.

Small, unglamorous changes compound. The dramatic redesign usually just moves the problem somewhere new.

[ FAQs ]

Questions people ask us

How much improvement is realistic?
It depends where you are starting from, and anyone promising a specific percentage before looking at your site is selling. A store converting well already has less headroom than one with a broken mobile checkout. What we can promise is that we measure the same way before and after, in your own analytics, so any claimed improvement is something you can verify rather than take on trust. Unverifiable uplift claims are the oldest trick in this corner of the industry.
Do I need lots of traffic for this to be worth doing?
Not necessarily, though it changes the method. High-traffic sites can test properly and read the results statistically. Lower-traffic sites cannot, so the work becomes evidence-led fixing rather than formal testing: heatmaps, session recordings, funnel data and plain common sense about friction. That still works. What does not work is pretending a test on two hundred visitors proved anything, which is a very common way to sound scientific while guessing.
Is this the same as redesigning my website?
No, and confusing the two is expensive. A redesign changes everything at once, which makes it impossible to know what helped and what hurt. Conversion work is targeted: change one meaningful thing, measure, keep it or revert it. Sometimes the diagnosis does point to a rebuild, and if so we will say that plainly. But it should be the conclusion of the evidence, not the opening pitch.

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Find your biggest drop-off, then let's talk

Look at your funnel, find the steepest fall between two steps, and book a free call to work out why.

James, Founder at Descent Digital

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