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What actually makes a business website convert
Route Tech Solutions · 18 June 2026 · 6 min read
Conversion is rarely a button colour problem. It is usually a clarity, speed and evidence problem.
Clarity beats cleverness
A visitor decides whether to keep reading in a few seconds. If the first screen does not say what you do, who it is for and what happens next, everything below it is wasted effort.
Write the headline as a sentence a customer would use, not a phrase an internal team invented.
Speed is a conversion feature
Every additional second before the page becomes usable removes a measurable share of visitors. Performance budgets belong in the brief, not the retrospective.
Evidence over adjectives
Case studies with real numbers, specific process detail and named outcomes outperform superlatives. Show the work rather than describing your standards.