Conversion Rate Optimization
More of the visitors you already have, calling. A fixed-scope audit of your site's speed, technical health and the places people give up, then the fixes, measured, for businesses across metro Detroit and Michigan.
Talk to usIn short
An audit that finds where your Michigan business's website loses the people who were about to call, the fixes ranked by return, and the change measured rather than promised.
- Measured on a phone over cellular, where your customers are
- Speed as a pass or fail, not a report
- The phone number where a thumb expects it
- One metric, before and after, in writing
Why speed is not a technical detail
A tenth of a second is a customer.
Deloitte measured what a tenth of a second does to a mobile site and found conversions moving by eight to ten percent across every kind of business it studied. Nothing else on a website moves the result that much for that little. And speed is only the first leak: the phone number below the fold, the form that asks nine questions and the page that does not match the ad each cost customers in the same quiet way.
We measure the site on a phone over a cellular connection, because that is where a Michigan customer is standing, find where they give up, fix the leaks in order of what they return, and measure again. The deliverable is the change, written down.
Illustrative. The load times are typical of what we find; the last bar carries no number because the measured change is yours, not ours to publish.
- 8.4%
- more retail conversions from a 0.1 second improvement in mobile site speed
- 8.3%
- lower bounce rate on lead-generation pages from the same tenth of a second
- 10.1%
- more travel conversions, in the same study
Deloitte Digital, Milliseconds Make Millions, a study of mobile sites across retail, travel, luxury and lead generation brands in Europe and the United States, 2020.
In the work
The audit, the fixes, the measurement
The audit report
Speed on a phone over a cellular connection, technical health, what happens when a visitor tries to call or fill in a form, and where they leave. Written in plain terms, with the fixes ranked by what they would return.
Speed, made a requirement
Images compressed to what the page needs, scripts that load after the page rather than before it, hosting that answers fast from Michigan. Core Web Vitals treated as a pass or fail, not a report.
The path to the call
The phone number where a thumb expects it, tap to call, hours next to it, the form cut to the fields you actually need. For most local businesses the conversion is a call, and the page is built to produce one.
Landing pages that match the ad
A visitor from an ad for furnace repair lands on furnace repair, with the offer they clicked on, not on the home page. Every campaign gets a page that keeps the promise.
Tracking that tells the truth
Calls, forms and bookings recorded as conversions with the source attached, so the before and after are measured rather than remembered.
The measured change
One metric, agreed before the work: calls from the site, forms, bookings. Its value before, its value after, and the report that shows both. No percentage is published that was not measured.
Getting there
Measure, find, fix, measure, keep
- 01
Measure
Speed, vitals, the call and form paths, the analytics that exist. A baseline for the one metric that matters to your business.
- 02
Find the leaks
Where visitors give up: the slow hero image, the phone number below the fold, the nine-field form, the page that does not match the ad.
- 03
Fix in order of return
The largest leak first. Often it is one thing, and the audit says so rather than selling a redesign.
- 04
Measure again
The same metric, the same way, a month later. The change is the deliverable.
- 05
Keep it
Speed and tracking drift as a site changes. Quarterly, we run the measurements again and fix what moved.
Fitted work
What comes up here, specifically
The phone is the conversion
For a Michigan trade, practice or professional the site's job is to produce a call, not a checkout. Every measurement here counts calls, and every fix is judged by whether it made one more likely.
The morning the furnace quits
When the temperature drops, every furnace repair site in Oakland County is loaded at once by people who will call the first one that answers. The site has to hold at six in the morning in January, not just at noon in June.
The phone in the truck
Most local traffic in metro Detroit is a phone on a cellular connection, often an older one. The audit is run on that, not on an office machine with fibre, because that is where the customer is.
The click from the map
A visitor who arrived from your Google Business Profile has already decided you are nearby. They want the hours and the number in the first screen, and a page that makes them hunt for either sends them back to the map.
Right time when
When this is worth doing
A good fit
- The site gets visitors and the phone does not ring
- You are paying for ads and cannot say what they produced
- The site is slow on a phone and nobody has measured how slow
- A redesign is being proposed and you are not sure it is needed
Not a fit
- The site has almost no visitors yet, in which case search or the profile comes first
- You want tricks: countdowns, pop-ups that cannot be closed, hidden fees
- The site cannot be changed at all, in which case the report is still useful but the fixes are not
Scope
What we do not do
Tricks
Fake countdowns, hidden unsubscribes, pop-ups that cannot be closed. They convert once and cost the customer. Nothing here is built to trick a visitor into anything.
A redesign disguised as an audit
If the site is fine and one thing is broken, the audit says so. A recommendation to rebuild has to be earned by the measurements, not assumed by the person selling the rebuild.
A guaranteed rate
Conversion depends on the offer, the season and the visitors an ad sends. We measure the change honestly and publish nothing we did not measure.
Reasonable to ask
Before you commission it
What does the audit cover?
Speed on a phone, technical health, Core Web Vitals, the call and form paths, tracking, and where visitors leave. It ends in a written report with the fixes ranked by return, which you can act on with us or with whoever runs your site.
Do we have to rebuild the website?
Usually not. Most sites lose visitors at one or two points, and fixing those is a fraction of a rebuild. The audit says which it is. If the site genuinely cannot be fixed, the report says that too, and the web design page is the next step.
What if our site was built by someone else?
The audit is on the site, not the builder. The fixes can be made by us or handed to whoever maintains it, in a form they can act on.
How is the change measured?
One metric, agreed before the work and tracked the same way before and after: calls from the site, forms submitted, bookings made. A month of each, compared. It is the only honest way to show whether the work did anything.
Is conversion rate optimization the same as search engine optimization?
No. Search brings visitors to the site; this turns more of the visitors already there into calls. They are usually done in that order, and this one often pays for itself faster because the visitors already exist.
Start with the audit.
A paid, fixed-scope look at the site on a phone, the call and form paths, and where visitors leave. It ends in a written report ranked by return. The fee is quoted on the call, and if one fix would do it, the report will say so.
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