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Then it was rebuilt: 40.5 percent. The lesson is not the rebuild. August 29, 2026 ![You're Paying for a Site That Works, Not One That Just Exists](https://flynk.me/images/content/site-that-works.webp) Search for website designers for small business and every result is a portfolio. Nice screenshots, client logos, maybe a testimonial. Not one of them shows a number from after the site went live. This article shows one. Including the bad one. Most websites look finished the day they launch ----------------------------------------------- There are two kinds of small business websites. A site that exists, and a site that works. A site that exists gets handed over, looks good, and goes quiet. The designer moves on. You check it once a month to see if it is still up. Whether it brings in customers is a feeling, not a number. A site that works tells you when it is not working, so somebody can fix it. A lead generating website is not a design style. It is a site with a counter on it. That sounds obvious. Almost nobody sells it. A page that looked fine and was not ----------------------------------- One FLYNK client, a removals company, has a cost calculator page. It was live, it was getting traffic, and it had a working quote form. Anyone looking at it would have said it was fine. The numbers said something else. Between 18 May and 23 July 2026, **110 people opened the quote form on that page. 3 finished it.** A 2.7 percent completion rate. Nothing on the page told you this. No error, no broken button, no complaint. It looked correct. It just quietly lost 107 people who had already decided to ask for a quote. That is what a site that exists looks like from the inside. You only see the 2.7 percent if something is counting. What changed ------------ On 24 July the page was rebuilt. Not one fix, a full pass over conversion, design and search, deployed together: - The calculator tool was made full width on mobile instead of sitting in a narrow card - An explainer section was added right after the calculator, with the calculator's own visuals - Real price example cards were added: move type, real price range, photo - A redundant second "Calculate Cost" button was hidden - The page was brought in line with the homepage design, which the client had felt was off - The title and headings were changed to the term people actually search for No single change gets the credit. The page was rebuilt, and then the counting continued. What happened after ------------------- Between 24 July and 25 August: **74 people opened the quote form. 30 finished it.** 40.5 percent, up from 2.7. Two honest notes on that number, because a sharp reader will ask. **First, it is a rate, not a count, on purpose.** A Google Ads campaign was pointed at that page in the same period and daily visitors went from 13.7 to 40.8. Raw counts would flatter the result. The completion rate does not care how many people arrived; it only asks how many of those who started, finished. ![FLYNK traffic view for the client, last 90 days: visitors rising sharply from late July 2026](/images/content/flynk-traffic-90d.webp) *The client's FLYNK traffic view, last 90 days. The jump from late July is the ads campaign, which is why the article uses a rate, not a count.* **Second, fewer people opened the form after the rebuild** (74 against 110) while far more completed it. The likely reason is in the change list: the redundant button that opened the form from a second place was removed, so accidental opens dropped and the people who did open it meant it. Same conclusion either way: the form now converts the people who reach it. This is where both numbers live. The 90-day goal view holds the whole story in two rows: 167 people opened the quote form, 33 submitted it. Split at 24 July, that is 110 and 3 before, 74 and 30 after. ![FLYNK goal conversions for the client, last 90 days: Quote Modal Opened 167 unique visitors, Quote Form Submitted 33](/images/content/flynk-goal-conversions.webp) *The client's FLYNK goal conversions, last 90 days. Quote Modal Opened 167, Quote Form Submitted 33. Nothing blurred.* The part that actually matters ------------------------------ The rebuild is not the lesson. Any decent designer could have made those changes. The lesson is that somebody could see the 2.7 percent in the first place. The page was counted from the day it launched: how many opened the form, how many finished, where they came from. So when the number was bad, it was a fact on a dashboard, not a suspicion. And when the page was rebuilt, the same counter said whether it worked. [Seven agencies compared](/en/blog/small-business-website-design-packages) in this series, and not one sells you a way to see this about your own site. [What most packages leave out](/en/blog/what-web-design-packages-dont-include) is exactly this: the counter. A designer who hands over a site and disappears is not being lazy. They did the job they sold. They just did not sell you the part that tells you what happened next. That is what "a site that works" means. Not a site that never has a 2.7 percent. A site where the 2.7 percent gets seen, fixed, and measured again. Is my website working is a question you should be able to answer with a number, not a feeling. What to ask a web designer before you hire them ----------------------------------------------- Different from the checklists in the earlier articles. Whether you are hiring a small business web designer or an agency, these three are about after launch. 1. **Six months after launch, how will I know if this is working?** If the answer is "we'll install Google Analytics", ask who reads it. 2. **Can you show me that for a client you already have?** Not a screenshot of a site. A number from after it went live. If they cannot, they are not tracking it. 3. **When a page underperforms, who notices, and what happens next?** The honest answer from most designers is "you'd tell us". That is a site that exists. If you are comparing a specific provider, [the like-for-like comparison with Sunny HQ](/en/blog/sunny-hq-vs-flynk) shows what the counting costs and what it replaces. See a live example ------------------ The 2.7 and the 40.5 are both real, from the same dashboard, one month apart. [Ask us to show you the page and the numbers](#), live, before you decide anything. No sales call needed. --- *Figures from the client's FLYNK dashboard (Plausible goals: quote form opened, quote form submitted), verified 26 August 2026. Before: 18 May to 23 July 2026, 67 days. After: 24 July to 25 August 2026, 33 days. 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