An insightful set of reasons seekers and others searching for Christian witness on the web may be well turned away by your church/parish website. The articles lessons apply across the board. If they can’t stand a quick visit to your sight to learn more, they are not going to show up in the pews.

From Econsultancy: 25 reasons why I’ll leave your website in 10 seconds

What makes people press the back button, shortly after visiting your website? Why do they bail out so quickly? And what can you do about it?

I’ve been thinking about this and realised that there are many more negative factors than I’d originally anticipated.

Taken at individual level some of these factors might not be enough to make visitors back out, but when combined together they may give off entirely the wrong impression.

It’s not easy to create a beautiful, brilliant user experience, and the reality is that most sites have issues of one kind or another. But keep an eye open for the following – often avoidable – negative factors and try to eliminate them, to create a stickier website for users…