Free tool
Does your site look abandoned?
Visitors judge in a few seconds whether a site is alive. An old year in the footer or a news section frozen in 2021 is enough to make them doubt your hours, your prices, even whether you're still in business. We look for those signs.
Why it matters
A site that looks abandoned makes visitors doubt everything else: are the hours right? Is the phone number still good? Does the organization still exist? Most of these signs take five minutes to fix.
01
The footer year
Replace it with the current year, or have it calculated automatically. Or remove it: a © with no year is perfectly fine.
02
News and events
No time to post? Better to remove the news section from the home page than leave one frozen for three years. Remove past events, or move them to an archive.
03
Leftovers
COVID notices, Google+ icons, old analytics code: remove what no longer serves any purpose.
Frequently asked questions
Does my site look abandoned?
The tool looks for signs of life on your home page, on the news page and in the RSS feed if there is one: footer year, latest post, past events, outdated code. It gives a grade from A to F.
Why does a site that looks abandoned hurt?
It makes visitors doubt everything else: are the hours right, the phone number too, does the organization still exist? Most of these signs take five minutes to fix.
How do I fix the signs it finds?
Replace the footer year with the current year, or remove it. Remove past events and news frozen for years, as well as leftovers such as COVID notices or Google+ icons.
