{
  "id": 690073,
  "title": "10 Website Performance and UX Problems That Cost Small Businesses Customers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/10-website-performance-and-ux-problems-that-cost-small-businesses",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-12T18:58:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/alynox/10-website-performance-and-ux-problems-that-cost-small-businesses-customers-4234"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Small business websites often fail not due to a single major bug, but rather a collection of minor issues that accumulate over time. These problems include slow loading hero images, unlabeled form fields, and broken tab orders, all of which may seem insignificant individually but ultimately lead to reduced conversions. Regardless of the industry, a handful of common issues tend to surface repeatedly across Alynox's client rebuilds and audits. Here are ten of the most prevalent, along with practical, low-effort solutions to address them.",
  "summary": "Small business websites rarely fail because of one catastrophic bug. They fail from an accumulation of small, fixable problems — a slow hero image here, an unlabeled form field there, a broken tab order that quietly locks out keyboard users. None of it looks dramatic in a screenshot. All of it adds up to lost conversions. Working across client rebuilds and audits at Alynox, the same handful of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}