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Business information: what a visitor looks for and cannot find
A way to get in touch, an address, legal notices, a privacy policy. The things that decide whether a visitor trusts you.
- Weight in the score
- 6/100
- checks in this category
- 15
Why it matters
This is where brochure sites lose the most points, and it is the easiest category to fix: it means publishing information you already have. Missing legal notices or a missing privacy policy are also a compliance risk, not merely a lost point.
The checks that run
The list below is the audit's own, generated from its catalogue — it follows the product rather than describing it from memory.
- Contact email address present
- Identifiable physical address
- Explicit call to action present
- General terms and conditions (T&C) accessible
- Trust elements present (reviews, certifications, guarantees)
- Contact or capture form present
- Main title carries a value proposition
- Link to legal notice present
- Phone number present
- "About" page accessible
- Privacy policy accessible
- Social profiles linked from the site
- Cookie consent collection in place
- FAQ or help section present
- A contact method is accessible from the page
Check your site against these
A free scan runs these checks and those of the other 10 categories, and returns the detail of every failure with its fix.
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