"I often see business websites that look fine visually but fail to perform well in terms of speed, usability, or lead generation."
"From a web development perspective: What mistakes do businesses commonly make early on? What should they prioritize instead (performance, scalability, UX, SEO, etc.)? Any lessons learned from real projects?"
"Would love to hear insights from other developers and professionals."
Many business sites emphasize visual design while neglecting performance, usability, and lead generation. Early mistakes include heavy front-end frameworks, unoptimized images and assets, missing performance budgets, weak hosting and caching, poor mobile experience, absent or unclear CTAs, and lack of analytics or A/B testing. Priorities should be loading speed, accessible UX, clear conversion paths, SEO fundamentals, observability, and scalable architecture. Practical measures include image optimization, code-splitting, lazy loading, CDNs, caching strategies, semantic HTML, server-side rendering or static generation where appropriate, and instrumentation for continuous measurement and iteration. Start small, measure results, and iterate toward measurable business outcomes.
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