The Website Redesign Checklist That Protects Your Sales
Most redesigns make a site prettier and quietly make it sell less. A redesign should protect what's working before it changes anything.
Measure before you touch anything
Record your current conversion rate, top pages, and where visitors drop off. Without a baseline you can't tell whether the new design helped or quietly cost you sales.
Keep what already converts
Identify the pages and elements that bring in customers and protect them. Redesigns go wrong when a cleaner look removes the exact words, proof, or buttons that were doing the selling.
Change in steps you can verify
Roll out changes in stages and compare against the baseline. A big-bang relaunch hides which change helped and which hurt; staged changes let you keep the wins and reverse the misses.
Key takeaways
- Capture a baseline of conversions and drop-off before redesigning.
- Protect the pages and elements that already convert.
- Ship changes in stages you can measure.
- Reverse anything that drops performance, fast.
The bottom line
A redesign should grow sales, not gamble with them. Measure first, protect what works, and change in steps you can prove.
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