Church Website Design

Assess and improve your website to reach outsiders

Your church website has enormous potential as part of your outreach strategy to reach into your community. It can be like an enticing ‘shop window’ and virtual doorway to draw people into faith and fellowship. However, many churches do not understand how to design a website that will do this effectively. This self-assessment questionnaire helps you evaluate your site, and creates a detailed free evaluation report with advice to help you consider new ideas or aspects of the site that could perhaps be modified. It will also help you in planning a new website.

3 minutes to get your Free Evaluation Report!

Work through the questions. You may get more benefit if several of you can discuss them together. Though most questions are factual, some require a subjective assessment by an unbiased outsider.
A few questions and answers use technical or missiological words. Hover any word with a dotted underline to see a brief definition, or view our glossary [InternetEvangelismDay.com/glossary] for additional information. If you are a second-language English speaker, double-click on any word for a popup definition (and scroll down that window for translations into other languages.)
Remember, you are not assessing each question on a 1 to 10 scale. If it fulfills the criteria, it receives the number score suggested – these are weighted by relative importance. If it does not fulfill that criteria, sorry, it should get zero – or even where shown, a minus number.

Please don’t be discouraged by your check-list score! It is just a ‘broad-brush’ tool to help you think through important issues that can help your church website develop and be fruitful.

More and disclaimer: Please don’t interpret your score too precisely. The values chosen for each point are suggested by the Internet Evangelism Day team as representing a broad reflection of relative importance. The main purpose is to help you think through important issues on making your church website more fruitful and reach into the community.

We do not want anyone to feel discouraged or condemned in any way by their score, or to perceive this tool as providing negative criticism, but to use it as a positive help in the ongoing development of your church’s web presence.

Note that there may be many other good features that a church website can add, primarily for its members. This page focuses only on elements that will help outsiders.

Be very sensitive to those who have worked hard to create your current website, and always give them due honor and thanks. Conduct any site assessment with them – do not complete it yourself and then present them with a disappointing score!
Answer the questions using the check-boxes, and then press the ‘Get report’ button to view your customized report.
Even if you are a small church with a website of only a few pages, we hope and pray this tool will be useful. Almost all the questions below apply equally to a site of any size. Even small sites can be effective in touching your community.
This tool can be integrated into Christian resource sites. We also invite translations into other languages.
Our parable A Tale of Two Golf Clubs sums up these principles, and we have an 800-word article about this tool available for publication.

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This page offers free advice for UK church website design: learn how to assess, evaluate and improve the design of your UK church website, and make it into an accessible seeker friendly (and user friendly) site that can reach outsiders in the community with the gospel. These advice ideas can be used by many evangelical and free churches, in English-speaking countries: USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Africa, etc. such as Southern Baptist (SBC), Pentecostal including Assemblies of God (AoG, AG A/G), Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, Apostolic, Elim, Foursquare, Reformed, ECUSA, COGIC, United Methodist (UMC), Presbyterian, Anglican, Episcopalian, Nazarene, African Episcopal, Lutheran Missouri Synod, Vineyard, Open Bible Church, Holiness, Discples of Christ, Brethren, Scotland, Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC), EFCA, Free Independent Evangelical, Congregational, Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA), EFC, New Frontiers, Canadian Gospel Churches, Full Gospel, non-denominational, house church, cell churches, and churches in Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Britain, UK, America, Australia, New Zealand, and worldwide. You can also insert this free design tool into your own website using a few lines of easy code.

Your website does not seem to handle frames. This page offers free advice for UK church website design: learn how to assess, evaluate and improve the design of your UK church website, and make it into an accessible seeker friendly (and user friendly) church website design that can reach outsiders in the community with the gospel.

Factor to assess

Score

Explanation

Usability: design, readability and testing

Is most of the homepage ‘above the fold’ i.e. not much more than one screen in height at 1024 x 768 screen resolution, which the majority of people now use? And is it a jumping-off point to the rest of the site, rather than a page that tries to give too much information?

Score 4

Reason: The homepage should be a brief and enticing pointer to other pages, and not give too much information itself. (For instance, a long welcome letter from the pastor is not suited to the homepage.) This is people’s normal web experience and expectation – they will often not read or even notice extra information only visible by scrolling. And every inner page of a website should normally have a single subject and purpose.

Is the overall balance of color, graphics, white-space and text, harmonious and gentle on the eye? (Ask someone with an eye for graphic design to give an honest answer.)

Score 6

Reason: Graphic design and layout can make the same text look readable and interesting, or completely off-putting. Research shows that people make a very quick judgement about a site, largely based on its appearance, and will quickly click away if it does not hold their attention. Incidentally, because a large majority of users have 1024 x 768 resolution, consider making your website ‘fluid’ (i.e flowing into the available screen space) rather than 800 pixels fixed width.

Are there no more than about 10 different link options in the main menu?

Score 3

Reason: Research shows that too many choices will confuse users. You do not need to list every page or category of your church website within the main menu.

Does your website have an entry ‘splash page’, so that the menu options only start on a second page?

Minus 20

Reason: These are intensely irritating to users, and a percentage will never bother to click through. Equally annoying are websites that automatically play music when the visitor arrives at the homepage.

Is your website quick to load, even on a dial-up connection?

Score 4

Reason: Not everyone has broadband. Some graphic-heavy church websites (especially with animated graphics) can be slow even on broadband. ‘Quick’ means: there should be readable text visible within three or four seconds, and most graphics within perhaps six seconds.

Also, do not make the site dependent on browser plug-ins which are not near-universal.

Do you help visitors visiting inner pages of your church website to get a clear sense of “Where am I, where have I been, where can I go?” by placing visual ‘you are here’ clues such as color highlighting or arrow markers on the navigation menu?

Score 8

Reason: This is a key part of website usability. Visitors need to feel in control, and continually sense where they are within the architecture of the website. If they feel lost, they may leave prematurely, never to return. Your navigation menu should appear identically on all your pages – never make people return to the homepage in order to find a new page.

Have you tested the church website in different browsers, using varied font-size settings and screen resolutions, and resolved issues such as text disappearing or obscuring other content, etc?

Score 6

Reason: A site design may looks ideal in one browser or range of settings, yet be irritating or even unusable in a different browser or screen resolution. And never display on a website ‘best viewed with browser X’. The site must be usable in all browsers, and also if possible, for mobile phone web users.

Have you carried out a testing program on site usability, using volunteers who are web users of only moderate experience – and then acted on the weaknesses this found?

Score 8

Reason: Usability testing on websites is rare, but should be universal. The webmaster, totally familiar with the church website design, is unable to see the problems and issues that an average user faces. A helpful parallel: the difference between the native of a town who knows every back street, and a visitor struggling to find their way about, perhaps with inadequate street signs. Or what about trying to find a certain type of food in a strange supermarket!

Was it a specific part of the planning brief that the church website be made outsider-friendly to non-Christians, and that their needs be prioritized over those of the members?

Reason: You may recall as a child, that your family perhaps had a code when entertaining visitors: ‘FHB – family hold back’. In other words, family did not demand second helpings at meals till they were sure all the visitors had been satisfied. Family were considerate about not taking the comfortable chairs, bathroom use, and much more. While a church website will contain material that is primarily for members, nevertheless every part should be jargon-free and considerate of non-members.

Yes

Score 15

Minus 15

Have you asked willing people with no church background to visit the website and explain their impressions?

Score 30

Reason: This is really an extension of usability testing – but instead of monitoring how easy it is to move around the site and find specific topics, you are trying to look at your website through a non-Christian’s eyes. What impression are they receiving of the website’s ethos, message, and use of language. What words do they not understand?

Use people of both genders for this testing. Male and female brains really are wired differently – they respond to different issues and notice different things! Because there are more male than female church webmasters, we strongly urge female input into all aspects of church website design and content. And when new people join the fellowship (especially those with a non-church background), find out if the site played a part, and how they feel it could be improved.

If you conduct such a site test with non-Christians, which overall ‘take away’ impression of the website do they report:

Reason: This question is at the heart of church website design and purpose, which is why it scores (or loses) maximum points. Many of the other factors listed on this page contribute towards it. Of course, the fellowship itself must live up to the welcome it offers online!

A majority of churches online unwittingly present themselves on their homepage as primarily a building where they hold meetings, rather than a welcoming community and family who happen to meet somewhere when they are not being an embedded redeeming presence in their wider community.

“This church is about people, and I already feel I am starting to know and like some of them. I feel they will welcome me in an un-pressured way, just as I am, any time I am ready to visit.”

Score 30

“This church only seems to portray itself in terms of a formal program of weekly meetings. It does not tell me anything about the people there. So I am not sure I would be really welcome, and even if I did go, it might be very much on their terms. This site is only for the members, not for outsiders like me.”

Minus 30

Somewhere between the two.

Score 0

Does the website take care to rephrase ‘Christianese’ jargon words and concepts with everyday language, so that non-Christian site visitors can feel at home?

Score 15

Reason: There are several reasons for this. Non-Christian site visitors may have no Christian background, and these terms will be meaningless to them. Alternatively, they may indeed have a previous Christian background, and ‘churchy’ jargon is a part of the baggage that irritates them. Even for Christians, insider jargon tends to lose meaning with time. Fresh neutral language brings back the depth of spiritual reality contained in the words, as a Bible paraphrase will often bring out.

Also, some of your site visitors may be second-language English speakers, or not have high reading skills. Many people receive most of their information through the spoken word, and may rarely read a book.

Does the church website use recommended design principles for visually disabled people?

Score 3

Reason: While this seems desirable, technically it may be harder to implement. Make sure you understand how color-blind people will see your pages. Ensure it is easy to resize text (tip: use CTRL + mousewheel). And learn how a screen-reader program converts text into speech. If possible, download screen-reader software and experience your site the way a visually-disabled person does.

Add ‘alt’ tags to your graphics. (If you want mouseover tooltips giving information about graphics to sighted visitors, use a more detailed ‘title tooltip’ as well.)

Is there a purpose statement displayed on the homepage which, while perhaps good at motivating your members, could be off-putting to some non-Christians because it is all about ‘reaching others for Christ’? Or do other aspects of the site give the impression ‘We are out to convert you’, rather than ‘We are a family of flawed real people, please come and share the journey with us.’

Minus 15

Reason: This has nothing to do with being ashamed of the Gospel, and is all about wise human behavior. If neighbors visit your house, you make friends with them first, you don’t start preaching at them. Very often, ‘less is more’. Similarly, any link to a church’s doctrinal statement is probably not appropriate on the homepage. And, if you have one – call it ‘What we believe’, not the cold and formal ‘doctrinal statement’.

Does all text added to your site go through:

a procedure of proof-reading for typos, spelling, grammar, and to impose a consistent house-style?
a revision process to reduce word-count and improve clarity?

Score 3

Reason: Poor spelling, grammar or punctuation will reduce the credibility of any website (see InternetEvangelismDay.com/style). And all written text should be checked and revised, by someone other than the writer. (Editing is best done using paper printouts.) It is frequently possible to reduce word-count by 25% or more (see InternetEvangelismDay.com/revise). Incidentally, writing for the Web is different to preaching. Websites need the writing style and gifts of a journalist, not a preacher.

Real people, real welcome

If the site has profiles of members of the leadership team, do these only contain spiritual-sounding information, and lack details about their hobbies, families and other interests which make them seem ‘real’ people.

Minus 5

Reason: The pastor’s qualifications and previous appointments may be of interest to some. But most people want real everyday information – things that help us to feel we know them. Cultural heritage tourist locations have discovered this truth also: visitors are not much interested in facts and figures, they want personal stories about specific people who used to live there.

Do you feature profiles (with photos) of a representative range of church members – probably not full testimonies, but rather to demonstrate that the church is a family of normal real people who will welcome newcomers when they visit?

Score 25

Reason: This is infrequently done on church websites, yet is the only way that a site visitor can ‘meet’ some fellowship members, and begin to feel a sense of relationship. After all, If a church site is saying ‘Come and join us’, people need to know who ‘us’ really is! Such profiles should probably not be detailed testimonies, which could be ‘too much, too soon’. Profiles can also include an audio or video clip too.

If some members have personal blogs which are accessible to non-Christians, this is also a valuable way to build relationships, with links back to the church website from these blogs.

Is there a photo of real people on the homepage, more prominent than any picture of the church building?

Score 20

Reason: Church is about people and relationship, not buildings. And one picture tells a thousand words. Many church websites omit this vital element.

Almost all popular magazines and book-covers display faces – because human interest is what we respond to. Note the photo at the head of this page, used for the same reason.

Are there additional pictures of church members within the website?

Score 15

Reason: Ideally, as point 17 highlights, there should be ‘meet some members’ pages on the site. Additionally, there should also be pictures on different pages of people, reinforcing the message that the church is about real people.

Are there photos of the interior of the church building (again with people included), so that potential visitors feel that they ‘know’ the church premises before they visit?

Score 10

Reason: Interior shots will de-mystify and familiarize the building to outsiders.

Within the norms of your culture, does the writing style of the website demonstrate informality and self-deprecating humor?

Score 15

Reason: In many cultures, especially where there is low church attendance or hostile media (increasingly, this means almost everywhere), public perception of Christians is a skewed caricature. Informality and humor are disarming and endearing, and can go some way to correcting this negative image.

We are allowed to use humor! God invented it, and the Bible uses it frequently (see InternetEvangelismDay.com/humor).

Does the overall website offer a specific welcome to different categories of people, such as youth, marrieds with families, different ethnicities, retired people, etc.; and clearly reflect this diversity of membership within the site content?

Score 10

Reason: Be specific, and tell people about any special activities for each group. If the site text is welcoming, yet photos only show people of over 60 or under 25, other groups may feel excluded.

Does the website specifically invite people to a range of activities within the church – not just the Sunday services, which can be a very big hurdle for a non-Christian? And does it also give a specific contact person(s) relating to that activity?

Score 5

Reason: Try to put yourself in an outsider’s shoes. It can be very hard for many people to take the courage to visit a church service for the first time on their own. How difficult might you find it to turn up for the first time to a hobby or sports club, wanting to find out more? It can be much less intimidating to attend a smaller mid-week activity: mums’ and toddlers’ club, pensioners’ coffee morning etc. Highlight these alternate ’ways in’, explaining exactly what happens, and who to contact for more information. This specific contact information can make all the difference, yet is infrequently offered.

Does the church website demonstrate an identification with, and interest in, the wider local community?

Score 5

Reason: Commitment to the local area should be obvious within editorial content, photos and links. Some churches create a page which is a portal to a wide range of ethical secular links for the town or area: entertainment, sports, shopping etc. These can be very effective in drawing people into the website.

Are you using other types of innovative or changing content that will both draw not-yet-Christians to the site, and then encourage them to visit again?

Score 25

Reason: For example, online games are a fun addition to any site, not only for children and teens! There are many free games available to insert into a site.

Pages which relate to felt needs are very strategic. Several studies have shown that in a majority of lasting adult conversions, a personal life problem played a major part in drawing them to faith.

Offering to pray for site visitors’ needs can also be strategic, if you can do this with integrity and appropriate privacy. And there are many other innovative possibilities: try to think outside the box!

Is it easy to find news about upcoming events?

Score 10

Reason: Important activities should not be buried several pages deep. Put clear links to them on the homepage. Top right is particularly eye-catching.

Is there outdated news on the church website which should have been removed?

Minus 10

Reason: Few things look worse than links to ‘forthcoming events’ which were actually two months ago! Check for anything that gives the impression that page material is dated and unchanged. Areas of a site can be easily forgotten.

A warm enticing website is little use if first-time visitors to the church do not actually receive a face-to-face welcome. Have you trained all your church members, and instituted clear strategies, to ensure that every first-time visitor is actually spoken to, welcomed and followed up? (NOT merely asked them from the pulpit to fill in a visitor card.)

Score 20

Reason: It is easy to be so busy talking to our friends in the fellowship, that we forget that the church should be a welcoming family. A recent survey showed that 92% of people who stopped attending church after six weeks said it was because no-one had spoken to them.

Do you offer a newsletter (distributed by email or RSS feed) about church events?

Score 3

Reason: Build relationships through the gentle reminder medium of a newsletter, preferably distributed by both email and RSS. Of course, such news should be user-friendly to outsiders. This may work best as a different newsletter from that for your committed members.

Does the site explain the church’s child safety code of practice, thereby reassuring potential visitors with children?

Score 3

Reason: A transparent and robust child protection policy is a sadly necessary part of modern church life. Reassure people with a clear explanation.

Do you also include a link to a privacy policy (probably in the page footer)?

Score 3

Reason: A privacy policy explains how the church will securely keep information such as email addresses and other personal data. It is a legal requirement for non-profit websites in some countries.

Do you appeal prominently for money for general funds on your homepage, or elsewhere in the site, without explaining that this is only for members?

Minus 10

Reason: It creates a bad impression: “So that’s their main agenda, right”. In any case, casual visitors to a church website are highly unlikely to donate online. However, online giving is becoming increasingly common in some countries, for members.

Don’t tick the box however if you are appealing for money for an outside project (or the mention of money is within a members’ area and obviously only directed to them). That does not have the same negative impact. It’s worth commenting that churches who make a policy of giving away a large share of their funds to mission support or outside projects, do not usually have financial worries.

Are you using a free-hosting service which places adverts on your pages? Or doing other things listed in the ‘Reason’ section?

Minus 30

Reason: Adverts on a church site are a turn-off. If you truly have no budget for a church site, then use a free-page system without adverts eg. pages.google.com. But a website is so strategic to your church, we urge you to pay real money for a better solution! Sites with your own domain name and low-tech content management input (i.e. editing using a browser interface) cost a relatively small monthly rate.

Other things to avoid: ‘web forwarding’ so that individual page URLs are not shown in the browser location bar; using frames for the site design.

Being found by search engines, getting return visits

Is your street address, including state/county/district, postal code, country, and phone number, shown in the footer of the homepage?

Score 10

Reason: Search Engines need this information for ‘local search’. Include the street address in a small font on your homepage footer, or ideally on every page. Of course, this information should also appear on a specific ‘contact us’ page too.

Are your church name, town, and area, also clearly included in ‘title tag’ coding on your home page, and does this title code use the full 70+ characters available for this purpose?

Score 10

Reason: There are probably 1000 ‘New Life Baptist Church’ or ‘Springfield Methodist’ fellowships around the world. A considerable number of churches do not include their town in this title tag, and even when they do, the state/region and country are often missing! Be more specific in your title code! Do not waste space with filler words such as ‘Home page’.

Do inner pages of your website also carry custom ‘title tag’ code that describes each individual page?

Score 3

Reason: A meaningful and comprehensive ‘title tag’ is probably the most important single contribution to a particular page being found using search engines. Take time to learn other ‘search engine optimization’ and promotion options too: InternetEvangelismDay.com/promote

Does each page also have a ‘meta description’ in the page head, giving additional enticing information about that page?

Score 2

Reason: Although some search engines create their own description (the descriptive text that displays in a search result below the first line), others may use the ‘meta description’ if it appears on a page.

Does your site score well on an HTML and CSS validation test?

Score 5

Reason: Although it can be hard to obtain total compliance with validation standards, reasonably valid websites may get higher search engine rankings, be more likely to function well in a range of browsers, and also help visually-disabled people.

Do you encourage visitors to bookmark the website?

Score 2

Reason: Busy people do not tend to do things unless reminded! You can use a one-click script (as this page uses). A ‘favicon’ graphic will also make your bookmark more noticeable. Also encourage people to use one-click social bookmarking systems such as Del.ici.us and Facebook – you can offer a automatic one-click option for these.

Are most main pages no more than two levels deep within the site (i.e. two clicks from the home-page), with all links as normal text hyperlinks, and is every main page listed on a sitemap?

Score 2

Reason: Pages should be easy to find, both for site visitors to view, and search engines to list. Some people (especially visually disabled) prefer to get an overview of a site using a sitemap (i.e. a list of all the main pages in the site). Search engines also find it easier to list all a site’s pages by following links in a sitemap. A second XML sitemap purely for search engines is recommended. A ‘search this site’ option is a valuable addition too.

Have you submitted the church site address (URL) to the main international search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live), secular national and local lists and directories, and Christian find-a-church directories? In some countries, you can include your URL alongside your telephone book listing. It is also very important to get your site listed with Google ‘Local Search’. Your denomination is likely to have a church listing system too.

Score 5

Reason: Although some search engines may find you automatically, normally a manual submission is necessary. Also find other suitable sites within your country to submit your site. Your local online newspaper may also accept paid-for adverts. The more incoming links to the site, the better your page ranking. Your aim is for the church website to be in the top 10 on a Google search for 'church yourtown'.

Do you analyze your website visitor statistics?

Score 5

Reason: Your site’s hosting company should provide you with detailed statistics online, or offer you a daily/weekly download of ‘raw statistics’ which you can process using your own software. These statistics will include:

keyword searches used to find pages, and referring sites
landing pages, leaving pages
geographical location of visitors – right down to town level
specific page-to-page pathways taken by visitors through the site

An understanding of how visitors are finding and using your site will help you to improve page title keywords, menu links, site content, and much more. Your site provider may give online statistics, or a raw statistics download which you can process using various stat programs such as statsinsight.com or mach5.com. Alternatively, install the free Google Analytics google.com/analytics – just add a small piece of code on every site page.

Finding and using the physical church building

Is there a clear street map on your website, which prints well?

Score 5

Reason: This may seem obvious, yet many church sites do not include a map. You can use a web-generated map system such as Multimap or GoogleMaps, or ask a map-maker to draw a clear map for you. It should be easy to print.

Do you give clear information about public transport links, road access, and parking?

Score 5

Reason: Make it clear for people, giving bus routes and times, parking options, and other issues. These should be easy to print.

Do you explain what facilities are available to people with disability?

Score 5

Reason: Those with a disability need to know what is available: wheelchair access, toilets, ramps, hearing aid loop system, etc.

Do you provide some information to a first-time visitor, that will answer fears such as “Is there a dress code?”, “Will I have to do anything?”, “Why do you sing songs? What if I don’t know the words?” “What about bringing children?” “How long does the service last?”

Score 5

Reason: An unchurched person visiting a church for the first time has to face huge hurdles of fear or potential embarrassment. Try to imagine yourself in a new social situation in a foreign country!

Some church sites include information suggested in these four points, within a ‘new to our church?’ or ‘what to expect’ page.

Responding to inquiries

Are ‘contact us’ options easy to find: phone (with office times), postal address, and email?

Score 7

Reason: Make it easy for people! Incidentally, offering a ‘contact form’ (rather than displaying an email address online) will stop ‘spambots’ from ‘harvesting’ your email addresses in order to send spam.

Does someone normally reply to all incoming emails within one working day?

Score 7

Reason: This is an area in which many churches fail. Many people report the experience of emailing a church and NEVER hearing back. If you can’t respond to emails quickly, maybe you should not offer email links on your website!

Can the church team respond adequately to email requests for counsel and advice from outsiders – perhaps with a team of trained members able to respond to such inquiries?

Score 5

Reason: A good website will often lead to such inquiries for help, some from outside your area. View it as part of the church’s wider ministry and plan for it.

Wider strategy and integration

Is the church website integrated into your overall church outreach strategy?

Score 10

Reason: The church site is very much the ‘public face’ or ‘shop window’ of the church to the community, not an optional add-on.

Do you involve your webmaster/design team in church outreach planning?

Score 10

Reason: The website should not be a ‘poor relation’, or a static unchanging brochure. It has enormous potential as a part of your evangelism.

Is your website URL easy to remember?

Score 3

Reason: Make it easy for people to remember where to find your site. If you are choosing a domain name for the first time, test alternatives on a wide range of people.

Is your website URL printed on your roadside noticeboard, all publications and leaflets, letterheads, press adverts and news releases? Is it also included in email footers of official church emails?

Score 3

Reason: Use every means to remind the public about the site. Incidentally, few churches really make sufficient use of the free exposure that the media can give them: InternetEvangelismDay.com/pressreleases

Do you encourage members to use the website as an evangelism tool to reach others, and provide pre-printed contact cards for this purpose?

Score 5

Reason: Few Christians routinely carry tracts around with them, and in many social situations, it is not appropriate to hand over a tract. But a business card with an invitation to the church and displaying the URL (and perhaps also the church member’s name) is a socially-acceptable means of communication.

There are other types of content we have not asked about, because they are mainly of use to church members. In addition, there is the key question of whether, and how, to include a gospel presentation within a church site. Detailed discussion of this is included in your evaluation report.

Reason: A church website has to straddle three audiences: not-yet-Christian outsiders, Christians looking for a church in a new area, and the members. It is our conviction that it is possible to do this while making the whole site outsider-friendly.

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Less than 70:
Please don’t be disappointed, but make re-purposing a priority

70-150:
Some good foundations, but the site will benefit from a thorough reassessment of style and purpose

150-250:
You are doing well, but analyze the areas that could be improved

over 250:
Great, keep going, constantly looking for ways to make your website more effective

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