Benchmarks

What's typically wrong with small business websites.

Most small-business websites share the same handful of technical problems. This page collects the ones we find most often, how common each is, and what each one costs a business - broken down by country, city and industry as the measured set grows.

Most common problem All measured sites

75 %

Server missing some basic security settings

Security headers such as HSTS and a content-security policy are a one-time setup that tells browsers how to handle the site safely. Most website platforms don't turn them on by default, which is why they turn up missing so often.

  • Measured across 67 small-business websites, all currently in Australia
  • Measured on 17 Aug 2026
  • Method Argrow's own technical audit, read from each site's own public pages
  • Privacy floor Groups of fewer than 5 sites are not published

These are our own measurements. Every figure comes from the same technical audit engine Argrow runs on customer sites, read from each website's own public pages - not survey answers, not a vendor's published figures, and nothing estimated.

By country

1 group

Australia is the first country in the measured set. More appear here as sites in other markets are measured and clear the floor.

Methodology

Where these numbers come from.

Our own measurements

Every number here comes from Argrow's own technical audit engine - the same one that audits customer sites - read from each website's own public pages. Nobody was surveyed, no business took part, and nothing is lifted from another vendor's published figures.

A floor before we publish

A group is only published once at least 5 sites in it have been measured. Below that, a single business could be identified from the aggregate, so the group simply isn't shown - no placeholder, no estimate standing in for it.

Dated, and it grows

Every set carries the date it was last measured. As more sites are measured the numbers move, and new countries, cities and industries appear here as each one clears the floor.

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