Website Stats · Original research
Bookshops Website Statistics 2026
We ran automated homepage audits on 10 UK bookshops websites — checking page speed, mobile UX, on-page SEO, structured data, contact conversion and more. Here's what we found.
Avg score
47/100
Avg page speed
378ms
Sites analysed
10
Score distribution
Good (80–100)2 sites (20%)
Okay (60–79)2 sites (20%)
Poor (0–59)6 sites (60%)
How many pass the basics
HTTPS enabled90%
Mobile viewport80%
Structured data (schema)40%
Contact form on homepage30%
Open Graph share image40%
Analytics installed60%
Most common mistakes
- No contact form found on homepage70% of sites
- No Open Graph image — links look blank on WhatsApp/Facebook60% of sites
- No structured data (schema.org)60% of sites
- No theme-color meta — plain browser chrome on mobile60% of sites
- No meta description — Google writes its own50% of sites
- No external CSS stylesheet — likely unstyled or WYSIWYG outp50% of sites
- No obvious call-to-action (book, quote, contact) on the home50% of sites
- No custom web fonts — default system fonts feel dated50% of sites
- No analytics detected — flying blind on visitor data40% of sites
- Little to no accessibility markup (aria attributes)40% of sites
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Methodology: automated homepage audits by RIOT London, July 2026.
