June 2025

State of B2B Websites

The annual State of B2B Websites report explores the benchmarks, performance, and challenges of today's B2B websites. This year, we investigated 194 UK websites and shared these insights in our report.
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Performance

B2B Website Performance

How fast and smoothly your website loads plays a big role in how people experience it. For B2B companies, a slow site can frustrate visitors, damage trust, reduce lead generation and push potential clients away.

We analysed 194 B2B websites to see how well they perform. In our report, we share what top-performing websites do well and reveal the main reasons most B2B websites fall short.

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B2B Website Performance Highlights

1 - User Experience

96.3% of websites need improvement to satisfy Google’s standards.

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2 - SEO and Rankings

Only 3% of websites are effectively mobile optimised to Google’s standards.

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3 - Lead Generation

The average B2B website performance score is 65.9. It should be 90 or more

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4 - Mobile Performance

Mobile optimisation is the downfall for effective B2B websites.

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SEO

B2B Search Engine Optimisation Performance

SEO is still one of the most important parts of a strong B2B digital strategy. Unlike paid ads, it builds momentum over time and can bring in steady traffic, better visibility and long-term returns.

But our research shows that most B2B websites are missing the mark on basic SEO best practices, which holds them back from competing effectively in search results.

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Why should I care?

1 - Improved Search Rankings

80% B2B websites have weak backlink profile of DR 30 or lower. 

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2 - Increased Organic Traffic

The average DR for B2B’s are 20. Indicating low SEO competition in the sector.

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3 - Improved Authority

59% B2B websites do not have any sitemaps associated with their websites. 

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4 - Higher Conversion Rates

76% of B2B websites have pages with missing meta descriptions.

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Gavin Burt, the founder of Growthlabs
Gavin Burt - Founder

Benchmarks make us better

"The State of B2B Websites report is our passion project to assess the whole B2B sector using the same data analysis tools we use for clients.

Generating high value enquiries from the website is often the goal of businesses, but the report highlights why many don't succeed in that aim. We can see from this report the clear opportunity to use strategic website investment to outperform your competitors.

That's why we provide free benchmark reports to compare your performance to the sector."
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