Case study · Website + conversion audit · €395 · four days

Stillwater

A physiotherapy clinic with a good reputation, warm photography and a booking path that quietly loses people at eleven at night.

Cover of the Stillwater website and conversion audit
Business
Physiotherapy clinic, Kilkenny
Service
Website + conversion audit
Method
Public evidence only
Fee
€395 fixed

The situation

Someone with a sore knee at eleven at night has already decided they need help. By the time they reach the site they are most of the way to booking. The site's only job is not to lose them.

Right now it asks them to phone during opening hours, fill a nine-field form, or guess what a first visit involves. Each is a small gate, and worried people don't climb gates.

Your site isn't broken. It just asks a worried person for a little more than they'll give.

None of this is a design failing, and the audit says so on page two. The photography is warm, the tone is right, the reviews are genuinely good. The gap is entirely in the last few steps — the distance between a person who wants to book and a person who has booked.

Twelve fixes, ranked by effect — and ten of them free

Ranking is the product. Twelve things anyone could list; the value is in knowing which two to do this week, without me.

  • Booking means phoning, in office hours. The knee that hurts at eleven at night can't ring until nine. High.
  • The phone number isn't tap-to-call on mobile. A person in pain has to memorise it and switch apps. A one-line change. High.
  • "Do I need a GP referral?" goes unanswered. Many people wrongly believe they do. One line near the button fixes it. High.
  • The form asks for referral, history and insurance before anything is confirmed. Nine fields and a two-day wait. Every field is a place to give up. High.
  • No pages for the conditions people actually search. People search "knee pain Kilkenny", not "physiotherapy". Medium.

Then the part they're really paying for

Two pages rewritten, ready to paste. Not notes about tone — the actual words, with the old ones beside them so the argument makes itself.

The home page, first screen

Before — on the site now

Welcome to Stillwater Physiotherapy

We provide a wide range of physiotherapy and rehabilitation services to help you feel your best. Our experienced team is dedicated to your care. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help.

Talks about the clinic, not the visitor. The only action is "contact us", which asks the person to do the work.

After — rewritten

Sore knee, bad back, or an injury that won't settle?

We'll usually see you this week. Chartered physiotherapists in the centre of Kilkenny — no GP referral needed. Book in under a minute, any hour.

Names the problem in the visitor's words, removes the referral worry, and offers one clear tap — day or night.

The booking page — where people give up

Before

Appointment request

Please complete all fields below, including your referral details, full medical history, insurance provider and policy number. A member of our team will respond within 2 working days.

Nine fields and a two-day wait, before anything is confirmed.

After

Book in three taps

Just your name, your number, and when suits you. We'll text back to confirm today — usually within the hour. Everything else we'll sort at your first visit, in the room.

The history didn't vanish. It moved to where it belongs — a physio genuinely needs it, they just don't need it to hold a slot.

The four numbers that change what this document is

Page two carries figures from my own study of fifty-four Irish clinics, with this practice's answer beside each:

  • At least 46% publish no price at all.
  • At least 17% have a booking button that doesn't book.
  • 61% offer no way to book outside opening hours.
  • At least 11% have no findable address.

Three of those say "at least" on purpose. Each clinic was recorded against one primary fault, so the true figures are higher than stated — never lower. Saying "at least 46%" is always safe, and getting that right matters more than the bigger number would.

People argue with opinions. They act on measurements.

And the honest ending

The audit closes by naming what it didn't cover: no patient numbers, no no-show data, no pricing analysis — those need figures only the clinic holds. And where a fix is a build, that's a handoff. The audit tells them what to change, not who should build it.

Then one line, because a ranked list of twelve is still twelve things: if you do only one thing, paste in the rewritten home and booking copy and make the number tap-to-call. An afternoon, free, and it meets people at the exact moment the site currently misses them.

Stillwater Physiotherapy is a fictional clinic, created to show a full website audit. In a live audit every observation links to a dated screenshot, and the rewritten copy is drafted from the clinic's real pages.

Read the document itself

Seven pages: the summary, twelve ranked findings, both rewritten pages in full, and the thirty-day plan in order.

Open the full audit

Sound like your problem?

Fifteen minutes on the phone, then a fixed price in writing the same week. If the real bottleneck turns out to be something I can't help with, I'll say so on that call — free.

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