--- title: "Small Business Website Upkeep: 11.5% of Domain Names Are Due to Expire Within 60 Days - Suff Digital" url: https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/small-business-website-upkeep description: "We turn websites into predictable revenue engines. Web design and SEO that drives revenue, not clicks. Nashville-based, senior US team." lang: en --- Small Business Website Upkeep: 11.5% of Domain Names Are Due to Expire Within 60 Days (https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/small-business-website-upkeep) 11.5% of small business domain names were due to expire within 60 days, and 73% come up for renewal within a year. The rest of the upkeep list is just as easy to miss: 8.5% of small business websites link to their own dead pages, 3.8% fail a security certificate check and 1.4% break with a server error on an inner page. Small business websites or domain names affected by upkeep problem Domain name expires within 60 days 11.5% At least one broken internal link 8.5% Homepage links to a dead page 6.2% Fails a security certificate check 3.8% No security certificate at all 1.5% Server error on at least one page 1.4% Expired security certificate 0.5% Source: Suff Digital analysis of 6,142 small business websites and 4,569 domain names in 56 US industries ยท websites listed on Google Business Profiles and public domain registration (WHOIS) records, September 2026 Small business domain names by days until the domain expires 0 to 30 5.3% 31 to 60 6.2% 61 to 90 5.9% 91 to 180 19.1% 181 to 365 36.5% 1 to 2 years 12.6% More than 2 years 14.4% Small business domain names by domain age Under 5 years 24.6% 5 to 10 years 20.5% 10 to 20 years 32.4% More than 20 years 22.5% Websites with a broken internal link by industry Yoga studio 17.6% Chiropractor 14.3% Electronics store 12.3% Beauty store 10% Manufacturing 9.4% Church 6.6% SaaS 5.8% Nail salon 5.6% Dentist 4.7% Veterinarian 3.7% Websites with an expired certificate by industry HVAC 3.4% Electrician 2.4% Electronics store 1.8% Beauty store 1.7% Tattoo shop 1.4% Nonprofit 1.4% Accountant 1.3% Websites with a server error by industry Movers 5.1% Electrician 4.3% Real estate 4% Landscaper 3.7% Cleaning 3.4% Manufacturing 2.9% Roofer 2.8% Source: Small Business Website Upkeep: 11.5% of Domain Names Are Due to Expire Within 60 Days - Suff Digital (https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/small-business-website-upkeep) ## Structured data ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://www.suffdigital.com/#organization", "name": "Suff Digital", "alternateName": "Suff Digital Marketing", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://www.suffdigital.com/#logo", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/logo.png", "contentUrl": "https://www.suffdigital.com/logo.png", "caption": "Suff Digital" }, "image": { "@id": "https://www.suffdigital.com/#logo" }, "description": "Suff Digital is a full-stack digital marketing agency that turns websites into predictable revenue engines, SEO, paid media, content, CRO, and web design built around revenue, not vanity metrics.", "slogan": "Digital marketing built for what's next.", "email": "hello@suffdigital.com", "telephone": "+1-629-236-0099", "foundingDate": "2022", "founder": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Matt Suffoletto", "jobTitle": "Founder & CEO" }, "contactPoint": [ { "@type": "ContactPoint", "telephone": "+1-629-236-0099", "email": "hello@suffdigital.com", "contactType": "sales", "areaServed": "US", "availableLanguage": [ "en" ] } ], "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "addressLocality": "Nashville", "addressRegion": "TN", "postalCode": "37219", "addressCountry": "US" }, "areaServed": { "@type": "Country", "name": "United States" }, "sameAs": [ "https://www.linkedin.com/company/suff-digital/", "https://www.instagram.com/suffdigital/", "https://www.youtube.com/@suffdigitalmarketing", "https://www.tiktok.com/@suffdigital" ], "knowsAbout": [ "Search Engine Optimization", "Pay-Per-Click Advertising", "Paid Social Advertising", "Conversion Rate Optimization", "Web Design", "Digital PR", "Link Building", "Website Migration", "Website Maintenance and Support", "Technical SEO", "Local SEO", "AI Search Optimization" ], "hasOfferCatalog": { "@type": "OfferCatalog", "name": "Suff Digital Services", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "Offer", "itemOffered": { "@type": "Service", "name": "Search Engine Optimization (SEO)", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/" } }, { "@type": "Offer", "itemOffered": { "@type": "Service", "name": "Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/services/ppc" } }, { "@type": "Offer", "itemOffered": { "@type": "Service", "name": "Paid Social Advertising", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/services/paid-social" } }, { "@type": "Offer", "itemOffered": { "@type": "Service", "name": "Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/services/cro" } }, { "@type": "Offer", "itemOffered": { "@type": "Service", "name": "Web Design", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/services/web-design" } }, { "@type": "Offer", "itemOffered": { "@type": "Service", "name": "Digital PR & Link Building", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/services/digital-pr" } }, { "@type": "Offer", "itemOffered": { "@type": "Service", "name": "Website Migration", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/services/website-migration" } }, { "@type": "Offer", "itemOffered": { "@type": "Service", "name": "Website Maintenance & Support", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/services/website-maintenance" } } ] } }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://www.suffdigital.com/#website", "url": "https://www.suffdigital.com/", "name": "Suff Digital", "inLanguage": "en-US", "publisher": { "@id": "https://www.suffdigital.com/#organization" } } ] } ```