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38% -- website abandonment rate for website buyers (2025)
38% of buyers will abandon a website if their question is not answered within five minutes.
- Conditioned on not getting a question answered within five minutes
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38%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Gartner
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Tier C
https://blog.automatedsalesmachine.com/ai-chat-for-website/ ↗
Source Article
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website buyers: 38% website abandonment rate. Source: Gartner (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gartner-buyers-abandon-website-5-minutes
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