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44% -- user abandonment rate for website visitors encountering broken links (2025)

2025  · HubSpot

According to a HubSpot report, 44% of users leave a site immediately if they encounter broken links.

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44%
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2025
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website visitors encountering broken links
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https://kreativstreet.com/resources/blog/technical-seo-audit-service/ ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl
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website visitors encountering broken links: 44% user abandonment rate. Source: HubSpot (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/users-leave-broken-links-44
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/users-leave-broken-links-44" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>44%</strong> -- user abandonment rate for website visitors encountering broken links<br><small>Source: HubSpot (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/users-leave-broken-links-44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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