What to Include on Your Website's About Page (And What to Skip)
4 min read · August 13, 2026
The About page tends to get more visits than owners expect; it's often the second stop after the homepage, right when a visitor is deciding whether to trust you. Most About pages waste that moment.
Why it matters more than it seems
A visitor who clicks through to About is already interested; they're actively checking whether there's a real, legitimate business behind the page they just landed on.
What belongs there
- Who's actually behind the business, in plain, human terms
- How it started, briefly, if there's a genuinely interesting reason
- What makes your approach different, stated concretely rather than as a vague claim
What to skip
A full company history nobody asked for, a corporate-sounding mission statement copied from a template, and stock photos of people who don't actually work there. Each of those quietly undoes the trust the page is supposed to be building. A page like J5 Beauty & Skincare's keeps this simple and real rather than padded out.
See it in action
Voltify Commercial
A commercial electrician site built to win larger contracts in Seattle, WA.
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