Shops in Recife: 20 websites checked

Updated Oct 8, 2026

We checked 20 websites of shops in Recife between 7 and 8 October 2026, drawn from Google Maps searches in the city.

Only 5 of the 20 sites publish their hours, too few for a figure of their own. Across all the Recife businesses we checked, the typical one is closed 115 of the week's 168 hours (59 sites with hours).

Phone speed: only 11 of these sites have Google's real-visitor data. Across Recife as a whole, 41% of the sites with that data take more than 3 seconds to show their main content.

What it costs

When a customer writes and nobody answers, a sale waits for the morning, or goes to whoever answers first.

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Shops in the other cities

Dubai · London · Miami

Other businesses in Recife

Dental practices · Professional offices · Estate agents · Restaurants, cafés and bakeries · Home services and trades

How we measured

  • We searched Google Maps in each city for the same six kinds of local business and checked the websites Maps lists.
  • Acting without calling: an online booking link, a chat, a text (SMS) link or a WhatsApp link on the home page, read again on 19 October 2026 to add text links.
  • We count a text link only when the page offers one (an sms: link or a link that says “text us”). We can’t tell from a website whether its phone number accepts texts, so a business that takes texts on its main number without saying so counts as offering no way.
  • Hours: read from the site itself; the closed hours a week add up the time when no location is open.
  • Speed: Google’s data from real visitors on phones (the Chrome UX Report), which exists only for sites with enough visits.
  • No business is named. A figure appears only with 20 measured sites or more behind it.
  • The samples do not stand for every business in a city; they show what we found on the sites we checked.

The full study: all four cities and every trade

For journalists

You may use these numbers and charts with credit to Betterlane and a link to this page. To talk to Thiago Cavalcanti, who ran the study, write to thiago@betterlaneagency.com.

Recife chart (PNG) · All totals as CSV · The same data on Kaggle · To cite it: Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23325291

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