We checked again eight days later. Nothing had moved.

The same 145 small businesses, read on 3 Sep 2026 and again on 11 Sep 2026.

  • Not one fixed

545of 545

problems still open eight days later.

3 Sep 2026: 545 open
11 Sep 2026: 545 open

A measurement taken once is a photograph, not a fact.

Who
The same 145 small businesses as our first reading
When
3 Sep 2026, then 11 Sep 2026
Compared
Every check that failed the first time, read again for the same business. One check at a time, never two totals.
Left out
4 did not answer the second time, so every count here is out of 141.
Names
None, ever. Their results stay out of search.

Not one business closed a single one.

Out of the 141 we could read both times.

  • 141of 141Still had no way to prove a document, an invoice or an email came from them
  • 141of 141Still had no way for a customer to confirm a licence or an insurance policy without phoning
  • 141of 141Still had not switched on the free setting that stops their web address being pointed elsewhere
  • 105of 141Could still have email sent in their name that lands in a real inbox
  • 17of 141Still had something wrong with the padlock a visitor sees first

Eight days is a short time.

We will read them again and print the new count, even if it proves us wrong.

  • Not proven

    That these businesses will never fix them. Eight days is not long enough for anybody to act.

  • Shown

    Nothing here drifts shut on its own. Each stays open until a person decides to close it.

We keep counting. Get the next one by email.

Turn the lights on.