BDRIBahamas Digital Readiness Index

Door 03 of 04 · as of April 2026

Facebook

Of 1,104 Facebook URLs, 300 are broken pages. An abandoned page creates doubt rather than presence.

The dominant social platform in The Bahamas. For many businesses, it is their primary digital storefront for menus, specials, photos, and customer interaction.

Why it matters here

Why the Facebook door matters in The Bahamas

Roughly 70% of product and service discovery happens through Facebook and Instagram. For restaurants, salons, and retail, a customer scrolls the feed, sees a dish or a hairstyle, and messages directly. The sale starts on Facebook.

Who needs this door most

Industries where Facebook is a required door

Across the four-doors priority weighting, Facebook is rated Required for three of the eight industries. Customers expect to find you here.

The national picture

300 Facebook pages are broken.

1104 Facebook URLs were found, but only 722 (27.7%) are confirmed active. 300 are broken (deleted pages, deprecated URL formats, or abandoned profiles), and the rest were personal profiles or scrape artifacts. An abandoned page creates doubt rather than presence, which is why the door counts only confirmed-active pages.

  • Active722
  • Broken300
  • Other82
Facebook URLs by status, share of all 2,604 businesses · as of April 2026

How to open it

How to open the Facebook door

  1. Create a Business Page

    A Business Page, not a personal profile. It gives you hours, a category, a call button, and the Marketplace and messaging tools a storefront needs.

  2. Add the essentials

    Cover photo, profile photo, hours, location, and a short description. Pin a current post so the first thing a visitor sees is fresh.

  3. Post what customers decide on

    Menus, products, prices, specials: the things a customer scrolls to before they message. Photos do most of the work.

  4. Reply to messages quickly

    A fast response time shows on the Page. For many businesses, the sale starts with a Facebook message.

Time: ~30 minutes · Cost: free

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For institutions

Reactivate the abandoned pages

300 broken Facebook pages are businesses that once had presence and lost it. A reactivation workshop (reclaim, update, or replace) turns doubt back into a working storefront for the sectors that depend on it.