Investor relations websitefor a listed company

Why the visitor matters more than the list

An investor relations website is the section of a listed company's website made for people who hold its shares, may buy them or judge the company. The rule tells you what to put in it. It does not tell you who will read it or what they need first.

Two things follow from the table above. Each visitor wants one thing first, and leaves if it is hard to find. And most visitors are not experts. An analyst reads a results PDF in minutes. A first-time shareholder may not know where to start. A good page gives both the full document and a plain line beside it.

The first screen: four things in view

Before any scrolling, an investor relations page can show four things. This layout is our suggestion. The SEBI text does not set one.

• The latest results: the period, the date and one link to the PDF and the plain note.
• The next date: the next board meeting or call, if the company has already announced it.
• A contact: the email address and the officer for investor questions.
• The latest annual report: one link, with the year in the name.

According to SEBI's consolidated LODR text, read in October 2026, Regulation 46(2)(l) lists financial information. It names the notice of the board meeting where results will be discussed, the results once that meeting ends, and the complete annual report. Regulation 46(2)(j) names the email address for grievance redressal. Regulation 46(2)(k) names the contact details of the officials who handle investor grievances. So most of the first screen is made of items the rule already names. Where they sit is your choice.

For the other items, and their timing, use our Regulation 46 guide. Add a line near the top that says when the page was last checked. A date that is old tells a visitor that nobody looks after the page.

How to organise documents so people find them

Sort by year, then by kind

People arrive with a request such as last year's annual report. Group files by financial year. Inside each year, group them by kind: results, annual report, presentations, call recordings and transcripts, shareholding pattern and policies. Put the newest first.

Give every file a plain name with a date

A link called scan0045.pdf tells a reader nothing. Use one pattern for every link: what it is, the period or date, the file type and the size.

The same name should be the link text and the title of the file. Two outside pages back this. According to Google Search Central, February 2026, PDF is one of the file types Google can index, so a clear title helps people who arrive from search. According to Google Search Central, December 2025, good link text is descriptive, reasonably concise and relevant, and phrases like click here are not advised.

The W3C says the same for people who use screen readers. According to W3C's Understanding page on link purpose, read in October 2026, the purpose of each link should be clear from its text. Screen reader users often browse a list of links out of context. A list of ten links that all say Download is of no use to them.

Add a filter, a readable page and the file size

A filter by year and by kind is enough for most companies. A search box helps once the list is long. Where the same facts can be read as text on a page, offer that beside the PDF. A text page opens on a small screen, and a screen reader can read it.

Show the file size next to each link. A person on a mobile data plan can then decide whether to open an 8 MB annual report now or later. We state no size limit, because the right one depends on your readers.

Avoid a PDF made by scanning a printed sheet. It is a picture, so nobody can search it or copy a line from it. Export the PDF from the source file instead.

A results note in plain words

Results come as a long PDF. A retail shareholder wants to know, in a minute, whether the quarter went well. Put a short note beside the PDF. It is a summary. The PDF stays the full record.

Here is a pattern with five lines. It is our own method.

• The period and the date: "Results for the quarter ended [date], approved on [date]."
• What changed: sales and profit against the same quarter last year, one sentence each.
• Why: the one or two reasons the company has already given in the results.
• What is next: the date of the next results.
• Where to read more: links to the PDF, the slides and the call recording.

Keep every figure in the note the same as the PDF. Take the words from the results themselves. Do not add a view of the future that the filing does not carry. We did not open an official text on how a company may word such a note. Ask your company secretary or lawyer to read each note before it goes up.

The contact and grievance block

Show one contact block, in one place, and repeat it at the foot of the investor section. Our suggestion for what it holds: the name and role of the officer, an email address, a phone number, a postal address and the date the block was last checked.

Make the email address a link that opens a mail app. Make the phone number a link that opens the dialler on a phone. Which contacts the rule asks for, and in what words, is in our Regulation 46 guide. We confirmed Regulation 46(2)(j) and (k) in the SEBI text, as said above.

A block goes out of date the day a person leaves. According to SEBI's consolidated LODR text, Regulation 46(3)(b) asks for any change in website content to be updated within two working days from the date of the change. So the person who owns the page must hear about a change on the day it happens.

Mobile and speed: what a shareholder on a phone needs

Some of your visitors will open the page on a phone. We did not open a source on how many, so we state no share. We suggest you test the page on a mid-range phone over mobile data, as we do when we check a website.

According to web.dev, February 2019, a page made for many devices needs a meta viewport tag. The page also warns that horizontal scrolling, or zooming out to see a page, makes a poor experience. Results tables with many columns often cause this. Show the latest period first, and let the older periods stack below or open on a tap. That advice is ours.

Year tabs and file links are the things a thumb must hit. According to web.dev, March 2020, a touch target should be about 48 device independent pixels wide, with about 8 pixels between targets. W3C's WCAG 2.2 Understanding page on target size, read in October 2026, covers success criterion 2.5.8. At Level AA it asks for targets of at least 24 by 24 CSS pixels, with some exceptions.

On speed, web.dev's page on Web Vitals (updated October 2024) names three measures. Largest Contentful Paint, for loading, should occur within 2.5 seconds of when the page first starts loading. Interaction to Next Paint, for response to taps, should be 200 milliseconds or less. Cumulative Layout Shift, for jumping content, should be 0.1 or less. The page says to measure the 75th percentile of page loads, split by mobile and desktop. A practical tip of ours: link to a large PDF. Do not load it inside the page.

Accessibility basics

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, or WCAG, are the W3C's technical standard for making web content usable by people with disabilities. According to the W3C's WCAG overview, updated 17 September 2026, WCAG 2.2 was published on 5 October 2023 and updated on 12 December 2024. The W3C encourages use of the latest version. The guidelines are organised under four principles, starting with perceivable, operable and understandable.

We did not open an official Indian text on what accessibility a company website must have, so we state no legal duty. As habits, we suggest these five for an investor page.

• Make link names clear when read alone, as above.
• Make tap targets large enough, as above.
• Use real text on the page and in the PDF, not pictures of text.
• Use headings in order, so a screen reader user can jump from section to section.
• Keep enough contrast between text and background, and test it on a phone outdoors.

Keeping the page fresh: an owner, a calendar and a monthly check

Pages go stale when nobody owns them. Name one role as the owner. It is often the company secretary's office or the investor relations head, while the web team puts the files up. Name a stand-in too. The company decides who it is.

Then make a calendar of the dates when the page will change. For each date, write who sends the file, what changes on the page and the day it must be live.

The timing for each item is in our Regulation 46 guide. Dates across a whole year are in our hub on annual reports and investor communication. If you plan the annual report itself, see our notes on annual report design trends.

Then check the page every month. In our method, the owner or a person they pick runs the audit table below on a fixed day, and runs the link check again after every upload. A page that is checked once a year is wrong for most of the year.

Common mistakes on investor pages

These are our own observations of how company websites are built and kept. They are not findings from SEBI or from any named company.

• A pile of PDFs with names like scan0045 or final v2, in the order they were uploaded.
• Old dates: a line that says next results in August, still showing in November.
• Broken links after a redesign or after files moved to a new folder.
• A page nobody owns, so each change waits until someone notices.
• Documents that exist only as scanned pictures.
• An investor section tucked into a menu that does not open on a phone.
• A contact block that names a person who has left.

Say a pile of PDFs became a clear page

Say a listed maker of kitchen pumps has one page called Investors. It holds many files in the order they were uploaded. The names are scan0045.pdf, Annual report final v2 and Results new. The link for the latest results opens a file from two quarters ago. The contact block names an officer who left. This is a made-up example. It is not a real company.

Nothing here needs new software. Most of it is renaming, sorting and deciding who owns the page.

An audit checklist for the page

Use this table on a fixed day each month. It is our own method. It is a shorter cousin of the checks in our website audit.

This is general information, not legal advice. For your case, speak to a lawyer or your company secretary. Last checked: 26 October 2026.