North York · dentists

Web design for
dentists in North York.

There are 79 dental practices listed on Google Maps in North York. 67 of them put a website on the listing, and we opened every one of those 67 ourselves. Here is what was behind them.

Dental practices listed in North York79
Dentists with a working website67
No website on the North York listing at all2
Site that does not load or is parked4
Working but visibly dated11
Dentists whose site fails on a phone0 (0%)
Still served without HTTPS1
Copyright line 2007 or earlier8
No opening hours on the Google listing10
Median Google reviews among North York dentists277
Median Google rating in North York4.9

12 of the 67 North York sites had nothing wrong with them at all. The other 55 had at least one of the faults listed above, and most had more than one. (North York is part of Toronto — we count the businesses that give North York as their address.)

What they are built on

6 platforms,
no clear winner.

Behind the 67 sites we counted 6 platforms. The split says something about budget: 54% on WordPress usually means somebody was paid to build it, while the 2 on free builders were almost always put together by the owner.

WordPress36 (54%)
Wix3 (4%)
Squarespace2 (3%)
Webflow2 (3%)
GoDaddy Builder1 (1%)
Hand-built or unidentified23 (34%)

What actually breaks

Copyright line years out of date
on 21 of them.

21 of the 67 dental practices we opened in North York share the same fault: copyright line years out of date. 16 have a second one on top of it — no enquiry form anywhere on the site. None of this is visible to the owner, which is why it survives for years.

Dentists dating themselves in the footer21 of 67
Dentists in North York with no enquiry form16 of 67
Dentists with no structured data13 of 67
Dentists letting Google write their description12 of 67
Dentists measuring nothing at all11 of 67
Page titles that never say “North York”11 of 67

If you own one of these 67 sites, the order to fix them in is the order above: the fault 21 businesses share is the one your competitors have not fixed either, so it is where the cheapest advantage sits.

Who you are up against

501 reviews
from the top five.

The spread in North York is wide: from under 131 reviews in the bottom quarter to 1,443 at the top, with the middle at 277. 49 of the 79 dentists have passed a hundred.

North York holds 79 of the 2,453 dental practices we found across the GTA, which ranks it 4th among the 26 places we surveyed. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside dentists.

Quietest quarter of North York dentistsunder 131 reviews
Median dentist in North York277 reviews
Busiest quarterover 503 reviews
Most-reviewed dentist in North York1,443 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site3 of 5

What this means for you

4 sites in North York
do not load at all.

We requested every one: 4 dental practices in North York have a website on their Google listing that is dead or parked, and 11 more load but visibly have not been touched in years. Google still sends people to all of them.

Where a dentist lands depends on how many services need a page of their own — $590 at the small end, $3,900 for a practice with a dozen. Nothing is due until it is finished. Full pricing.

Questions

Asked often.

How many dentists are there in North York?

79 listings, of which 12 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 67 are either missing a site, running a broken one, or running one with at least one fault we could see from outside.

How many Google reviews do I need to compete in North York?

To be average in North York you need 277. To be in the top quarter you need more than 503. To be visible next to the busiest dentist here you would need 1,443, which took them years. 30 of the 79 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a dentist in North York cost?

Between $590 and $3,900 depending on the size of the practice and how many services need their own page, paid after the site is built and you have seen it. Hosting, edits, your Google Business Profile and ongoing SEO run $129 to $990 a month, cancellable any month.

Your turn

Same check,
run on your site.

The check behind this page is the one we ran on every business above. Put your own address in and it will load your site on a phone screen, look at the certificate and the page age, and tell you what a visitor meets. No email, nothing stored.

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rebuilding?

Send us the address and what you do. We will look at what is there and tell you whether a rebuild is worth the money, or whether the problem is somewhere else entirely.

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