Scarborough · dentists

Web design for
dentists in Scarborough.

There are 70 dental practices listed on Google Maps in Scarborough. 63 of them put a website on the listing, and we opened every one of those 63 ourselves. Here is what was behind them.

Dental practices listed in Scarborough70
Dentists with a working website63
No website on the Scarborough listing at all1
Site that does not load or is parked1
Working but visibly dated11
Dentists whose site fails on a phone1 (2%)
Still served without HTTPS1
Copyright line 2015 or earlier3
No opening hours on the Google listing8
Median Google reviews among Scarborough dentists229
Median Google rating in Scarborough4.8

13 of the 63 Scarborough sites had nothing wrong with them at all. The other 50 had at least one of the faults listed above, and most had more than one. (Scarborough is part of Toronto — we count the businesses that give Scarborough as their address.)

What they are built on

57% of them run
the same platform.

Behind the 63 sites we counted 4 platforms. The split says something about budget: 57% on WordPress usually means somebody was paid to build it, while the 1 on free builders were almost always put together by the owner.

WordPress36 (57%)
Wix3 (5%)
Drupal2 (3%)
GoDaddy Builder1 (2%)
Hand-built or unidentified21 (33%)

What actually breaks

No enquiry form anywhere on the site
on 23 of them.

Out of 63 sites in Scarborough, 23 have no enquiry form anywhere on the site and 10 have no meta description, so google writes its own. We counted each fault separately, so a site with three of them appears in three rows below.

Dentists in Scarborough with no enquiry form23 of 63
Page titles that never say “Scarborough”13 of 63
Dentists letting Google write their description10 of 63
Dentists with no structured data8 of 63
Dentists with no heading on the page6 of 63
Dentists still serving markup from the 2000s5 of 63

None of the 15 faults we counted in Scarborough requires a rebuild on its own. They add up to one, though, when a site carries four or five of them at once.

Who you are up against

536 reviews
from the top five.

The spread in Scarborough is wide: from under 111 reviews in the bottom quarter to 1,192 at the top, with the middle at 229. 48 of the 70 dentists have passed a hundred.

Scarborough holds 70 of the 2,453 dental practices we found across the GTA, which ranks it 6th among the 26 places we surveyed. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside dentists.

Quietest quarter of Scarborough dentistsunder 111 reviews
Median dentist in Scarborough229 reviews
Busiest quarterover 496 reviews
Most-reviewed dentist in Scarborough1,192 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site5 of 5

What this means for you

The Scarborough leaders
already fixed this.

5 of the five most-reviewed dentists in Scarborough run a secure site that works on a phone. Between them they hold 4,990 reviews. That is the standard a customer compares you against before reading a word about you.

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

What people ask us.

How many dentists are there in Scarborough?

70 listings, of which 13 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 57 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 Scarborough?

To be average in Scarborough you need 229. To be in the top quarter you need more than 496. To be visible next to the busiest dentist here you would need 1,192, which took them years. 24 of the 70 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a dentist in Scarborough 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.

Before you decide anything

Find out whether
you have a problem.

Most people asking about a rebuild do not need one. The free check opens your site, looks at how it behaves on a phone, whether it is secure and how old the page is, and tells you which of those apply to you.

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