Toronto · furniture stores

Web design for
furniture stores in Toronto.

This page is the Toronto slice of a survey of 66 furniture retailers — every listing on Google Maps, every website opened by hand. 1 of the 40 sites do not work on a phone.

Furniture retailers listed in Toronto66
Furniture stores with a working website40
No website on the Toronto listing at all1
Site that does not load or is parked3
Working but visibly dated3
Furniture stores whose site fails on a phone1 (3%)
Still served without HTTPS1
Copyright line 2003 or earlier1
No opening hours on the Google listing27
Median Google reviews among Toronto furniture stores184
Median Google rating in Toronto4.3

Those 66 listings were checked one at a time. 5 of the 40 sites came through with nothing wrong; the rest had at least one of the problems above.

What they are built on

5 platforms,
no clear winner.

We identified 5 different platforms behind the 40 sites in Toronto. WordPress accounts for 8 of them.

Shopify12 (30%)
WordPress8 (20%)
Squarespace2 (5%)
Wix2 (5%)
Drupal1 (3%)
Hand-built or unidentified15 (38%)

What actually breaks

No analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does
on 16 of them.

Sorted by how often it appears, the fault list for furniture stores in Toronto starts with no analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does (16 sites) and page title does not name the city they work in (15). Both are cheap to fix and neither requires rebuilding anything.

Furniture stores measuring nothing at all16 of 40
Page titles that never say “Toronto”15 of 40
Furniture stores with no structured data7 of 40
Furniture stores in Toronto with no enquiry form6 of 40
Furniture stores letting Google write their description4 of 40
Titles too thin to say what the Toronto business does4 of 40

We would start at the bottom of that list, not the top — no structured data for google to read affects fewer sites here (7), which means fixing it puts you ahead of the 33 that already have it right only if the basics are done too.

Who you are up against

545 reviews
from the top five.

The five most-reviewed furniture stores in Toronto hold 2,047, 1,440, 810, 765, 729. The middle of the field sits at 184, the lower quarter below 83 and the upper quarter above 421. 18 of the 66 are past 100 reviews and 0 hold a rating of 4.9 or better.

Toronto is the 1st largest market for furniture stores in our survey of the GTA, with 66 of them against 1,023 across the region. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside furniture stores.

Quietest quarter of Toronto furniture storesunder 83 reviews
Median furniture store in Toronto184 reviews
Busiest quarterover 421 reviews
Most-reviewed furniture store in Toronto2,047 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site5 of 5

What this means for you

The Toronto leaders
already fixed this.

5 of the five most-reviewed furniture stores in Toronto run a secure site that works on a phone. Between them they hold 5,791 reviews. That is the standard a customer compares you against before reading a word about you.

The 1 furniture retailers in Toronto with no site at all start at $590; a practice replacing something older sits higher. Either way it is paid after delivery, not before. Full pricing.

Related.

Furniture stores across the GTA All trades in Toronto The full GTA report

Furniture stores elsewhere in the GTA: Mississauga Brampton Scarborough North York

Other trades in Toronto: Dentists Law firms Accountants Plumbers Clinics Veterinary clinics

Questions

The usual questions.

How many furniture stores are there in Toronto?

66 listings, of which 5 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 61 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 Toronto?

To be average in Toronto you need 184. To be in the top quarter you need more than 421. To be visible next to the busiest furniture store here you would need 2,047, which took them years. 0 of the 66 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a furniture store in Toronto 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.

Check my website free Read the full GTA report

Start with a
straight answer.

Describe the business and where it works. We come back with what we would change, what it would cost and how long it takes — or with a reason not to bother.

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