Oakville · law firms

Web design for
law firms in Oakville.

There are 61 law firms listed on Google Maps in Oakville. 59 of them put a website on the listing, and we opened every one of those 59 ourselves. Here is what was behind them.

Law firms listed in Oakville61
Law firms with a working website59
No website on the Oakville listing at all2
Site that does not load or is parked1
Working but visibly dated9
Law firms whose site fails on a phone0 (0%)
Still served without HTTPS1
Copyright line 2009 or earlier4
No opening hours on the Google listing0
Median Google reviews among Oakville law firms38
Median Google rating in Oakville5.0

5 of the 59 Oakville sites had nothing wrong with them at all. The other 54 had at least one of the faults listed above, and most had more than one.

What they are built on

6 platforms,
no clear winner.

Behind the 59 sites we counted 6 platforms. The split says something about budget: 44% on WordPress usually means somebody was paid to build it, while the 2 on free builders were almost always put together by the owner.

WordPress26 (44%)
Wix6 (10%)
Squarespace4 (7%)
GoDaddy Builder2 (3%)
Webflow2 (3%)
Hand-built or unidentified19 (32%)

What actually breaks

No enquiry form anywhere on the site
on 25 of them.

Out of 59 sites in Oakville, 25 have no enquiry form anywhere on the site and 17 have page title does not name the city they work in. We counted each fault separately, so a site with three of them appears in three rows below.

Law firms in Oakville with no enquiry form25 of 59
Law firms measuring nothing at all20 of 59
Page titles that never say “Oakville”17 of 59
Law firms with no structured data16 of 59
Law firms letting Google write their description14 of 59
Law firms dating themselves in the footer12 of 59

None of the 13 faults we counted in Oakville 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

94 reviews
from the top five.

The spread in Oakville is wide: from under 13 reviews in the bottom quarter to 667 at the top, with the middle at 38. 6 of the 61 law firms have passed a hundred.

Oakville holds 61 of the 1,383 law firms we found across the GTA, which ranks it 8th among the 26 places we surveyed. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside law firms.

Quietest quarter of Oakville law firmsunder 13 reviews
Median law firm in Oakville38 reviews
Busiest quarterover 64 reviews
Most-reviewed law firm in Oakville667 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site5 of 5

What this means for you

The Oakville leaders
already fixed this.

5 of the five most-reviewed law firms in Oakville run a secure site that works on a phone. Between them they hold 1,403 reviews. That is the standard a customer compares you against before reading a word about you.

Where a law firm 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

Straight answers.

How many law firms are there in Oakville?

61 listings, of which 5 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 56 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 Oakville?

To be average in Oakville you need 38. To be in the top quarter you need more than 64. To be visible next to the busiest law firm here you would need 667, which took them years. 43 of the 61 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a law firm in Oakville 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.

Check my website free Read the full GTA report

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