Built for phones
Phone first, not desktop first
23 of the 1,755 sites we opened in Toronto have no mobile layout at all. Most people looking for a local business here are on a phone, often standing somewhere inconvenient. We design for that first.
Websites & local SEO · Toronto
Web design in
Toronto.
We surveyed 2,700 businesses listed on Google Maps in Toronto and opened every website among them. 468 have something worth fixing — no site at all, a site that does not load, or one that plainly has not been touched in years.
Websites from $590 · paid after delivery
We build and look after websites for businesses in Toronto. A one-page site for a solo operator is $590; a business with a crew of three to ten pays $1,190; a legal, medical or financial practice $3,900.
No deposit and no contract: you pay once the site is built and you have seen it, and the monthly part ($129–$990 for hosting, edits, your Google listing and search work) can be cancelled any month.
Businesses we checked in Toronto2,700
Toronto listings with no website at all69
Website that does not load or is parked84
Working but visibly dated315
Toronto sites with no mobile version23 (1%)
Still served without HTTPS37
Copyright line 1995 or earlier136
Listings with no opening hours on Google1,057
Median Google reviews in Toronto120
Toronto is the 3rd largest of the 26 places we surveyed, with 2,700 listings against 3,173 in Mississauga. Every site behind these listings was opened by hand — nothing here is modelled.
By trade
14 trades in Toronto,
counted separately.
A dentist and a plumber are not competing for the same attention and their numbers are not comparable. Each trade below has its own page with its own survey — review medians, platform mix and the faults we actually found.
| Trade in Toronto | Businesses | No site | No mobile | Median reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 203 | 0 | 1 | 603 |
| Gyms | 124 | 1 | 0 | 353 |
| Law firms | 92 | 0 | 0 | 120 |
| Medical practices | 83 | 2 | 1 | 236 |
| Real estate agents | 83 | 0 | 1 | 112 |
| Clinics | 68 | 0 | 0 | 85 |
| Furniture stores | 66 | 1 | 1 | 184 |
| Veterinary clinics | 65 | 0 | 1 | 389 |
| Physiotherapists | 57 | 0 | 0 | 339 |
| Therapists | 54 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Photographers | 51 | 0 | 0 | 128 |
| Chiropractors | 50 | 0 | 2 | 123 |
| Accountants | 42 | 0 | 0 | 54 |
| Plumbers | 34 | 2 | 1 | 89 |
What Toronto is built on
14 platforms,
no clear winner.
Detected from the pages themselves across 1,755 Toronto websites. 51 run on a free or entry-level builder and 1 are still served by software that has been discontinued for years. 136 carry a copyright line from 1995 or earlier.
WordPress647 (37%)
Squarespace145 (8%)
Wix136 (8%)
Shopify77 (4%)
GoDaddy Builder43 (2%)
Hand-built or unidentified707 (40%)
What actually breaks
The same six faults,
638 times over.
Across the 1,755 Toronto sites we opened, these are the faults that turned up most often. None of them is visible to the owner, which is exactly why they survive for years.
Sites in Toronto with no enquiry form638 of 1,755
Sites measuring nothing at all530 of 1,755
Page titles that never say “Toronto”528 of 1,755
Sites with no structured data366 of 1,755
Sites letting Google write their description316 of 1,755
Sites dating themselves in the footer260 of 1,755
What you get
A site built for how
Toronto actually searches.
Local search
Your Google listing, set up properly
Categories, service areas, hours, photos and the structured data that puts your address and rating straight into results. 1,057 Toronto listings do not even publish opening hours. The median business here has 120 reviews — we will tell you honestly where you stand.
Maintained
Someone still looking after it
136 sites in Toronto carry a copyright line five years old or more, which usually means nobody has opened the admin panel since launch. The monthly fee exists so that does not happen to yours.
What we do in Toronto.
Each of these has its own page for Toronto, built from the same survey but looking at a different part of it.
Local SEO in Toronto Website redesign in Toronto Google Business Profile in Toronto Review generation in Toronto Hosting and care in Toronto Booking and forms in Toronto Google Ads in Toronto Online store in Toronto
Nearby.
Thinking about a build rather than the numbers? What a small business site costs and includes · for contractors · for dental practices.
Mississauga Brampton Vaughan Markham Scarborough North York Etobicoke Oakville Richmond Hill Burlington Whitby Oshawa Milton Newmarket Pickering Ajax Aurora Bolton Georgetown Woodbridge Concord York Maple Thornhill Caledon
Questions
What people ask us.
Do you work with businesses in Toronto?
Yes. We work across the entire Greater Toronto Area, including Toronto, where we surveyed 2,700 listings. Everything is done remotely — calls, email and a live preview link you can open while we build — so there is no need to meet in person unless you want to.
How many businesses in Toronto have no website?
69 of the 2,700 listings we checked have no website attached to their Google profile at all, and another 84 link to one that does not load or has been parked. On top of that, 315 have a site that works but has visibly not been touched in years.
How much does a website cost?
Between $590 and $3,900 depending on the size of the business and how many pages it needs. You pay once it is built and you have seen it, not before. After launch it is $129 to $990 a month for hosting, edits, your Google listing and ongoing SEO, cancellable any month.
How long does SEO take?
The Google map pack can move within weeks. Ranking in regular search results for competitive terms realistically takes three to six months of consistent work. Anyone promising faster is selling you something.
Check yours
The same test,
on your address.
We do not guess and we do not send a report by email. Type the address, wait ten seconds, read what comes back. If your site is fine it will say so.
Worth a
conversation?
No pitch deck and no discovery call. Tell us the trade and the city, and we will say what we would do and what it costs.