Markham · furniture stores

Web design for
furniture stores in Markham.

This page is the Markham slice of a survey of 25 furniture retailers — every listing on Google Maps, every website opened by hand. 0 of the 22 sites do not work on a phone.

Furniture retailers listed in Markham25
Furniture stores with a working website22
No website on the Markham listing at all3
Site that does not load or is parked0
Working but visibly dated3
Furniture stores whose site fails on a phone0 (0%)
Still served without HTTPS1
Copyright line 2017 or earlier2
No opening hours on the Google listing0
Median Google reviews among Markham furniture stores93
Median Google rating in Markham4.6

Those 25 listings were checked one at a time. 2 of the 22 sites came through with nothing wrong; the rest had at least one of the problems above.

What they are built on

What Markham runs on.

We identified 2 different platforms behind the 22 sites in Markham. WordPress accounts for 5 of them.

WordPress5 (23%)
Shopify4 (18%)
Hand-built or unidentified13 (59%)

What actually breaks

Page title does not name the city they work in
on 5 of them.

Sorted by how often it appears, the fault list for furniture stores in Markham starts with page title does not name the city they work in (5 sites) and copyright line years out of date (3). Both are cheap to fix and neither requires rebuilding anything.

Page titles that never say “Markham”5 of 22
Furniture stores dating themselves in the footer3 of 22
Furniture stores with no structured data3 of 22
Furniture stores measuring nothing at all3 of 22
Furniture stores still serving markup from the 2000s2 of 22
Furniture stores with no heading on the page1 of 22

We would start at the bottom of that list, not the top — no structured data for google to read affects fewer sites here (3), which means fixing it puts you ahead of the 19 that already have it right only if the basics are done too.

Who you are up against

457 reviews
from the top five.

The five most-reviewed furniture stores in Markham hold 2,692, 2,193, 701, 646, 550. The middle of the field sits at 93, the lower quarter below 43 and the upper quarter above 351. 12 of the 25 are past 100 reviews and 5 hold a rating of 4.9 or better.

Markham holds 25 of the 1,023 furniture retailers we found across the GTA, which ranks it 11th among the 26 places we surveyed. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside furniture stores.

Quietest quarter of Markham furniture storesunder 43 reviews
Median furniture store in Markham93 reviews
Busiest quarterover 351 reviews
Most-reviewed furniture store in Markham2,692 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site1 of 5

What this means for you

An opening in
Markham.

Only 1 of the five most-reviewed furniture stores in Markham run a secure, mobile site — and those five hold 6,782 reviews between them. When the most visible names in a market look dated, being the one that does not is cheaper than out-reviewing them.

The 3 furniture retailers in Markham 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.

Questions

Before you ask.

How many furniture stores are there in Markham?

25 listings, of which 2 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 23 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 Markham?

To be average in Markham you need 93. To be in the top quarter you need more than 351. To be visible next to the busiest furniture store here you would need 2,692, which took them years. 5 of the 25 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a furniture store in Markham 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.

Two minutes

Where does your
own site land?

Everything above came from opening real websites. Yours takes ten seconds: we load it the way a customer would and say what we find, including when the honest answer is that nothing needs doing.

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conversation?

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