Scarborough · landscapers

Web design for
landscapers in Scarborough.

Someone looking for a landscaper in Scarborough has 39 listings to choose between. 5 of them offer no website at all and 4 link to one that is dead. We checked each.

Landscaping companies listed in Scarborough39
Landscapers with a working website34
No website on the Scarborough listing at all5
Site that does not load or is parked4
Working but visibly dated7
Landscapers whose site fails on a phone1 (3%)
Still served without HTTPS2
Copyright line 2016 or earlier3
No opening hours on the Google listing0
Median Google reviews among Scarborough landscapers23
Median Google rating in Scarborough4.9

Nothing above is modelled. 39 listings in Scarborough, 34 sites opened, 7 of them plainly old and 0 listings that do not even publish opening hours. (Scarborough is part of Toronto — we count the businesses that give Scarborough as their address.)

What they are built on

What Scarborough runs on.

The platform mix here is 32% WordPress across 34 sites. Age shows more than platform does: 3 of these pages still date themselves 2016 or earlier. Another 15 carry no date at all.

WordPress11 (32%)
Wix6 (18%)
Webflow2 (6%)
Hand-built or unidentified15 (44%)

What actually breaks

No analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does
on 17 of them.

Out of 34 sites in Scarborough, 17 have no analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does and 11 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.

Landscapers measuring nothing at all17 of 34
Landscapers in Scarborough with no enquiry form12 of 34
Page titles that never say “Scarborough”11 of 34
Landscapers letting Google write their description10 of 34
Landscapers with no structured data8 of 34
Landscapers with no heading on the page5 of 34

None of the 14 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

54 reviews
from the top five.

Review counts here run from under 11 at the bottom quarter to 297 at the top. The median is 23; the fifth-placed practice has 77. 7 listings have fewer than ten reviews, which in this field reads as new or inactive.

Scarborough is the 2nd largest market for landscapers in our survey of the GTA, with 39 of them against 539 across the region. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside landscapers.

Quietest quarter of Scarborough landscapersunder 11 reviews
Median landscaper in Scarborough23 reviews
Busiest quarterover 57 reviews
Most-reviewed landscaper in Scarborough297 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site3 of 5

What this means for you

4 sites in Scarborough
do not load at all.

We requested every one: 4 landscaping companies in Scarborough have a website on their Google listing that is dead or parked, and 7 more load but visibly have not been touched in years. Google still sends people to all of them.

A single-location landscaper in Scarborough normally lands at $590 to $1,190 for the build, then $129 to $299 a month. You see the finished site before you pay anything. Full pricing.

Questions

Before you ask.

How many landscapers are there in Scarborough?

We counted 39 listed on Google Maps. 34 have a website, 5 have none attached to the listing, and 4 have one that does not load. Of the working sites, 1 have no mobile version and 2 are still served without HTTPS.

How many Google reviews do I need to compete in Scarborough?

There is no single number, but the shape of the market is clear: a quarter of landscapers in Scarborough sit below 11 reviews, half sit below 23, and the top five run from 77 to 297. Getting past the median is a realistic first target; catching the top five usually is not.

What does a website for a landscaper in Scarborough cost?

A one-location landscaper is normally $590 to $1,190, a larger practice with several people and a dozen services runs to $2,400, and law, medical and financial practices sit at $3,900. Payment comes after delivery. The monthly part starts at $129 and covers hosting, edits and your Google listing.

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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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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