Oakville · medical practices

Web design for
medical practices in Oakville.

There are 61 family and walk-in practices listed on Google Maps in Oakville. 51 of them put a website on the listing, and we opened every one of those 51 ourselves. Here is what was behind them.

Family and walk-in practices listed in Oakville61
Medical practices with a working website51
No website on the Oakville listing at all8
Site that does not load or is parked3
Working but visibly dated11
Medical practices whose site fails on a phone4 (8%)
Still served without HTTPS0
Copyright line 2013 or earlier3
No opening hours on the Google listing2
Median Google reviews among Oakville medical practices74
Median Google rating in Oakville3.8

2 of the 51 Oakville sites had nothing wrong with them at all. The other 49 had at least one of the faults listed above, and most had more than one.

What they are built on

6 of them are on
a free builder.

Behind the 51 sites we counted 7 platforms. The split says something about budget: 35% on WordPress usually means somebody was paid to build it, while the 6 on free builders were almost always put together by the owner.

WordPress18 (35%)
Wix6 (12%)
GoDaddy Builder4 (8%)
Squarespace4 (8%)
Joomla1 (2%)
Hand-built or unidentified18 (35%)

What actually breaks

No enquiry form anywhere on the site
on 29 of them.

Out of 51 sites in Oakville, 29 have no enquiry form anywhere on the site and 23 have no analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does. We counted each fault separately, so a site with three of them appears in three rows below.

Medical practices in Oakville with no enquiry form29 of 51
Page titles that never say “Oakville”24 of 51
Medical practices measuring nothing at all23 of 51
Medical practices with no structured data21 of 51
Medical practices letting Google write their description17 of 51
Medical practices dating themselves in the footer12 of 51

None of the 14 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

215 reviews
from the top five.

The spread in Oakville is wide: from under 49 reviews in the bottom quarter to 394 at the top, with the middle at 74. 24 of the 61 medical practices have passed a hundred.

Oakville holds 61 of the 1,472 family and walk-in practices we found across the GTA, which ranks it 7th among the 26 places we surveyed. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside medical practices.

Quietest quarter of Oakville medical practicesunder 49 reviews
Median medical practice in Oakville74 reviews
Busiest quarterover 180 reviews
Most-reviewed medical practice in Oakville394 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 medical practices in Oakville run a secure site that works on a phone. Between them they hold 1,589 reviews. That is the standard a customer compares you against before reading a word about you.

Where a medical practice 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

Asked often.

How many medical practices are there in Oakville?

61 listings, of which 2 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 59 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 74. To be in the top quarter you need more than 180. To be visible next to the busiest medical practice here you would need 394, which took them years. 4 of the 61 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a medical practice 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.

Now check your own

You have read the numbers.
Where does your site stand?

Type your address and we will open your site the way a visitor would, then tell you plainly what is wrong with it — including when the answer is nothing. Ten seconds, no email, nothing stored.

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If you want
one built.

We build the site, you look at it, and you pay once it is finished and you are happy with it. Hosting, edits and the Google listing carry on monthly, cancellable any month.

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