Oshawa · medical practices

Web design for
medical practices in Oshawa.

There are 35 family and walk-in practices listed on Google Maps in Oshawa. 28 of them put a website on the listing, and we opened every one of those 28 ourselves. Here is what was behind them.

Family and walk-in practices listed in Oshawa35
Medical practices with a working website28
No website on the Oshawa listing at all7
Site that does not load or is parked2
Working but visibly dated4
Medical practices whose site fails on a phone2 (7%)
Still served without HTTPS2
Copyright line 2020 or earlier1
No opening hours on the Google listing0
Median Google reviews among Oshawa medical practices86
Median Google rating in Oshawa3.4

2 of the 28 Oshawa sites had nothing wrong with them at all. The other 26 had at least one of the faults listed above, and most had more than one.

What they are built on

What Oshawa runs on.

Behind the 28 sites we counted 3 platforms. The split says something about budget: 18% on WordPress usually means somebody was paid to build it, while the 0 on free builders were almost always put together by the owner.

WordPress5 (18%)
Wix2 (7%)
Squarespace1 (4%)
Hand-built or unidentified20 (71%)

What actually breaks

No enquiry form anywhere on the site
on 8 of them.

Out of 28 sites in Oshawa, 8 have no enquiry form anywhere on the site and 7 have no structured data for google to read. We counted each fault separately, so a site with three of them appears in three rows below.

Medical practices in Oshawa with no enquiry form8 of 28
Page titles that never say “Oshawa”8 of 28
Medical practices with no structured data7 of 28
Medical practices measuring nothing at all6 of 28
Medical practices letting Google write their description5 of 28
Medical practices with no heading on the page4 of 28

None of the 10 faults we counted in Oshawa 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

203 reviews
from the top five.

The spread in Oshawa is wide: from under 19 reviews in the bottom quarter to 1,360 at the top, with the middle at 86. 15 of the 35 medical practices have passed a hundred.

Oshawa holds 35 of the 1,472 family and walk-in practices we found across the GTA, which ranks it 16th 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 Oshawa medical practicesunder 19 reviews
Median medical practice in Oshawa86 reviews
Busiest quarterover 160 reviews
Most-reviewed medical practice in Oshawa1,360 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site1 of 5

What this means for you

An opening in
Oshawa.

Only 1 of the five most-reviewed medical practices in Oshawa run a secure, mobile site — and those five hold 2,609 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.

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

The usual questions.

How many medical practices are there in Oshawa?

35 listings, of which 2 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 33 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 Oshawa?

To be average in Oshawa you need 86. To be in the top quarter you need more than 160. To be visible next to the busiest medical practice here you would need 1,360, which took them years. 2 of the 35 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a medical practice in Oshawa 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.

Your turn

Same check,
run on your site.

The check behind this page is the one we ran on every business above. Put your own address in and it will load your site on a phone screen, look at the certificate and the page age, and tell you what a visitor meets. No email, nothing stored.

Check my website free Read the full GTA report

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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