North York · movers

Web design for
movers in North York.

There are 59 moving companies listed on Google Maps in North York. 59 of them put a website on the listing, and we opened every one of those 59 ourselves. Here is what was behind them.

Moving companies listed in North York59
Movers with a working website59
No website on the North York listing at all0
Site that does not load or is parked2
Working but visibly dated10
Movers whose site fails on a phone1 (2%)
Still served without HTTPS0
Copyright line 2001 or earlier5
No opening hours on the Google listing0
Median Google reviews among North York movers183
Median Google rating in North York4.9

16 of the 59 North York sites had nothing wrong with them at all. The other 43 had at least one of the faults listed above, and most had more than one. (North York is part of Toronto — we count the businesses that give North York as their address.)

What they are built on

58% of them run
the same platform.

Behind the 59 sites we counted 6 platforms. The split says something about budget: 58% on WordPress usually means somebody was paid to build it, while the 2 on free builders were almost always put together by the owner.

WordPress34 (58%)
Joomla1 (2%)
GoDaddy Builder1 (2%)
Google Sites1 (2%)
Webflow1 (2%)
Hand-built or unidentified21 (36%)

What actually breaks

No enquiry form anywhere on the site
on 15 of them.

Out of 59 sites in North York, 15 have no enquiry form anywhere on the site and 10 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.

Movers in North York with no enquiry form15 of 59
Page titles that never say “North York”13 of 59
Movers with no structured data10 of 59
Movers dating themselves in the footer9 of 59
Movers letting Google write their description6 of 59
Movers measuring nothing at all6 of 59

None of the 13 faults we counted in North York 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

771 reviews
from the top five.

The spread in North York is wide: from under 90 reviews in the bottom quarter to 3,219 at the top, with the middle at 183. 41 of the 59 movers have passed a hundred.

North York is the 1st largest market for movers in our survey of the GTA, with 59 of them against 620 across the region. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside movers.

Quietest quarter of North York moversunder 90 reviews
Median mover in North York183 reviews
Busiest quarterover 346 reviews
Most-reviewed mover in North York3,219 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site5 of 5

What this means for you

The North York leaders
already fixed this.

5 of the five most-reviewed movers in North York run a secure site that works on a phone. Between them they hold 9,320 reviews. That is the standard a customer compares you against before reading a word about you.

Where a mover 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

Straight answers.

How many movers are there in North York?

59 listings, of which 16 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 43 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 North York?

To be average in North York you need 183. To be in the top quarter you need more than 346. To be visible next to the busiest mover here you would need 3,219, which took them years. 38 of the 59 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a mover in North York 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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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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