Whitby · therapists

Web design for
therapists in Whitby.

This page is the Whitby slice of a survey of 48 therapy practices — every listing on Google Maps, every website opened by hand. 1 of the 46 sites do not work on a phone.

Therapy practices listed in Whitby48
Therapists with a working website46
No website on the Whitby listing at all2
Site that does not load or is parked1
Working but visibly dated8
Therapists whose site fails on a phone1 (2%)
Still served without HTTPS0
Copyright line 2015 or earlier3
No opening hours on the Google listing0
Median Google reviews among Whitby therapists5
Median Google rating in Whitby5.0

Those 48 listings were checked one at a time. 3 of the 46 sites came through with nothing wrong; the rest had at least one of the problems above.

What they are built on

4 of them are on
a free builder.

We identified 4 different platforms behind the 46 sites in Whitby. WordPress accounts for 13 of them. 4 sit on a free or entry-level builder — a fair reading of how much the business has put into being found.

WordPress13 (28%)
Squarespace10 (22%)
Wix9 (20%)
GoDaddy Builder4 (9%)
Hand-built or unidentified10 (22%)

What actually breaks

No enquiry form anywhere on the site
on 25 of them.

Sorted by how often it appears, the fault list for therapists in Whitby starts with no enquiry form anywhere on the site (25 sites) and page title does not name the city they work in (19). Both are cheap to fix and neither requires rebuilding anything.

Therapists in Whitby with no enquiry form25 of 46
Page titles that never say “Whitby”19 of 46
Therapists measuring nothing at all19 of 46
Therapists with no heading on the page12 of 46
Therapists with no structured data12 of 46
Therapists letting Google write their description10 of 46

We would start at the bottom of that list, not the top — no analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does affects fewer sites here (19), which means fixing it puts you ahead of the 27 that already have it right only if the basics are done too.

Who you are up against

14 reviews
from the top five.

The five most-reviewed therapists in Whitby hold 66, 47, 36, 31, 19. The middle of the field sits at 5, the lower quarter below 2 and the upper quarter above 12. 0 of the 48 are past 100 reviews and 38 hold a rating of 4.9 or better.

Whitby holds 48 of the 882 therapy practices we found across the GTA, which ranks it 5th among the 26 places we surveyed. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside therapists.

Quietest quarter of Whitby therapistsunder 2 reviews
Median therapist in Whitby5 reviews
Busiest quarterover 12 reviews
Most-reviewed therapist in Whitby66 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site4 of 5

What this means for you

The Whitby leaders
already fixed this.

4 of the five most-reviewed therapists in Whitby run a secure site that works on a phone. Between them they hold 199 reviews. That is the standard a customer compares you against before reading a word about you.

The 2 therapy practices in Whitby 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

The usual questions.

How many therapists are there in Whitby?

48 listings, of which 3 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 45 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 Whitby?

To be average in Whitby you need 5. To be in the top quarter you need more than 12. To be visible next to the busiest therapist here you would need 66, which took them years. 38 of the 48 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a therapist in Whitby 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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