Whitby · travel agencies

Web design for
travel agencies in Whitby.

There are 27 travel agencies listed on Google Maps in Whitby. 23 of them put a website on the listing, and we opened every one of those 23 ourselves. Here is what was behind them.

Travel agencies listed in Whitby27
Travel agencies with a working website23
No website on the Whitby listing at all4
Site that does not load or is parked2
Working but visibly dated9
Travel agencies whose site fails on a phone0 (0%)
Still served without HTTPS8
No opening hours on the Google listing0
Median Google reviews among Whitby travel agencies5
Median Google rating in Whitby4.9

1 of the 23 Whitby sites had nothing wrong with them at all. The other 22 had at least one of the faults listed above, and most had more than one.

What they are built on

What Whitby runs on.

Behind the 23 sites we counted 2 platforms. The split says something about budget: 17% on WordPress usually means somebody was paid to build it, while the 0 on free builders were almost always put together by the owner.

WordPress4 (17%)
Wix3 (13%)
Hand-built or unidentified16 (70%)

What actually breaks

No analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does
on 12 of them.

Out of 23 sites in Whitby, 12 have no analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does and 8 have served without https — chrome marks it “not secure”. We counted each fault separately, so a site with three of them appears in three rows below.

Travel agencies measuring nothing at all12 of 23
Page titles that never say “Whitby”12 of 23
Travel agencies marked “Not secure” in Chrome8 of 23
Travel agencies in Whitby with no enquiry form8 of 23
Travel agencies with no structured data7 of 23
Travel agencies dating themselves in the footer4 of 23

None of the 11 faults we counted in Whitby 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

34 reviews
from the top five.

The spread in Whitby is wide: from under 1 reviews in the bottom quarter to 2,671 at the top, with the middle at 5. 2 of the 27 travel agencies have passed a hundred.

Whitby holds 27 of the 783 travel agencies we found across the GTA, which ranks it 11th among the 26 places we surveyed. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside travel agencies.

Quietest quarter of Whitby travel agenciesunder 1 reviews
Median travel agency in Whitby5 reviews
Busiest quarterover 20 reviews
Most-reviewed travel agency in Whitby2,671 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site3 of 5

What this means for you

43% of Whitby sites
are technically fine.

Travel agencies in Whitby are in better shape than most trades we surveyed — 43% of the 23 sites are secure and work on a phone. Across the GTA the same field sits at 5% with no mobile version; Whitby is at 0%, near enough the same. Standing out in a market like this takes more than being technically correct: it takes saying something the other 22 sites do not.

Where a travel agency 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

What people ask us.

How many travel agencies are there in Whitby?

27 listings, of which 1 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 26 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 20. To be visible next to the busiest travel agency here you would need 2,671, which took them years. 11 of the 27 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a travel agency 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.

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.

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