Toronto & the GTA
Carpentry shops are a field where the website is checked before the phone is picked up. We surveyed all 479 of them in the GTA and opened every site — here is the state of the field and what a replacement costs.
Review counts are not comparable between trades — 12 is the middle for carpenters, which is a very different number from what a dentist or a barber would see. The upper quarter of this field is past 31 reviews and the busiest carpenter we found holds 287.
What they are built on
Detected from the 391 carpentry shops websites we opened. 23 are on a free or entry-level builder, 0 on software discontinued years ago, and 32 still date themselves 1996 or earlier in the footer.
What actually breaks
Counted separately across all 391 sites in this field, so a site with four faults appears in four rows.
Built for this trade
One page cannot rank for everything a carpenter does. Each service gets its own page, written for the words people actually type — which for this field is rarely the words the trade uses internally.
Reviews, photographs and the details that make someone pick you over the listing above yours. 26% of carpenters with a website still have no mobile version — that alone is an opening.
Forms, booking, click-to-call. 135 sites in this field have no enquiry form at all.
Questions
No. We work with local businesses across the GTA and keep a separate page per trade because what a carpenter needs from a website is genuinely different from what a retailer needs. We surveyed 479 carpentry shops to write this one.
84 of the 479 we checked have none attached to their Google listing, and 85 more link to a site that does not load. Of the 391 working sites, 102 have no mobile version.
The median across the GTA in this field is 12; the upper quarter is past 31 and the busiest single carpenter we found holds 287. Those numbers mean nothing outside this trade — a count that is exceptional for a carpenter is unremarkable for a restaurant.
Between $590 and $3,900 for the site depending on size, paid after it is built and you have seen it. Then $129 to $990 a month for hosting, edits, your Google listing and ongoing SEO. Cancel any month.
Before you decide anything
Most people asking about a rebuild do not need one. The free check opens your site, looks at how it behaves on a phone, whether it is secure and how old the page is, and tells you which of those apply to you.
No pitch deck and no discovery call. Tell us the trade and the city, and we will say what we would do and what it costs.