Toronto & the GTA
We build websites and run local SEO for painters across the Greater Toronto Area. Everything below comes from our own survey of 389 listings in this field — we opened all 343 of their websites and checked what was there.
Review counts are not comparable between trades — 21 is the middle for painters, which is a very different number from what a dentist or a barber would see. The upper quarter of this field is past 51 reviews and the busiest painter we found holds 1,231.
What they are built on
Detected from the 343 painting companies websites we opened. 20 are on a free or entry-level builder, 1 on software discontinued years ago, and 23 still date themselves 2007 or earlier in the footer.
What actually breaks
Counted separately across all 343 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 painter 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. 27% of painters with a website still have no mobile version — that alone is an opening.
Forms, booking, click-to-call. 93 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 painter needs from a website is genuinely different from what a retailer needs. We surveyed 389 painting companies to write this one.
44 of the 389 we checked have none attached to their Google listing, and 80 more link to a site that does not load. Of the 343 working sites, 94 have no mobile version.
The median across the GTA in this field is 21; the upper quarter is past 51 and the busiest single painter we found holds 1,231. Those numbers mean nothing outside this trade — a count that is exceptional for a painter 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.
Now check your own
Type your address and we will open your site the way a visitor would, then tell you plainly what is wrong with it — including when the answer is nothing. Ten seconds, no email, nothing stored.
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.