Toronto & the GTA

Websites for
storage facilities.

Self-storage facilities are a field where the website is checked before the phone is picked up. We surveyed all 486 of them in the GTA and opened every site — here is the state of the field and what a replacement costs.

Storage facilities we checked across the GTA486
With a working website372
No website at all25
Website that does not load, is blank or parked31
Working but visibly dated69
No mobile version40 (11% of those with a site)
Still served without HTTPS5
Copyright line 2001 or earlier32
Median Google reviews among storage facilities173
Median Google rating4.8

Review counts are not comparable between trades — 173 is the middle for storage facilities, which is a very different number from what a dentist or a barber would see. The upper quarter of this field is past 530 reviews and the busiest storage facility we found holds 2,199.

What they are built on

9 platforms
across the field.

Detected from the 372 self-storage facilities websites we opened. 5 are on a free or entry-level builder, 0 on software discontinued years ago, and 32 still date themselves 2001 or earlier in the footer.

WordPress87 (23%)
Wix20 (5%)
Shopify9 (2%)
GoDaddy Builder3 (1%)
Squarespace2 (1%)
Hand-built or unidentified251 (67%)

What actually breaks

Storage facilities in the GTA with no enquiry form:
160 of them.

Counted separately across all 372 sites in this field, so a site with four faults appears in four rows.

Storage facilities in the GTA with no enquiry form160 of 372
Page titles that never say “the GTA”78 of 372
Storage facilities measuring nothing at all69 of 372
Storage facilities dating themselves in the footer62 of 372
Storage facilities with no structured data43 of 372
Storage facilities letting Google write their description27 of 372

Built for this trade

What storage facilities
actually need.

Pages that rank

A page per service, not one long list

One page cannot rank for everything a storage facility 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.

Proof

Your work, shown properly

Reviews, photographs and the details that make someone pick you over the listing above yours. 11% of storage facilities with a website still have no mobile version — that alone is an opening.

Enquiries

A way to reach you that is not a phone call

Forms, booking, click-to-call. 160 sites in this field have no enquiry form at all.

Questions

The usual questions.

Do you only work with storage facilities?

No. We work with local businesses across the GTA and keep a separate page per trade because what a storage facility needs from a website is genuinely different from what a retailer needs. We surveyed 486 self-storage facilities to write this one.

How many storage facilities in the GTA have no website?

25 of the 486 we checked have none attached to their Google listing, and 31 more link to a site that does not load. Of the 372 working sites, 40 have no mobile version.

How many Google reviews does a storage facility need?

The median across the GTA in this field is 173; the upper quarter is past 530 and the busiest single storage facility we found holds 2,199. Those numbers mean nothing outside this trade — a count that is exceptional for a storage facility is unremarkable for a restaurant.

What does it cost?

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

Find out whether
you have a problem.

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.

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Worth a
conversation?

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