Oshawa · car dealerships

Web design for
car dealerships in Oshawa.

This page is the Oshawa slice of a survey of 57 dealerships — every listing on Google Maps, every website opened by hand. 0 of the 44 sites do not work on a phone.

Dealerships listed in Oshawa57
Car dealerships with a working website44
No website on the Oshawa listing at all11
Site that does not load or is parked4
Working but visibly dated3
Car dealerships whose site fails on a phone0 (0%)
Still served without HTTPS0
Copyright line 2000 or earlier2
No opening hours on the Google listing2
Median Google reviews among Oshawa car dealerships47
Median Google rating in Oshawa4.8

Those 57 listings were checked one at a time. 3 of the 44 sites came through with nothing wrong; the rest had at least one of the problems above.

What they are built on

What Oshawa runs on.

We identified 2 different platforms behind the 44 sites in Oshawa. WordPress accounts for 21 of them.

WordPress21 (48%)
Wix1 (2%)
Hand-built or unidentified22 (50%)

What actually breaks

No enquiry form anywhere on the site
on 14 of them.

Sorted by how often it appears, the fault list for car dealerships in Oshawa starts with no enquiry form anywhere on the site (14 sites) and no structured data for google to read (11). Both are cheap to fix and neither requires rebuilding anything.

Car dealerships in Oshawa with no enquiry form14 of 44
Car dealerships with no structured data11 of 44
Car dealerships dating themselves in the footer10 of 44
Car dealerships with no heading on the page9 of 44
Car dealerships measuring nothing at all9 of 44
Car dealerships whose domain no longer resolves3 of 44

We would start at the bottom of that list, not the top — copyright line years out of date affects fewer sites here (10), which means fixing it puts you ahead of the 34 that already have it right only if the basics are done too.

Who you are up against

864 reviews
from the top five.

The five most-reviewed car dealerships in Oshawa hold 3,779, 1,031, 1,021, 967, 911. The middle of the field sits at 47, the lower quarter below 13 and the upper quarter above 118. 15 of the 57 are past 100 reviews and 16 hold a rating of 4.9 or better.

Oshawa holds 57 of the 1,407 dealerships we found across the GTA, which ranks it 6th among the 26 places we surveyed. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside car dealerships.

Quietest quarter of Oshawa car dealershipsunder 13 reviews
Median car dealership in Oshawa47 reviews
Busiest quarterover 118 reviews
Most-reviewed car dealership in Oshawa3,779 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site4 of 5

What this means for you

The Oshawa leaders
already fixed this.

4 of the five most-reviewed car dealerships in Oshawa run a secure site that works on a phone. Between them they hold 7,709 reviews. That is the standard a customer compares you against before reading a word about you.

The 11 dealerships in Oshawa 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.

Related.

Car dealerships across the GTA All trades in Oshawa The full GTA report

Car dealerships elsewhere in the GTA: Mississauga Brampton Scarborough North York Etobicoke Oakville

Other trades in Oshawa: Dentists Law firms Accountants Real estate agents

Questions

Asked often.

How many car dealerships are there in Oshawa?

57 listings, of which 3 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 54 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 Oshawa?

To be average in Oshawa you need 47. To be in the top quarter you need more than 118. To be visible next to the busiest car dealership here you would need 3,779, which took them years. 16 of the 57 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a car dealership in Oshawa 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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rebuilding?

Send us the address and what you do. We will look at what is there and tell you whether a rebuild is worth the money, or whether the problem is somewhere else entirely.

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