Richmond Hill · gyms

Web design for
gyms in Richmond Hill.

This page is the Richmond Hill slice of a survey of 54 gyms and fitness studios — every listing on Google Maps, every website opened by hand. 1 of the 51 sites do not work on a phone.

Gyms and fitness studios listed in Richmond Hill54
Gyms with a working website51
No website on the Richmond Hill listing at all2
Site that does not load or is parked4
Working but visibly dated9
Gyms whose site fails on a phone1 (2%)
Still served without HTTPS0
Copyright line 2011 or earlier3
No opening hours on the Google listing1
Median Google reviews among Richmond Hill gyms91
Median Google rating in Richmond Hill4.8

Those 54 listings were checked one at a time. 1 of the 51 sites came through with nothing wrong; the rest had at least one of the problems above.

What they are built on

6 platforms,
no clear winner.

We identified 6 different platforms behind the 51 sites in Richmond Hill. WordPress accounts for 20 of them. 2 sit on a free or entry-level builder — a fair reading of how much the business has put into being found.

WordPress20 (39%)
Wix5 (10%)
Webflow2 (4%)
GoDaddy Builder1 (2%)
Google Sites1 (2%)
Hand-built or unidentified22 (43%)

What actually breaks

No enquiry form anywhere on the site
on 25 of them.

We recorded every fault we could see on the 51 Richmond Hill sites. The one that turns up most is no enquiry form anywhere on the site — 25 of them. Next is no structured data for google to read on 20, then no analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does on 20.

Gyms in Richmond Hill with no enquiry form25 of 51
Gyms with no structured data20 of 51
Gyms measuring nothing at all20 of 51
Page titles that never say “Richmond Hill”18 of 51
Gyms letting Google write their description15 of 51
Gyms dating themselves in the footer13 of 51

A site here that fixes no enquiry form anywhere on the site alone is already ahead of 25 local competitors on that count. That is the whole argument for doing the dull parts first.

Who you are up against

405 reviews
from the top five.

The five most-reviewed gyms in Richmond Hill hold 1,265, 1,084, 585, 564, 496. The middle of the field sits at 91, the lower quarter below 33 and the upper quarter above 330. 26 of the 54 are past 100 reviews and 21 hold a rating of 4.9 or better.

Richmond Hill holds 54 of the 1,495 gyms and fitness studios we found across the GTA, which ranks it 9th among the 26 places we surveyed. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside gyms.

Quietest quarter of Richmond Hill gymsunder 33 reviews
Median gym in Richmond Hill91 reviews
Busiest quarterover 330 reviews
Most-reviewed gym in Richmond Hill1,265 reviews
Top five running a secure, mobile site5 of 5

What this means for you

The Richmond Hill leaders
already fixed this.

5 of the five most-reviewed gyms in Richmond Hill run a secure site that works on a phone. Between them they hold 3,994 reviews. That is the standard a customer compares you against before reading a word about you.

The 2 gyms and fitness studios in Richmond Hill 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.

Questions

Before you ask.

How many gyms are there in Richmond Hill?

54 listings, of which 1 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 53 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 Richmond Hill?

To be average in Richmond Hill you need 91. To be in the top quarter you need more than 330. To be visible next to the busiest gym here you would need 1,265, which took them years. 21 of the 54 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.

What does a website for a gym in Richmond Hill 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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