The state of agency websites in Canada
Dr Urls research · the Canada edition of our live study · figures computed live, newest audit 21 October 2026
We ran the audit Dr Urls runs for its customers on the home pages of 525 web agencies, studios and freelancers in Canada. These are the results, recomputed every time this page loads.
Key findings
- The median agency home page in Canada scores 56/100, 1 points below the median across all 20 countries we audited (57).
- 87% score below 70, a C+ or worse on the scale we grade every site with (88% overall).
- Only 1 of 525 (under 1%) reach an A (85 or more).
- The median home page has 34 issues our audit flags.
How the grades fall
- A+0% · 0
- A0% · 1
- B+2% · 10
- B11% · 59
- C+26% · 136
- C36% · 189
- D18% · 92
- F7% · 38
By speciality in Canada
By what each business says it does on its own site; only groups of at least 40. One business can count in several rows.
| Group | Sites | Median score | Below 70 |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-commerce agencies | 72 | 62 | 81% |
| SEO agencies | 73 | 61 | 79% |
| WordPress agencies | 110 | 61 | 90% |
| Accessibility experts | 41 | 57 | 93% |
The best-scored agency websites in Canada
By the score of their own home page, from our audit. A score measures the site, not the quality of the agency's work for clients.
- 1TactikMediaThetford Mines90
- 2Best SEO AgencyToronto83
- 3NixaMontréal82
- 4Build Me App | App Development & Product Studio, TorontoToronto80
- 5Canadian Web DesignsToronto80
- 6Digital 6ixToronto80
- 7JB ImpactQuébec79
- 8VIA CommunicationQuébec79
- 9SEO Team TorontoToronto78
- 10Toronto SEOToronto78
The most common problems
Being collected for Canada: the list appears once at least 300 audits here record which problems they found (177 so far). Until then, see the full study. We would rather show nothing than extrapolate from a few.
How we measured
The same method as the main study: one home page per business, fetched once by our crawler and run through the audit Dr Urls runs for customers. This edition keeps only the agencies located in Canada. Audits taken between 27 August 2026 and 21 October 2026.