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in Adelaide.

Websites for Adelaide practices, trades and kitchens, built in Gawler on the city's northern edge. Fast on a phone, found by suburb, and looked after for years.

We tested 55 Adelaide business websites · November 2026

The city, scored.

One bar for every site, filled to its mobile score from Google's Lighthouse. Ninety is where Google starts calling it good. The average here is 66.

Mobile speed scores of 55 adelaide business websites, one row eachGOOD · 90+Site 01 ·100Site 02 ·99Site 03 ·97Site 04 ·93Site 05 ·89Site 06 ·86Site 07 ·86Site 08 ·82Site 09 ·80Site 10 ·79Site 11 ·74Site 12 ·69Site 13 ·68Site 14 ·67Site 15 ·67Site 16 ·66Site 17 ·65Site 18 ·65Site 19 ·63Site 20 ·60Site 21 ·58Site 22 ·57Site 23 ·57Site 24 ·56Site 25 ·55Site 26 ·52Site 27 ·52Site 28 ·45Site 29 ·31Site 30 ·13Our builds · 91–98Average 66

The chart shows 30 of 55 sites, picked at random. Scores range from 13 to 100, average 66. 5 of 55 reached 90. Sites we have built score 98, 98, 97, 94, 93, 91.

Adelaide business websites, best first, unnamed (30 of 55, picked at random)Every site we’ve built, one mark each

Lighthouse 12, mobile, default throttling, one site at a time. 55 Adelaide businesses across ten kinds of business: the ones that show up on Google for the searches below, on their own site or on the map. Lab scores, not real-user data. Sites are never named.

Source: Google's results for ten Adelaide searches.
Local search · November 2026

191,420 searches a month. Who gets them?

What people search for around Adelaide, counting every suburb in it: 50% of these searches name a suburb, not Adelaide. Then what Google puts on page one. Orange posts are businesses on their own website. The rest are guides, portals, directories and social profiles.

  1. Restaurants

    80,200/mo
    59% name a suburb
    3 of 10 own sites · 1st is a guide

    Food guides lead. Three restaurants make page one on their own sites, and the map leaders have up to 2,100 reviews.

    Map leaders: 2,100 · 748 · 371 reviews
  2. Real estate

    52,690/mo
    20% name a suburb
    0 of 10 own sites · 1st is a property portal

    The portals take all ten. Agents compete on the map instead.

    Map leaders: 323 · 134 · 128 reviews
  3. Cafés

    26,650/mo
    86% name a suburb
    2 of 10 own sites · 1st is a guide

    Searched by suburb. A precinct guide holds four spots, and two cafés make it on their own sites.

    Map leaders: 60 · 141 · 1,300 reviews
  4. Physios

    8,300/mo
    65% name a suburb
    10 of 10 own sites · 1st is a business’s own site

    All ten are practices' own sites. The site itself is the competition.

    Map leaders: 167 · 164 · 23 reviews
  5. Dentists

    8,100/mo
    77% name a suburb
    9 of 10 own sites · 1st is a business’s own site

    Nine of ten are practices' own sites, so the one that's easiest to book wins.

    Map leaders: 553 · 173 · 124 reviews
  6. Plumbers

    5,610/mo
    22% name a suburb
    7 of 10 own sites · 1st is a business’s own site

    Seven plumbers on their own sites, but the map leaders have 2,100 to 3,400 reviews.

    Map leaders: 3,400 · 376 · 2,100 reviews
  7. Builders

    3,730/mo
    6% name a suburb
    4 of 10 own sites · 1st is a business’s own site

    Four builders on their own sites. Comparison sites and portals take the rest.

    Map leaders: 108 · 61 · 382 reviews
  8. Electricians

    2,350/mo
    32% name a suburb
    5 of 10 own sites · 1st is a directory

    A jobs marketplace comes first. Five electricians make it on their own sites.

    Map leaders: 1,500 · 48 · 120 reviews
  9. Lawyers

    2,190/mo
    41% name a suburb
    9 of 10 own sites · 1st is a business’s own site

    Nine firms on their own sites, and the map leaders have under 200 reviews each.

    Map leaders: 178 · 197 · 176 reviews
  10. Accountants

    1,600/mo
    25% name a suburb
    9 of 10 own sites · 1st is a business’s own site

    Nine firms on their own sites. The most winnable map: 37 to 107 reviews.

    Map leaders: 107 · 37 · 59 reviews

Searches a month: Google’s average for the phrases people use, with the region’s name and with each suburb’s (like “adelaide restaurants” or “cafe norwood”). Close variants Google counts together are counted once, and suburbs that share a name with a business or a bigger place elsewhere are left out. Page one: one search per type, from Adelaide, November 2026. Businesses are never named.

Field notes

Three things the city does.

  1. No. 01Speed
    6.4 smedian wait for the main content

    50 of 55 missed 90.

    We tested 55 Adelaide business websites on a mid-range phone, from dentists and law firms to plumbers and cafés. They do better than the regions, but only 5 scored 90 for speed. Half took longer than 6.4 seconds to show their main content, and 12 took longer than 10.

    What we build instead

    Sites that score 90 or more on a phone. You see the score on every preview before anything goes live.

  2. No. 02Suburbs
    50%of searches name a suburb

    Google is left to guess the suburb.

    Half of the searches we counted name a suburb, not Adelaide, and for dentists and cafés it's more than three in four. Yet only 17 of the 55 sites tell Google what kind of business they are and where, and 10 have no description for Google to show.

    What we build instead

    Your suburb and the areas you serve in your titles, your address and your markup, so "dentist unley" or "cafe norwood" finds you, on Google and in AI answers.

  3. No. 03First screen
    17 of 55open with a pop-up

    The first screen is a pop-up.

    On a phone, 17 of the 55 homepages open with something covering most of the first screen before you can read it. When nine other practices are one tap away on page one, that's where people leave.

    What we build instead

    Who you are, where you are and one clear way to book or call, all on the first screen, and nothing in front of it.

Who we build for here

One city, three ways to be found.

An Adelaide practice is up against nine other practices on page one. A plumber is up against thousands of reviews. A café is searched by its suburb. Each needs a different kind of site.

Close by

45 minutes to the city. Or one call.

We work from Gawler, at the city's northern edge. Most of a build happens on calls and a shared preview link, and when a kickoff or a photo day is worth doing in person, we come to you.

Distances from our studio in Gawler, as the crow flies.

Builds from $4,995 · fixed-price quote · What’s included

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A 30-minute call with the person who'll build your project. No pitch deck, no sales team. We'll look at what you have, what it needs to do, and whether we're the right fit.

  • A quick look at your current site or socials
  • What your customers need to see before they call
  • A straight answer on timing and price
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Damian HodgkissFounder

Yes. Mangofish is a studio in Gawler, on Adelaide's northern edge, about 45 minutes from the city. We build for businesses across Adelaide, from the CBD and the eastern suburbs to the beaches and the north.

No. Most of a build happens on calls and a shared preview link. When a kickoff or a photo day is worth doing in person, we come to you.

Builds start at $4,995 for up to eight pages, with a fixed-price quote before we start. After launch, Care keeps it fast, safe and up to date each month.

Yes. Half the searches we counted name a suburb, not Adelaide. We put your suburb and the areas you serve in your titles, your address and your markup, so "dentist unley" or "cafe norwood" can find you.

We took the Adelaide businesses that show up on Google for the searches above, across ten kinds of business, and ran Google's Lighthouse mobile test on each homepage, one at a time, in November 2026. We publish the scores, never the names.