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Find Local Businesses With Bad Websites

Pick a city and a trade. The tool opens every website it finds and shows you the ones that are broken, insecure, slow or useless on a phone — the businesses that need a new site and may not know it.

Start typing, then pick the place from the list.

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What the checker looks for

  • It won’t load. The domain has lapsed, the hosting was cancelled or the server errors. The strongest pitch there is.
  • Its domain has been taken. A lapsed domain bought by someone else now shows a casino or a parking page to anyone who searches for the business. Owners almost never know.
  • No HTTPS. Chrome labels the site “Not secure” next to the address.
  • Not built for phones. No mobile layout, so the page shows as a shrunken desktop site on the phones most visitors use.
  • Slow and heavy. Seconds before anything appears, and many visitors leave before then.
  • A Facebook page instead of a website. Listed as the website, and nothing a customer can book from.
  • No way to reach them. No phone link, no form, no booking — a brochure, not a website.

How the ranking works

Every problem found adds to a score out of 100, weighted by how much it costs the business: a site that won’t load scores higher than one that is merely slow. Sites that are already well built are left out entirely, so the list is only businesses worth a message.

Outdated websites vs. no website

A business with a bad website already believes in having one, which makes the conversation easier: you are fixing something, not selling an idea. A business with no website at all is a bigger change for the owner and often a bigger sale. Work both lists — the businesses without websites finder covers the second.

Turning a bad website into a client

Lead with the problem they can check in ten seconds on their own phone, then the fix. A link to a finished replacement — their name, their photos, their reviews — does more than any audit report. SitesGen builds that replacement in minutes and writes the message that goes with it.

Questions

What counts as a bad website?+

One that loses the business customers: it won't load, shows a security warning, breaks on a phone, takes seconds to appear, has no way to call or book, or has quietly been taken over by someone else. The tool checks each of these and ranks the sites by how many it fails.

How does the tool check a website?+

It opens the homepage the way a browser would and reads it: whether it answers at all, whether it is secure, whether it is built for phones, how heavy and slow it is, what it was built with and whether a visitor can reach the business from it. Nothing is installed and the owner is never contacted.

Is this the same as a website grader?+

A grader scores one site you already know about. This finds the sites worth grading: it searches a whole area for businesses of one trade and checks all of their websites at once, so you start with a list of prospects rather than a URL.

Why do some businesses have such old websites?+

A site gets built once, by a nephew or an agency that has since moved on, and nobody owns it after that. The owner stops looking at it long before customers do.

How do I pitch a website redesign?+

Name the one problem they would recognise — “your site shows a security warning in Chrome” — and show them the replacement already built. SitesGen writes that message and builds the new site from the business's own photos and reviews.

Is it free?+

Yes, with no sign-up. Each search shows the five worst websites in full; the rest of the list comes with the SitesGen trial.

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Show them the new site, not the old one's problems.

SitesGen scans the area, builds every business a finished, mobile-ready site from its own photos and reviews, and writes the pitch. You send it and get paid.

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Business data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Search powered by Geoapify. A business with no website on the map may still have one; SitesGen double-checks before showing it.