47% of Edmundston businesses have no website
I measured. Every month my crawler checks 268 Edmundston businesses across ten everyday categories and audits every website it finds. This page is what the data says, and what I build for the businesses that want to be on the right side of it.
Edmundston lives at a crossroads: overwhelmingly French, minutes from Quebec, and a border town with Maine. Its businesses serve locals, Québécois passing on the Trans-Canada, and American day traffic, three audiences, all searching.
I don’t guess about the state of Edmundston’s web presence: I measure it. The same crawler that keeps my own sites honest checks 268 local businesses across ten everyday categories, restaurants to roofers, and audits every website it finds for speed, mobile readiness, HTTPS, and the technical signals Google reads. The numbers on this page are from September 2026, and they refresh automatically.
Where Edmundston businesses are losing online
- 68% of hair salons have no website at all: 28 of the 41 I checked.
- 51% of general contractors have no website at all: 25 of the 49 I checked.
- 50% of auto repair shops have no website at all: 29 of the 58 I checked.
- 15% of existing sites aren’t mobile-ready, on the devices nearly every local search happens on.
- 47% give Google no structured data, so search engines only half-understand what the business even is.
- 14% of listed websites are dead or unreachable, sending customers to an error page.
Aggregate numbers only: I never publish results for individual businesses. Want to know where yours stands? Run the same audit yourself, free.
Edmundston web health by industry
Every category I track, updated monthly. "Not mobile-ready" and "no structured data" are percentages of businesses that have a website at all.
| Industry | Checked | No website | Not mobile-ready | No structured data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 60 | 25% | 22% | 51% |
| Auto repair shops | 58 | 50% | 10% | 34% |
| General contractors | 49 | 51% | 17% | 58% |
| Hair salons | 41 | 68% | 23% | 62% |
| Dentists | 18 | 50% | 0% | 56% |
| Electricians | 15 | 47% | 13% | 50% |
| Accountants | 13 | 23% | 0% | 20% |
| Plumbers | 7 | 71% | 0% | 0% |
| Roofing companies | 5 | 60% | 0% | 0% |
| Landscapers | 2 | 50% | 0% | 100% |
Sites that pass every check above
Every site I build for a Edmundston business clears the audit this page is based on by construction: mobile-first, HTTPS, structured data Google can read, and load times under a second on the same AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure that runs ERstat.ca at 100k+ visits a month. Business email on your own domain included, flat written quote before any work starts, and everything happens remotely: phone, email, and Google Meet.
Also serving: Moncton · Dieppe · Saint John · Fredericton · Miramichi · Bathurst. See every city I track.
Questions from Edmundston businesses
My customers are mostly French-speaking. Can you build for that?
Yes: French-first is the right call in Edmundston, with English added where the border traffic justifies it. I build both, with proper hreflang so each version ranks in its own language.
Do I compete with Quebec businesses online?
For some trades, yes: Témiscouata is twenty minutes away. Clear local signals, your city, your service area, structured data, are how Google decides you’re the local answer and they’re not.
How does working with a Nova Scotia developer go?
Entirely remotely: phone, email, and Google Meet. For French copy we work from text you provide or have translated; I build the bilingual structure around it. Flat written quote before anything begins.
Be findable in Edmundston.
Start with the questionnaire or a free 20-minute call. Flat written quote before anything begins.