Columbus, Ohio · September 7, 2026

We audited 9 auto repair websites in Columbus. The average scored 60 / 100.

We picked 9 independent auto repair shops in Columbus, Ohio — no national chains — and ran the same six checks on each homepage that SiteRise runs for anyone who enters an address. Nobody asked us to, and no shop is named here. These are the real numbers.

60
Average score out of 100
50
Lowest score we recorded
80
Best score we recorded
7
Of 9 scored 65 or below

Every score, lowest to highest

Not one of these 9 sites came out clean. The spread is narrow, which is the point: this is not a few bad shops, it is how the trade's websites are built.

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What went wrong most often

Six checks ran on each homepage. Here is all six, with how many of the 9 Columbus sites failed each one.

No insecure links inside the page9 of 9 failed
Images described for screen readers6 of 9 failed
Homepage is light enough to load fast3 of 9 failed
One clear page headline3 of 9 failed
Works on a phone screen0 of 9 failed
Loads over a secure connection0 of 9 failed

What each of those costs a shop

No insecure links inside the page — failed by 9 of 9

Parts of the page still load over an unprotected connection. Browsers quietly block some of them, so pieces of the page go missing.

Images described for screen readers — failed by 6 of 9

Photos carry no written description. A blind customer hears nothing, and search engines see nothing to read.

Homepage is light enough to load fast — failed by 3 of 9

The homepage sends far more code than it needs to. On a phone on mobile data, that is real seconds of waiting.

One clear page headline — failed by 3 of 9

The page has no single clear headline. Search engines cannot tell what the shop does or where it is.

Why this matters more than it sounds

A customer with a dead alternator does not compare shops carefully. They search on a phone, open the first two results, and call whichever one answers first. Around half of visitors leave a page that takes more than three seconds to appear — and most people form a first judgement of a business from its website alone.

None of the faults above are hard to fix. They are the sort of thing that takes a competent developer an afternoon. The problem is that nobody ever told the owner they were there.

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Method: 9 independent auto repair shops in Columbus, Ohio, each with its own website, audited on September 7, 2026. Six checks per homepage, publicly visible information only. Shops are not named and we did not contact them to run this.