Small-business websites in Atlanta
17.0% of the 14,672 local small-business websites we checked live around Atlanta (within about 35 miles) have a problem their visitors can see: no secure version, no phone layout, a security warning page, or spam from a hack.
What we found
11.4% of the sites that show a copyright year haven’t updated it in 6 or more years.
By trade
Share with at least one problem visitors can see. Trades with 60+ sites checked. Locksmith and Pest control are left out for now: both are full of lead-generation sites posing as local businesses, and we publish their numbers once those are filtered out.
| Trade | Sites checked | With a visible problem |
|---|---|---|
| Electrician | 92 | 17.4% |
| Construction | 711 | 17.0% |
| Auto repair | 241 | 16.6% |
| Salon | 570 | 15.1% |
| Daycare | 67 | 14.9% |
| Medical | 81 | 12.3% |
| Plumbing | 301 | 12.0% |
| Law firm | 365 | 11.5% |
| Chiropractic | 382 | 11.0% |
| Roofing | 397 | 10.8% |
| Bakery | 77 | 10.4% |
| Landscaping | 240 | 10.4% |
| Accounting | 271 | 10.3% |
| Towing | 222 | 9.9% |
| HVAC | 296 | 9.1% |
| Cleaning service | 283 | 8.5% |
| Real estate | 876 | 8.4% |
| Dental | 783 | 6.9% |
| Barber | 165 | 6.7% |
| Insurance agency | 74 | 5.4% |
| Physical therapy | 68 | 4.4% |
| Florist | 103 | 1.9% |
| Restaurant | 191 | 1.6% |
How we measured
Our crawler reads small-business websites across the US and places each one by the address or phone number on its own pages. For each region we take the local businesses within about 35 miles of the city center, leaving out chains, institutions, parked and placeholder pages, franchise satellite sites and lead-generation networks.
Every site counted here was checked live in October 2026: one visit to the homepage and one check of its security certificate, the way a browser sees them. Sites that were down or sent visitors to another domain on that visit aren’t counted. “No https” means the homepage loads only over plain http; “no phone layout” means the page has no viewport setting; “contact form not secure” means a form with typing fields on a plain-http page; “security warning” means the site is served over https with an expired, self-signed or wrong certificate; “hacked” means spam words (casino, pharmacy, betting) on an otherwise normal business page.
Figures are rounded to one decimal and refreshed monthly. Questions about the data, or need a different cut (a city, a trade)? Ask us.
Citing this
Site Decay, “Small-business websites in Atlanta”, October 2026. https://sitedecay.com/report/atlanta
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