Half the flooring companies in Minneapolis show up in one search out of twenty five.

The five checks in Minneapolis, MN

What a customer runs into after tapping a listing, counted on the 167 local sites in the table near the end of this page. Each check is explained on the home page.

1. 1. The Website button opens your site153 of 167 passMeasured here: Opens clean, fits a phone.
2. 2. The number calls in one tap150 of 167 passMeasured here: the number on the listing is the number on the site. Taps were not counted.
3. 3. There's a starting pricenot in this report
4. 4. A message gets through80 of 167 passMeasured here: Can write, no extra fields.
5. 5. Google Maps tells the same storynot in this report

If I wrote to you, the link in my message opens your own five checks at the top of this page. If not, get them free, in writing, within one business day.

Five screens between a floor and a job

Each screen is one step a customer takes, with what this metro actually shows at that step.

How often one company is seen

Of the 210 companies that came up at all, this is how many of the 25 counted searches each one appeared in. Nobody in this metro was seen in more than six.

21 companies took first place at least once. 86 never got higher than tenth. The phrase and the point on the map decide more here than the company does.

Who is already paying for visits

What one lost visit is worth

I do not know your numbers, so put your own in. Nothing is sent anywhere.

All 203 sites, five checks each

Numbers are random and exist only on this page. Chains, national companies and listings that point at somebody else's site are marked and left out of the counts above. Click a column to sort.

1. Opens without a browser warning
2. Fits a phone screen
3. Has a form with a message box
4. The form sends without a phone number or a last name
5. The listing number is on the site

How this was checked

• S1 Google Maps results. 41 searches on September 22, 2026: eight queries from each of five points in the metro plus one metro wide query. 25 of them came back with at least eight listings of this trade and count here. 16 came back empty or with other trades.
• S2 Google business listings. Category, hours, phone number, rating and review count for all 335 listings that came up on September 22, 2026.
• S3 Business websites. Every site that opened was read on September 22, 2026 in a full browser: the home page and up to four inner pages such as contact, prices and services. On September 24, 2026 certificates, call buttons and forms were read again for 43 sites.
• S4 Prices on the sites. A price counts when it sits next to a unit of work, such as a square foot or a room. 28 of the 220 sites that opened show one. 28 of the 220 sites that opened show a price. Amounts found next to a unit of work run from $4 to $30 per square foot, and full-room quotes from $1,000 up.
• S5 Browser behaviour. Chrome and Safari show a full page warning before a site with an expired certificate opens, and mark plain http pages Not secure.
• S6 What this check cannot see. Calls, walk ins, jobs won, ad spend, and the quality of anyone's work. This page is about websites and Google listings only.

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