Search Google Maps for hurricane shutters from Wichita and two places in three go to companies more than 100 miles away.
On September 28 I searched Google Maps for hurricane and storm shutters the way someone in Wichita would, from the middle of the metro and four points around it: 17 searches that count, 313 places, different listings. places belong to companies more than 100 miles away, of them in Florida. The plain Wichita search is the exception, and its first ten places are . On September 29 I opened 19 of the local sites again. No business is named here.
Place counts on this page cover all 313 places in the 17 counted searches. Everything about individual sites covers the 19 local sites I opened again on September 29: the ones that come up most and the ones where the first reading found something odd, so they are not a random sample. Wichita metro listings with hours are open on Saturday.
The five checks in Wichita, KS
What a customer runs into after tapping a listing, counted on the 19 local sites in the table near the end of this page. Each check is explained on the home page.
1. The Website button opens your site14 of 19 passMeasured here: Opens clean, fits a phone.
2. The number calls in one tap12 of 17 passMeasured here: the number on the listing is the number on the site. Taps were not counted.
3. There's a starting price1 of 17 passMeasured here: Price.
4. A message gets through13 of 17 passMeasured here: Can write.
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.
How far away the answers are
One row for each search that returned enough places to count, one mark for each place, in order. Tap a row to see what holds each place.
Wichita area, within 50 miles50 to 300 miles: Kansas, Oklahoma, Kansas City, Arkansas300 to 900 miles: Texas, Colorado, Louisiana, the Florida panhandle, ArizonaMore than 900 miles: Florida, the Carolinas, California
Place by place
The search picked above, place by place. Local sites that were opened again show their number on this page. For the rest, what the listing shows and how far away it is.
Metro wide, “hurricane shutters installation in Wichita, KS”
#1Blinds and shutters store, not in this re-check
#2Blinds and shutters store 15Opens clean
#3Window installer, Kansas, 34 miles awayOutside the area
#4Blinds and shutters store, not in this re-check
#5Blinds and shutters store 1Fifth for the metro wide search. The site certificate ends on October 13 and had not renewed itself by September 29, although certificates of its kind usually renew about a month ahead.Opens clean
#6Blinds and shutters store, not in this re-check
#7Window installer 5The call link under the local number dials a sample number on four pages, and the email link opens a message to the site builder's sample address. A booking block still carries the builder's sample text.Opens clean
#8Blinds and shutters store 6Opens clean
#9Window installer, not in this re-check
#10Window installer, not in this re-check
#11Window installer 9The careers page shows a raw plugin code where the job list should be, and asks for resumes at an address on another domain than every other page gives.Opens clean
#12Window cleaner, not in this re-check
#13Blinds and shutters store, no websiteNo website
#14Window installer, not in this re-check
#15Remodeler, not in this re-check
#16Other trade 4The listing opens the site by http and the site stays on http, so a phone shows Not secure above a form that asks for a street address. The certificate itself is valid until December 24.Browser warning
#17Window installer 7Three of the four menu links open a Page Not Found page. The home page shows no phone number and no way to write.Opens clean
#18Blinds and shutters store, not in this re-check
#19Remodeler 19The request form on the home page and the contact page submits to a newsletter service, not to an inbox. A project description typed into it lands in a mailing list as a subscriber record.Opens clean
#20Remodeler, not in this re-check
#21Window cleaner 12The certificate expired between September 28 and 29. Every page read again opens behind the browser's warning, the quote form included.Browser warning
#22Other trade, not in this re-check
#23A store or supply yardA store
#24Window installer, not in this re-check
#25Window installer, not in this re-check
Opens cleanA storeOutside the areaBrowser warningDoes not openNo websiteNot in this re-check
Each step shows how many of the 19 local sites read again pass it. Tap a step to see only those.
15 of the 19 sites read again have something a customer runs into. Tap a step to see only those.
Window installer 5Wichita
The call link under the local number dials a sample number on four pages, and the email link opens a message to the site builder's sample address. A booking block still carries the builder's sample text.
Button dials another numberEmail address wrongTemplate text left
Roofer 2Derby
The text of every page read ends with nine unfilled blanks from the site builder, starting with {{placeholder_retargeting_pixel}}.
Template text leftSite rented from a web company
Window installer 9Wichita
The careers page shows a raw plugin code where the job list should be, and asks for resumes at an address on another domain than every other page gives.
Template text leftEmail address wrong
Remodeler 10Derby
The site stays on http, so the browser writes Not secure. The builder's Type Content filler sits on the home page and the About footer shows [JS_CODE_0] in place of the year.
Browser warningTemplate text left
Window cleaner 12Bel Aire
The certificate expired between September 28 and 29. Every page read again opens behind the browser's warning, the quote form included.
Browser warningListing number not on site
Roofer 13Sedgwick County
The listing's Website button opens an old domain that forwards to a renamed site, and the listing's number is not on that site. The listing has one review, from 2021, and no hours.
Listing number not on siteListing opens another address
Blinds and shutters store 1Wichita
Fifth for the metro wide search. The site certificate ends on October 13 and had not renewed itself by September 29, although certificates of its kind usually renew about a month ahead.
Certificate about to run out
Other trade 3Wichita
The certificate has expired, so every visitor gets the browser's warning page first.
Browser warning
Other trade 4Wichita
The listing opens the site by http and the site stays on http, so a phone shows Not secure above a form that asks for a street address. The certificate itself is valid until December 24.
Browser warning
Window installer 7Wichita
Three of the four menu links open a Page Not Found page. The home page shows no phone number and no way to write.
Link to a missing page
Roofer 8Wichita
The home page offers booking 24/7, the contact page says Mon to Fri 9 to 5, the listing opens at 8. The contact page gives two different street numbers.
Two sets of hours
Roofer 16Wichita
The number on the Google listing is not on the site. The pages read show four other numbers, and the forms have no message box.
Listing number not on site
Window installer 17Harvey County
The website on the listing does not open: the secure connection fails before any page loads.
Site does not open
Roofer 18Maize
The home page offers 24/7 storm response. The listing and the contact page show Saturday and Sunday closed.
Two sets of hours
Remodeler 19Wichita
The request form on the home page and the contact page submits to a newsletter service, not to an inbox. A project description typed into it lands in a mailing list as a subscriber record.
Form sends to a mailing list
What people type, and what local sites answer
What Google suggests to someone typing hurricane shutters installation, next to what the 49 local sites of this kind say.
suggestions are about price
How much to install, cost per window, accordion shutters cost. The biggest group by far.
phrases that name a state name Florida
Permits in Florida, cost per window in Florida. Nothing Google suggests for this search names Kansas.
local sites write about storm, hail or wind
Roofers and siding companies, mostly. Kansas storms are hail and wind, and the pages are about roofs.
local request forms take a photo
For windows and shutters a photo of the opening is most of a first quote. sites give an instant estimate, neither for shutters.
All 19 sites read again, five checks each
Numbers are random and exist only on this page. A dash means the check could not be run for that site. Tap a column to sort.
Number
Does
City
Seen in, of 17
Saturday
Opens clean
Fits a phone
Can write
Price
Same number
Checks
Blinds and shutters store 1
Blinds and shutters store
Wichita
2
open
✓
✓
✓
○
✓
4 of 5
Roofer 2
Roofer
Derby
1
closed
✓
✓
✓
○
✓
4 of 5
Other trade 3
Other trade
Wichita
1
closed
○
–
–
–
–
0 of 1
Other trade 4
Other trade
Wichita
5
open
○
✓
✓
○
✓
3 of 5
Window installer 5
Window installer
Wichita
3
open
✓
✓
○
○
○
2 of 5
Blinds and shutters store 6
Blinds and shutters store
Wichita
5
closed
✓
✓
✓
○
✓
4 of 5
Window installer 7
Window installer
Wichita
1
closed
✓
✓
○
○
○
2 of 5
Roofer 8
Roofer
Wichita
2
closed
✓
✓
✓
○
✓
4 of 5
Window installer 9
Window installer
Wichita
1
closed
✓
✓
✓
○
✓
4 of 5
Remodeler 10
Remodeler
Derby
1
open
○
✓
✓
○
✓
3 of 5
Window cleaner 11
Window cleaner
Sedgwick County
1
–
✓
✓
✓
○
✓
4 of 5
Window cleaner 12
Window cleaner
Bel Aire
3
open
○
✓
✓
○
○
2 of 5
Roofer 13
Roofer
Sedgwick County
1
–
✓
✓
✓
○
○
3 of 5
Window installer 14
Window installer
Wichita
2
closed
✓
✓
○
○
✓
3 of 5
Blinds and shutters store 15
Blinds and shutters store
Wichita
5
open
✓
✓
✓
○
✓
4 of 5
Roofer 16
Roofer
Wichita
1
open
✓
✓
○
○
○
2 of 5
Window installer 17
Window installer
Harvey County
1
–
○
–
–
–
–
0 of 1
Roofer 18
Roofer
Maize
2
closed
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
5 of 5
Remodeler 19
Remodeler
Wichita
2
closed
✓
✓
✓
○
✓
4 of 5
How shutters in Wichita differ from the other reports
In the other reports the places around a trade were held by neighbors, other trades that share a word with it. Here most places are held by the trade itself, only not from here: storm shutter companies in Florida, Texas and the Carolinas, a thousand miles and more away, fill the near me searches. From three points around Wichita, places for installation near me went to them.
The plain Wichita search behaves differently. All of its first 25 places are within 35 miles, and Google fills them with blinds and shutters stores, window installers and remodelers, the shutters that go inside the window. And the same repair near me search that returns only Florida and Texas from the south and west returns companies within 100 miles from the east.
It is also the first report where the questions come from another state. Every place name in the phrases Google suggests is in Florida.
What each fix costs against one of your jobs
No local site in this check prints a price for shutters of any kind. So the only number here is the one you type.
One of your jobs against each fix
Found on 16 of 17 sites read againNo starting price for the jobs you do most$150
Found on 14 of 19 sites read againSeen in 2 or fewer of the 17 searches$600
Found on 8 of 17 sites read againThe form or the email address on the page sends people wrong$250
Found on 5 of 19 sites read againThe site opens behind a browser warning$150
Found on 5 of 17 sites read againThe listing number is not on the site, or a button dials another$150
Nothing typed here leaves this page. The prices are the ones on the home page of this site, paid after the fix is live.
Is your company here?
If I wrote to you, the link in my message opens this page with your row and your steps marked. If I did not, send your site and I will go through it the same way, in writing and free.
Searches: 17 Google Maps searches that count, on September 28, 2026, from the middle of the Wichita metro and four points around it, in the phrasings Google suggests. Together they returned 313 places and 135 different listings. 58 of the listings sit in the Wichita metro in trades close to this one, and 49 of their websites answered. The other 77 are outside the metro, most of them storm shutter companies in Florida and Texas.
Read again: on September 29 I opened 19 of those sites again by hand and by script, home page and inner pages, and compared the Google listing with what the site shows. They are the ones that come up most and the ones where the first reading found something odd, so they are not a random sample, and no share on this page stands for the whole metro. A few listings outside the 19 appear in the search lists with what the listing itself shows, such as no website.
Limits: one day of searches, five points and one metro wide search. A company that is not here may simply not have come up. Page speed was measured from Europe and is left out.
Google Maps results. Google Maps searches on September 28, 2026, from a point in the middle of the Wichita metro and four points around it, north, south, east and west, in the phrasings Google suggests for hurricane shutters: the cost, installation, how to install, near me, repair. 17 searches returned enough places to count, 313 places in all. Distances run from the listing's map pin to the middle of the metro.
Google business listings. Name, category, phone number, opening hours, reviews and the website field of all 135 listings the searches returned, read on September 28, 2026.
Websites, first reading. Every website field was followed on September 28, 2026. 49 sites answered and were read, the home page and up to six inner pages each.
Websites, read again. On September 29 I opened 19 of those sites again: certificates, call links, email links, forms, sample text. The 19 are the ones that come up most in the searches and the ones where the first reading found something odd. They are not a random sample, so no share on this page stands for the whole metro.
Printed prices. Prices read in context on the sites that print them, on September 29, and checked by hand.
Area codes. As assigned in the North American numbering plan: 316 is Wichita and south central Kansas. 800, 844, 855, 866, 877 and 888 are toll free. Most listings far from Wichita carry the code of their own state: 239, 305, 321, 407, 561, 727, 772, 813, 941 and 954 in Florida, 281, 409 and 956 in Texas.
What this check cannot see. Calls, jobs won, ad spend, and the quality of anyone's work. This page is about Google listings and websites only.
Words on the local sites. Phrases, forms and calculators found by script on the 49 local sites of this kind the run read on September 28, home page and up to six inner pages each. Checked by hand on the 19 read again.
Google suggestions. The suggestions Google gave on September 28 for hurricane shutters installation and its variants: 88 prompts, 55 different phrases, 85 appearances grouped by theme.
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