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Web design in Mayo, with the homework done.

Websites for Mayo businesses. In October 2026 we checked the websites of the 20 businesses Google shows first in Castlebar, across five trades. This page shows what those sites have, what they miss, and what to fix first on your own.

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8 of the 20 businesses Google shows first in Castlebar have a website of their own, and ten have no website we could find. The eight that exist are the quickest of the 26 study towns on a phone: a median speed score of 75.5 out of 100, and none under 50.

The headline numbers for Castlebar, October 2026

  • 8 of 20 businesses Google shows first have a website of their own
  • 2 of 8 sites with a speed score reach 90 or more on a phone
  • 4 of 7 sites we could read show a price
  • 0 of 6 cafe, hairdresser and clinic sites we could read take bookings online
Where we looked

We checked the 20 businesses Google shows first in Castlebar.

Checked · Study by , founder · How we checked

I set the rules for this study: one town per county, the same five searches in each, the businesses Google shows first, and no business named.

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The 26 towns in our county study, one per county. This page is Castlebar, in County Mayo. Tap a county to open its page.

  1. We searched Google for five trades

    Plumbers, electricians, cafes, hairdressers and physio and physical therapy clinics, on 14 October 2026, on a phone, logged out, from Castlebar town centre.

  2. We took the first four from each Maps list

    After removing chains, wrong trades, duplicate listings and anything outside the county. That gives 20.

  3. We checked each of the 20

    Their websites, their Google profiles, their Google ads and whether ChatGPT names them. We name none of them here.

Searches a month from County Mayo

Searches a month from County Mayo

  • Cafes and coffeeabout 9,230
  • Hairdressersabout 1,210
  • Plumbersabout 340
  • Physio and physical therapy clinicsabout 260
  • Electriciansabout 200
The searches in each total

Cafes and coffee about 9,230 a month

  • "coffee near me" 4,400
  • "cafe near me" 1,900
  • "coffee shop near me" 1,600
  • "cafe" 1,000
  • "cafe castlebar" 320
  • "cafe mayo" 10

Hairdressers about 1,210 a month

  • "hairdresser castlebar" 720
  • "hairdresser" 210
  • "hair salon near me" 170
  • "hairdresser near me" 110

Plumbers about 340 a month

  • "plumber castlebar" 110
  • "plumber near me" 90
  • "plumber" 90
  • "plumber mayo" 40
  • "emergency plumber" 10

Physio and physical therapy clinics about 260 a month

  • "physio" 140
  • "physio near me" 90
  • "physio mayo" 30

Electricians about 200 a month

  • "electrician" 90
  • "electrician near me" 70
  • "electrician castlebar" 30
  • "electrician mayo" 10

Google's own monthly estimates for searches made from County Mayo: a 12-month average, rounded by Google, with singular and plural counted once.

Who has a website

12 of the 20 in Castlebar have no website of their own.

Of those 12, two rely on Facebook alone and ten have no website we could find.

Further down the same Maps lists, 9 of the 35 businesses have a website of their own, so a website is still more common at the top of each list than below it.

None of the four plumbers Google shows first in Castlebar has a website of its own, and one of the four electricians does. Cafes have the most, three of four; hairdressers and physio and physical therapy clinics have two of four.

Castlebar, level with Mullingar at 8 of 20, has the second-lowest share of the 26 study towns after Carrick-on-Shannon; across all 26 it is 308 of 505. That leaves room for a Castlebar business to get online, and a bar to clear. The sites already here are the quickest we measured: their biggest image or text appeared in a median of 4.4 seconds on a phone.

From County Mayo come about 9,230 searches a month for cafes and coffee, about 1,210 for hairdressers and about 340 for plumbers. Of the seven Castlebar sites we could read, four show a price and one names the area it covers.

The shops are sorted by status, not by trade or by place on the map.

The 20 businesses Google shows first

  • Own website 8 of 20
  • Facebook or Instagram only 2 of 20
  • No website found 10 of 20
The rest of the same Maps lists, 35 businesses
  • Own website 9
  • Facebook or Instagram only 5
  • No website found 19
  • Not working, or could not tell 2
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What the websites do

Two of the 8 Castlebar sites scored 90 or more for speed on a phone.

In October 2026, Google's PageSpeed test, run as a phone, gave the 8 sites with a speed score in Castlebar, County Mayo, a median of 75.5 out of 100. None scored under 50.

Speed on a phone

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75.5 median score out of 100

  • Under 50 0
  • 50 to 89 6
  • 90 or more 2

Why speed matters

In October 2026, the biggest image or block of text on the 8 sites with a speed score in Castlebar, County Mayo, took a median of 4.4 seconds to appear on a phone. That is the quickest of the 26 towns we checked. Google's own mark for a good page is 2.5 seconds or less.

Google counts 90 or more as a good score, and two of the 8 got there. A Castlebar site that does would outscore six of them.

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What the 7 sites we could read do

  • 4 of 7 read say what they do and where, in the page title or main heading
  • 4 of 7 read put a tap-to-call link or a form on the home page
  • 4 of 7 read show a price
  • 1 of 7 read name the area they cover
  • 5 of 7 read load securely (https)
  • 0 of 6 cafe, hairdresser and clinic sites we could read take bookings online

What the 8 websites are built on

  • WordPress 4
  • Duda 1
  • Could not tell 3
What "read" and "scored" mean

"Read" means the 7 sites we could read page by page. One more site's host showed our checks a bot check or refused our requests. It counts as a live website of the business's own, because the Google profile links it and Google's own speed test loads it. We could not read it, so it is left out of the page checks. "Scored" means the sites with a speed score: Google's speed test reached all 8, three runs each, median taken.

The rest of the study

How the same 20 show up on Google.

Google Maps, the ordinary results, the ads and ChatGPT's answers have their own page, with a step for each.

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Steps you can take

Four fixes for a Castlebar website, each tied to a gap we measured.

  1. Get a website of your own

    12 of 20 businesses Google shows first have no website of their own

    Ten of the 20 at the top in Castlebar have no website we could find, and none of the four plumbers has a site of its own. One page with your prices, your area and a call button gets you started.

  2. Get the setup underneath right

    6 of 20 businesses Google shows first have not claimed their Google profile

    Claim your Google profile and link your site from it. 18 of the 20 at the top in Castlebar list their hours; add yours.

  3. Put your prices, your area and a call button on the home page

    6 of 7 sites we could read do not name the area they cover

    Write Castlebar and the towns you cover on the home page; one of the 7 sites we could read does. If you take bookings, add a way to book: none of the six Castlebar cafe, hairdresser and clinic sites we could read takes bookings online.

  4. Make it quick on a phone

    6 of 8 sites with a speed score stayed under 90 on a phone

    The Castlebar median score is 75.5, and the biggest image or text still takes longer than Google's 2.5-second mark to appear. Aim for 90: small images, few add-ons, and a speed check each month.

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Questions

What owners ask about a website.

Do businesses in Mayo have websites?

Fewer than in 23 of the other 25 towns we checked. In October 2026, 8 of the 20 businesses Google showed first in Castlebar, County Mayo, had a website of their own, across plumbers, electricians, cafes, hairdressers and physio and physical therapy clinics. Across all 26 towns in our county study it was 308 of 505.

Do I need a website if I have a Facebook page?

Yes, if you want customers to see what you charge and where you work. In Castlebar, County Mayo, in October 2026, 8 of the 20 businesses Google shows first have a website of their own, two rely on Facebook or Instagram alone and ten have no website we could find. A social page is a fair start. Your own website is where you set out, your way:

  • your prices
  • the area you cover
  • a way to call or book.
What should a small business website have?

Start with five things. We could read seven Castlebar sites; here is what they have:

  • What you do and where, in the page title or main heading: 4 of the 7 Castlebar sites we could read in October 2026.
  • A tap-to-call link or a form on the home page: 4 of the 7.
  • A guide price where you can give one: 4 of the 7.
  • The area you cover: 1 of the 7.
  • Speed on a phone: of the 8 sites with a speed score, two reached 90 out of 100.

Price questions came up on our Castlebar searches. Google's "People also ask" box asked "How much do plumbers charge for a day rate?" A guide price on your own site answers it.

How much does a website cost?

It depends on the number of pages and what the site has to do. Our website packages and their prices are on the website development page, and bigger builds are quoted.

Website packages and prices How much does a website cost in Ireland?

What does a website do that a Google listing doesn't?

It gives you a place of your own in the ordinary results under the map, and a page you control from top to bottom. Across our five Castlebar searches in October 2026, 11 of the 50 places in the first ten ordinary results went to local businesses' own websites. Directories and listings took 19 of those 50, most often Tripadvisor with four, Golden Pages with three and Locally Irish with three. Without a website of its own, a business shows up there only on someone else's page, such as a directory or a social page.

Do you only work with businesses in Castlebar?

No. We work with businesses across Ireland. The study looked at Castlebar because our method takes the biggest town in each county, and in County Mayo that is Castlebar.

Michael Collins, founder of Wagyu Digital
MethodHow we checked
  • Checked October 2026. The searches ran on 14 October 2026 at about 3pm Irish time; ChatGPT was asked on 14 October 2026.
  • The 20 businesses are the first four local businesses in the Google Maps list for each of five trade searches. The searches ran on a phone, logged out, from Castlebar town centre. Chains, wrong trades, duplicate listings and businesses outside the county were removed first. "The rest of the list" is everyone else in the same cleaned lists: 35 businesses.
  • A website counts only if it is the business's own. A Facebook or Instagram page alone does not.
  • A website linked from the Google profile counts as live even when its host shows our checks a bot check or refuses our requests. We cannot read those sites, so they are left out of every page check: "of 7 read" means the 7 sites we could read. Google's PageSpeed test can still reach them, so the speed figures ("of 8 scored") cover every site it scored.
  • Speed is Google's PageSpeed test, run as a phone, three runs per site, median taken. The load time is the same test's Largest Contentful Paint: when the biggest image or block of text appears.
  • Google ads come from Google's Ads Transparency Center, looked up by the business's own web address, plus one look at each search. So the ads figure counts only businesses with a web address of their own, including sites that no longer work. Facebook ads were not checked.
  • ChatGPT was asked "Who is a good [trade] in [town]?" three times for each trade, from Ireland, with web search on. A business counts as named if any of the answers names it.
  • "The first ten results for their own search" means the first ten ordinary results, under the map and the ads, for the business's trade-and-town search, such as "plumber castlebar".
  • Distances run from the Castlebar town centre point to each business's map pin.
  • Figures "across the 26 towns" add up the 505 businesses Google showed first in all 26 study towns, one town per county. Every town was searched the same way on the same day, 14 October 2026.
  • Anything else we could not check is left out of that count, and the count says so.
  • A median is the middle value. With an even number of businesses it is the average of the two middle values.
  • Searches a month are Google's own estimates (Google Ads search volume, read on 16 October 2026) for searches made by people in County Mayo: a 12-month average, rounded by Google. Each trade's total adds up the same set of searches in every county: the trade on its own, the trade with "near me", and the trade with "castlebar" or "mayo" after it. Four more searches count too: "emergency plumber", "coffee near me", "coffee shop near me" and "hair salon near me".
  • Singular and plural are one search in Google's data, so neither is counted twice. A search Google gives no figure for is left out, not counted as zero. One person can search more than once, and not every search for a trade comes from someone hiring, so these figures count searches, not people.
  • No business from the study is named on these pages.

Sources: Google's guide to Largest Contentful Paint (good is 2.5 seconds or less); About PageSpeed Insights (90 or above is good); Google Ads Transparency Center.