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WEBSITE CHECK FOR CARPENTERS
Your work sells itself in photos, and photos are what slow most carpentry websites down. Check how yours loads on a phone.
Resize and compress photos, and let the ones further down load as people scroll to them.
Decks, doors, framing, fit-outs. People search for the job, not the trade.
A line of alt text such as "Merbau deck in Clayton" helps Google and people using screen readers.
GETTING AHEAD OF THE OTHERS
Carpentry customers are usually planning something: a deck, a pergola, new doors, a fit-out. They look at photos first, then for signs that you do their kind of job in their area, then for how to get a quote.
Decks with decks, doors with doors. A customer planning a pergola shouldn’t have to scroll past twenty kitchens to find one.
What it is, the timber and the suburb. “Merbau deck, Clayton” does more for the customer and for Google than “Project 14”.
Resize photos to the width they’re shown at and save them in a modern format such as WebP. Let the photos further down load as people scroll to them.
Job type, suburb, rough size and a photo of the spot. A form that collects those gets you to a price in one reply.
It’s the free listing with your name, hours and reviews that shows in Google Search and Maps. Keep your name, number and areas the same there as on your website, and link the two.
Send the customer your review link the day you finish. Real reviews only: fake or paid ones break Google’s rules and Australian consumer law.
TEN MINUTES, YOUR OWN PHONE
The free check measures speed, search basics and security. These are the things only you can test.
CARPENTERS ASK
Enough to prove your range, not every job you’ve done. A dozen good, captioned photos per job type loads faster and reads better than two hundred unsorted ones.
Only when the files are bigger than they need to be. The check lists the images that would save the most if they were resized or converted.
Google’s phone speed test counts 90 or more as good and under 50 as poor. On 12 November 2026 we measured 16 Melbourne carpenters’ websites. At least half scored 76 or more on the phone speed test, and 3 scored 90 or more. See the scoreboard. Scores move a few points between runs, so go by the pattern rather than one number.
Not on its own. A fast site takes away a reason to give up and ring someone else, and it gives everything else on this page a better chance of being seen. The work still has to be good, and no website check measures that.
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