WEBSITE CHECK FOR HANDYMEN
Handymen: is your website
up to scratch?
A handyman's website has to answer one question fast: do you do this job? See how quickly yours gets there.
✓ The same free check for every trade✓ Plain-English fixes✓ No obligation to buy
WHAT MATTERS MOSTGUIDE
On a handyman’s website
General advice, not a scan of your site. Run the check to see your own results here.
01 The jobs you take, and the ones you don't
A short, honest list saves you calls about work you'd turn down anyway.
02 Photos of real jobs, sized for a phone
Pictures straight off a camera are often many times larger than the screen showing them.
03 An enquiry form that works with thumbs
Few fields, large tap targets, and fields that let the phone fill in name, email and number.
Website checks assess the website, not workmanship or business reliability.
How to get ahead of other handymen online
GETTING AHEAD OF THE OTHERS
How a handyman’s website wins the job
Someone looking for a handyman usually has a list: a sticking door, shelves to hang, a loose fence paling, flat-pack to build. They want to know whether you take small jobs, roughly how you charge, and how to send you the list.
Where the bar sits. On 12 November 2026 we measured 23 Melbourne handymen’ websites. At least half scored 76 or more on the phone speed test, and 6 scored 90 or more. See the handymen scoreboard
List the jobs in plain words
Doors, shelves, flat-pack, gutters, fence repairs, odd jobs. A list people can scan beats a paragraph about quality service.
Say how you charge
By the hour with a minimum, by the half day, or quoted per job. Stating the method, even without figures, saves both sides a phone call.
Say what you don’t do
If plumbing, electrical or gas work isn’t yours to take on, say so. It reads as honest, and it saves calls about jobs you’d turn down.
Let people send the whole list
A form with one large text box and room for a photo, or a mobile number that takes texts, suits a customer with six small jobs.
Claim your Google Business Profile
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.
Ask for a review while the job’s fresh
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
Check what a machine can’t
The free check measures speed, search basics and security. These are the things only you can test.
- Read your home page as a stranger would. Can you tell within ten seconds whether you’d hang a TV?
- Fill in your own form on a phone, using one thumb.
- Open your photo page on mobile data and watch how long the pictures take.
- Tap the phone number on your site. It should start a call.
- Run the free check at the top of this page and note the first three fixes.
HANDYMEN ASK
Fair questions
Should I list a minimum charge?
If you have one, yes. It filters out jobs that aren’t worth the drive, and tells everyone else you’re upfront.
I do a bit of everything. How do I get found on Google?
By naming the jobs. People often search for the task, such as “fence repair” or “hang a door”, and each job you name is another search you can turn up in.
What score should I aim for?
Google’s phone speed test counts 90 or more as good and under 50 as poor. On 12 November 2026 we measured 23 Melbourne handymen’ websites. At least half scored 76 or more on the phone speed test, and 6 scored 90 or more. See the scoreboard. Scores move a few points between runs, so go by the pattern rather than one number.
Will a faster website bring me more work?
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.
