Key findings
- Small owner-run businesses lead. barbers (54.6%), nail salons (45.0%), pet groomers (42.6%) and beauty salons (42.3%) have the highest shares of listings with no website. These are mostly small, owner-run businesses that win customers through walk-ins, booking apps and social media.
- The biggest pools are in everyday local businesses. By number, beauty salons (24,230), restaurants (22,572) and cafés (17,786) account for the most no-website listings.
- Most no-website businesses can still be reached. 88.4% of listings without a website include a phone number, and a further 19,663 businesses link only to a social profile, booking app or directory page instead of a website of their own.
- The share varies by city. Within 5 miles of the centre, Hull has the highest share of the 30 cities we measured (27.8%) and Cambridge the lowest (14.0%).
- Trades are under-counted in open map data. Plumbers, electricians and builders have low no-website shares. Many tradespeople work from home or a van without a public listing, so open map data holds relatively few of them, and the ones it holds are more likely to have a website. Treat trade figures as a floor, not a census.
Businesses without websites by category
All 36 categories in the NoSite Leads scanner, sorted by the share of UK listings with no website. Categories with an industry guide are linked.
- Barbers
- 54.6%
- Nail salons
- 45.0%
- Pet groomers
- 42.6%
- Beauty salons
- 42.3%
- Auto detailers
- 41.6%
- Butchers
- 35.8%
- Hair salons
- 32.1%
- Cafés
- 31.4%
- Painters & decorators
- 29.8%
- Car repair & garages
- 20.7%
- Florists
- 19.8%
- Dry cleaners
- 19.8%
Source: NoSite Leads, Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Categories with 1,000+ UK listings. Embed this chart.
The full table:
| Category | Businesses | No website listed | Share | With phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbers | 19,094 | 10,424 | 54.6% | 92.4% |
| Nail salons | 10,352 | 4,662 | 45.0% | 96.5% |
| Pet groomers | 10,132 | 4,317 | 42.6% | 98.0% |
| Beauty salons | 57,325 | 24,230 | 42.3% | 89.1% |
| Auto detailers | 6,124 | 2,549 | 41.6% | 82.3% |
| Butchers | 5,843 | 2,089 | 35.8% | 95.3% |
| Hair salons | 35,627 | 11,444 | 32.1% | 96.2% |
| Cafés | 56,614 | 17,786 | 31.4% | 78.7% |
| Painters & decorators | 2,688 | 800 | 29.8% | 99.8% |
| Car repair & garages | 68,243 | 14,098 | 20.7% | 96.7% |
| Florists | 18,328 | 3,634 | 19.8% | 90.3% |
| Dry cleaners | 5,129 | 1,016 | 19.8% | 98.5% |
| Restaurants | 117,107 | 22,572 | 19.3% | 82.7% |
| Tyre shops | 6,174 | 1,140 | 18.5% | 98.1% |
| Takeaways | 46,371 | 8,552 | 18.4% | 88.0% |
| Massage therapists | 7,499 | 1,242 | 16.6% | 97.4% |
| Bakeries | 15,767 | 2,524 | 16.0% | 88.1% |
| Cleaning services | 13,952 | 2,212 | 15.9% | 99.5% |
| Gyms & fitness studios | 40,008 | 6,092 | 15.2% | 69.0% |
| Roofing contractors | 6,841 | 983 | 14.4% | 99.7% |
| Landscapers | 11,139 | 1,497 | 13.4% | 97.5% |
| Dentists | 19,189 | 1,908 | 9.9% | 95.9% |
| Electricians | 8,693 | 818 | 9.4% | 99.9% |
| Physiotherapists | 6,428 | 594 | 9.2% | 92.4% |
| Chiropractors | 2,641 | 240 | 9.1% | 97.9% |
| Accountants | 19,092 | 1,720 | 9.0% | 99.5% |
| Locksmiths | 6,241 | 558 | 8.9% | 98.0% |
| Plumbers | 7,515 | 647 | 8.6% | 99.4% |
| Estate & letting agents | 38,829 | 3,255 | 8.4% | 69.8% |
| General contractors | 30,810 | 1,969 | 6.4% | 97.8% |
| Builders | 31,671 | 1,975 | 6.2% | 91.7% |
| HVAC contractors | 5,365 | 287 | 5.3% | 99.3% |
| Lawyers & solicitors | 14,484 | 651 | 4.5% | 96.6% |
| Insurance agencies | 4,650 | 173 | 3.7% | 95.4% |
| Photographers | 4,815 | 165 | 3.4% | 90.9% |
| Moving companies | 736 | 6 | 0.8% | 100.0% |
“With phone” is the share of no-website listings that include a phone number. Categories can overlap (a pizza shop can be both a restaurant and a takeaway), so the rows add up to more than the 706,013 businesses counted once in the total.
Businesses without websites by city
Local businesses in the same 36 categories within 5 miles of each city centre, sorted by the number with no website listed.
| City | Businesses | No website listed | Share | Most common no-website category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 41,991 | 6,018 | 14.3% | Restaurants (1,793) |
| Manchester | 10,087 | 2,184 | 21.7% | Restaurants (481) |
| Birmingham | 9,311 | 2,033 | 21.8% | Restaurants (465) |
| Glasgow | 8,521 | 1,991 | 23.4% | Beauty salons (322) |
| Liverpool | 7,118 | 1,848 | 26.0% | Beauty salons (327) |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 6,119 | 1,487 | 24.3% | Restaurants (265) |
| Leeds | 6,888 | 1,375 | 20.0% | Restaurants (222) |
| Belfast | 4,462 | 1,177 | 26.4% | Beauty salons (225) |
| Bradford | 4,527 | 1,165 | 25.7% | Beauty salons (204) |
| Sheffield | 5,268 | 1,162 | 22.1% | Restaurants (226) |
| Nottingham | 5,289 | 1,119 | 21.2% | Restaurants (183) |
| Edinburgh | 6,480 | 1,073 | 16.6% | Cafés (201) |
| Leicester | 4,988 | 1,072 | 21.5% | Restaurants (214) |
| Bristol | 6,393 | 1,062 | 16.6% | Restaurants (189) |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 3,593 | 948 | 26.4% | Beauty salons (176) |
| Hull | 3,325 | 926 | 27.8% | Beauty salons (192) |
| Cardiff | 4,506 | 820 | 18.2% | Restaurants (168) |
| Brighton | 4,445 | 749 | 16.9% | Restaurants (180) |
| Coventry | 3,251 | 742 | 22.8% | Beauty salons (118) |
| Southampton | 3,930 | 730 | 18.6% | Restaurants (118) |
| Plymouth | 3,042 | 638 | 21.0% | Beauty salons (112) |
| Derby | 2,766 | 560 | 20.2% | Restaurants (81) |
| Aberdeen | 2,470 | 523 | 21.2% | Beauty salons (130) |
| Swansea | 2,186 | 516 | 23.6% | Cafés (87) |
| Norwich | 2,867 | 502 | 17.5% | Beauty salons (99) |
| Milton Keynes | 3,088 | 485 | 15.7% | Restaurants (90) |
| Reading | 3,136 | 484 | 15.4% | Restaurants (89) |
| York | 2,437 | 450 | 18.5% | Restaurants (75) |
| Cambridge | 2,135 | 299 | 14.0% | Restaurants (77) |
| Oxford | 1,998 | 295 | 14.8% | Restaurants (60) |
City centres come from GeoNames, the same gazetteer the scanner uses for town names. A 5-mile circle covers a different share of each city, so compare shares rather than raw counts between cities of different sizes.
How we measured it
The figures come from the same business listings a NoSite Leads scan searches: the Overture Maps Foundation places dataset, release 2026-09-23.1, which combines listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other sources. We counted UK listings (2,578,654 in total) and kept the 706,013 that fall into the scanner's 36 local business categories.
- Listings below the dataset's confidence threshold of 0.3, or marked permanently closed, are excluded.
- Chain outlets without their own website are excluded: branded franchise branches, cash machines, lockers and similar.
- Duplicate listings for the same business at the same location are counted once.
- No website listed means the listing has no website link. Social, booking or directory link only means the only link is a page such as Facebook, Instagram, Booksy, Fresha, Just Eat or Yell.
“No website listed” describes the listing, not the business. Some of these businesses do have a website that isn't linked from their listing, and open map data covers some trades better than others. Read the guide to finding businesses without websites for how to verify a listing before contacting the business, and the data and provider notes for how each status is defined.
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UK businesses without websites (18 October 2026)
National and city figures for 36 categories: businesses, no website listed, share, social or booking link only, and no-website listings with a phone number.
Download the data (CSV) →Suggested citation: NoSite Leads (2026), “How Many UK Businesses Have No Website?”, nositeleads.uk/research/uk-businesses-without-websites. Contains data from the Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0) and GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
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