Local website data · Electricians · Chicago, IL

Measured Oct 28 to Nov 4, 2026

Electricians in Chicago: what their websites look like today.

We run an automated check on the public websites listed for local businesses. Here is what it found for electrical businesses in Chicago, IL, next to the national numbers for the same trade. No business is named.

200electrical businesses in our Chicago listings158 list a website
110websites we checked51 loaded on our latest check
16%of loaded sites have no mobile viewport tag8 of 51 · nationally 22%
15%show a copyright year of 2023 or earlier5 of 33 that show a year · nationally 27%

The numbers

What we measuredChicagoAll U.S. electrical
Loaded sites served over https96%95%
Loaded sites with no mobile viewport tag in the code16%22%
Sites showing a copyright year of 2023 or earlier15%27%
Listed website addresses that did not load on our latest check35%33%
…of those, confirmed down on a repeat check41,130
For-sale, parked or placeholder pages4586

"Did not load" is one automated check and includes addresses that no longer exist. A missing viewport tag is a code check: in real-phone tests we found about 38% of such sites still fit the screen, so it is a warning sign, not a verdict.

Five things to check on your own site

  1. Residential and commercial work split out, if you do both
  2. Your license number, if your state issues one
  3. A tap-to-call phone link at the top
  4. Panel, EV charger, generator or lighting services listed by name
  5. Service area towns listed

A quick self-check: open your site on your phone. If you have to pinch to read it, add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> to the page's head, or ask whoever built it.

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How we measured

Listings come from open business data (Overture Maps, Foursquare open places, and some state and city license files). For each website address on a listing, our crawler fetched the home page once (Oct 28 to Nov 4, 2026), respecting robots.txt, and recorded whether it loaded, whether it used https, whether the HTML has a mobile viewport tag, and any copyright year shown. Addresses that failed were re-checked later; the confirmed count is shown separately. Business counts are listings in our data, not a census, and a business can be listed under more than one trade.