Websites for Roofers That Work on a Phone

How a homeowner picks a roofer

This call rarely comes from someone browsing for fun. It comes after a storm, a leak in the ceiling, missing shingles or a brown stain spreading across a bedroom wall. They pick up a phone, type roofing and their town, and start opening the first names they see.

That is where the ten seconds happen. They open two or three sites and skim. If your page takes more than a second or two to load on mobile data, they press back. If they cannot see a number they can tap, they press back. If there are no photos of roofs you have actually finished, they go back to the list.

One thing settles it: pictures of finished roofs, close up, on houses that look like theirs. A homeowner wants to see the work before they let anyone climb up there.

• They search on a phone, often the same day the damage shows up.
• They open two or three roofing sites, not ten.
• A slow load is a lost call.
• They want a number they can tap, not type out.
• Photos of completed roofs decide who they call.

Why roofing sites fail, and why it is usually not your fault

Of the local business websites we checked across eight US metros, 27% were broken. Roofing sites fail in the same handful of ways, and for the same reason: the site was set up once, years ago, by a cheap builder or a relative, and then nobody touched it again.

A photo gallery is the worst offender. Ten full size images straight off a camera will not load on a phone in a driveway on mobile data. The homeowner sees a white box where the roofs should be, and leaves.

• No before and after photos, so nobody can see the finished roof.
• A gallery of full size images that will not load on mobile data.
• No service area, so a homeowner cannot tell whether you cover their town.
• A phone number sitting inside an image, so it cannot be tapped.
• Dead pages left behind by a builder that lapsed, sometimes with the old badge still in the corner.
• No site at all, just a listing on a directory.

What the five page rebuild includes for a roofing business

We rebuild the whole thing. You do not write a word and you do not choose a template. We work from your services, your service area and your opening hours as you already publish them.

It is five pages: home, services, about, FAQ and contact. Phone first, because that is where roofing calls come from. A real map, a tap to call button that works with one thumb, and a site that loads in under a second.

• Home: your company name, your town, today's hours and a tap to call button at the top.
• Services: the roof work you do, written the way you would say it on the phone.
• About: who runs the crew and where you work.
• FAQ: the questions homeowners ask on the phone, answered on the page.
• Contact: your address, a real map, your hours and a way to reach you.
• Your service area, stated plainly, so nobody has to guess.
• Live on the domain you already own.

The two things that matter most: finished roofs and speed

If we changed only two things on a roofing site, it would be these. Photos of finished roofs, and a page that opens in under a second on a phone.

Pictures are the proof. Before and after, same house, same angle, gutters cleaned up, ridge line straight. A homeowner cannot judge shingles, underlayment or flashing, so they judge the finished work and the care behind it.

Speed is the other half. A phone first page keeps the photos small and loads them in the right order, so the roof appears while the homeowner is still deciding whether to wait. Ten seconds is all you get, and a slow page spends them.

• Before and after photos of real completed roofs.
• Photos sized for a phone, not straight off a camera.
• The page opens before the homeowner gives up.
• A tap to call button within reach of one thumb.

600 dollars flat, live in 24 hours, nothing monthly

$600 flat, one time. No retainer, no monthly fee for the first year, no contract and no sales call. There is nothing to cancel later and no charge per call.

Once you say yes, the site goes live on the domain you already own within 24 hours. Same address your customers, your listings and your email already point at, so nothing has to be moved.

• $600 flat, one time. Not a subscription.
• No monthly fee for the first year.
• No contract and no sales call.
• Live on your own domain within 24 hours of saying yes.
• Payment by a reply to email link, card or bank transfer.

See a finished rebuild before you decide

We do not ask for money first. We build the site, then send it to you as a free preview. Open it on your phone, in the truck or in the driveway, and click through it the way a homeowner would.

There is a gallery of real rebuilds at https://preview.localsiteshop.com/ so you can see the standard of work before anyone contacts you. If the preview is not right, you keep it anyway and pay nothing. If it is right, you reply to the email and pay by card or bank transfer.

What happens when you reply

Reply to the email you got from us, or write to shoaib@localsiteshop.com. Tell us your company name and the town you work in, and we send you the preview link.

You look at it on your phone and say yes or no. That is the whole job on your side. No meeting, no template to pick, no money up front.

Questions we get about this