City Report · September 2026

We tested the websites of 256 Indian web design and SEO agencies

Not one passed all nine checks. The median site passed 6 of 9. The most common shortfall was basic security headers such as HSTS: 82% fell short, and 11% failed it outright.

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Each dot is one agency website, stacked by how many of the nine checks it passed (0 to 9).

The findings

How good are the websites of Indian web design and SEO agencies?

We collected 265 agency homepages from search results in 11 places, each counted once, and 256 of those sites answered. Not one passed all nine checks. The median site passed 6 of 9. 6 sites, or 2%, failed four or more checks outright.

Sites by number of checks passed, out of 256 measured.
Checks passed	Sites	Share
9 of 9	0	0%
8 of 9	10	4%
7 of 9	42	16%
6 of 9	80	31%
5 of 9	69	27%
4 of 9	38	15%
3 of 9	12	5%
2 of 9	2	1%
1 of 9	3	1%
0 of 9	0	0%

Check by check

What do the websites of Indian web design and SEO agencies get wrong most?

Share of sites that failed, and that fell short (failed or partly passed), each check.
Check	Fell short	Failed Partial
Security and HTTPS	82%
Technical SEO basics (title, description, canonical, language, alt text)	74%
Mobile experience	68%
One clear contact route (phone, form or email)	42%
Speed on a real phone	32%
Structured data	23%
Headline clarity (H1 and body text)	14%
Trust signals (phone, address, email, social)	12%
Analytics and tracking	8%

City by city

Which Indian city's agencies scored best?

No city had a single agency site pass all nine checks. The weakest area is where the most sites in that city fell short, speed left out.

Agency homepages measured per city, each site counted once.
City	Sites	Median	Weakest area
Mumbai	25	6 of 9	Basic security headers such as HSTS, 100%
Delhi	28	5 of 9	Mobile image and zoom settings, 89%
Bengaluru	22	6 of 9	Basic security headers such as HSTS, 91%
Chennai	24	6 of 9	Basic security headers such as HSTS, 83%
Hyderabad	16	6 of 9	Technical SEO basics such as titles, descriptions, canonical tags and alt text, 75%
Kolkata	25	6 of 9	Technical SEO basics such as titles, descriptions, canonical tags and alt text, 88%
Pune	18	6 of 9	Basic security headers such as HSTS, 83%
Ahmedabad	24	5 of 9	Technical SEO basics such as titles, descriptions, canonical tags and alt text, 88%
Jaipur	26	5 of 9	Basic security headers such as HSTS, 81%
Panchkula	30	5 of 9	Basic security headers such as HSTS, 93%
India-wide search	18	5 of 9	Mobile image and zoom settings, 94%

How was this measured?

For each city we took the homepages of the web design and SEO agencies that appeared in that city's search results in September 2026, plus a national search. A site that turned up in more than one city is counted once, under the first. Each homepage was fetched once and put through the same nine checks we run before quoting any project, including our own.

Speed is one reading per site, taken from one place, so treat it as a signal rather than a ranking. The other eight checks read the page itself and do not move between readings. No agency is named here or in the data.

Can I use this data?

Yes. One row per site, nine checks each, names and addresses removed, under CC BY 4.0: reuse it with a credit and a link to this page. Local news, business associations and chambers of commerce are welcome to quote the figures.

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