Pixelboost

Based in Whitby and serving small businesses across Toronto and the Durham Region, Pixelboost is a small, one-to-ten-person web design and development operation working directly with local business owners in the Greater Toronto Area. The agency positions itself around a specific problem: many local sites are slow, hard to use on mobile, and impossible to measure, and it targets owners who want a website that can be shown to be working rather than one that simply exists. Its stated baseline research, scanning 476 local business sites, found that a third scored under 50 on mobile speed and over a third had no analytics installed at all, framing the case for a rebuild. The core offering is custom website design and development, built as an alternative to page-builder platforms such as Wix or Squarespace, alongside SEO, branding, and print design. Concrete deliverables described include a free automated site scan (using a Google Lighthouse-based test on a simulated mid-range phone) covering speed, mobile performance, SEO basics, accessibility, and lead tracking; sites built to meet Ontario's accessibility standard, checked with both automated tools and manual review; private analytics set up so owners can see which pages and searches generate calls; and an ongoing monthly plan that includes small content updates, such as hours or service changes, turned around within a week without a back-and-forth process.