We check independent businesses one at a time for whether they have a website of their own. As of September 2026, 12,436 of the 17,667 checked so far have nothing beyond a social page or a directory listing. Here is where they are.
| Type | No website | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurant | 4,739 | 38% |
| Hair salon / barber | 2,776 | 22% |
| Café | 1,605 | 13% |
| Takeaway | 1,463 | 12% |
| Beauty salon | 510 | 4% |
| Pub | 500 | 4% |
| Convenience store | 387 | 3% |
| Bar | 161 | 1% |
| Tattoo studio | 112 | 1% |
| Bakery | 82 | 1% |
| Butcher | 75 | 1% |
| Deli | 20 | 0% |
| Ice cream shop | 4 | 0% |
| Post office | 1 | 0% |
| GP surgery | 1 | 0% |
| City | No website | Most common type | With landline | With social page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 1,745 | Restaurant | 506 | 55 |
| Bristol | 513 | Hair salon / barber | 74 | 19 |
| Edinburgh | 450 | Restaurant | 216 | 64 |
| Manchester | 322 | Restaurant | 78 | 13 |
| Glasgow | 263 | Restaurant | 113 | 41 |
| Sheffield | 243 | Restaurant | 45 | 12 |
| Newport | 239 | Hair salon / barber | 110 | 66 |
| Cardiff | 219 | Restaurant | 63 | 41 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 217 | Restaurant | 132 | 23 |
| York | 210 | Restaurant | 37 | 10 |
| Brighton | 194 | Restaurant | 53 | 60 |
| Norwich | 187 | Takeaway | 120 | 46 |
| Holdenhurst | 167 | Restaurant | 7 | 0 |
| Birmingham | 163 | Restaurant | 43 | 18 |
| Nottingham | 163 | Restaurant | 54 | 11 |
| Oldham | 156 | Hair salon / barber | 9 | 6 |
| Leeds | 144 | Restaurant | 28 | 16 |
| Dundee | 136 | Hair salon / barber | 29 | 20 |
| Southampton | 134 | Restaurant | 30 | 10 |
| Cambridge | 134 | Restaurant | 52 | 13 |
| Liverpool | 130 | Restaurant | 21 | 3 |
| Derby | 126 | Hair salon / barber | 40 | 88 |
| Chester | 121 | Hair salon / barber | 54 | 2 |
| Plymouth | 120 | Restaurant | 4 | 3 |
| Portsmouth | 120 | Hair salon / barber | 58 | 3 |
| Grimsby | 120 | Hair salon / barber | 90 | 61 |
| Wakefield | 117 | Hair salon / barber | 9 | 9 |
| Canterbury | 111 | Restaurant | 23 | 10 |
| Belfast | 111 | Restaurant | 31 | 9 |
| Reading | 109 | Restaurant | 44 | 7 |
| Warrington | 105 | Hair salon / barber | 66 | 62 |
| Eastbourne | 102 | Restaurant | 34 | 10 |
| Oxford | 100 | Café | 37 | 47 |
| Coventry | 100 | Hair salon / barber | 20 | 3 |
| Leicester | 98 | Restaurant | 15 | 1 |
| Aberdeen | 96 | Restaurant | 41 | 23 |
| Stockport | 95 | Hair salon / barber | 16 | 4 |
| Lancaster | 95 | Hair salon / barber | 13 | 14 |
| Cheltenham | 94 | Café | 48 | 1 |
| Carlisle | 89 | Takeaway | 60 | 2 |
| Bolton | 88 | Restaurant | 23 | 1 |
| Huddersfield | 87 | Hair salon / barber | 36 | 4 |
| Perth | 83 | Hair salon / barber | 26 | 1 |
| Gateshead | 78 | Takeaway | 62 | 9 |
| Shrewsbury | 78 | Hair salon / barber | 11 | 18 |
| Preston | 74 | Restaurant | 44 | 0 |
| Bedford | 74 | Restaurant | 4 | 1 |
| Margate | 70 | Restaurant | 35 | 3 |
| Exeter | 69 | Restaurant | 22 | 12 |
| Gillingham | 66 | Restaurant | 35 | 2 |
| Southsea | 65 | Takeaway | 36 | 4 |
| Ipswich | 62 | Hair salon / barber | 33 | 16 |
| Dudley | 62 | Restaurant | 14 | 2 |
| Taunton | 61 | Hair salon / barber | 4 | 4 |
| Chelmsford | 60 | Café | 34 | 19 |
| Worthing | 60 | Restaurant | 20 | 12 |
| Cleethorpes | 57 | Café | 41 | 28 |
| Kettering | 57 | Hair salon / barber | 0 | 0 |
| Swindon | 55 | Restaurant | 8 | 1 |
| Gloucester | 51 | Restaurant | 3 | 1 |
| Weston-super-Mare | 51 | Restaurant | 14 | 0 |
| Blackpool | 49 | Restaurant | 6 | 2 |
| Folkestone | 49 | Hair salon / barber | 18 | 2 |
| Swansea | 47 | Restaurant | 11 | 0 |
| Gravesend | 47 | Restaurant | 11 | 0 |
| Woking | 47 | Café | 27 | 0 |
| Chesterfield | 47 | Restaurant | 9 | 3 |
| Wrexham | 47 | Restaurant | 10 | 4 |
| Inverness | 47 | Restaurant | 9 | 3 |
| Blackburn | 46 | Hair salon / barber | 34 | 0 |
| St Albans | 46 | Restaurant | 14 | 2 |
| Dartford | 46 | Hair salon / barber | 25 | 0 |
| Scarborough | 46 | Restaurant | 22 | 6 |
| Poole | 45 | Restaurant | 14 | 1 |
| Milton Keynes | 43 | Restaurant | 8 | 0 |
| Solihull | 43 | Restaurant | 5 | 1 |
| Bradford | 42 | Restaurant | 15 | 1 |
| Bishop Auckland | 42 | Hair salon / barber | 10 | 14 |
| Mansfield | 42 | Restaurant | 5 | 6 |
| Peterborough | 41 | Restaurant | 21 | 2 |
| Hastings | 41 | Restaurant | 9 | 5 |
| Guildford | 41 | Hair salon / barber | 11 | 3 |
| Harrogate | 40 | Restaurant | 4 | 0 |
Cities with fewer than 40 verified businesses are in the whole-UK file but not listed here.
Businesses are sourced from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). For each one, the name and town are searched, likely domains are tested, and any candidate site is checked to confirm it belongs to that business by name, postcode or phone. Only businesses with nothing of their own are counted. Chains and franchises with a group website are excluded. Data is refreshed every week; the date of each check is in the downloadable files.
To cite: "LeadForge, UK businesses without a website (September 2026), https://www.leadsforge.co.uk/lists/uk-report". Journalists and researchers can email sakib.websites@gmail.com for the full dataset.