Dead business websites in Canterbury (2026)

A dated snapshot. Live numbers for every region recompute daily on the NZ AI-Findability Index. This page records what we found on the date above.

Of the 13,532 Canterbury business websites we have checked, 2,770 do not load at all. That is 20.5%, below the national 21.4%, and it ranks Canterbury 13th of 16 regions for dead sites.

This is the Canterbury cut of our national study, which found that 21.4% of New Zealand business websites do not resolve.

Canterbury at a glance

Measure	Canterbury	New Zealand
Business websites checked	13,532	113,181
Did not load at all	20.5%	21.4%
Findable (3 of 4 facts)	61.7%	60.4%
Has a readable phone number	67.6%	66.2%
Describes what it does	56.7%	55.8%
Has a logo	79.3%	78.4%
Links a social profile	45.5%	43.9%

Canterbury ranks 11 of 16 New Zealand regions for findability and 13 of 16 for dead sites, where 1 is the most dead.

What Canterbury is missing most

Canterbury tracks the national picture closely, with no signal more than two points off the country as a whole. In absolute terms the thinnest signal is a link to a social profile, which only 45.5% of sites here carry. None of this is hard to fix. These are facts the business already knows and has simply never put on the page in a form a machine can read.

Trades in Canterbury

Only trades with at least 60 measured websites in Canterbury are shown.

Trade	Sites	Findable
accommodation	229	70.3%
education and training	213	69.5%
food producers	311	68.5%
web, SEO and marketing firms	996	49.6%
businesses filed as "other"	1,756	55.3%
makers and studios	668	60.5%

In Canterbury, accommodation lead on 70.3% and web, SEO and marketing firms trail on 49.6%.

Towns in Canterbury

Towns with at least 150 measured businesses, most findable first.

Town	Businesses	Findable
Ashburton	379	72.6%
Sydenham	422	72.5%
Addington	493	67.5%
Christchurch Central	724	66.6%
Richmond	488	66.4%
Woolston	218	63.8%
Rangiora	568	63.2%
Christchurch	2,682	63%
Burnside	256	62.5%
Riccarton	519	62%
Timaru	476	61.6%
Middleton	156	61.5%

Ashburton leads Canterbury on 72.6%; Halswell sits at 51.3%.

Check a Canterbury business

Any business here can see its own result in about ten seconds, free, no signup, at list-it.nz. You get the four facts, what the AI engines currently say about it, and which businesses they name instead.

Method

Every business on the New Zealand companies register is in our database, from the September 2026 NZBN snapshot. Where the register records a website we fetch it and look for four facts in the page itself: a description, a dialable phone number, a logo and a link to a social profile. Three of four is the pass mark. We count nothing List-It has added or generated. A site that does not resolve scores zero and counts as not findable.

Using these figures? Cite "List-It NZ AI-Findability Index, list-it.nz/findability" with your access date. Want a cut we have not published, a single town or a specific trade in Canterbury? Email info@list-it.nz and we will run it.