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What Candybox does

Strategy & Positioning Branding Creative Website UX & Design SEO & GEO Marketing Automation Digital Advertising Social Media Video & Photography Measurement & Reporting

A human-first, AI-accelerated marketing agency.

  • 8x

    A Globe and Mail Top Growing Company in Canada

  • 500+

    Canadian brands grown

  • 98%

    of clients stay five years or more

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Unwrapping your report

Digital marketing that actually works®

Candybox is 50+ specialists in Oakville, building the websites, winning the search and running the campaigns that fill them. Your report is the first look.

  • HubSpot Diamond Partner
  • WP Engine Advanced
  • Google Partner

Unwrapping your report

Did you know?

Cotton candy was the hit of the 1904 World's Fair, sold as Fairy Floss. One of its two inventors was a dentist.

Canada's oldest family-owned candy company, Ganong, was founded in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, in 1873.

A single jelly bean can take 7 to 21 days to make. Most of that is waiting between coats of its shell.

Chocolate melts at about 34°C, just under body temperature. That is why it melts in your mouth.

Smarties in Canada are chocolate. In the United States they are chalky tablets, which Canada sells as Rockets.

Pop Rocks are made with carbon dioxide at about 600 psi, trapped in tiny bubbles that burst as the candy melts.

Unwrapping your report

Free website audit

Turn more visitors into customers

A slow page. A missed search. An AI assistant recommending someone else. In about five minutes, you'll see what's quietly turning people away, and what to fix first.

Take the tour

See your free audit report before you run it

A website audit is a check of how well your site works for the people trying to find and buy from you. Here's what yours will look like.

How people find you, step by step.

Sample

Six steps a customer takes to find you, and how each one scored.

AI assistants recommend you in 6 of 10 answers.

Sample

Who ChatGPT and Gemini recommend when a customer asks, five times each.

  1. 1 5/55/5110
  2. 2 5/53/585
  3. 3 4/52/575
  4. 4Your BusinessYou3/53/570
  5. 5 1/54/555

Google's test on a slow phone connection took 5 seconds.

Sample

How long your homepage takes on a phone, measured three ways.

Three fixes take you to Strong.

Sample

The three fixes that move your score most, then the rest.

7 more points
  1. +2
  2. +2
  3. +1
  4. +1
  5. +1
  • Free
  • About five minutes
  • No obligation

The zero-click moment of truth

Your customers are asking AI who to call.

More people get their answer without ever visiting a website. If an AI assistant doesn't know your business, it recommends someone else.

  • Free
  • About five minutes
  • No obligation

68%

of Google searches end without a click.

53%

of website traffic now comes from AI bots.

Source: Candybox Marketing research, “Are you ready for the zero-click moment of truth?”

A short story, and it could be yours

Picture the customer you never heard from

It's an illustration, not a real case. It's also the quietest way a website loses business.

  1. 01Scene 1 of 4

    They search

    Someone near you needs what you sell. They pick up their phone, type a few words into Google, and your website is right there in the results. They tap it.

  2. 02Scene 2 of 4

    The page is slow

    The screen stays blank. A second passes, then another. They're standing in line, or between meetings, and their thumb is already hovering.

  3. 03Scene 3 of 4

    The first screen is unclear

    The page finally loads. There's a logo and a big picture, but nothing that says what you do, where you are, or how to reach you.

  4. 04Scene 4 of 4

    They tap back and call someone else

    Back to the results. The next business answers the phone. You never find out, because a customer who leaves doesn't send a note.

The fix

You can find out in about five minutes

The free Candybox website audit shows you what that customer saw, and what to fix first.

In your report: how fast your site loads on a phone, how clear your first screen is, and whether Google and AI assistants can find you.

  • Free
  • About five minutes
  • No obligation

What you get

What a free website audit tells you about your business

Find out if AI assistants recommend you

AI assistants now answer the question “who should I call?” We ask ChatGPT and Gemini five times and show you exactly who they named, so you know whether you're in the answer.

  • Two assistants, five asks each
  • The names they gave, side by side
  • What to change so they can read your site

See how fast your website is on a phone

A slow page loses people before they see what you offer. Google found that 53% of mobile visits are abandoned when a page takes longer than three seconds to load (Google, “The need for mobile speed”).

  • Tested on a phone and a computer
  • Every page counted, the key ones read
  • The heaviest things slowing you down

Compare your site with nearby businesses

We put your Google listing and reviews next to businesses near you, and your homepage next to your closest competitor’s, so you can see where you lead and where you trail.

  • Your Google listing and reviews
  • Your closest competitor’s homepage
  • Where the gap is widest

Check that everyone can use your website

An automated accessibility scan finds barriers like unlabelled form fields and text that is hard to read. It is not a compliance certification, but it shows where to start.

  • Forms, contrast and headings
  • Barriers named in plain words
  • Fixes listed in order of impact

How it works

How the free website audit works

Three steps, about five minutes, and the report lands in your inbox.

  1. 1

    Enter your website and email

    Type your web address and where to send the report. Nothing to install, nothing to sign.

  2. 2

    We read your site like a customer

    In about five minutes we count every page on your site, read the ones that matter, and ask two AI assistants about you.

  3. 3

    Your report arrives by email

    You get your SweetScore, the score within reach, a plan of fixes in order, a PDF and share cards.

  • A PDF of the report
  • Share cards for your team
  • An optional half-hour strategy call
  • Free
  • About five minutes
  • No obligation

What we check

The twelve questions the free audit answers for you

The ones you'd ask about your own website, if you had the time to check.

Your report shows How easily Google can show your pages to searchers.

Being found

The first look

Earning trust

Behind the scenes

Accessibility is checked with an automated accessibility scan. It is not a compliance certification.

Who's behind it

Your audit comes from a HubSpot Diamond Partner, a Google Partner, a Meta Partner and a WP Engine Advanced agency, trusted by 500+ Canadian brands.

8xGlobe and Mail Top Growing Companies in Canada50+in-house specialists98%of clients stay five years or more

Do ChatGPT and Gemini recommend you?

Run the free audit and find out, in about five minutes.

  • Free
  • About five minutes
  • No obligation

Your report

What you get from the free website audit

One clear report, emailed to you, with the AI answers laid out side by side.

  • Your SweetScore out of 100, and the score within reach
  • Your customer's path, six steps from a search to a call
  • Who AI assistants recommend, ranked, five answers from each
  • Three fixes first, each saying who can do it, then the rest
  • How you compare with nearby businesses on Google and with your closest competitor
  • A PDF and share cards, plus the option to book a half-hour strategy call
Sample
Your homepage on a phone, captured during the scan

Getting there

88 within reach

Your SweetScore is 72

1 critical problem found

You're 1st of 4 against your rivals

Named in 6 of 10 AI answers

A sample report. Numbers are illustrative.

Share your score

Tell the world your website is ready for AI search

A website that performs is worth showing off. Your report makes share cards from your proudest results, like coming up first on Google Maps or being named by ChatGPT.

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  • Download
  • A report link for your team, so everyone works from the same plan.
  • Your name stays private. The shared link opens the report without it.

Questions

What business leaders ask us about their websites

Owners, executives and the people who run the website ask us the same things. Here's what the audit shows you about each.

How do I get more leads from my website?

Start with the fixes that stand between a visitor and a call. The free audit gives you a plan of fixes in order, and a SweetScore out of 100 to measure your progress.

Why aren't local customers finding us?

Your report compares your Google listing and reviews with nearby businesses, and checks whether customers can find you on Google. That shows where a local competitor is getting ahead.

Will AI assistants recommend my business?

The audit asks ChatGPT and Gemini, five times each, who they would recommend, and shows you who they named. It also checks whether AI tools can read your site.

Do we need a new website, or can we fix the one we have?

Your report shows the score within reach with the site you have today, and the fixes that get you there. That makes it easier to decide whether a redesign is worth it.

How much should we budget for website work?

Your plan lists the fixes in order and who can do each one, so a budget talk starts from a clear list instead of a guess. You can also book a half-hour strategy call.

Our web person says the site is fine. How can I check?

Run the free audit and read the same report together. It counts every page on your site, reads the ones that matter, and tries your main pages on a phone and a computer, the way your customers see them.

Can my team handle the fixes?

Each fix in your plan says who can do it. Send your team the report link or the PDF, and decide who takes what.

How do I show leadership where our website stands?

Share your report link. The SweetScore gives everyone one number out of 100 to talk about, and the plan shows what to fix first and who can do it.

Is our website too slow on phones?

Your report answers that for your own site. Google found that 53% of mobile visits are abandoned when a page takes longer than three seconds to load.

Can everyone use our website?

The audit runs an automated accessibility scan and shows what it found. It is not a compliance certification.

How do we compare with our closest competitor?

Your report puts your homepage next to your closest competitor's, and your Google listing and reviews next to nearby businesses.

Will this cost me anything?

No. The audit is free, with no invoice and no obligation, and it takes about five minutes. If you leave a phone number, someone from our team may call to walk you through your report. Your report link is emailed to you, you only get our newsletter if you tick the box, and we never sell your information.

Could the audit affect our website?

No. There's nothing to install, it follows your site's robots.txt rules, and we only look at what your customers can see.

Free website audit

Be the answer, not the business left out.

Find your website's sweet spot, and see what ChatGPT and Gemini say about you.

  • Free
  • About five minutes
  • No obligation

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