Guides

Guides

The long pieces. Published prices with the source beside each one, counts with the method and the limits, and our own corrections where an earlier figure was wrong. Nothing here is a sales page and none of it ends in a form.

  • Do Dublin Cafés Have Websites? 77 Counted, 2026

    I read the Google listing of 77 independent Dublin cafés with 24,599 ratings between them. Four in five have no website of their own on it. The full count, the method, and where my own earlier sample was wrong.

    20 September 2026

  • Does My Café Need a Website? Ireland, 2026

    Four in five independent Dublin cafés have no website of their own on their Google listing, measured across all 77 shops on my register. What that means for yours.

    16 September 2026

  • Café Website Cost in Ireland (2026 Prices)

    Published Irish prices for a café website in September 2026, side by side with dates: €60 a year to €5,000, and what each one actually covers.

    14 September 2026

  • Grow Digital Voucher for a Café Website (2026)

    The Trading Online Voucher closed in December 2024. Its replacement pays 50% of costs, minimum €500, maximum €5,000. What a Dublin café gets.

    14 September 2026

Shorter answers

Where somebody asked a specific question in public, the reply has its own page.

  • Is Building Websites for Coffee Shops a Business? 18 Built on Spec by September 2026

    A developer asked whether cafés with no website of their own on their Google listing are a market worth entering. By 22 September 2026 Cupán Studio had built 18 finished café websites in Dublin on spec and sent 15 owners theirs, free to look at and €690 to keep. None had bought one. The supply gap is real, the demand is the part nobody counts.

    22 September 2026

  • Is It Normal for a Café to Have No Website? 77 Dublin Cafés Counted, 2026

    Asked on r/smallbusiness in April 2026. Of 77 independent Dublin cafés, roasters and carts read on 20 September 2026, 62 had no website of their own on their Google listing. On that count, having none is the ordinary case, not a sign of being behind.

    22 September 2026