The Q1 2025 benchmarking report for UK EV charging companies has just been published. Learn how 10 of the largest UK EV charging companies perform across the digital space.

The latest Q1 2025 benchmarking report for UK EV charging companies has just been published. It covers 10 of the largest national EV charging companies, including Pod Point, InstaVolt, Osprey Charging, Egg, bp pulse, IONITY, GRIDSERVE, Wallbox Chargers, PropCert and Plug Me In.  

The research gives an inside track on who is winning the biggest share of voice online, and quantifies the gaps, risks and missed opportunities for other EV charging companies to win brand exposure locally, secure online views, and ultimately drive the installation and usage of their charging points. The report highlights quick wins that will improve enquiries from your online strategy and identifies the barriers that may be reducing your site’s ability to optimise digital performance.

To see a preview and contents page of the Q1 report, click here. To get a copy of the full report and the key takeaways, please complete the enquiry form or schedule a call.

Q1 2025 WINNERS LEADERBOARD

For a glance into just 6 of the metrics we evaluated these top 10 EV charging companies on, check out our quick-look table below;

Continue reading for further detail on this quarter's best and poorest-performing EV charging companies, or request a copy of the report for the full review.

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What The Industry Research Report Covers

The 70+ pages of research benchmarks each retailer based on 50+ metrics and indicators of successful digital strategy, including organic visibility, domain authority, paid media ads, conversion performance, technical performance, site speed, universal search, content, social ads, accessibility, and mobile performance.  

Driving Optimal ROAS from Paid Media Channels

Some of the leading players in the space are high spenders on paid media channels such as Google, Bing & Facebook - but have a poor or sub-optimal conversion improvement strategy. Without an optimised, sophisticated conversion strategy that maximises the conversion rate, the return on investment is unsustainable or will underperform. Scaling spend on paid media is not achievable unless the conversion rate delivers optimal performance in the sector. Some in the space have paid media spend levels from 30k+ per month but dedicate minimal resources and budgets to conversion testing.  Given the cost per clicks on ad networks will continue to rise, we recommend spending at least 10% of your paid media budget on ongoing conversion optimisation testing schedules to ensure your paid media ROI maintains long-term viability, competitive advantage, and sustainability.

Pay-Per-Click Marketing

Pay-Per-Click marketing is constantly evolving, with more and more advertisers being forced to hand over a lot of control to Google's algorithms as the push for automation grows ever stronger. There are still key elements of control that we have though, the main one of these being budget which is ultimately something the algorithms can't take from you. That's why being smart with your budget and ad coverage is essential to achieving strong results and bettering what your competitors have to offer.

For Q1 2025, the average monthly budget wastage across these UK EV charging companies was £49, with some of the top players in the market spending a considerable amount on areas and audiences unlikely to deliver a return. We can see this in more detail when looking at the average monthly cost per cost-per-click (CPC) amongst advertisers, with the average of this metric being £11 . This highlights how competitive the market is and how important it is to control your budgets effectively. 

There are varying monthly ad budgets across the competitors in the report. While this gap highlights the competitive advantage that larger budgets can provide, it's not just about spending more; it’s about spending smarter. By focusing on driving efficiency in campaign management, targeting, and budget allocation, businesses with smaller budgets can still effectively compete with larger players. Investing in data-driven strategies and refining ad performance can help close the gap and maximise the return on every pound spent, enabling growth even in a competitive landscape. Relative to their spend, bp pulse has the lowest monthly cost-per-click (CPC) at £20, and PropCert has the highest at £43.

The report highlights the importance of budget efficiency by comparing monthly ad spend with estimated CPC in relation to your competitors, see who has the highest and lowest CPC. To maximise the effectiveness of your budget, it’s essential to focus on driving CPC down while maintaining or improving campaign performance. In this report, PropCert has the highest estimate monthly ad spend at £1,250, and bp pulse has the lowest at £178.

By optimising targeting, refining ad copy, and leveraging data to identify high-converting opportunities, you can ensure every click delivers maximum value. This approach not only stretches your budget further but also boosts your return on ad spend (ROAS), enabling you to achieve stronger results without simply increasing expenditure.

Technical Website Compliance

Savvy digital marketers know that having a technically sound website is an essential component of a successful fully integrated digital strategy - plus a site capable of maximising conversion performance. For electric vehicle charging solutions, they’ll want to ensure their website is easy for consumers to navigate, which will help to increase sales and avoid consumers from leaving the website early due to frustration.

Wallbox Chargers reported 116 4xx errors — the highest of all UK EV charging companies. There are many ways this company can reduce their 404 errors, such as fixing broken internal links and implementing redirects, if applicable. Websites should regular broken links regularly to help identify the severity and to look for solutions.

Site Speed & Conversion Rate Performance

When 62% of consumers are less likely to convert if they have a negative mobile site experience, ensuring that your site is quick and easy to load makes a significant improvement on your overall conversion rates. Electric vehicle charging solutions should adopt an easy-to-navigate website, as this will help to improve download speeds.

The overall mobile site speed for this quarter ranged between 56 and 25, with IONITY flagging the lowest site speed and Pod Point reporting the fastest mobile speed. A quick-loading website can increase conversions and improve the web experience for users. When a website is slow to load, users are more inclined to leave the website, increasing bounce rates.

Building Competitive Advantage with Domain Authority

Domain authority is an essential metric for measuring the effectiveness of SEO performance, and helps create a reliable overall gauge of how effective your site is at achieving organic traffic, i.e. ‘free’ traffic that isn’t gained through sponsored ads. As the market for products relating to electric vehicles widens, brands such as those in the EV charging sector must ensure they're building authority early, to land them in good stead as the industry develops. 

A ‘good’ DA really comes down to how your competitors are performing, however it’s generally considered average between 40 and 50, good between 50 and 60, and excellent above 60. In our previous audit, PropCert reported the lowest DA score (28). This quarter, PropCert remains the company to watch, but they’ve increase their DA score to 29. This company can increase their backlinks by guest posting on authority websites with a similar target audience.

Organic Performance – Mobile & Desktop

A  strong organic performance is strategically important as it ensures your site ranks above competitors for key, transactional keywords. When 93% of your customers won’t go past the first page of Google, your absence or lack of targeting for essential keywords will cost you conversions. Due to the cost-of-living crisis, we're seeing that many potential customers across a number of sectors are either cutting back on expendable items, or opting for cheaper alternatives. Electric vehicle charging solutions may feel the impact of this, though they can continue to follow a keyword strategy to improve the results for this category.

Four of the companies reported a decrease of organic traffic on desktop, while 7 saw a decrease on mobile. However, Egg saw the biggest increase on both desktop (+364%) and mobile (+1,739%). Brands should ensure their website is user-friendly, as this will increase to reduce bounce rates and encourage users to visit their website. A simple navigation system will help with this.

Universal Search Opportunity

Google Universal Search Results is an evolving opportunity to make your pages visible on a SERP (Search Engine Results Page). Universal results often appear before traditional listings and are eye-catching for users. Universal search results refer to rankings on a SERP that are not the traditional ‘blue line’ Google link, and a brand can appear for universal search results without being strong in standard rankings. For electric vehicle charging solutions, they'll want to ensure they're appearing for ‘image’ results.

Pod Point continues to secure the most Universal Search appearances overall (4,470), with the majority of these appearances coming from ‘images’ (2,400). Since devices are commonly used for search, it’s important that all brands optimise their website for mobile users. Primarily, mobile users will be looking for websites that are fast-loading, which can improve the user’s experience.

The Longtail Keyword Opportunity

Longtail keywords are often considered high intent and potentially more likely to convert as a searcher is being more specific. This builds on what we've discussed within our Organic Performance section, as EV charging companies will want to ensure they have key, transactional phrases within their approach. Optimising for longtail keywords also puts your content strategy in a strong position to rank for retailer new search terms as they enter Google’s index. For electric vehicle charging solutions, long-tail keywords could include, ‘home charging solution’ and ‘electric vehicle charging system’.

Pod Point continues to secure the most longtail keyword appearances for position 3 (1,085) and positions 4–10 (2,148). Ranking for longtail keywords is often faster since they are less competitive. You can start seeing SEO results more quickly without having to wait for your site to build authority.

Facebook Adverts

With the number of Facebook users in the United Kingdom (UK) hitting over 44 million users in 2023, it is not surprising that companies have jumped at the opportunity to advertise on the social media platform. Facebook’s UK digital advertising revenue has been estimated to have breached 2.6b GB pounds in 2019. For brands that operate both at home and within the public, such as EV charge points, Facebook ads are an opportunity to build brand visibility and recognition.

We’ve included examples of IONITY’s sponsored posts. This UK EV charging company utilised vertical videos to cater to mobile users — a wise approach given that the majority of social media users access their account on their phone.

Top Social Shares & Content

When it comes to social media and on-site content strategies, it is important to release content that has a longer shelf life. An article is considered 'Evergreen' if it has maintained its relevancy to an audience for longer. It's great for your brand engagement, but great for Google too, who will recognise content which achieves traffic over a long period of time. EV charging companies can build on their content strategy for boosting visibility on 'people also ask' results and longtail keywords to identify trending topics that will be more likely to be shared on social media.

IONITY has the most Facebook Likes (15,000), while Wallbox Charges has the most Instagram followers (14,300). Brand should ask their customers to share their experiences with the brand’s products or services through photos, reviews or testimonials. Reposting user content not only increases engagement but also helps build trust and credibility.

Website Readability & Accessibility

20% of people in the UK have a disability – 2 million of which are people living with sight loss. In addition, 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women have some degree of colour vision deficiency. When websites are not designed to meet these needs, brands lose customer interest as they turn elsewhere. Brands will want to ensure that their websites have as few accessibility alerts and contrast errors as possible to help with readability.

In our previous report, GRIDSERVE reported the most accessibility alerts (183). This quarter, GRIDSERVE remains the company to watch but has reduced their accessibility alerts to 115 — demonstrating that they’ve taken steps to improve the website usability for their audience.

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