SHS Hire: digital health score 48/100

We reviewed SHS Hire (shshire.com) for the Car Finance Digital Audit, Credit Canary’s independent study of 459 UK car finance and leasing providers built only from public information. SHS Hire’s digital health score is 48 out of 100: the bottom third of the sector, and 422nd of 428 overall. Measured across the set, SHS Hire is 17 points below the sector median of 65. Its strongest area is accessibility, at 77 out of 100, a little behind the 85 car finance provider average, so being usable for everyone, an Equality Act duty is already working. The biggest gain is in mobile speed: 33 against the 55 average, and the quickest way to climb the table.

For findability, 62 out of 100 is below the 80 average: showing up and making sense to Google. Mobile speed scored 33, 22 points below the 55 average, covering how fast the site feels on a phone. On measurement, SHS Hire scored 30, below the 47 average (whether the firm can see what is working). Accessibility: 77 out of 100, 8 points below the 85 car finance provider average. That covers being usable for everyone, an Equality Act duty. The full breakdown, with the exact pages we tested and the fixes that would help SHS Hire most, is in the free report.