Who Are The Top 5 Website Providers for Powersports Dealerships in 2025?
Joe Montgomery January 22, 2025
Selecting the Best Website Platform for Your Powersports Dealership
Introduction
The 2024 Q3 Market Insights Powersports report from J.D. Power indicated the powersports industry contended with sluggish demand and increased inventories, driving average unit values down 4.7% year-over-year. In market climates like these, deploying the most effective website possible can be the difference between feast or famine, with some sites attracting and converting consumers at significantly higher rates than others.
NOTE: A 2025 RV website data study from Overfuel revealed most dealerships failed to pass Google’s basic standard for performance.
In May 2020, Google’s Chrome Team unveiled Core Web Vitals (CWV) – Google’s basic performance and user experience (UX) standard – offering a set of quality signals for web page performance. The result? RV dealership websites and landing pages now must pass CWV to optimize the sites ability to compete in organic search and PPC, and to gauge if a website is providing an ideal user experience (i.e., maximizing conversions).
At Google’s I/O Conference in May 2024, they announced the Search Generative Experience (SGE). As of October 2024, we realize the overwhelming impact this update has made on SERPs, including Ai overviews, featured snippets, People Also Ask, and more. What dealership website providers have already reacted to these two major Google updates?
Why Picking the Best Website Provider is Critical
- Technical SEO and Organic Awareness: Your mobile and desktop website needs to pass CWV in origin mode; failing to meet that standard reduces your organic visibility in search (less traffic) and hurts PPC performance if you’re routing paid traffic to your website (lower ROI). Failing CWV also means your site list fails to convert visitors at the level it otherwise would. And your dealer site needs to be tuned to feed Google’s AI what it needs to help consumers, and position your site above the digital fold.
- Mobile-first, not “responsive” design: Unlike legacy website products that were built for a desktop experience and then modified to work on mobile (i.e., “responsive”), the ideal vendor builds sites for mobile first, then applies that design to the desktop.
- Optimized Conversions: The UI/UX design of a website should be the result of tons of behavior tracking, not someone’s personal design opinion.
- No Code, Modern Technology: Vendor platforms built on modern, monolithic technology stacks keep your website updated instantly and without human dependence, custom development work and additional expenses.
- Ease of Use: It doesn’t matter how robust a platform is if a dealer team struggles to use it.
- OEM Programs and Certifications: While it’s important to note which vendors have OEM approval, many approved website vendors are legacy platforms failing to meet Google’s basic standard.
#1 Website Provider: Overfuel
Overfuel is the top powersports dealership website provider of 2025, delivering sites passing Google’s basic performance standard and offering a full suite of features, including a custom CMS that feels as intuitive as WordPress, Ai-enhanced inventory listings, customer-validated design, digital retailing, real-time analytics and much more.
Overfuel’s platform approach provides outsized benefits for the price. All websites can be updated simultaneously, and unifying website vendors into a single source allows for apples-to-apples reporting across an entire category.
The platform is built on Next.js, the same technology used by Netflix, TikTok and Uber, generating lightning fast performance combined with UI/UX design based on real shopper data across all client websites.
Overfuel serves powersports, automotive, RV and marine dealers, and currently boasts a client base of more than 300 rooftops.
Learn more about Overfuel here.
Key Features
- Passing Google’s Basic Performance Standard: All sites are produced to pass CWV and dealers are warned when requesting outdated 3rd-party plugins which fail CWV. Lightning fast load speeds, strong conversion ratios. Dedication to technical SEO is the foundational difference between Overfuel and most competitors.
- Industry-Leading Technical and On Page SEO: You do not need blog articles to power up your Overfuel website, as their team pushes site updates multiple times per week, not by the month or quarter.
- Conversion-Proven Design: Overfuel uses Microsoft Clarity (see Microsoft + Overfuel case study) to track user behaviors across all sites and make adjustments, system-wide, as warranted. The platform allows for site updates to occur across the entire customer base, immediately. Design focus is on mobile usability and visitor conversion, not building “pretty” custom websites.
- Built-In Inventory Syndication: Push your inventory feed into Google Merchant Center, Meta Automated Inventory Ads, your Google Business Profile’s Vehicles for Sale section, all the major 3rd-party aggregator sites, and more.
- Rich Website Tagging: Using Schema.org snippets, Overfuel ensures your inventory is eligible for display on your Google Business Profile, tuned for Google Search and Google SGE/Ai for SERP Features. People can then search, filter, and see pricing and availability information, driving more impressions and organic visits to their website.
- Ai-Enhanced Inventory: Their custom-prompted ChatGPT integration produces compelling unit descriptions to elevate your VDP for buyers and impact SEO.
- Inventory Heat Reports: See which units are moving the fastest and bringing you the best ROI, and quickly diagnose issues.
- Never-Delete VDP Approach: Many vendors delete VDPs of sold inventory, throwing away earned SEO. Overfuel shifts VDPs to Sold Mode and recommends unit alternatives for buyers, enabling dealerships to build a healthy content catalog over time. Alternatively, most vendors remove units sold on the website, which keeps Google constantly guessing which powersports units are in stock.
- Reservations via Credit Card Deposit: Using a credit card, Apple Pay, or Google Wallet, buyers can place a unit on hold day or night without human intervention. Deposits feed into dealer Stripe accounts with no upcharge from Overfuel. Dealers set the deposit amount and time of the hold.
- Deeper Visitor Analytics: Overfuel offers a powerful real-time analytics engine providing complete clarity into the buyer’s journey, start to finish. Tracking lead attribution for display, search and social adverts, referral traffic, organic search and direct visits. Finally, get a firm understanding of your actual conversion rates.
- Custom Content Management System (CMS): Instead of white labeling WordPress, Overfuel built a custom CMS specifically for the powersports dealership. Simple and intuitive, allowing a dealership, their agency or their Overfuel account manager to make website changes on the fly, manage staff members and FAQs, service coupons, or build featured inventory pages for seasonal or promotional purposes.
- Easy Buyer Actions: Simple CTA buttons for credit pre-approval, secure online payments, instant cash trade offers, test Drive & Service, Payment Calculator and Nationwide Shipping (US).
- Finance Support: Overfuel offers free credit check summaries, full finance applications, custom payment calculators and transparent financing calculations.
- Personalization by Location: If you’re a multi-location business, Overfuel serves inventory to web visitors based on the location closest to them.
- Data Security: Overfuel embraces GDPR-compliance practices and encrypts sensitive data at rest and in motion. They leverage redundant Amazon hosting and provide each customer with a disaster recovery ability.
- GA4 & Tag Manager Integration: Everything required for powersports dealers.
- Smart Text Completion Fields: Across a dealer site, Overfuel will detect common email address typos, pre-populate fields based on previously entered data and auto-populate address information via Google Maps integration – everything to improve the buyer experience.
- Visitor Personalization: Personalized content display based on overall site engagement trends and personal engagement trends.
- Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) for powersports: Beyond passing CWV, Overfuel provides a holistic SGE solution based on preliminary understanding.
- API-First: Overfuel’s API-first approach allows for deep customization, depending on client needs.
- Dedicated Account Manager: Every Overfuel customer receives a dedicated account manager.
#2 Website Provider: Dealer Spike
Dealer Spike launched in 2008 and is a well-known website solution provider in RV, powersports and marine.
Key Features
- Responsive Web Design: Designed to respond to any device type.
- Content Management System: Advertised as self-service content management, easily update product offers, copy on any page and respond to changing market conditions, quickly.
- Comprehensive Unit Listings: Detailed listings including high-rez images, specifications, pricing and unique features.
- Built-In SEO: SEO updates to fine tune performance happen on a monthly basis.
#3 Website Provider: DX1
Founded in 2013, DX1 provides website services to the powersports and motorcycle categories.
Key Features
- Responsive Web Design: Designed to respond to any device type.
- Content Management System: Advertised as self-service content management, easily update product offers, copy on any page and respond to changing market conditions, quickly.
- Automatic Postings of OEM Promotions: Automotive posting of promotions saves dealers time.
- HTTPS Secure Website Certificates: DX1 ensures all sites are secured.
- ADA & WCAG Compliant: Sites meet standard compliance requirements
- Listing Inventory Mobile App: Manage inventory via their mobile app.
#4 Website Provider: PSX Digital
PSXDigital, a division of PowersportsX, LLC, is a provider of websites to the powersports, RV and marine dealership categories since 2015.
Key Features
- Owned, Not Leased, Websites: Promotes owning a custom-built site, hosted on your own infrastructure.
- On-Page and Off-Page SEO: Committed to strong SEO efforts.
- Content Management System: Simple to use content management controls.
- Inventory Management: Includes an inventory management tool.
- ADA Compliant: Sites meet standard compliance requirements
- Optimized Forms: Instant trade-in value and Pre-Qual forms.
#5 Website Provider: Netsource Media
Florida-based Netsource Media has served the powersports, RV and marine dealer categories for more than 25 years.
Key Features
- Responsive Web Design: Designed to respond to any device type.
- SEO Focus: Tunes your site to optimize SEO performance.
- Inventory Management: Built to handle powersports inventory.
- Inventory Marketing: Send your inventory to 3rd-party sites.
- Data Library: The specifications library makes it easy to get inventory up to date.
Conclusion
As a dealer looking for the right website solution in 2025 for your powersports dealership, one KPI matters the most: the number of conversions. Which website will drive more organic traffic and convert it at a higher rate?
Some website design companies are focused solely on the “design” aspect when research has shown that consumers are immediately interested in inventory. Missing in the inventory they care about, no pretty design will save you.
Function over form, every time.
Disclaimer
This guide is intended for informational purposes, drawing from publicly available data and customer feedback. We recommend readers conduct their own research before making any decisions. The website providers mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners, and their inclusion does not imply endorsement.