Research / Orange County retail

Orange County shopping center websites: the 2026 index

By Noah Stegman, founder of Endcap. Published September 24, 2026

In September 2026, Endcap checked the public web presence of 299 multi-tenant shopping centers in Orange County, California. At least 186 of them (62%) have a page of their own, and at least 79 (26%) have their own website. At least 91 (30%) publish all four things a prospective tenant looks for first: available suites with sizes, a site plan, a named leasing contact and a brochure.

Preliminary results. A second, more thorough search of the centers where no page was found has finished for part of the county and is under way for the rest. So far it has found pages the first search missed, so the share of centers without a page will fall and the medians will rise. We will update this page when it is complete.

Key findings

• In our search so far, 113 centers (38%) have no page of their own on any owner, manager or broker site we could find. A retailer searching for one of them lands on a listing portal, a map listing or nothing at all.
• 107 centers (36%) rely on a single page on an owner, manager or broker website rather than a site of their own.
• 142 (47%) list an available suite with its square footage, 150 (50%) publish a site plan and 136 (45%) name a leasing contact with a direct phone or email.
• 58 centers (19%) show a logo of their own on the web. Most appear under the owner's or broker's name only.
• None of the 181 pages we could test reached a good mobile speed score (90 or above in Google PageSpeed Insights). The median page earned 5 of 10 points, which corresponds to a mobile performance score of about 50.
• About 48% of the pages we found show availability, contacts or brochures only through a script such as a listing widget, which means the information may not be read by search engines or AI assistants that do not run scripts.
• The median center scored 60 out of 100. Among centers with a page of their own, the median was 78.

What the top centers do

These 25 centers scored 87 or higher, the top tenth of the index. Most of them are not the county's biggest malls. Many are neighborhood and community centers whose owners or managers keep a clear, current leasing page.

Top-scoring Orange County shopping centers, September 2026

Center	City	Score
Village at La Floresta	Brea	98
Sendero Marketplace	Rancho Mission Viejo	97
Brea Union Plaza	Brea	96
Bristol Warner Village	Santa Ana	96
Plaza de la Paz	Laguna Niguel	96
Seacliff Village	Huntington Beach	96
5 Points Plaza	Huntington Beach	95
Anaheim Hills Festival	Anaheim	95
Anaheim Town Square	Anaheim	95
Costa Mesa Courtyards	Costa Mesa	95
Plaza del Lago	Mission Viejo	95
17th Street Promenade	Costa Mesa	94
Imperial Center East	Brea	94
Sycamore Canyon Plaza	Anaheim	94
The Center at Rancho Niguel	Laguna Niguel	94
MainPlace Mall	Santa Ana	93
Bella Terra	Huntington Beach	92
Pacific City	Huntington Beach	92
Stadium Promenade	Orange	91
The District at Tustin Legacy	Tustin	91
Plaza Antonio	Rancho Santa Margarita	89
The Market Place	Tustin	89
Brea Imperial Center	Brea	88
Placentia Town Center	Placentia	87
Village at Tustin Legacy	Tustin	87

What they have in common:

• 92% have a website of their own, and the rest have a dedicated page on the owner's or manager's site.
• 100% list available suites with square footage, and 96% show where those suites sit on a site plan.
• 92% name the leasing contact with a direct phone number or email.
• 100% keep a tenant directory, which serves shoppers and shows a prospective tenant who their neighbors would be.
• 92% offer a leasing brochure that opens without a form.

None of this requires a large budget. The centers that score well are the ones where somebody keeps the availability, plan and contact current. Our guide to attracting tenants to a small shopping center covers what an owner controls, and the first 90 days after buying a center covers taking over a center's website and listings.

Results by center type

Share of centers with a page of their own, and median score, by center type

Center type	Centers checked	With a page of their own	Median score
Neighborhood centers	130	68%	61
Strip centers	71	15%	0
Community and power centers	68	85%	78
Malls, lifestyle and specialty centers	30	97%	69.5

Strip centers are the least visible: 15% have a page of their own.

Results by city

Cities with five or more centers in the index

City	Centers checked	With a page of their own	Median score of those pages
Tustin	29	38%	63
Irvine	26	92%	78
Lake Forest	26	46%	71
Anaheim	21	71%	78
Brea	18	61%	81
Santa Ana	18	61%	81
Garden Grove	17	47%	74.5
Costa Mesa	14	71%	60.5
Fullerton	13	46%	72
Orange	12	50%	69
Laguna Niguel	10	90%	82
Mission Viejo	10	80%	78
Westminster	10	20%	76
Newport Beach	9	100%	69
Huntington Beach	8	100%	92
Laguna Hills	8	88%	72
Rancho Santa Margarita	8	75%	69.5
San Clemente	7	71%	82
Yorba Linda	5	60%	73

City results reflect who owns the centers as much as anything else. A city with several centers owned by one large landlord, such as Irvine Company in Irvine, tends to score well, because that landlord publishes a consistent page for every property.

How we scored each center

Each center was scored out of 100 on ten criteria, using only what was publicly visible on its official web presence on the check date: the center's own website or its page on the owner's, property manager's or leasing broker's site. Listing portals such as LoopNet and Crexi, map listings and social media were not scored, because the index measures what the center's own team publishes.

Scoring criteria and the share of centers that earned any points for each

Criterion	Points	What earns the points	Centers earning points
Dedicated web presence	20	Its own website earns 20; a dedicated page on an owner, manager or broker site earns 12.	62%
Available space with suite sizes	15	At least one available suite with square footage, or a dated "fully leased" statement.	54%
Site plan	10	A site plan viewable on the page or in a linked document.	50%
Named leasing contact	15	A named person with a direct phone or email earns 15; a general line earns 8; a form earns 3.	63%
Tenant directory	10	The current tenants listed by name, on a list, map or directory page.	56%
Leasing brochure	5	A brochure or flyer that opens without a login or form.	47%
Center identity	5	The center shows its own logo or wordmark, not only the owner's.	19%
Secure and working	5	The page loads over HTTPS with a valid certificate.	61%
Mobile speed	10	Google PageSpeed Insights mobile performance score, median of three runs, scaled to 10 points.	61%
Property facts	5	Total square footage or number of suites is stated.	46%

• Which centers: 306 named retail sites in Orange County from OpenStreetMap, with city and county confirmed by the U.S. Census Geocoder. Car dealers, single stores, office buildings, closed properties and duplicates were removed, leaving 299 scored centers. OpenStreetMap does not include every center in the county.
• When: all checks were made in September 2026. A center's website can change the next day, so each score is a snapshot.
• How pages were found: at least two different searches per center, plus the property lists of owners, managers and leasing brokerages. A center was scored as having no page only after both found nothing.
• Mobile speed: the median of three runs of Google PageSpeed Insights on the center's main page. Lab scores vary between runs, and pages on a large owner's platform reflect that platform.
• Websites used: the most common platforms among the pages we found were WordPress (100), Irvine Company (28), Buildout (18), Wix (12), Property Capsule (11), Squarespace (11), Placewise (10), Mall Maverick (7), Webflow (5).

Owners, property managers and leasing brokers can ask for a center's scorecard or send a correction to hello@endcap.design. We re-check the page and date the correction.