Someone in Elk Grove who types "residential window tinting near me" into Google gets a short list of local businesses on Maps. This study looks at who appears on that list, how often they appear in the first three positions, how they are rated, and what the people searching around this topic seem to be asking.
The measurement was taken on 2026-08-10 and covers 10 businesses. All 10 had ratings, with an average of 4.65. Nine of the 10 had claimed listings, and six listed a website. Website text was captured later, on 2026-10-01, for four of those sites. Review excerpts and related-search observations come from sampling dated 2026-08-14 (a second set of search observations is dated 2026-08-16).
One distinction matters throughout. "Top-3 share" is the percentage of sampled searches in which a business appeared in positions 1 to 3. It is not the share of searches in which the business appeared first. The only first-position fact in this study is that Deluxe Window Tinting was shown first for the phrase "residential window tinting near me." No first-position percentage is available for any business.
The study is written for owners of independent local service businesses who want to understand what a crowded local category looks like from the searcher's side: who is visible, what the evidence on their listings looks like, and how little of it is specific to the service being searched.