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Pricing & transparency

We Checked 50 Top Web Design Agencies. 79% Won't Publish a Price.

78.6% of top agencies publish no prices. So we built the dataset ourselves: 34 published price lists, 6 platforms, 2 marketplaces and 7 cost guides, with a link for every number.

9 min read · Updated August 2026
78.6% of top-listed web design agencies publish no prices
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No listicles, no thought leadership, no posts written to hit a word count. Each one answers a question a real client asked us, and says plainly where the numbers came from.

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Web design

How long does it take to build a website?

A straight answer, then the part nobody explains: where the months actually go, whose they are, and what has to be true for a launch date to hold.

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AI search

GEO, AEO and AIO: three acronyms, one job

Three names for the same work, coined at three different moments. Here is where each came from, what the job actually is, and the one distinction that genuinely matters.

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AI search

How ChatGPT chooses which businesses to recommend

OpenAI publishes exactly two sentences about how ChatGPT chooses which businesses to recommend. Here is what those two sentences say, what everybody else is guessing, and how to tell the difference.

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AI search

Can ChatGPT find your business? How to check in ten minutes

The exact four prompts to run, what each answer means, and where ChatGPT is getting its information about you. Ten minutes, no tool, and an honest note on when the result does not matter yet.

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Web design

You have half a second: how a small business website wins and keeps attention

Visitors judge a page before they read a word. The three jobs a website has with attention, how people actually read online, and a ten-minute checklist for the first screen.

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Content

Neuromarketing for small businesses: five models you can actually use

Five well-evidenced models of how people decide, one paragraph of theory each, and what to change on a small business site because of them. No scanner required.

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Every price is on one page, itemised to the line. If it does not fit your budget you will know in ten seconds, which is a better use of your time than a proposal.