You already have a website.
The question is what
it is costing you.
A site that loads slowly, reads badly on a phone or cannot be found on Google does not just sit there. It costs you work. Someone who was ready to phone you gives up and phones whoever comes up next instead. Most of the businesses I work with already had a website that was doing exactly that, and nobody had told them.
Before you spend anything, find out how bad it actually is. Then decide.
A replaced site, measured
Pathteq replaced a WordPress site. That is the new one’s real score on the same free test I will run on yours.
Whatever your site is built on, you get a straight answer.
I build sites by hand rather than assembling them out of a template, which is why they come out faster and cleaner than a builder can manage.
WordPress
I have worked in it and much of the market runs on it. I will look at the site and quote the work per job, or tell you if replacing it is the cheaper answer.
Wix, Squarespace, a free builder
Usually a rebuild, and I will say so plainly. On a locked builder there is a ceiling on what can be changed, and past a certain number of faults patching costs more.
A site built by someone who has gone quiet
Common, and fixable. The first job is getting your domain, hosting and email back in your own name. That matters whether or not you ever rebuild the site.
A site that is honestly fine
It happens, and I will tell you. If the score comes back strong, keep it and spend the money on something that is actually holding you back.
Start with the evidence, not a sales call.
You run the free test
Your address, one minute, 71 checks against the live site with the evidence attached. You do not need to sign up to see the score.
We talk about what it found
A short call. I go through what is actually costing you enquiries and what is cosmetic, and I separate the two honestly.
We agree what happens next
If a rebuild is the right call you get a quote against the actual scope. If it is not, I will say so, because I would rather have the referral than the invoice.
Frequently asked
Yes. I have worked in WordPress and a large part of the market runs on it, so I will not turn you away for that. What I will do is look at the site first and be straight with you about which is the better spend, working on what you have or replacing it. WordPress work is quoted per job once I have seen it, and it is costed separately from a build.
Usually not, and I would rather say that than take your money. Past a certain number of defects, replacing a site costs less than patching one, and on a locked builder there is a limit to what can be changed at all. Run the free score first and you will see the size of the problem before either of us guesses at it.
Run the Roadworthy Test. It is free, it takes about a minute and it runs 71 individual checks against your real address with the evidence attached. You get a score out of 100 and a verdict. If it comes back strong, I will tell you to keep it. Not every site needs replacing.
Not if it is done properly. Existing addresses are mapped to the new ones so nothing that used to work returns a dead page, the content that earns your traffic comes across and the technical basics go up rather than down. A rebuild is usually where rankings improve, because most of what holds a site back is speed, structure and mobile.
Two to four weeks for most sites, from the deposit to going live. The du Preez practice went from nothing at all to live in 13 days. The slow part is almost never the build, it is waiting on content and approvals, and I write the content for you so that part does not stall.
Send me the address. I will tell you what I see.
No pressure and no jargon. If your site is fine you will hear that from me, and it costs you nothing to find out.
What comes back
- Your score out of 100 from the same 71 checks, with the evidence behind every one.
- What is genuinely costing you enquiries, kept separate from what is only cosmetic.
- A rebuild, a fix list or an honest keep it, whichever the site earns.