Does your Derby business actually need a new website?

The ten-minute test

Grab your phone, put your business name plus what you do plus Derby into Google, and work through these five questions honestly.

1. Can a stranger find you?

Not by typing your exact name. Search the way a customer would: the trade, the area, the problem. If you are not in the first handful of results and not on the map, your site is failing at its first job, whatever it looks like.

2. Does the first screen answer the only question that matters?

A visitor gives you seconds. In that time the page must say what you do, that you serve Derby, and what to do next. Count how many taps it takes to find your phone number. More than one is a leak.

3. Does it work on the phone it will actually be read on?

Most local searches happen on mobile. Menus that will not open, text that needs pinching, forms that fight autocorrect: each one is a customer who gave up quietly.

4. Is anything on it untrue yet?

Old prices, a service you stopped offering, opening hours from two Christmases ago. Stale details do more damage than an ugly design, because they break trust rather than taste.

5. Could you change it today if you had to?

If updating a line of text means finding the person who built it in 2019, you do not really own your website. That is a fixable problem, and fixing it is sometimes all you need.

When the answer is no

Pass all five and you do not need us. A site that is found, clear, mobile-sound, true and editable is doing its job; spend the money on photography or reviews instead, they will move the needle further. Fail one or two and a repair might beat a rebuild. Fail three or more and a rebuild usually costs less than the customers the current site is losing.

Want a second opinion on your own test results? Send us the answers and we will tell you straight, including if the answer is keep what you have. The full price of a rebuild, should you need one, is on the pricing page.