{"id":145,"date":"2013-03-06T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T12:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-design.co.za\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:39:50","slug":"average-price-for-web-design-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.web-design.co.za\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/average-price-for-web-design-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Average Price for Web Design – 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"You may remember the article I posted back in 2010 entitled Average Price for Web Design \u2013 2009<\/a> … well since then, we’ve had a recession and the price of living has gone up, so I decided it was high time for an updated report. Earlier this year I did a bit of price reconnaissance, and now it’s time to publish my findings.\n

Initial Result<\/h2>\nThis time around, my experiment was on a much grander scale; instead of contacting 100 web design companies, I contacted 457 web design companies, and under a pseudonym, I asked for a price for a standard 5 page website.\n\nFrom those 457, I eliminated 7 companies that were just template-mongers trying to pass off as web designers, and 1 company that was from the UK trying to pass off as a South African firm. I eliminated a further 21, as I found they were just fronts for other web design companies that were already on my list.\n\nI was then forced to eliminate 8 web design companies whose contact forms were broken, and didn’t list an email address.\n\nA further 14 web design companies refused my business for various reasons, such as they were too busy or only worked with large established clients, etc. Good for them!\n\nA whopping 172 web design companies just never bothered getting back to me – and that’s allowing for a month to pass since first contacting them.\n\nI carefully looked through the websites and portfolios of the remaining 234 web design companies that did provide quotes, and divided them into 3 groups: Good Web Designers, Ok Web Designers, and Bad Web Designers.\n

The cost of a GOOD website<\/h2>\nI received quotes from 67 good web designers. Their own websites and portfolios were testament to the quality of their web designs. The average price for a 5 page website came to R 10 100.47. I then decided to eliminate 5 web design companies from that list because they had clearly been smoking crack whilst quoting (figures between R30k and R300k). Remember, this quote is for a standard 5 page website without any specialised programming or flash. The elimination of these 5 web design companies brought the average price of a good 5 page website down to R 7 920.74.\n

The cost of an OK website<\/h2>\nI received quotes from 97 Ok web designers. These were companies who could provide a product that wasn’t broken or flawed in any major way, but had no pizazz in the aesthetic department. Basically a bit of a yawn, but at least its workable. The average price of an Ok 5 page website worked out to R 6 126.35.\n

The cost of a BAD website<\/h2>\nI received quotes from 70 bad web designers. These companies had shit websites…websites that were so ugly, they should come with a warning for permanent retinal damage and emotional scarring. Ok, I’m being melodramatic, but you get the point. The average price for a bad 5 page website worked out to R 4 162.36. Having your company name associated with such a monstrosity could cost you more in the long run though.\n

Daylight Robbery<\/h2>\nThis time, I’ve made a special category for Cherry Online Design, the company that charged the Free State provincial government R 140 million<\/a> (or R40 million depending on who you believe) for a WordPress template. A company, that at the time of writing, doesn’t have a website themselves. Can anyone tell me how many low cost houses we could build for the homeless with a budget of R 140 million?\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\nIf you are in the market for a website, just remember an Aston Martin One-77 and a Tata Indica are both cars, but they have different price tags for a reason. 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