How long does a website take to build?
A small company website of up to five pages takes us 2 to 3 weeks. Ten fully custom pages take 4 to 6 weeks, larger sites 8 to 12. Market guides quote 4 to 6 weeks for a simple site and 6 to 12 weeks for a small business site. What usually decides your launch date is content and decisions, not design or code.
How long does a website take in 2026?
It depends on how many pages you need and how much of the design is made for you. Here's what market guides quote.
| Type of site | Typical time | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Landing page | 1 to 2 weeks | Prografik, August 2026 |
| Company site, up to 5 subpages | 3 to 4 weeks | Prografik, August 2026 |
| Company site, 5 to 15 subpages | 4 to 8 weeks | Prografik, August 2026 |
| Simple site, 1 to 10 pages | 4 to 6 weeks | Greenlit Content, survey of over 300 developers and agencies |
| Small business site, 10 to 50 pages | 6 to 12 weeks | Greenlit Content |
| Corporate site, 50 to 150 pages | 12 to 16 weeks | Greenlit Content |
A Czech studio, Designee, usually hands over a company site in 4 to 6 weeks, and bigger sites and e-shops in 8 to 12 (Designee, September 2026). Bowwe sums up the wider picture: from planning to launch, comprehensive projects often stretch to 10 to 14 weeks (Bowwe, January 2026).
Here are our own timelines:
| Package | Pages | Design | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | up to 5 | Our tested sections, tailored to your brand | 2 to 3 weeks |
| Studio | up to 10 | Fully custom | 4 to 6 weeks |
| Flagship | up to 20 | Art-directed, with a design system, two languages | 8 to 12 weeks |
A one-page landing page takes 1 to 2 weeks in our calculator.
We sit at the short end for three reasons. There are two of us, so nothing waits in a handoff between teams. We design and build in one loop. And AI does the legwork: first drafts of code, layout variations, translations, checks for speed and accessibility. We make every call. The scopes in these tables aren't identical, so compare pages and what's included, not only the weeks.
What happens week by week?
Every project follows the same steps. The full version is on how we work.
- Call, week 0. 30 minutes, free. What the site needs to do, who edits it, by when.
- Fixed quote, within about 3 working days. Scope, timeline and one price. The deadline is part of the quote.
- Start, usually within two weeks of signing.
- Direction, week 1. We design your homepage for real, in your brand. Not a wireframe.
- Design and build, weeks 2 and on. The rest of the pages, then the build on a staging link you click through as it grows. Two revision rounds per phase.
- Launch and handover. Redirects from your old site, checks on every screen size, go live. Then a handover video, a short guide and 30 days of support.
Why the homepage first? It's where most decisions get made: layout, type, tone, what goes first. Once it's agreed, the other pages build on it, and nobody gets a big reveal at the end.
What adds time to a project?
Page count first, then everything on top. Here's how our calculator adds weeks. Other studios plan differently, but the same things take time everywhere.
| What you add | Time in our calculator |
|---|---|
| Pages | 1 page: 1 to 2 weeks · up to 5: 2 to 3 · up to 10: 4 to 6 · up to 20: 6 to 10 · up to 30: 8 to 12 |
| Each extra language | +1 week |
| Signature motion: a custom hero animation | +1 week |
| A custom tool: calculator, configurator, quiz | +1 week |
| Brand refresh | +2 weeks |
| New visual identity | +4 weeks |
| Fast-track | About 30% less time, for 25% more |
Three real estimates from the calculator:
- Launch with a second language: 3 to 4 weeks.
- Studio with a new visual identity: 8 to 10 weeks.
- Moving a 30-page Wix site, design kept: 5 to 7 weeks.
More than 100 blog posts to move? The calculator flags it for a call, because a big blog needs a content plan before it gets a date.
What slows a website down the most?
Content and decisions. Not code. The guides we checked agree:
- Bowwe: websites rarely stall because of code. They stall because the content isn't ready, and slow feedback quietly stretches the timeline.
- Greenlit Content calls content production the most underestimated phase, and says more stakeholders mean more review cycles.
- Designee: deadlines slip most often while the studio waits for texts and photos.
- Prografik: delivery always depends on how fast the client sends the materials.
In practice, the delays look like this:
- Words and photos arrive late. Our clock starts when we have your content.
- Too many people sign off. Five opinions on a homepage take longer than one. We ask for one person who can make decisions, and that one matters most.
- The scope grows halfway through. A new section after the design is approved means design, build and testing again.
- Work passes between teams. Designer to developer to agency and back. Each handoff adds a wait. We design and build it ourselves.
How can you launch sooner?
- Get the content moving before we start. Even rough texts and a list of pages help. We shape your words, and we can bring in a copywriter.
- Name one decision-maker. Others can comment. One person approves.
- Start smaller. Launch with five pages now, then add pages from the existing sections as you grow. The CMS is set up for that.
- React to the homepage in week 1. Big changes are cheap before the other pages are built on top of it.
- Use fast-track. It adds 25% to the price and takes about 30% off the time. A Studio site moves from 4 to 6 weeks to 3 to 4. For comparison, one Slovak studio adds 20% to 50% for an urgent deadline (Prografik, August 2026).
- Tell us your hard date. An event, a product launch, a funding round. We'll say straight on the first call whether it's doable.
When will Google show the new site?
Launch day isn't the finish line for search. Google says crawling can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks (Google Search Central, December 2025). If your URLs change in the move, a small to medium-sized site can take a few weeks for most pages to move in Google's index, larger sites longer, and rankings can fluctuate meanwhile (Google Search Central, August 2026).
That's why every launch includes a redirect from each old URL, a sitemap, and watching Search Console for rankings and errors afterwards. If you're planning a campaign around the new site, leave room for this.
What we'd do
Tell us your date on the first call, and we'll plan backwards from it. For most local firms, Launch is live in 2 to 3 weeks. If your site lags behind a growing company, Studio takes 4 to 6 weeks. Either way, start writing before we start designing: content is what moves the date.
The calculator shows the weeks next to the price, without an email. Every step is on how we work.