Fort Wayne web design for a site that may only need finishing.

We'll start by talking ourselves out of some work. Main content on the Fort Wayne homepages we tested showed in a median 5.5 seconds, against 7.4 in our 31-city sample, on a modest 45 sites. If your page is one of the quicker ones, a redesign is a good way to lose that. So look at what you actually dislike. A dated look may be a design upgrade. A page that can't do what you need wants a feature. A page that's wrong for what you sell now is a real web design job, and we'd take it.

Where design does have work to do, the numbers are specific. Median page weight is 3.13 MB, about the same as the sample's 3.08 MB, and 16 of 45 came in under 2 MB. So the speed advantage isn't coming from a lighter page, and we can't say from the test where it does come from. Contrast failed on some text at 56% of sites against 62%. Tap targets failed at 22% against 22%. Both are close enough to call even, and neither is a number to be proud of. Those are the fixes we'd do first. They barely change the look, and a reader on a loading dock can then read the page.

What the page must say depends on who's reading. Manufacturing jobs run about 1.8 times the national share in Allen County, so a supplier's site may need to answer technical questions before anyone calls. For a manufacturer, that argues for tables and plain type over a big photograph of a handshake. A clinic needs a first step for a new patient. A home services firm needs finished jobs and a list of places it works. If you do need a new site, they run $1,500 to $5,750 at a fixed price, up to 70 pages. The Fort Wayne report has the full test. Send us the page you're tired of, and we'd tell you which job it is.