Richmond web development for firms that live in documents.

Email is a poor filing cabinet, and we'd guess Richmond's offices know it. Financial activities run about 1.49 times the national job share in the city, professional and business services about 1.36 times, and state government has about 23,900 jobs there. Our opinion is that plenty of smaller firms around that work still pass documents by attachment. A client portal, a document upload or a shared status page is a custom web application, and those start at $575, depending on complexity. Booking shows on none of the 9 professional sites we tested, against 3% of 343 in our 31-city sample, though a portal behind a login wouldn't show on our homepage test.

The front of the house is in fair shape. Median blocking time is 85 ms against 277 ms in the sample. That's a wide gap, and it comes from one run per site on a shared test machine, so take it as encouraging and no more. Browser errors show no difference, 36% against 38%. Requests run 87.5 against 93. WordPress runs 12 of 43 sites, 28% against 45%. The 16 on custom or unidentified platforms post a median speed score of 75 against 62, a small, mixed group, and not a reason on its own to pick custom. Booking shows on 7 of 43 homepages, 16% against 10%, a gap of a few sites. We'd keep what's working and build beside it.

Where the data is serious, the scope matters most. A financial office should settle with its own compliance people what a portal may hold before anyone writes code, and we'd build to that. A law firm might start with an intake form that feeds a matter list. A clinic might want a new-patient request, reviewed by its own adviser. A property manager might want a tenant request page. Integrations with the systems you keep save someone retyping. Mobile apps start at $3,750. The Richmond report lists the other checks. Send us the attachment your staff chases most, and we'd scope that first.