St. Louis web development: reservations, stock checks, and little else on the page.

The median St. Louis homepage we tested makes 66 requests, against 93 in our 31-city sample. Median blocking time is 212 ms against 277 ms, about the same on a modest sample of 41. Browser errors in the console are about the same, 32% against 38%, so a fair number of those sites have something to look at. It's a good position to build from. We'd add features one at a time and measure each, with the test run before and after. If you've already got a page that stalls on a tap, that has its own repair.

What to add depends on what the site is standing on, and here it's a mixed lot. 15 of the 42 sites run WordPress. 7 run Squarespace, 17% against 9% in the sample, on a count too small to call a trend. 5 run Wix. 12 run something we couldn't tie to a known platform. Speed scores across the larger of those groups look alike, so we wouldn't move anyone for speed alone. A reservation link for a restaurant or a stock lookup for a shop might be an integration and not a rebuild. And if your form is the part that fails, a Squarespace form fix is a smaller job yet.

The larger work sits with firms that sell to institutions. Education and health services jobs run at nearly twice the national share here, and a firm in that orbit may be serving an organization and its staff at once. Our view is that this usually means a web application: a portal, an order form that feeds one system, a document exchange. Web apps start at $575, depending on complexity, and mobile apps start at $3,750. A firm in education or healthcare should have its own adviser review what the tool collects. The St. Louis report has the rest. Tell us the task your staff does by hand most, and we'd scope that first.