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How Long Does It Actually Take to Build a Website?
By Koprio Team
Blog
How Long Does It Actually Take to Build a Website?
By Koprio Team
A single page site can be live in a week or two. A small business site of a handful of pages usually takes three to six weeks. An online shop or anything with custom features runs longer, often six to twelve weeks or more. The build itself is rarely the slow part. Content and feedback are.
Stage by stage
Stage | What happens | Rough time |
|---|---|---|
Discovery | A conversation about your business, customers and goals, then a plan and quote | A few days to a week |
Content | Gathering or writing the words, collecting or taking photos | 1 to 3 weeks, often the longest stage |
Design | Turning the plan and content into a look and layout for you to approve | 1 to 2 weeks |
Build | Making the approved design into a working site | 1 to 3 weeks |
Review | Your feedback, revisions, testing on devices | 1 to 2 weeks |
Launch | Final checks, going live, connecting the domain and analytics | 1 to 2 days |
Stages overlap in practice, which is why the totals are shorter than adding these up.
What slows a project down
Content from the client. The single biggest cause of delay. If the words and photos are not ready, nothing else can finish
Scope creep. Adding pages and features mid project resets timelines
Slow feedback. A round of review that sits for two weeks adds two weeks
Too many decision makers. Every extra person who has to approve things adds time
Waiting on third parties. Domain access, logins, photographer availability
What speeds it up
Have your content ready, or pay for copywriting so it is handled
Agree the scope upfront and stick to it
Give feedback in one consolidated round, quickly
Nominate one person to approve things
Sort out domain and account access early
Why "quick" is not always good
A site built in 48 hours is usually a template with your logo dropped in. It will look like other sites and rarely fits how your business actually wins customers. A few weeks of proper discovery, content and design is what makes the difference between a site that sits there and one that brings in enquiries.
What Koprio's timescales look like
Starter, single page: one to two weeks from the initial chat, once the design is approved
Growth, up to six pages with copywriting: three to four weeks from the initial chat, once designs are approved
Ecommerce: varies with the size of the shop and the amount of product setup, quoted once we know the detail
The takeaway
Expect one to two weeks for a single page, three to six weeks for a small business site, and longer for a shop. The timeline is driven mostly by how fast content and feedback come together, not by the build. Get your content ready and respond quickly and most projects run to schedule.
Get in touch for a timeline based on what you need, or read how much a website costs.