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Marketing sites built around what the business actually needs to say, with templates your team can extend without a developer for every change.
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A good-looking site that search engines cannot read and assistants cannot quote is a brochure with a hosting bill. We build sites that load quickly, convert, and serve the same content to a person, to Googlebot and to GPTBot, because increasingly all three decide whether you get the enquiry.
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- Server-rendered by default, so crawlers get real content
- Migrations mapped URL by URL, verified after launch
- UK-registered company, Companies House 16718403
2020
Building since
1,000+
Clients served
UK
Registered company
4.6/5
Rated on Clutch
Quick answer
What a website has to do now
Three audiences, not one. A human has to understand the offer and act. A search engine has to crawl, render and index it. And now an AI assistant has to be able to fetch the page, read it without executing JavaScript, and quote it accurately. A site that satisfies the first and fails the other two loses enquiries it never knows about.
That third requirement has changed the technical defaults. Client-rendered single-page applications were an acceptable trade when Google's renderer was the only thing that mattered. AI crawlers generally do not run JavaScript, so a client-rendered site can be perfectly indexed and still serve ChatGPT an empty shell. Nothing warns you about this.
The other thing that has not changed is speed and clarity. Most conversion problems on sites we are shown are not design problems; they are a slow first load on a phone, a form asking for nine fields, and an offer that is never stated plainly above the fold.
We are a software company rather than a studio, which shapes what we are good at. If you need brand identity and campaign creative, an agency that specialises in that will serve you better. If you need a site that is fast, maintainable and findable, that is our ground.
What we build
What we do
Eight areas. Most projects are a rebuild, a migration or both.
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Performance
Core Web Vitals fixed at the cause: image and font delivery, script weight, layout shift. Measured in field data rather than in a lab score that flatters the result.
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Server rendering
Content present in the HTML, so search and AI crawlers receive it without running JavaScript. This is now a visibility requirement rather than a preference.
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Migrations
URL mapping built from the real URL list and traffic data, redirects tested before launch and verified after. Where the largest avoidable losses happen.
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CMS and editing
WordPress, headless, or custom, chosen for who has to maintain it rather than for what is fashionable. A CMS nobody can use produces a site that never changes.
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Ecommerce
Shopify and custom stores built with catalogue structure, crawl behaviour and product data considered at build time rather than retrofitted by an SEO afterwards.
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Accessibility
Keyboard navigation, contrast, labelling and structure. It is a legal consideration for many UK organisations and it overlaps almost entirely with being machine-readable.
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Web applications
Where the project is software with a front end rather than a website: portals, dashboards, booking systems and internal tools.
Why rebuilds disappoint
A redesign that lost half the traffic
The most expensive website mistake in the UK is not an ugly site. It is a beautiful one launched over a migration nobody mapped properly.
What goes wrong
- Redirects mapped by pattern, dropping the irregular URLs
- Content rendered client-side, invisible to AI crawlers
- A CMS nobody can use without calling the agency
- Core Web Vitals failing on the templates that matter
- Forms long enough that people abandon them
What we do
- URL mapping built from real traffic data, verified after launch
- Server-rendered content that every crawler receives
- A CMS your team can actually edit
- Performance fixed at the cause, measured in the field
- Forms short enough to finish on a phone
About to rebuild? Talk to us before the URLs are decided
The largest avoidable losses happen at migration. Getting the mapping right before launch costs a conversation; fixing it afterwards costs months of traffic.
In practice
The projects we take on
Six recurring briefs. These describe the work rather than named clients.
A site nobody can edit
Built years ago by an agency that is gone, running on a version nobody will update, where every change is a quote. Rebuilt so the team can make routine changes themselves.
A site the business can actually change
Rebrand without losing the traffic
New name, new domain, new structure. The design is the visible part and the redirect map is the part that decides whether the organic traffic survives the first month.
Equity carried across the rebrand
Fast on a desk, slow on a train
Sites that pass in a lab and fail in the field. The causes are usually oversized images, blocking scripts and late-loading elements shifting the layout under a thumb.
Field performance that matches the test
Invisible to assistants
A modern framework site that Google indexes and AI crawlers receive almost empty. Fixed by server-rendering the content that matters rather than hoping for a second pass.
The same content for every reader
Traffic without enquiries
Usually not a design problem. A nine-field form, an offer stated below the fold, and a phone layout nobody tested on a phone. Cheap to fix and rarely diagnosed.
More of the same traffic converting
Pages for every town
Location pages that are one template with the place name swapped, treated as duplicates. Rebuilt so each has a reason to exist, which is as much a content decision as a technical one.
Location pages that can rank
How we work
Scope, design, build, migrate
Migration planning starts at scoping, not the week before launch.
1. Scope
What the site has to do, who maintains it, and what currently works that must not be broken. Including which URLs carry traffic today.
2. Design
Structure and templates first, decoration second. We design the pages that carry the traffic rather than only the home page.
3. Build
Server-rendered, fast, accessible and editable, with the CMS chosen for whoever has to live with it after we leave.
4. Migrate and verify
Redirects mapped URL by URL, tested before launch, and verified afterwards against real crawler behaviour rather than assumed.
Clear scope · Regular demos · Full handover
Honest fit
When we are the right agency
We are engineers. That is a strength for some briefs and the wrong choice for others.
A good fit when…
- The site has to be found as well as look right
- You are migrating or rebranding and cannot lose traffic
- Your current site cannot be edited without a developer
- Performance or accessibility is a real requirement
- You may also need the application behind the site
Not the right fit when…
- You primarily need brand identity and campaign creative
- You want the cheapest possible template build
- Nobody internally can own content decisions
- You want it live in a fortnight regardless of the migration
Sectors
Who we build for
Businesses where the website is a working part of the operation.
B2B and SaaSProduct sites and portalsRetail and ecommerceStores built to be crawledProfessional servicesCredibility and conversionHealthcareAccessible, multi-location sitesPropertyListing sites and portalsLogisticsTracking and customer portalsTrades and localMulti-town sites that can rankEverything elseIf the site has to earn, this applies
FAQ
Web design and development — FAQs
What UK businesses ask before commissioning a build.
Still have a question?
Ask us directly — a senior engineer will get back to you.
Ask about your projectHow much does a website cost?
It depends almost entirely on how much of it is bespoke and how much content work is involved. A marketing site on well-chosen templates is a different proposition from a portal with user accounts. We give a written range after scoping rather than a headline figure that we would have to revise.
Will a redesign hurt our search traffic?
It can, badly, and it is the most common expensive mistake we are called in to fix. The cause is nearly always a redirect map built by URL pattern, which covers the tidy majority and silently drops irregular URLs, often the valuable legacy ones. Done properly, with mapping from real traffic data and verification after launch, a rebuild should not cost you traffic.
Should the site be WordPress or custom?
It depends on who maintains it. WordPress is a reasonable default when a non-technical team needs to publish regularly. Custom makes sense when the site is really an application. We choose for whoever has to live with it, not for what we would enjoy building.
Why does server rendering matter?
Because AI crawlers generally do not execute JavaScript. A client-rendered site can be perfectly indexed by Google and serve ChatGPT or Perplexity an almost empty page. Nothing reports this to you, so it goes unnoticed until someone asks why the assistants have never heard of the company.
Do you do branding and logos?
No, and we would rather say so. We are a software company. We will work alongside your brand agency and apply existing guidelines carefully, but identity and campaign creative are not what we are good at.
Can our team edit it afterwards?
That is a requirement we design for, not an afterthought. A site that needs a developer for routine changes stops being updated within a year, which is usually the real reason an old site looks neglected.
Do you handle hosting?
We can, and we are happy to deploy into infrastructure you already run. For UK clients we default to UK cloud regions. Either way you own the accounts rather than renting them through us.
How long does a build take?
A marketing site is usually several weeks; an application is longer. The honest constraint is normally content rather than development, because the pages that carry the traffic need decisions only your team can make.
What does it cost?
It depends on the size of the site and the scope of the work, so we do not publish a fixed price: the honest range is wide. The first conversation and the audit are free, and the quote follows them, in pounds, once we both know what the work actually is.
Who do we contract with?
SpiderHunts Technologies Ltd, registered at Companies House under number 16718403, with an office at 182-184 High Street N, Office 14607, London E6 2JA. You are invoiced in pounds. The engineering team works from Lahore, which we state openly rather than implying a room full of desks in London.
Start here
Tell us about the site
What it needs to do, who maintains it, and what is wrong with the current one. We will come back with an approach, the risks worth knowing about, and a realistic range in pounds. If a rebuild is not what you need, we will say so.
- You tell us what you needTwo minutes on the form, or a message on WhatsApp.
- A senior engineer reviews itAnd comes back with questions, a realistic range and an honest view on fit.
- Free 30-minute scoping callWe talk through scope, options and a realistic estimate — with no obligation.
Thanks — that’s with us.
A senior engineer reads every enquiry and will get back to you shortly.
Want to take it further now?
Book a time that suits you, or send a message and get an answer sooner.