Website development in Austin that loads fast, ranks on Google, and turns visitors into revenue.
A gorgeous site nobody can find is an expensive brochure sitting in a drawer. We are an Austin SEO agency that builds websites the way search engines and buyers both reward: fast, mobile-first, and engineered to rank from the day it goes live. Web design and development, done by the people who rank sites for a living.
- Based in Austin, TX
- Building since 2017
- 100% white-hat
- 9000+ projects
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Our Austin website development is built for
The Austin site that generates nothing
Why most Austin business websites lose money
You paid a designer. The site is clean, the photos are sharp, and your logo finally looks the way you pictured it. Then you check the numbers and the phone is not ringing. That is the quiet heartbreak of most Austin websites: they were built to be looked at, not to be found. Type your own service into Google and you are nowhere on page one.
Meanwhile a competitor with an uglier site is eating your lunch, because theirs loads in a blink, answers the exact question the searcher typed, and sits at the top of the results. In a city growing as fast as Austin, being invisible on Google is the same as being closed. A website that does not rank is a cost, not an asset, and every month it stays that way is money handed to someone else.
Page 1
is where nearly every click happens on Google
3 sec
and a slow site loses the visitor for good
Mobile
is how most Austin searches start today
Six signs your website is costing you sales in Austin
A website loses money in specific, diagnosable ways. If any of these sound familiar, the site is not underperforming by accident. It was built without the engineering that makes a site earn.
Invisible for 'near me' searches
Someone in Round Rock types your trade plus 'near me' and Google shows three competitors, a map pack you are not in, and a page of results without your name. That search was a customer, and it went to somebody else.
Slow on Austin phones
Your homepage takes five seconds to paint on a phone in a parking lot off I-35. The visitor is gone by second three. Speed is not a vanity metric, it is the first sales conversation your business ever has.
Desktop-first in a mobile city
The site looks fine on the designer's monitor and breaks on the iPhone where most Austin searches actually happen. Pinch-to-zoom menus and buttons that fight the thumb quietly turn visitors into bounces.
No tracking, no answers
Nobody installed analytics or conversion tracking, so nobody can tell you what the website earned last month. A site you cannot measure is a site you cannot improve, and 'the phone feels slower lately' is not a report.
Page-builder bloat
The site was assembled from a drag-and-drop theme stacked with plugins. Every add-on shipped its own scripts, the code weighs more than it should, and now nothing loads fast and nothing can be fixed cleanly.
Traffic that never converts
Visitors arrive, scroll, and leave without calling, booking, or filling the form. No clear next step, no proof, no offer. The site describes your business instead of selling it, and the difference is your revenue.
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Get a Free ConsultationMore than pages and pixels
What an Austin web development company actually does
An Austin web development company plans, designs, builds, and launches websites that win business in the Austin market: it turns your services into pages your customers find on Google and act on from their phones. The pixels are the visible part. The value is in what surrounds them: keyword research that decides which pages exist, engineering that makes them load instantly, schema that helps Google understand them, and tracking that proves what they earn.
That is the difference between a web development company and a design freelancer with a template subscription. One sells you a deliverable. The other builds you an asset that competes, from the Domain to South Congress, every hour it is online.
Discovery and strategy
Understanding your Austin market, the searches your customers type, and the pages the site actually needs before anyone touches a design tool.
Design and UX
Layouts, messaging hierarchy, and mobile-first user experience built to move a visitor from first glance to call, form, or checkout.
Development
Clean, fast code on the right platform for the job, whether that is a custom Next.js build, WordPress, or a Shopify store.
SEO engineering
Keyword-mapped page structure, schema markup, Core Web Vitals performance, and crawlable architecture built in from the first commit.
Analytics and tracking
Google Analytics, Search Console, and conversion tracking configured at launch so every call and form is attributed from day one.
Launch and support
Redirects, indexing checks, security, backups, and post-launch monitoring so the site keeps earning after the ribbon is cut.
Built to be found
SEO-first development: Core Web Vitals, schema, and crawlability
SEO-first development means the search strategy shapes the site instead of decorating it after launch. Google measures every page against its published Core Web Vitals thresholds, and a site that fails them starts the race with a limp: slower to load on a phone in Pflugerville traffic, likelier to be abandoned, and harder to rank. We build to these numbers from the first line of code, then verify them before launch.
LCP
Good: 2.5 s or lessLargest Contentful Paint
How fast the main content of the page appears. Google's published threshold for a good experience is 2.5 seconds or less.
INP
Good: 200 ms or lessInteraction to Next Paint
How quickly the page responds when a visitor taps or clicks. Google's published threshold for a good experience is 200 milliseconds or less.
CLS
Good: 0.1 or lessCumulative Layout Shift
How much the page jumps around while loading. Google's published threshold for a good experience is a score of 0.1 or less.
Thresholds shown are the values published by Google for Core Web Vitals.
What SEO-first construction includes
Speed is only one leg of the stool. Google also has to crawl the site, understand what each page is about, and connect it to searches in Austin. That work lives in the code: semantic structure, schema markup, internal links, and an architecture our technical SEO team would sign off on, because it is the same team. Every page then gets the on-page SEO treatment: titles, headings, and copy mapped to real keywords before launch, not bolted on after.
And here is the proof you can test right now: this page. Open it on your phone, feel how fast it responds, view the source and find the schema. We build client sites the way we built our own.
Baked into every Austin build
- Keyword-mapped page architecture
- Semantic HTML and heading structure
- Schema markup (LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ)
- Clean, crawlable URLs
- XML sitemap and robots.txt
- Canonical tags
- Image compression and lazy loading
- Core Web Vitals performance budgets
- Mobile-first responsive layouts
- Internal linking between service pages
- Google Business Profile alignment
- Analytics and Search Console at launch
Want to know how your current site scores on Core Web Vitals and what it would take to fix? Ask for a free assessment.
Custom, WordPress, Shopify and more
What we build for Austin businesses
We build custom Next.js websites, WordPress sites, Shopify stores, landing pages, redesigns, and web apps, and we recommend the platform only after we understand the job. A taco shop on East Riverside, a SaaS startup near the Domain, and a law firm downtown do not need the same website. Forcing them all onto one tool is how agencies stay efficient and clients stay stuck.
Custom websites (Next.js / React)
Hand-built sites with no theme bloat, engineered for speed and Core Web Vitals. The page you are reading is one. Best when performance, ranking, and a distinct brand matter more than a template's shortcuts.
Best for: Businesses that want the fastest possible site and full control
WordPress development
A lean, professionally built WordPress site without the fifty-plugin pile-up. You get an editor your team can actually use, on a codebase kept fast and secure enough to rank.
Best for: Content-heavy sites and teams that edit pages themselves
Shopify and ecommerce stores
Online stores with clean collection structure, Product schema, and fast product pages, built so category and product URLs can rank and sell while you sleep.
Best for: Austin brands selling products online
Landing pages
Single-purpose pages for Google Ads and campaigns: one offer, one message, one form, loading instantly. Built to convert paid Austin clicks you are already paying for.
Best for: PPC campaigns, launches, and lead-gen offers
Redesigns and migrations
Rebuilding an outdated site without losing the rankings it earned. Every URL is mapped, every redirect planned, and the new site launches faster and higher, not lower.
Best for: Businesses with an old site that still gets traffic
Web apps and portals
Customer portals, booking systems, dashboards, and custom functionality beyond a brochure site, built on the same performance discipline as everything else we ship.
Best for: Businesses that need software, not just pages
Selling online? Store builds ship ready for the crawl discipline and Product schema our ecommerce SEO team uses to grow organic revenue after launch.
From kickoff to launch
Our Austin website development process, step by step
Our process runs discovery, design, build, SEO and QA, launch, and support, in that order, with your approval at every gate. You always know what is happening this week and what happens next, because a website project without a visible process is how six weeks becomes six months.
Discovery and strategy
We learn your business, your Austin competitors, and the searches your customers type. Keyword research decides the sitemap before design begins, so every page exists for a reason.
Design
Wireframes first, then full designs built mobile-first. You review real layouts of your actual pages, not a mood board, and nothing moves to code until you approve it.
Build
Clean development on the platform chosen in discovery. Performance budgets are enforced as we build, not patched at the end, so the site is fast by construction.
SEO and QA
On-page SEO, schema markup, redirects, metadata, and analytics go in. Then we test on real phones, check every form, and run the site against Core Web Vitals thresholds.
Launch
DNS, SSL, sitemap submission, and indexing checks in Google Search Console. We verify Google can crawl the new site and that every old URL lands where it should.
Support and growth
Monitoring, updates, and fixes after launch, plus an optional monthly SEO program to grow the rankings the build made possible.
Timelines above reflect a typical business website. Larger builds and ecommerce stores get their own schedule in the proposal, and we hit the dates we put in writing.
Redesign without the ranking loss
How we redesign a website without losing rankings
A redesign protects its rankings when every existing URL, and the content that earned its position, is deliberately carried into the new site. Skip that work and the results are brutal: the old pages Google trusted vanish, redirects go nowhere, and the traffic your business spent years earning drops off a cliff the week after the pretty new site goes live.
We have been called in to rescue enough post-redesign disasters to treat migration as a discipline, not a checkbox. Every rebuild follows the same checklist, and after launch many clients roll straight into our complete monthly SEO service so the new foundation starts compounding instead of just sitting there.
The 10-point migration-safety checklist
- 1Crawl and inventory every URL on the current site
- 2Benchmark current rankings, traffic, and top landing pages
- 3Map every old URL to its new destination
- 4Implement one-hop 301 redirects, no chains
- 5Preserve title tags, headings, and content on pages that rank
- 6Carry over or improve schema markup
- 7Block staging URLs from being indexed during the build
- 8Submit the new XML sitemap at launch
- 9Verify indexing and crawl errors in Google Search Console
- 10Monitor rankings and traffic against the benchmark for 60-90 days
Redesigning soon? Protect the rankings you already earned.
Plan My RedesignPricing, explained honestly
How much does website development cost in Austin?
Website development cost in Austin is driven by scope: how many pages, how custom the design, how much functionality, and how much SEO work is built in. Two quotes for "a website" can differ by ten times because they describe entirely different projects. Instead of a mystery number, here are the factors that actually move the price, so you can compare any proposal, including ours, like an informed buyer.
Number of pages
A five-page service site and a fifty-page site with location pages, service pages, and a blog are different projects. Page count drives design, content, and SEO workload.
Design depth
A tailored design around your brand costs more than a lightly customized template, and it shows. Custom design is most of what separates a site that builds trust from one that looks rented.
Functionality
Booking systems, ecommerce checkouts, customer portals, calculators, and integrations add engineering time. A brochure site and a web app do not share a price tag.
SEO scope
Keyword research, schema, content optimization, and migration-safe redirects take real hours. Skipping them is how sites launch pretty and invisible.
Ecommerce complexity
Product count, variants, payment and shipping logic, and Product schema all scale the build. A twenty-product store and a two-thousand-product catalog are different animals.
Content readiness
If copy, photos, and offers exist, the build moves fast. If every page needs professional copywriting, budget for it. Words sell, and someone has to write them.
Project types at a glance: one-time build vs ongoing investment
| Project | Typical scope | Pricing model | Typical timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landing page | One conversion-focused page for ads or a campaign | One-time project | About 1-2 weeks |
| Small business website | 5-10 pages, mobile-first design, on-page SEO, analytics | One-time project | About 3-5 weeks |
| Business website with SEO content | 10-25 pages, keyword-mapped structure, schema, copywriting | One-time project | About 4-8 weeks |
| Ecommerce store | Shopify or WooCommerce build, product setup, Product schema | One-time project | About 6-10 weeks |
| Web app or portal | Custom functionality, accounts, dashboards, integrations | Scoped per project | Scoped per project |
| Hosting, care, and monthly SEO | Updates, security, monitoring, ongoing rankings work | Monthly, ongoing | Continuous |
How pricing works at Fivet
We quote every Austin build individually rather than publishing package prices, because the cost drivers above swing the number too far for a one-size figure to be honest. Tell us what the website needs to do for your business and you get a fixed quote with a defined scope and a milestone payment schedule, before any work starts. The consultation and quote are free, and the number does not move unless the scope does.
How our pricing works
Free consultation first, then a fixed, itemized quote listing every page, feature, and SEO deliverable. No hourly meters running in the background, no surprise invoices at launch. The number we quote is the number you pay, and you will understand exactly what it buys before you commit to anything.
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How to choose a web developer in Austin (red flags included)
Choosing a web developer in Austin comes down to verifying four things: proof their sites are fast, proof their sites rank, clarity on what you will own, and a written process with dates. Austin has hundreds of freelancers, agencies, and side hustlers who will happily take the project. The checklist below is how you separate the ones who build assets from the ones who build invoices, and we invite you to hold us to every line of it.
The hiring checklist
Before you sign with anyone, confirm all eight:
- You own your domain, hosting, and site outright at handoff
- They show you real sites they built, and those sites load fast on your phone
- SEO is part of the build plan, not an upsell mentioned after signing
- They can explain their redirect plan for your existing URLs
- Analytics and conversion tracking are included at launch
- You get a fixed, itemized quote before work begins
- They name the platform and explain why it fits your business
- There is a support plan for after launch, in writing
Red flags that predict an expensive mistake
You don't own your own website
Some shops register your domain under their name or host the site on a proprietary builder you can never leave. If you stop paying, your website disappears. Your domain, hosting, and code should be yours, full stop.
Page-builder lock-in
A site assembled inside a drag-and-drop tool nobody else can maintain is a hostage situation with a monthly invoice. Ask what happens if you ever want another developer to take over. The answer should not be 'start over'.
No analytics, no tracking
A developer who ships a site without Google Analytics, Search Console, and conversion tracking is telling you results were never part of the plan. You cannot manage what nobody measures.
'SEO-friendly' with nothing behind it
Everyone claims SEO-friendly. Ask what that means: keyword mapping? Schema? Core Web Vitals numbers? A redirect plan? If the answer is 'we add meta tags', the rankings conversation ends there.
No timeline, no process
A quote without a written process and dates is an invitation to a six-month build that was promised in six weeks. You should know what happens in week one before you sign.
Vanishing after launch
Websites need updates, security patches, and fixes. If there is no support plan, the first broken form after launch becomes your problem, and broken forms do not announce themselves. They just stop delivering leads.
Our answers are on this page: test our speed on your phone, view the schema in our source, and you own everything we build. Put us through the checklist.
One system, three engines
Website, SEO, and ads: built to work together
A website, an SEO program, and an ad account are not three separate purchases. They are one growth system, and the website is the part every other channel depends on. Every ad click, every ranking, every referral ends up on the same pages, so when the site is slow or unconvincing, every channel underperforms together, and you pay for the same weakness three times.
Because we run all three under one roof, your developer, your SEO strategist, and your ads manager are the same team looking at the same data. When the local SEO team needs a location page or the ads team needs a faster landing page, it happens in days, not tickets.
Local knowledge, applied
Websites for the industries that run Austin
Every industry converts differently, and building for Austin means knowing both the trade and the town: which neighborhoods search for what, how a customer in Westlake books versus one in Georgetown, and what the competition on page one already looks like in your category.
Home services and trades
HVAC, plumbing, roofing, electrical, landscaping. Service and area pages built to win 'near me' searches from Cedar Park to Buda, with click-to-call everywhere a thumb might land.
Restaurants and food businesses
Fast mobile menus, hours and location schema, and Google Business Profile alignment for a city that picks where to eat from a phone, in line, five minutes before showing up.
Startups and SaaS
Marketing sites for a town full of them. Fast Next.js builds, clear positioning, and structures ready for the content and comparison pages that drive signups.
Healthcare and dental
Practice websites that load fast, book appointments, and present credentials clearly, built with the care a health-related site demands from both patients and Google.
Real estate
Agent and brokerage sites for one of the country's most competitive property markets, with neighborhood pages and lead capture built for buyers relocating to Austin.
Professional services
Law firms, CPAs, consultants, and agencies. Authority-building sites where credentials, reviews, and clear service pages turn a Google search into a booked consultation.
How long will your project take?
Honest timelines, set in the proposal and kept. And one expectation worth setting early: launch day starts the search clock, it does not finish it. Google needs time to crawl and evaluate a new site, which is why SEO built in from day one beats SEO bolted on in month six.
1-2 wks
Landing page
One page, one offer, built and tested fast enough to serve the ad campaign it was made for.
3-5 wks
Business website
A typical 5-10 page Austin business site from kickoff to launch, with SEO and QA inside that window, not after it.
6-10 wks
Ecommerce store
Store setup, product data, payment and shipping logic, and Product schema take longer, and rushing them costs sales.
Scoped
Web apps
Portals and custom functionality are estimated per project after discovery, with milestones you can hold us to.
Why Austin businesses choose Fivet
A local partner with a national track record
Based in Austin since 2017
We are not a faceless overseas shop. We are an Austin, TX agency that has watched this market grow, and we build sites for the businesses competing in it every day.
9000+ projects delivered
With more than 9000 projects behind us, we do not guess. We build on patterns that have already earned rankings, leads, and revenue across countless industries.
100% white-hat
Every site we ship is built to Google's guidelines: clean code, honest structure, and no risky shortcuts that get you wiped out by the next algorithm update.
Reporting tied to revenue
We do not hide behind vanity metrics. You get a plain-language read on traffic, leads, and the one number that matters: is this site making you money.
Ready for an Austin website that actually earns its keep?
Book a free consultation and we will show you what a fast, search-ready site could do for your leads and revenue.
FAQ
Austin website development questions, answered
How much does website development cost in Austin?
Austin website projects range widely because page count, design depth, functionality, and SEO scope drive the price. A landing page costs far less than an ecommerce store or a web app. We give every business a fixed, itemized quote after a free consultation, so you know your exact number, and what it buys, before you commit to anything.
How long does it take to build a website in Austin?
Most Austin business websites launch in about three to five weeks. Landing pages ship in one to two weeks, ecommerce stores usually take six to ten, and web apps are scoped per project. Because SEO and QA happen inside the build rather than after it, launch day is a real launch, not the start of a second project.
Will my new website rank on Google for Austin searches?
The site launches engineered to rank: keyword-mapped pages, schema markup, fast Core Web Vitals, and clean crawlable code. No honest developer guarantees a position, because Google controls rankings. What we guarantee is that nothing in the construction will be the reason you cannot rank, and many clients pair the build with monthly SEO to grow from there.
What platform should my Austin business website use?
It depends on the job. Custom Next.js builds are the fastest and best for performance-critical sites. WordPress fits teams that edit content themselves. Shopify fits stores. We recommend the platform after discovery, based on your goals and budget, and we tell you why. What we never do is force every client onto whatever tool is easiest for us.
Can you redesign my website without losing my Google rankings?
Yes. We crawl every URL on your current site, benchmark your rankings and traffic, map every old URL to its new home with one-hop 301 redirects, preserve the content that earns your positions, and monitor Search Console for 60 to 90 days after launch. A careless redesign can erase years of SEO equity. Our migration checklist exists so yours does not.
Do you build websites for businesses outside Austin?
Yes. We are based in Austin and know this market street by street, but we build and rank websites for clients across the United States. The engineering discipline is identical whether you serve three zip codes in Travis County or customers nationwide. Local clients simply get the added benefit of a partner who knows their competition firsthand.
Will I own my website, domain, and hosting?
Completely. Your domain is registered in your name, your hosting account is yours, and you receive full access to the site, code, and analytics at handoff. If you ever leave us, everything goes with you. Developers who keep clients by holding their website hostage are one of the biggest red flags in this industry, and we built our process to be the opposite.
What does SEO-first website development actually mean?
It means the search strategy shapes the site instead of decorating it. Keyword research decides the sitemap, every page targets a real search, schema markup is written into the templates, and performance budgets keep Core Web Vitals in Google's published good range. Most developers build the site and hope SEO can be added later. We build them as one thing.
Do you build Shopify and ecommerce websites in Austin?
Yes. We build Shopify and WooCommerce stores with clean collection structure, fast product pages, Product schema, and crawl discipline so category and product URLs can rank. Ecommerce is where sloppy development gets expensive fastest, because every extra second of load time and every unindexed product page is measured in abandoned carts and lost orders.
Can you fix or speed up my existing website instead of rebuilding it?
Sometimes, and we will tell you honestly which case you are in. If the platform is sound, targeted performance and SEO work can move Core Web Vitals into the good range without a rebuild. If the site is built on bloated page-builder code, patching it costs more than replacing it. The free consultation includes that assessment, with no obligation either way.
Do you provide website hosting and maintenance in Austin?
Yes. We offer ongoing care plans covering hosting guidance, software updates, security monitoring, backups, and fixes, so the site that launched fast stays fast. Websites are not fire-and-forget assets. Forms break silently, plugins age, and unpatched sites get hacked. A small monthly plan is cheaper than any one of those surprises.
What is included in your website development service?
Discovery and keyword research, sitemap and wireframes, custom design, development, on-page SEO, schema markup, Core Web Vitals optimization, analytics and conversion tracking, redirect mapping for existing sites, launch checks in Google Search Console, and post-launch support. You get one itemized scope up front, so 'website' never turns out to mean 'homepage'.
Do you write the content for my website?
We can. Our SEO content team writes keyword-targeted page copy designed to rank and convert, or we work with content you provide and optimize it. Most Austin projects land somewhere in between: you supply the expertise about your business, and we shape it into pages that answer what your customers actually search for.
Why hire an Austin web development company instead of a cheap offshore team?
Because the website is a revenue tool, not a file delivery. A local partner knows the Austin market you are competing in, answers the phone in your time zone, and is accountable for results after launch. Cheap builds usually cost more in the end: slow code, no SEO, no ownership, and a rebuild in eighteen months. You are not buying pages, you are buying outcomes.
Your next customer is searching in Austin right now.
Let us build you a website that shows up when they search and turns that click into a call. Book a free consultation today.