How long does it take to build a website?

01Timelines by package

These are the delivery estimates published with each Redenn package. They are honest ranges, and every one of them starts counting only when your content has arrived. Larger and custom projects get a ship date in the written quote instead of a range.

02Where the time actually goes

A website project has five phases, and only two of them are engineering. Intake is when you send content, logo, domain access and the accounts the site must connect to. Build is when pages are assembled from components and any custom sections are designed. Review is your revision round or rounds. Foundation and QA is when metadata, sitemap, structured data, forms and analytics are checked on real devices. Launch is DNS, SSL and Search Console.

On a five-page Business site, build and QA together take a few business days; the rest of the 8 to 12 day window is review turnaround and the small back-and-forth of getting a form to the right inbox or a calendar connected. If you answer within a day, projects land at the short end of the range.

03What slows a project down

Almost every late website project is late for one of the reasons below, and none of them is a technical problem.

• Content that is not ready: a half-written services page stalls the whole build, because layouts depend on the length and structure of the text.
• Decisions by committee: three people reviewing separately produce three contradictory revision lists. Nominate one decision-maker.
• Scope growth: a page added mid-build is CA$49, but the calendar cost is larger than the money cost.
• Domain and DNS access nobody can find: the registrar login is frequently held by a former employee or an old agency.
• Waiting on a logo, brand colours or photography that were assumed to exist.
• Third-party accounts: Google Business Profile ownership, a calendar for booking, a payment processor, an email platform. Each needs access from you.
• Revision rounds used for new ideas rather than corrections.

04Content-readiness checklist

If every item below is in one shared folder before kickoff, you have removed the main cause of delay. Redenn can fill the gaps (copywriting from CA$99 per page, a simple logo CA$49) but each gap adds days.

• A named list of pages, with one sentence on what each page must achieve.
• Copy for each page, or clear notes if Redenn is writing it.
• Logo in SVG or high-resolution PNG, and brand colours if you have them.
• Photos of your team, premises and work, in original resolution.
• Business details exactly as they should appear: legal name, address, phone, email, hours, service areas.
• Registrar login or DNS access for the domain.
• Access to Google Business Profile, the calendar for booking and any email or CRM platform the site must feed.
• Existing testimonials, certifications or associations you are entitled to display.

05What happens after launch

Launch day is DNS pointing at the new site and SSL confirming. The site is usually reachable within hours, though DNS changes can take longer to spread. If the site was built with placeholder content it stays noindex until real content replaces it; once content is real, the sitemap is submitted through Search Console where that add-on is included.

Search engines then discover and index pages on their own schedule. Indexing is not instant, and no provider controls when a page appears or where it ranks. What you control is that the site is fast, crawlable and honest, which is what the search foundation is for.

06Larger projects: stores, portals and applications

Ecommerce (from CA$1,499), customer portals and web applications are scoped with a written fixed price and a ship date, because their timelines depend on catalogue size, integrations and approvals rather than page count. They ship through a staging environment you review before anything goes live, and you own the code and the accounts at the end.