Find out what does the price of a website consists of and how it is calculated
How Much Does It Cost To Build a Website in 2023 (full guide)?
The Website prices in Finland are usually between a few hundred to €15000 for a small business.
“The price of a website can be anything. It largely depends on what your business needs, what result you want and how much you are willing to invest,” says Raido Linde, CEO of WordPress kotisivut yritykselle (growth marketing agency).
How much should I pay for someone to make me a website?
Prices for cheaper websites range from a few hundred to €6000. Custom-built websites cost between 6000 and 15000 euros. For large corporations, prices can exceed €50000.
How can such a big difference be explained? It depends on the time and skill needed to complete the project and the results you hope to receive. When you choose the cheaper option, we can build your website in a shorter amount of time and for a lower cost, but at the same time, the results are not as impressive as we can produce with custom websites.
Every business needs a website, but understanding the pricing can be challenging. What should your website include? Are there any things you need to be aware of? Should you choose a theme or custom? Once you receive your new website, what is the next step? This page answers all your questions about the price of a website and the costs that follow.
What determines the price of a website?
The cost of a website depends on the type of website you want, how big your business is, and what features you need. To calculate this cost, website design, hosting, and website building services are combined. Your website’s price must also consider additional factors such as hosting, domain price, and extra software.
In addition to determining the total cost, you will need to know how many pages will be on the site, whether theme-based or custom-built. To get an idea of the prices, see our comparison of theme-based versus custom-built websites.
When choosing a website designer, it is essential to remember that not all website designers create websites equally. By that, we mean that if you choose cheap websites, you tend to cut your profits. In some cases, this can result in a 200-300% drop in revenue, which we will explain.
What are other website development costs you need to take into account?
- Domain & hosting price
- Website development platform price
- Website design price
- Website development work price
- Price of additionally plugins and software
- Monthly maintenance cost
Domain & hosting price
While companies like GoDaddy and Namecheap offer some of the cheapest shared hosting services in the world, with starting prices as low as €3 per month, it’s crucial to consider what you are getting.
WP Engine and Cloudways charge more than €10-30 a month but offer many more features, including fully managed hosting, up to 5 times faster.
Our team ensures that your new website’s hosting provider meets your requirements closely.
Website development platform price
Any website development project requires a Content Management System. These systems allow you to manage large amounts of content with small technical expertise. While there is no universal platform that all website developers use, there is one that most website owners use. With most of the market share, WordPress is the most popular option for website development. Other solutions include Shopify, Drupal, Joomla, Wix, and many more.
- WordPress.org is free (Our recommendation for websites)
- WordPress.com price is €4 to €45 pet month (we don’t recommend it)
- Shopify price is €5 to €249 per month (Our recommendation for online stores)
Website design price
Most web developers you can find on Google are excellent at developing but fail at designing. Today, in a digital world, you need specialised UX and UI design, and certain principles must be followed to create a successful one. These principles are user-centred design, accessibility, usability, discoverability and more.
As the next generation of digital artists, we have UI and UX designers who create new interfaces, websites, applications, and more. By incorporating either UI or UX or both, depending on what is required, they create intuitive design flows that make your brand distinctive.
For a custom UI/UX web design, the cost can range from 40-50% of the total price.
Website development work price
A website development price varies greatly depending on the work required, the design’s complexity and the custom coding required. An average website development cost is 100 euros per hour. An advanced/senior developer will cost €120 per hour.
The total development cost is usually 40% of the entire website expense unless a lot of custom coding is required. For example, if a web design costs €3000, then website development costs €3000 plus additional costs associated with custom coding or software, as described below.
Price of additionally plugins and software
It is important to remember that every business has its own unique website requirements. As demand for features and standards rises, so will the prices. For example, to add new features, our developers must find new plugins and software and test them out, which is time-consuming and expensive.
Most of these plugins are available at an extra cost. While some are as cheap as a few euros per month, others are up to a few hundred euros per year, such as WPML and WP rocket we use in our agency. That said, we can use some of these plugins on unlimited sites like the two mentioned above without any cost to you.
If you require custom coding work done in Finland, expect to pay about 80-120 euros an hour. Any lower than that, you get what you pay for, which is likely low quality.
Monthly maintenance cost
Maintaining a website means keeping plugins, php and WordPress up-to-date and ensuring the site is accessible 24/7. It is a problem that too many businesses think monthly maintenance is not necessary because it costs them money without considering the long-term consequences.
Many clients have come to us because their website isn’t working and the reason for it is because they have avoided maintenance. We’ve spent hundreds to thousands fixing all those problems. That’s not all. The biggest issue is that the site hasn’t performed optimally for years, which has caused them to lose a lot of revenue. That’s why we always recommend monthly maintenance, regardless of whether we do it or not.
Our website maintenance costs are between €150 and €500, depending on the level of service you require. With higher packages, we also include SEO and other optimisation services.
Website pricing examples
Powered by WordPress theme
Theme customised for your brand
€3350
Mobile resposnive design
Contact form implementation
Social media connection
XML sitemap submission to Google
Medium speed optimisation
(Maximum 2 rounds of revision)
Each additional website page costs €350
For instance:
1 pages: €3350
3 pages: €4050
5 pages: €4750
10 pages: €6500
Custom website built from the ground up
Fully custom design & development
€6450
Unique UI/UX web design
Custom mockup of the homepage
Contact forms & Google maps
Speed optimisation
Search engine optimisation
(Unlimited revision of mockup until you’re 100% satisfied)
Each additional website page costs €450
For instance:
1 pages: €6450
3 pages: €7350
5 pages: €8250
10 pages: €10500
It is important to note that these prices are just examples at the time of writing and may change due to market conditions and specific requirements. Please examine our free website price estimation calculator to determine how much it will cost.
After you website is complete, what other costs should you consider?
Extra services prices
Have you ever wondered what generates traffic for your new website? The answer lies in digital marketing. It combines advertising channels and strategies across the entire marketing funnel. SEO, PPC, content marketing, social media marketing, blog writing, and more are methods we employ on our customers’ websites to generate more traffic, leads and customer appointments.
Search engine visibility optimisation
Price: €2500-€5000 per month and sometimes even more
If you are a business owner, you probably already know how important online visibility is to your brand. Your website needs to rank highly in search engine results so potential customers can find it. Our SEO experts will boost your rankings and drive traffic to your website for a flat monthly fee.
Google Adwords advertising
Price: €1000 per month plus 20% of advertising budget.
When done right, Google Adwords is the second most powerful marketing tool available to businesses after search engine optimisation. You can set up and launch a Google Adwords campaign in just a few minutes and get traffic to your website in no time. A wrong approach will cost you your hard-earned profits on ads that don’t generate revenue.
With the help of our Google ads professionals, you can get the audience you want and achieve your objectives by setting up profitable Google ads. You can get traffic to your site or landing page almost instantly by letting us create and launch your next Google Adwords campaign.
Content marketing
Price: €50-€2000 (largely depend what content, size and purpose)
The following effective marketing strategy is content marketing. Content marketing aims not just to write blog posts now and then but consistently publish quality, engaging content, update old content, and market it to the market.
Creating compelling content that engages with an audience is more than just content marketing; it is a mix of graphical design, copywriting, and SEO to create persuasive content that grows awareness, trust, and loyalty, which leads to higher conversion rates.
Social media marketing
Social media monthly marketing prices are 1000-5000 euros per month
Brands and businesses have used social media marketing to grow and find customers, and build their reputations. With millions of people on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and more, businesses have an endless supply of potential customers to connect with.
In our social media marketing service, we will create and/or publish content on your behalf. We then optimise messages and content so that they reach your ideal customer, generating more leads and traffic to your site. A business or entrepreneur whose target market is concatenating on social media channels and wants to take advantage of it will find this helpful.
Copywriting
Price: €300-€1000 per page
Getting more conversions might require a successful copy strategy for your business. To achieve that, you need to hire a copywriter to create compelling, exciting, engaging content. A good copywriter does this effectively and increases your bottom line.
Our copywriter isn’t just good; she is excellent at creating effective and persuasive content to attract your audience, build trust, and turn them into happy customers with the product they bought.
Conclusion about website prices
Website prices are between a few hundred to a couple of thousand euros for small sites, and large websites can go as high as €50000. So the prices wary largely based on your needs, the size of the website as well as custom work needed to complete the project.