The pattern is familiar across the region. A Darlington business invests £1,000 to £3,000 in a new website, the designer hands it over, and within a few months the owner has no real idea whether it is bringing in work or sitting there looking professional while quietly doing nothing. There is no tracking, no baseline, no way to tell what is actually happening. The site exists, and that has to be enough.
The problem is that a website with no measurement attached is not a business asset, it is a business expense. You cannot improve what you are not measuring, and you cannot justify spending more on it if you have no evidence it is working. We see this with businesses all over the Tees Valley, from sole traders in the town centre to established firms on the edge of the retail parks.
We set analytics up before the site launches, not afterwards. By the time a Darlington business's site goes live we already know what success looks like for it: how many enquiries a month, from which pages, via which sources. If you want the honest numbers on what a website actually costs before you commit, we have laid them out without the sales gloss.