Websites for Reading Businesses, Fast Enough for a Commuter on 4G.

No. TechAuditPros is an engineering team in Kochi, India, working for UK clients remotely, and we would rather say that in the first answer than bury it. Kochi runs 4.5 hours ahead of Reading in summer and 5.5 in winter, so you get a live overlap window every morning and early afternoon for calls, Slack or Teams. If you want a designer who can sit in your boardroom in Green Park on a Tuesday, one of the Reading studios is the better answer and we will tell you that on the call.

Nobody on the first page of Google for this term publishes a figure — we checked while writing this page. The honest ranges are these: a DIY builder subscription is roughly £10–£30 a month plus your own time; UK agencies listed in Clutch’s directory charge £20–£150 an hour, most commonly £40–£80, with minimum project sizes commonly above £8,000 and maintenance quoted separately. Ours is one agreed monthly fee covering design, build, UK hosting setup and ongoing updates, quoted in writing on the call before anything starts.

Because your buyers are on trains and phones. Reading is one of the busiest interchanges in the country and a large share of your traffic will arrive on a mid-range Android over patchy 4G between Paddington and Didcot. We build to LCP under 2.5 seconds, INP under 200 milliseconds and CLS under 0.1 measured on exactly that kind of device, not on a fast laptop on office wifi — and you can verify it in PageSpeed Insights the day the site goes live.

The corridor is unusually weighted towards technology, telecoms, software and pharmaceutical services, with a large professional-services layer around them — recruitment, accountancy, consultancy, legal — plus the trades and clinics that serve Reading, Wokingham, Bracknell and Slough. Practically that means two different jobs: B2B sites that have to explain something technical and generate a qualified enquiry, and local service sites that have to be found in Maps and get the phone to ring.

Yes, and this is where most redesigns quietly fail. Rankings are lost when URLs change without redirects and the pages that were earning traffic disappear into a prettier layout. We map every old URL to its new home with 301 redirects, keep or improve the content that already ranks, and verify indexing and Search Console coverage after launch. It is part of every redesign here, not an upsell.

When it genuinely fits — usually when a marketing team must edit everything daily without waiting for anyone. Otherwise we build custom on Next.js and React, because that is how you get 90+ Core Web Vitals and keep it there without a plugin stack that rots. If you already run WordPress we will tell you honestly whether it is worth hardening or worth replacing.

You do, all three, in your own name from day one — along with the code, the content and the analytics accounts. Nothing is held in our accounts, so moving to another supplier or in-house is a handover rather than a rebuild.

On modern infrastructure in a UK region — Vercel’s London edge, AWS London (eu-west-2) or Google Cloud europe-west2 — in an account you own, so personal data stays in the UK. Forms, analytics and cookie behaviour are built to UK GDPR and PECR: consent before non-essential cookies, a lawful basis for every form, and a data processing agreement between us.

We build to WCAG 2.2 AA practices as standard — semantic markup, keyboard navigation, visible focus, colour contrast, alt text, labelled forms. Accessible sites are also faster and easier for Google to parse, and under the Equality Act it is the safer position for a UK business. For a formal audit or accessibility statement we work with your compliance adviser.

Four to eight weeks from approved design to a live first version for most business sites; larger builds are phased so something useful ships early. After launch, new pages, content changes, dependency and security updates, and speed monitoring are part of the monthly engagement, handled by the team that built it — not a separate maintenance plan.

We look at your current site with you — what it ranks for, what it is losing on mobile, where enquiries actually come from — and tell you what we would change first and what we would leave alone. You get that assessment whether or not you hire us, and if the honest answer is that a new site is not your problem, you will hear that.