Web design and development

Web design for Cleveland businesses

We design and build custom websites for Cleveland businesses remotely from Malvern, PA, with the scope, price and schedule in writing first.

The Cleveland script sign in front of the downtown skyline and Terminal Tower.

Website design for Cleveland, delivered remotely

We take on website work for Cleveland businesses remotely from Malvern, PA, and every stage is reviewed in your own browser.

Why it matters: 51,450 business establishments operated in the metro in 2023, and 83% of them employed fewer than 20 people.

Go deeper: how a remote build runs, stage by stage

Health care and social assistance alone holds 20.2% of the 971,092 paid employees counted in the metro in 2023.

Manufacturing adds 12.7% and retail trade 11.3%, so three sectors hold 44.2% of the payroll count.

The three cards above are the three largest of the 12 sectors we read for the metro, by paid employees: health care and social assistance, manufacturing and retail trade.

Hospitality and food is fourth, with 88,900 paid employees in 5,040 establishments.

  1. Health care

    196,117 paid employees across 5,962 establishments in 2023; a site here needs online booking, intake forms and an accessible path for every patient.

  2. Manufacturing

    123,303 paid employees across 2,951 establishments in 2023; a site here needs spec sheets, distributor lookups and request-for-quote forms.

  3. Retail

    109,689 paid employees across 6,468 establishments in 2023; a site here needs stock that matches the till and a phone checkout.

Websites we built

Six live sites we built open here in a preview window, the same way your build is reviewed before launch.

Why it matters: A working site shows how a build loads, reads and takes an enquiry, which no mock-up can.

Go deeper: how the previews work

Preview opens the live site inside a sandboxed frame on this page. Atlas Peptides blocks framing, so its preview is a dated screenshot instead.

None of the six is presented as a Cleveland business; each one shows a job a site has to do, whatever the city.

Between them they cover a configurator that prices as you build, online scheduling, booking with reviews pulled in, a shared stock count, a quote form and a checkout.

The Phantom Arcades website, built by OneAlgorithm

Phantom Arcades

Custom home arcade cabinets

A configurator that prices the cabinet as you build it, and a page for every machine he has made.

The Inspect This Home Inspections website, built by OneAlgorithm

Inspect This Home Inspections

Home inspection

Service pages by area, online scheduling, and reports the owner updates himself.

The The Boards Professor website, built by OneAlgorithm

The Boards Professor

Medical exam tutoring

Booking, tutor profiles and reviews pulled from two platforms into one page.

The The Gorband website, built by OneAlgorithm

The Gorband

Hand block-printed cotton clothing

Moved off Shopify onto Square: one catalogue and stock count for the website and the market stall.

The Starzi Brothers website, built by OneAlgorithm

Starzi Brothers

Excavation and concrete contractors

Moved off Squarespace: a page for each service and town, and a quote form that lands in the office inbox.

The Atlas Peptides website, built by OneAlgorithm

Atlas Peptides

Research peptides

A shop with Stripe checkout and a lab certificate for every lot.

51,450 businesses, in public numbers

The metro had 51,450 business establishments in 2023, +1.9% since 2018, by County Business Patterns.

By the numbers: 2,171,877 people lived in the metro in 2024, +6% since 2019, and payrolls counted 971,092 employees.

51,450

Establishments, 2023

Census CBP 2023 · +1.9% from 50,478 in 2018 ·

83

% under 20 staff

Census CBP 2023 · 42,693 of 51,450 ·

374

Programming firms (541511)

Census CBP 2023 · +1.4% since 2018 ·

72.7

541511 per 10,000

Census CBP 2023 · 374 of 51,450, a ceiling ·

147.3

5415 per 10,000

Census CBP 2023 · 758 establishments ·

2,171,877

Population, 2024

Census ACS 1-year 2024 · +6% since 2019 ·

972

Change since 2018

Census CBP 2018 and Census CBP 2023 · 50,478 to 51,450 ·

Go deeper: what County Business Patterns counts

Of the 51,450 establishments, 42,693 had fewer than 20 people and 7,298 employed 20 to 99. Another 1,322 employed 100 to 499, and 137 employed 500 or more.

Within the 20-to-99 band, 5,347 establishments had 20 to 49 people and 1,951 had 50 to 99. The average establishment employed 18.9 of the 971,092 paid staff.

County Business Patterns counts employer establishments, locations with paid staff, so a sole owner with no employees is not in the 51,450; that is one establishment for every 42.2 residents.

NAICS 541511, custom computer programming, includes custom web page design and all other custom software, so 72.7 per 10,000 businesses is a ceiling on web-design firms in the metro.

Health care leads, with 196,117 employees

Health care and social assistance employed 196,117 people in the metro in 2023, the most of the 12 sectors we read.

Why it matters: who a site talks to follows the sector mix, and manufacturing comes next at 123,303 employees.

  • Health care: 32.9 employees per establishment; booking and intake matter most.
  • Manufacturing: 41.8 employees per establishment; spec sheets and RFQ forms carry the site.
  • Retail: 17 employees per establishment; stock and checkout must agree.
Go deeper: who these pages are written for

5,962 health care and social assistance establishments in the metro need online booking, intake forms and an accessible path for every patient. The 2,951 in manufacturing need spec sheets, distributor lookups and request-for-quote forms.

Retail trade counts 6,468 establishments that need stock that matches the till and a phone checkout, and accommodation and food services, fourth at 88,900 employees, needs hours, menus and bookings that read on a phone in a hurry.

Professional, scientific and technical services ranks fifth at 58,723 employees, and the 12 sectors we read cover 847,377 of the 971,092 paid employees in the metro.

Together the four employ 518,009 people, 53.3% of the payroll count; the sector figures shape the scope, and the six sites above are our delivered work.

The Cleveland metro: the four largest of 12 sectors by paid employees, Census CBP 2023
SectorPaid employees, 2023Establishments, 2023
Health care196,1175,962
Manufacturing123,3032,951
Retail109,6896,468
Hospitality and food88,9005,040

374 custom programming firms in the metro

374 custom computer programming establishments (NAICS 541511) operated in the metro in 2023, +1.4% since 2018.

Yes, but: that code also covers all custom software, so 72.7 per 10,000 businesses is a ceiling on web-design firms, not a count.

  • Graphic design (NAICS 541430): 106 establishments in 2023.
  • Marketing consulting (NAICS 541613): 273 establishments in 2023.
  • Advertising agencies (NAICS 541810): 104 establishments in 2023.
Go deeper: how to compare the firms on your list

With 480 programming and graphic design establishments in the metro, ask each firm for live sites you can open, who will own the code and domain, and a written scope.

The wider NAICS 5415 group, computer systems design and related services, counted 758 establishments, 147.3 per 10,000 businesses.

Marketing consulting (273) and advertising agencies (104) often sell websites too, so the full field in the metro is wider than the programming count.

Custom programming establishments went from 369 in 2018 to 374 in 2023, while graphic design stood at 106, 20.6 per 10,000 businesses.

Those 374 programming firms employed 5,316 people, about 14.2 each. The wider 5415 group employed 9,352.

From 50,478 to 51,450 businesses since 2018

Establishments in the metro rose from 50,478 in 2018 to 51,450 in 2023, a change of +1.9%.

The bottom line: accommodation and food services grew the most of the 12 sectors, +10.9% in establishments, while finance and insurance moved −23.3%.

  • 20 to 99 employees: 6,856 establishments in 2018, 7,298 in 2023.
  • 100 to 499 employees: 1,359 in 2018, 1,322 in 2023.
  • 500 or more employees: 134 in 2018, 137 in 2023.
Go deeper: what the change means for a website

Accommodation and food services went from 4,546 to 5,040 establishments between 2018 and 2023; finance and insurance went from 4,008 to 3,073.

Construction came second, +9%, and health care and social assistance third, +8.1%.

That is a net gain of 972 establishments: each new one needs a first site, and each established one carries addresses and rankings a rebuild must keep.

Paid employees went from 923,095 to 971,092 over the same years, +5.2%. Population moved +6% from 2019 to 2024, to 2,171,877.

Ranked 48th of 64 places by businesses

The metro ranks 48th of the 64 places we build pages for by business establishments, and 44th for programming firms per 10,000 businesses.

By the numbers: population growth since 2019 ranks 20th of 64, and the share of establishments under 20 staff ranks 56th.

Go deeper: why every place is measured the same way

Every place page uses the same Census tables, so these ranks compare like with like: 51,450 establishments here against the 64 places' own counts, 49th for their change since 2018.

Programming firms run 72.7 per 10,000 businesses here against a median of 85.2. The under-20 share is 83% against 84.4%.

The 64 are the places whose web design searches clear 500 a month in Semrush's exact data, state pages counted with any places folded in; this one draws 1,330, 33rd of the 134 places we measured nationwide.

The Cleveland metro against the median of the 64 place pages, Census CBP 2023 and ACS 2024
MeasureHereMedian of 64
Programming per 10,00072.785.2
Establishments since 2018+1.9%+5.2%
Population since 2019+6%+4.2%
Under 20 staff83%84.4%

How a Cleveland web project runs

A project here runs in the same five stages as every build of ours, from agreeing what the site is for to launch.

What you get: the scope, price and schedule in writing at stage two, before anything is designed or built.

Go deeper: what happens at each stage

Stage one fixes who the site talks to; in the metro, where health care and social assistance employs 196,117 people, that answer often sets the integrations.

Stage five hands the site over in your own accounts, a handover any of the 758 systems design establishments in the metro could pick up from.

For the 2,951 manufacturing establishments here, stage two usually lists spec sheets, distributor lookups and request-for-quote forms.

Diagram of the five stages of a Cleveland web project, stacked for phones01Agree the purposeaudience · job · connections02Scope in writingpages · price · dates03Design in the browserreal content · real widths04Build and wire it upcode · forms · CRM · analytics05Launch and hand overyour repo · domain · hostingDiagram of the five stages of a Cleveland web projectA rail runs through five stations: agree what the site is for; scope, price and schedule in writing; design in the browser; build and wire it up; launch, hand over and stay on.01Agree the purposeaudience · job · connections02Scope in writingpages · price · dates03Design in the browserreal content · real widths04Build and wire it upcode · forms · CRM · analytics05Launch and hand overyour repo · domain · hosting
The five stages in order; the written scope, price and schedule come at stage two.
  1. Agree what the site is for

    Who the site talks to, what it must get them to do, and what it connects to.

  2. Scope, price and schedule in writing

    Pages, integrations, price and dates on paper before any design starts.

  3. Design in the browser

    Real content at real widths, reviewed on your own phone as it takes shape.

  4. Build and wire it up

    Code, forms, CRM, analytics and accessibility checks, in one pass.

  5. Launch, hand over, stay on

    The site goes live in your accounts, and we stay on for support.

Working with us from Cleveland

Cleveland shares Eastern time with our office, so calls and reviews fall inside the same working day.

The bottom line: the office answers (610) 890-9711 Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, the same day 374 programming firms here keep.

OneAlgorithm625 Swedesford Rd, Unit B, Malvern, PA 19355(610) 890-9711Mon–Fri 9–5Google Business Profile: 5.0 from 6 reviews, read 23 Oct 2026 Updated 24 October 2026

Do you have an office in Cleveland?

No. Our one office is in Malvern, PA, and projects here run remotely, with every stage reviewed in your own browser.

Go deeper: calls, reviews and where the work happens

Calls and screen-shares cover the whole build, and you review the work in your own browser between them; no branch office or answering service sits in between.

Web design questions from the metro

Not answered here? Call the office: (610) 890-9711

Yes. We take on website work for Cleveland businesses remotely from Malvern, PA, and every stage is reviewed in your own browser. You deal directly with the people designing and coding the site, and calls are set in Eastern hours, the clock the metro's 51,450 establishments keep.

The scope sets the price, not the ZIP code: pages, integrations and what the site must do, for one of the 42,693 small establishments here or a larger one. You get the price and schedule in writing first; advertisers paid about $10.39 a click for the main web design phrasing here (Semrush).

Hire a designer when the site has to book, quote, sell or connect to a CRM; a builder fits a site a standard template can serve. In the metro, 83% of establishments employ fewer than 20 people, so we say which route fits before quoting anything.

Yes. Titles, headings, page speed and schema go in while the site is built, and Search Console is connected at launch, so the 1,330 monthly searches (top phrasing 720) in the table above are targeted from day one. “web design cleveland” alone draws 720 a month, by Semrush’s count.

Open the live sites a firm has built, ask who owns the code, domain and hosting, and get the scope and price in writing. With 480 programming and graphic design establishments in the metro, and 72.7 programming firms per 10,000 businesses, those three checks shorten the list quickly.

Not when every old address is mapped to its new page and redirected before launch, so rankings and links carry over. For any of the 51,450 establishments in the metro, that map is the first thing a rebuild of ours produces.

Yes. We build to WCAG 2.1 AA: keyboard paths, contrast, labels and headings checked before launch, with no overlay and no certificate claimed. It matters most for the 5,962 health care and social assistance establishments in the metro, whose patients include people of every ability.

Start your Cleveland website project

Tell us what the site has to do, and the scope, price and schedule come back in writing before anything is built.

What to have ready

  • What the site has to do: sell, book, explain or log people in
  • Two or three sites you like, and why
  • What you already have: domain, hosting, content, logins

What happens next

  1. 01Send it on the contact page, or call the office.
  2. 02A person at OneAlgorithm reads it and replies.
  3. 03If it fits, the written scope, price and schedule follow.

Start a project

Topic · Website · Cleveland

What does the site have to do? Tell us on the contact page; the topic is already filled in.

Start a project

Prefer to talk it through?

(610) 890-9711

OneAlgorithm · 625 Swedesford Rd, Unit B, Malvern, PA 19355 · Mon–Fri 9–5

Where these figures come from

Every Census figure on this page covers the Cleveland metro area (Census CBSA code 17460; 2023-2024 figures queried as 17410 under the 2023 delineation). County Business Patterns (CBP) counts employer establishments; the American Community Survey (ACS, 1-year) gives population. A person at OneAlgorithm read them on 24 October 2026. The query each one came from is printed as text, not linked.

FigureValueYear
Establishments, 202351,4502023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Business establishments, 201850,4782018
api.census.gov/data/2018/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17460
Paid employees, mid-March 2023971,0922023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Population, 20242,171,8772024
api.census.gov/data/2024/acs/acs1?get=NAME,B01003_001E&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Population, 20192,048,4492019
api.census.gov/data/2019/acs/acs1?get=NAME,B01003_001E&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17460
Programming firms (541511)3742023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=541511&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
NAICS 541511 establishments, 20183692018
api.census.gov/data/2018/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=541511&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17460
Computer systems design establishments (NAICS 5415)7582023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=5415&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Establishments with 20-49 employees, 20235,3472023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Establishments with 50-99 employees, 20231,9512023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Establishments with 100-249 employees, 20231,0882023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Establishments with 250-499 employees, 20232342023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Establishments with 500-999 employees, 2023692023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Establishments with 1,000 or more employees, 2023682023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Health care and social assistance: paid employees196,1172023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=62&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Health care and social assistance: establishments5,9622023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=62&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Manufacturing: paid employees123,3032023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=31-33&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Manufacturing: establishments2,9512023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=31-33&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Retail trade: paid employees109,6892023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=44-45&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Retail trade: establishments6,4682023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=44-45&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Accommodation and food services: paid employees88,9002023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=72&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Accommodation and food services: establishments5,0402023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=72&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
% under 20 staff · computed: total establishments minus the six size classes of 20+ employees, divided by the total832023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
541511 per 10,000 · computed: NAICS 541511 establishments / total establishments x 10,00072.72023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=541511&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410 · api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
5415 per 10,000 · computed: NAICS 5415 establishments / total establishments x 10,000147.32023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=5415&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410 · api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410
Change since 2018 · computed: total establishments 2023 minus 20189722023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17410 · api.census.gov/data/2018/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:17460

U.S. Census Bureau · census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html · census.gov/programs-surveys/acs

Where the search figures come from

Monthly US searches, cost per click and keyword difficulty from Semrush Keyword Overview (Bulk Analysis, US database, exact match), pulled 2026-10-24 13:05-13:15 ET. A phrase Semrush has no data for counts as zero. Every place we considered is ranked by the same sum: Cleveland is 33 of 134.

PhraseSearches a monthCost per clickDifficulty
web design cleveland720$10.3914
web design company cleveland320$10.3921
website development cleveland260$10.6518
web developer cleveland30no bid datano data

Google and Bing autocomplete, read 24 October 2026, also completed: “web design cleveland ohio”, “web development cleveland”, “cleveland web design company”. Autocomplete shows phrasings people type, not volumes.

Semrush · semrush.com/analytics/keywordoverview · Google and Bing autocomplete

Photo credit

The Cleveland script sign in front of the downtown skyline and Terminal Tower.

CreditErik Drost / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 (cropped, resized)
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Our Google Business Profile figures

What our Google listing showed when a person at OneAlgorithm read it. We quote the figures; the reviews are not marked up as ratings on this page.

ListingOneAlgorithm Consulting
Rating5.0 from 6 reviews
Place idChIJnQw01SfzxokRJhcvpzCljCE
Read on23 October 2026
Map linkmaps.app.goo.gl/kVEeTz9dCyB64CGk6

Hero photograph: Erik Drost / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 (cropped, resized) · creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0