Web design and development

Web design for Richmond businesses

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

Start a projectCall (610) 890-9711
Downtown Richmond, Virginia, across the rocky James River with a railroad trestle in the foreground.

Website design for Richmond, delivered remotely

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

Why it matters: 33,589 business establishments operated in the metro in 2023, and 83.6% of them employed fewer than 20 people.

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

Health care and social assistance alone holds 14.7% of the 575,588 paid employees counted in the metro in 2023.

Retail trade adds 12.5% and accommodation and food services 9.8%, so three sectors hold 37% 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, retail trade and accommodation and food services.

Finance and insurance is fourth, with 50,214 paid employees in 1,959 establishments.

  1. Health care

    84,869 paid employees across 3,879 establishments in 2023; a site here needs online booking, intake forms and an accessible path for every patient.

  2. Retail

    71,721 paid employees across 4,066 establishments in 2023; a site here needs stock that matches the till and a phone checkout.

  3. Hospitality and food

    56,299 paid employees across 2,885 establishments in 2023; a site here needs hours, menus and bookings that read on a phone in a hurry.

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 Richmond 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.

phantomarcades.com (opens in a new tab)
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.

inspectthishomeinspections.com (opens in a new tab)
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.

theboardsprofessor.com (opens in a new tab)
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.

thegorband.com (opens in a new tab)
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.

starzibros.com (opens in a new tab)
The Atlas Peptides website, built by OneAlgorithm

Atlas Peptides

Research peptides

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

atlasaminoclub.com (opens in a new tab)

33,589 businesses, in public numbers

The metro had 33,589 business establishments in 2023, +4.5% since 2018, by County Business Patterns.

By the numbers: 1,368,219 people lived in the metro in 2024, +6% since 2019, and payrolls counted 575,588 employees.

33,589

Establishments, 2023

Census CBP 2023 · +4.5% from 32,155 in 2018 ·

83.6

% under 20 staff

Census CBP 2023 · 28,072 of 33,589 ·

251

Programming firms (541511)

Census CBP 2023 · −2% since 2018 ·

74.7

541511 per 10,000

Census CBP 2023 · 251 of 33,589, a ceiling ·

187.6

5415 per 10,000

Census CBP 2023 · 630 establishments ·

1,368,219

Population, 2024

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

1,434

Change since 2018

Census CBP 2018 and Census CBP 2023 · 32,155 to 33,589 ·

Go deeper: what County Business Patterns counts

Of the 33,589 establishments, 28,072 had fewer than 20 people and 4,707 employed 20 to 99. Another 718 employed 100 to 499, and 92 employed 500 or more.

Within the 20-to-99 band, 3,568 establishments had 20 to 49 people and 1,139 had 50 to 99. The average establishment employed 17.1 of the 575,588 paid staff.

County Business Patterns counts employer establishments, locations with paid staff, so a sole owner with no employees is not in the 33,589; that is one establishment for every 40.7 residents.

NAICS 541511, custom computer programming, includes custom web page design and all other custom software, so 74.7 per 10,000 businesses is a ceiling on web-design firms in the metro.

Health care leads, with 84,869 employees

Health care and social assistance employed 84,869 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 retail trade comes next at 71,721 employees.

  • Health care: 21.9 employees per establishment; booking and intake matter most.
  • Retail: 17.6 employees per establishment; stock and checkout must agree.
  • Hospitality and food: 19.5 employees per establishment; hours and menus must read fast.
Go deeper: who these pages are written for

3,879 health care and social assistance establishments in the metro need online booking, intake forms and an accessible path for every patient. The 4,066 in retail trade need stock that matches the till and a phone checkout.

Accommodation and food services counts 2,885 establishments that need hours, menus and bookings that read on a phone in a hurry, and finance and insurance, fourth at 50,214 employees, needs secure forms, plain disclosures and a short path to a call.

Professional, scientific and technical services ranks fifth at 40,955 employees, and the 12 sectors we read cover 472,866 of the 575,588 paid employees in the metro.

Together the four employ 263,103 people, 45.7% of the payroll count; the sector figures shape the scope, and the six sites above are our delivered work.

The Richmond metro: the four largest of 12 sectors by paid employees, Census CBP 2023
SectorPaid employees, 2023Establishments, 2023
Health care84,8693,879
Retail71,7214,066
Hospitality and food56,2992,885
Finance and insurance50,2141,959

The top phrasing, “web design richmond”, draws 480 US searches a month by Semrush’s exact count.

By the numbers: the 4 phrasings add up to 780 searches a month, 480 of them on the top one.

  • Autocomplete also completes “web design richmond va”, a phrasing people type.
Go deeper: how we rank every place by the same numbers

We rank every place in the country by the same measure, the sum of these phrasings, and this page sits 53 of the 134 places we measured, at 780 searches a month.

The development phrasing draws 70 a month and the developer phrasing 20, phrasings that often signal a build beyond a brochure site.

The company-intent phrasing draws 210 searches a month, the buyer already looking for a firm.

Advertisers paid about $18.66 a click for “web design richmond”, which is what a search costs to buy, not the price of a website.

The top phrasing, at 480 searches, carries a Semrush keyword difficulty of 36 out of 100.

Monthly US searches and cost per click for Richmond web design phrasings, Semrush, 24 October 2026
PhraseSearches a monthCost per click
web design richmond480$18.66
web design company richmond210no bid data
website development richmond70no bid data
web developer richmond20no bid data

Semrush US exact match · 780 a month in all, top 480 · pulled 24 October 2026 ·

251 custom programming firms in the metro

251 custom computer programming establishments (NAICS 541511) operated in the metro in 2023, −2% since 2018.

Yes, but: that code also covers all custom software, so 74.7 per 10,000 businesses is a ceiling on web-design firms, not a count.

  • Graphic design (NAICS 541430): 70 establishments in 2023.
  • Marketing consulting (NAICS 541613): 196 establishments in 2023.
  • Advertising agencies (NAICS 541810): 65 establishments in 2023.
How to choose a web design company
Go deeper: how to compare the firms on your list

With 321 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 630 establishments, 187.6 per 10,000 businesses.

Marketing consulting (196) and advertising agencies (65) often sell websites too, so the full field in the metro is wider than the programming count.

Custom programming establishments went from 256 in 2018 to 251 in 2023, while graphic design stood at 70, 20.8 per 10,000 businesses.

Those 251 programming firms employed 2,880 people, about 11.5 each. The wider 5415 group employed 6,248.

From 32,155 to 33,589 businesses since 2018

Establishments in the metro rose from 32,155 in 2018 to 33,589 in 2023, a change of +4.5%.

The bottom line: real estate, rental and leasing grew the most of the 12 sectors, +20.1% in establishments, while finance and insurance moved −7.2%.

  • 20 to 99 employees: 4,594 establishments in 2018, 4,707 in 2023.
  • 100 to 499 employees: 765 in 2018, 718 in 2023.
  • 500 or more employees: 86 in 2018, 92 in 2023.
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Go deeper: what the change means for a website

Real estate, rental and leasing went from 1,605 to 1,928 establishments between 2018 and 2023; finance and insurance went from 2,111 to 1,959.

Educational services came second, +14.6%, and health care and social assistance third, +13.4%.

That is a net gain of 1,434 establishments: each new one needs a first site, and each established one carries addresses and rankings a rebuild must keep.

Paid employees went from 558,661 to 575,588 over the same years, +3%. Population moved +6% from 2019 to 2024, to 1,368,219.

Ranked 57th of 64 places by businesses

The metro ranks 57th of the 64 places we build pages for by business establishments, and 42nd 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 47th.

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: 33,589 establishments here against the 64 places' own counts, 35th for their change since 2018.

Programming firms run 74.7 per 10,000 businesses here against a median of 85.2. The under-20 share is 83.6% 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 780, 53rd of the 134 places we measured nationwide.

The Richmond metro against the median of the 64 place pages, Census CBP 2023 and ACS 2024
MeasureHereMedian of 64
Programming per 10,00074.785.2
Establishments since 2018+4.5%+5.2%
Population since 2019+6%+4.2%
Under 20 staff83.6%84.4%

How a Richmond 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.

How a custom website build runs
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 84,869 people, that answer often sets the integrations.

Stage five hands the site over in your own accounts, a handover any of the 630 systems design establishments in the metro could pick up from.

For the 4,066 retail trade establishments here, stage two usually lists stock that matches the till and a phone checkout.

Diagram of the five stages of a Richmond 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 Richmond 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 Richmond

Richmond 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 251 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 Richmond?

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 Richmond 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 33,589 establishments keep.

The scope sets the price, not the ZIP code: pages, integrations and what the site must do, for one of the 28,072 small establishments here or a larger one. You get the price and schedule in writing first; advertisers paid about $18.66 a click for the main web design phrasing here (Semrush).

How much does a website cost?

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, 83.6% of establishments employ fewer than 20 people, so we say which route fits before quoting anything.

Squarespace, Wix or WordPress versus custom

Yes. Titles, headings, page speed and schema go in while the site is built, and Search Console is connected at launch, so the 780 monthly searches (top phrasing 480) in the table above are targeted from day one. “web design richmond” alone draws 480 a month, by Semrush’s count.

SEO services

Yes. That kind of site is scoped like any build of ours: service-area pages, project photos and quote requests that land in the office inbox, each part priced in writing before work starts. The metro had 3,633 construction establishments in 2023, by County Business Patterns.

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 321 programming and graphic design establishments in the metro, and 74.7 programming firms per 10,000 businesses, those three checks shorten the list quickly.

How to choose a web design company

Yes. 28,072 of the 33,589 establishments in the metro had fewer than 20 employees in 2023, and every one of the six sites above is for an owner-led business. The scope starts with the one job the site must do, booked, quoted or sold.

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Start your Richmond 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 · Richmond

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 Richmond metro area (Census CBSA code 40060). County Business Patterns (CBP) counts employer establishments; the American Community Survey (ACS, 1-year) gives population. A person at OneAlgorithm read them on 21 October 2026. The query each one came from is printed as text, not linked.

FigureValueYear
Establishments, 202333,5892023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Business establishments, 201832,1552018
api.census.gov/data/2018/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Paid employees, mid-March 2023575,5882023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Population, 20241,368,2192024
api.census.gov/data/2024/acs/acs1?get=NAME,B01003_001E&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Population, 20191,290,8662019
api.census.gov/data/2019/acs/acs1?get=NAME,B01003_001E&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Programming firms (541511)2512023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=541511&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
NAICS 541511 establishments, 20182562018
api.census.gov/data/2018/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=541511&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Computer systems design establishments (NAICS 5415)6302023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=5415&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Establishments with 20-49 employees, 20233,5682023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Establishments with 50-99 employees, 20231,1392023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Establishments with 100-249 employees, 20235602023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Establishments with 250-499 employees, 20231582023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Establishments with 500-999 employees, 2023542023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Establishments with 1,000 or more employees, 2023382023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Health care and social assistance: paid employees84,8692023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=62&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Health care and social assistance: establishments3,8792023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=62&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Retail trade: paid employees71,7212023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=44-45&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Retail trade: establishments4,0662023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=44-45&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Accommodation and food services: paid employees56,2992023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=72&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Accommodation and food services: establishments2,8852023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=72&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Finance and insurance: paid employees50,2142023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=52&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Finance and insurance: establishments1,9592023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=52&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
% under 20 staff · computed: total establishments minus the six size classes of 20+ employees, divided by the total83.62023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
541511 per 10,000 · computed: NAICS 541511 establishments / total establishments x 10,00074.72023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=541511&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060 · api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
5415 per 10,000 · computed: NAICS 5415 establishments / total establishments x 10,000187.62023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP&NAICS2017=5415&EMPSZES=001&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060 · api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060
Change since 2018 · computed: total establishments 2023 minus 20181,4342023
api.census.gov/data/2023/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060 · api.census.gov/data/2018/cbp?get=ESTAB,EMP,EMPSZES&NAICS2017=00&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area/micropolitan%20statistical%20area:40060

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: Richmond is 53 of 134.

PhraseSearches a monthCost per clickDifficulty
web design richmond480$18.6636
web design company richmond210no bid data11
website development richmond70no bid data26
web developer richmond20no bid datano data

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

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

Photo credit

Downtown Richmond, Virginia, across the rocky James River with a railroad trestle in the foreground.

Creditjeff horne from Richmond, VA / 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: jeff horne from Richmond, VA / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 (cropped, resized) · creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0