A full redesign in Delhi NCR runs ₹15,000–50,000 — but roughly half the people who think they need one need a day of content updating instead. Score the six factors below before spending, and do the free clean-up first.
Worth knowing: redesign searches in this market carry low advertiser competition, so you’re not walking into the most aggressively marketed corner of it. Fewer companies compete for this work than for new builds, which usually means less pressure and more considered replies.
Redesign cost bands
| What you’re buying | Cost in NCR |
|---|---|
| Content refresh — prices, services, photographs, contact details | A few hours of work |
| Fix mobile usability and speed within the existing site | ₹5,000–15,000 |
| Full redesign, same 5–8 pages, content reused | ₹15,000–35,000 |
| Full redesign with new content written and images sourced | ₹35,000–60,000 |
| Redesign plus platform migration (old builder → WordPress) | ₹25,000–50,000 |
| Store redesign | ₹50,000 upward |
Plus, as always: domain ₹700–1,200/yr, hosting a few thousand/yr, 18% GST, and maintenance ₹15,000–30,000/yr if you take a plan. The full price picture.
Note that the first row is a few hours, not a project. That’s the row most people should be buying.
Step 1: Check it isn’t a traffic problem
Before spending anything on the site.
If your monthly visitors are in single digits, you don’t have a website problem — you have no traffic, and a redesign changes nothing. Install analytics and Search Console if they’re missing, wait a week, and look at the number.
This single check saves more money than anything else on this page. The four-check diagnostic.
Step 2: Separate the three problems
They cost very different amounts, and people conflate them constantly:
1. Stale content. Last year’s offer on the home page, prices from three years ago, services you no longer offer, a photograph of premises you’ve left. The most common problem and the cheapest — hours, not a project. It’s also what usually produces the embarrassment.
2. Poor mobile usability. Text too small, buttons hard to tap, the number not tappable, slow on mobile data. Worth money, since most of your visitors are on a phone. Sometimes fixable within the existing site; sometimes structural.
3. Dated design. Conventions from a decade ago. Genuinely the least urgent, though it’s the one that prompts the search.
Step 3: The free clean-up
An afternoon, no cost. Do this before commissioning anything:
- Delete everything out of date. Old offers, discontinued services, dead pages. Deletion is faster than rewriting and improves the site immediately.
- Rewrite the top of the home page. What you do, where you are, one reason to choose you, and a visible number.
- Replace the photographs with recent pictures of real work, on a phone in daylight. This does more for perceived quality than a redesign.
- Fix the contact points. Tappable number, WhatsApp link with the country code, form reaching an inbox you check.
- Add current prices or ranges. The most common reason a visitor leaves without contacting you.
Then reassess. If the site now reads as current and works on your phone, you’ve saved a rebuild.
Step 4: The six-factor test
Score honestly. Rebuild indicators on the right.
| Factor | Repair if… | Rebuild if… |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile usability | Readable and tappable, or fixable | Text needs zooming, layout breaks structurally |
| Access | You or a developer can edit content | Nobody can log in and recovery has failed |
| Platform | Current WordPress or a maintained platform | Abandoned builder, obsolete version, nobody will touch it |
| Structure | The pages you need exist | You need a fundamentally different site |
| Business fit | It still describes your business | It describes a company you no longer are |
| Repair cost | Under roughly half a new build | Approaching or exceeding a new build |
Two or fewer rebuild indicators — repair. Four or more — rebuild. Three is a judgement call, and the deciding question is usually access: if you can’t edit it, repairs are permanently dependent on someone else.
Step 5: Protect these four, either way
1. The domain. Same name, in your own account. Never let a redesign move it into a vendor’s account.
2. Redirects for your existing page addresses. A rebuild that changes every URL without redirects loses whatever search visibility you’d accumulated. Get written confirmation of how this will be handled — it’s the most commonly skipped step in a redesign and the costliest to fix later.
3. A downloaded backup of the old site, taken before anything starts. Non-negotiable.
4. Your content — text and photographs — collected into your own folder, so it’s reusable regardless of who builds next.
What to ask a redesign company
Six questions, and the answers should be in writing:
- “Will the domain stay in my own account?”
- “How will you handle redirects from my existing page addresses?”
- “Will you keep the old site accessible until the new one is verified?”
- “Is content rewriting included, or do I supply the text?”
- “What’s the year-two cost for domain, hosting and maintenance?”
- “After launch, what does a small change cost and how fast do you respond?”
Question 6 matters especially here. The reason most people need a redesign is that the last build was a project with an end date while updating was a habit with no owner — so settle that this time.
Step 6: Don’t repeat the decay
Alongside the redesign, fix the cause:
- Name an owner for updates, out loud. You, a staff member, or a paid plan.
- Set a quarterly reminder to open your own site on your phone and read it as a customer would. Ten minutes, four times a year.
- Put both renewal dates in your calendar with 30-day reminders, auto-renew on, card current.
- Decide about maintenance deliberately — ₹1,000–2,500 a month for a static site, or do the CMS updates yourself monthly after taking a backup. Note that skipped updates raise compromise risk, and cleanup in India typically runs ₹20,000–50,000 or more.
Why sites rot, and the habit that prevents it.
What to do this week
- Check your monthly visitor count before spending anything.
- Do the free clean-up: delete stale items, rewrite the home page top, replace photographs.
- Score the six factors and count the rebuild indicators.
- Download a backup of the current site.
- Get redirect handling confirmed in writing if you rebuild.
If you want it done the certain way
Send us your website address and we’ll score it against the six factors and tell you which path is cheaper — including when the answer is a day of updates rather than a project, which it often is. Where we rebuild: the domain stays yours, redirects are handled, and you get a backup of the old site first. WhatsApp us; we reply in about five minutes between 9am and 7pm.
Related reading
- Outgrown your cheap website? When and how to rebuild
- Repair or rebuild? The decision test
- When you stop sharing your own website link
- Your website still shows last Diwali’s offer
- Whose fault is zero enquiries?
FAQ
How much does a website redesign cost in Delhi NCR?
₹15,000–35,000 for a full redesign reusing your existing content, ₹35,000–60,000 with new content written for you, and ₹25,000–50,000 if a platform migration is involved. A content refresh alone is a few hours of work.
Should I redesign or repair my website?
Score six factors: mobile usability, whether anyone can edit it, the platform, structure, business fit, and repair cost. Two or fewer rebuild indicators means repair. Do the free content clean-up first — about half of people who thought they needed a rebuild don’t afterwards.
Will a website redesign hurt my Google ranking?
It can if page addresses change without redirects. Get written confirmation of how old URLs will redirect to new ones before work starts — this is the most commonly skipped step in a redesign.
What should I keep when redesigning?
The same domain in your own account, redirects for existing page addresses, a downloaded backup of the old site taken before work begins, and your own copy of all text and photographs.
Why did my website become dated so quickly?
Because the build was a one-time project and updating was a habit nobody owned. Name an owner, set a quarterly ten-minute check, and decide about maintenance deliberately rather than by default.
