Web design for Derby businesses. Live in a week.
Derby is where more business websites were still not served over a secure connection than in either Nottingham or Leicester, which is the one fault a visitor sees before anything else: a "Not Secure" warning next to your name in the address bar.
Book a fifteen minute callWe checked 53 Derby business websites
Not one of them scored an A. Most of what we found is quick to fix once someone points it out.
28 of 53
had no privacy policy we could find
40 of 53
loaded tracking with no cookie banner
50 of 53
did not show their company number
60/100
typical Google speed score on a phone
Checked in September 2026. The sample is trades and hospitality businesses in Derby that have a website and publish an email address, so it is not every business in the city. Speed is the median Google PageSpeed score on a phone across the 36 sites that gave a consistent result. Company number applies to limited companies, which all of these were. No business is named here.
What a Derby business gets
Built for a phone first
Most people find a local business on a phone. That is the screen the site is designed on, not an afterthought once the desktop version is done.
Found when people search
Set up so you turn up when someone searches your trade and your area, with your Google Business listing wired in and tidied up.
The legal pages done properly
Privacy policy, cookie policy and company details that match what the site actually does, so the page a customer checks does not undermine the rest.
Looked after afterwards
Hosting, updates and changes when you need them. You send a message and it gets done. No ticket system.
Across Derby and nearby
- Derby
- Mickleover
- Allestree
- Littleover
- Chaddesden
- Spondon
- Alvaston
- Chellaston
- Darley Abbey
- Oakwood
- Duffield
- Borrowash
- Long Eaton
Also covering Nottingham and Leicester, and the rest of the East Midlands.
Want to know how your site did?
Send me your business name and I will check your website and put a homepage together so you can see the difference, rather than take my word for it. Costs you nothing.
Book a fifteen minute callOr email hello@staxxd.co.uk.