React & Next.js
React websites that rank,
and get faster to change.
Server-rendered Next.js, so search engines get real HTML. Fast enough that the speed shows up in conversion. Built so the second year costs less than the first.
Why people come to us
Almost every React enquiry we get starts with one of these four. If none of them sounds like you, you probably do not need this.
The site is slow and you can feel it costing you
Plugin-stacked WordPress sites accumulate render-blocking scripts until the page takes seconds to become usable. Fewer than half of mobile sites pass all three Core Web Vitals, so this is the normal condition rather than the exception — which is exactly why fixing it is an advantage.
Every change needs a developer
Page builders promise independence and deliver the opposite: layouts that break when a plugin updates, and a theme nobody wants to touch. Editing a price becomes a support ticket.
The marketing site and the product are two different worlds
The site is WordPress, the app is something else, and nothing is shared — not the design, not the login, not the data. Every feature gets built twice or lives awkwardly in one of them.
You have outgrown the template
The business now needs something the theme was never built for: a configurator, a booking flow, gated content, a dashboard, per-customer pricing. Each addition is another plugin and another risk.
What you actually get
The claims below are the ones we can point at evidence for. Where the evidence is a controlled test rather than a vendor blog post, we have said whose.
Speed that shows up in revenue
Vodafone ran a controlled A/B test on a Next.js build and measured it: a 31% faster Largest Contentful Paint produced 8% more sales. Deloitte and Google, studying 37 brands, found a 0.1-second improvement lifted retail conversions by 8.4%. Speed is not a vanity metric.
Source: Vodafone A/B test; Deloitte & Google, Milliseconds Make Millions
Rendered for search engines, not hidden from them
Next.js renders pages on the server, so crawlers and answer engines receive complete HTML rather than an empty shell waiting for JavaScript. This is the difference between a React site that ranks and the single-page apps that gave React its SEO reputation.
One codebase for the site and the product
The marketing pages, the login, the dashboard and the API routes live in one Next.js application, sharing components and types. A change to your brand or your data model happens once.
Content your team actually controls
A headless CMS gives editors a proper interface without letting anyone break the layout. Publishing updates the page; it does not require a deploy or a developer.
It gets cheaper to change, not harder
Typed components and real tests mean the second year costs less than the first. The usual trajectory — where every change risks breaking something else — is a symptom of architecture, not of age.
React work we have shipped
Three Next.js builds in production. Each one links to the full case study, including what it cost us in effort and what it changed for the client.
When React is the wrong answer
We turn this work down regularly. Paying for a React rebuild you did not need is worse than keeping the site you have.
- A brochure site of five pages that rarely changes. WordPress or Shopify will cost less and do the job.
- A store that fits Shopify comfortably. Rebuilding checkout, tax and fulfilment in React is expensive and rarely better.
- A team with no developer and no budget for maintenance. React needs someone to update dependencies; a managed platform does not.
What it costs
Published 2026 market rates for a production React or Next.js build: roughly $12,000–$40,000 for a marketing site, and $25,000–$150,000+ for e-commerce, SaaS dashboards or multilingual systems. Agency hourly rates typically run $75–$200, higher in the US and Western Europe.
We are a remote team, so our quotes generally land below US agency rates, and we price a defined scope as a fixed figure rather than billing by the hour. Four things move that number:
How many unique page types
Not how many pages — how many distinct layouts. Two hundred product pages from one template is a small job. Twelve bespoke pages is a larger one.
What it has to talk to
A CMS and a contact form is straightforward. Payments, authentication, a CRM, an ERP, a booking system or a legacy database each add real work.
Whether content is being migrated
Moving a 500-post WordPress site means mapping content, preserving URLs and writing redirects. This is the step most quotes understate and most rankings die on.
How much design exists
Working from an approved design is faster than designing from scratch. Both are fine; they are not the same budget.
How it runs
- 01
Discovery call
We look at what you have, what is actually broken, and what the site has to do. You leave the call knowing whether React is the right answer — including when it is not.
- 02
Fixed written estimate
Scope, price and timeline in writing before anything starts. Not an hourly guess that grows.
- 03
Design and build in the open
You get a staging URL from the first week and watch it come together, rather than waiting for a reveal at the end.
- 04
Launch, redirects and handover
Old URLs redirected, analytics verified, Search Console checked. Then a walkthrough of how to run it yourselves.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a React website cost?
In 2026 the market rate for a production React or Next.js marketing site runs roughly $12,000–$40,000, with larger builds — SaaS dashboards, e-commerce, multilingual systems — from $25,000 to $150,000 or more. Agency hourly rates are typically $75–$200, and higher in the US and Western Europe. We quote a fixed price for a defined scope after a discovery call, rather than billing hourly.
Is React good for SEO?
Yes, when it is server-rendered. Next.js sends complete HTML to crawlers and answer engines, so pages are indexable exactly like a traditional site. React earned a poor SEO reputation from client-side-only single-page apps, which ship an empty page and render in the browser — that is a different architecture, not a limitation of React.
Should I move my WordPress site to React?
Only if WordPress is actually the constraint. If the site is slow because of plugin bloat, or you need app-like features it cannot support, replatforming is worth it. If you have a five-page brochure site that works, it is not — we will tell you so on the call.
How long does a React website take to build?
A straightforward marketing site is typically four to eight weeks from kickoff to launch. Larger builds with integrations, content migration or custom functionality run longer. You get the timeline in writing with the estimate.
Can my team still edit the content?
Yes. We connect a headless CMS so editors can publish, edit and reorder content through a normal interface. Publishing does not require a developer or a deploy.
Do you use AI to build the site?
We use Claude as a tool throughout — scaffolding components, writing tests, reviewing diffs and migrating content. Senior engineers specify the architecture and review everything that ships. It makes the work faster; it does not replace the judgement.
What happens after launch?
You own the code and the repository. We hand over a walkthrough and documentation, and a monthly care plan is available if you want us to keep handling updates, monitoring and changes.
Tell us what is breaking.
A short call, an honest answer about whether React is the right move, and a written estimate if it is.