What WA web designers publish as their prices: an audit of 94 websites (October 2026)

In October 2026 we read the websites of 94 web designers in nine WA areas outside central Perth. 37% of them show a price for a new website. When we re-read those prices on 3 November 2026, the middle published price for a site of about five pages was $2,000.

The audit at a glance

The median is the middle figure when the prices are lined up from cheapest to dearest. The two medians measure different things. $1,997 is the median of the 33 designers’ lowest advertised one-off prices, whatever each one buys. $2,000 is the median of the 11 one-off prices for packages of 4 to 6 pages. The 11 come from six of the nine areas, with none from Margaret River, Rockingham or Clarkson. Six of the 11 are in Bunbury, so the $2,000 leans on Bunbury prices and isn’t a figure for all of WA.

For Perth itself, our Perth web design prices guide lists 13 Perth designers’ published prices for about five pages, re-read on 17 October 2026. Taking the lower figure where a designer shows two, the median of those 13 lower figures is $2,790, with GST treatment mixed (see that guide’s GST column).

This is an audit of the prices WA web designers publish on their own websites. It isn’t a survey of what every designer in WA charges, and it isn’t what any client paid. We haven’t named anyone.

Headline findings

• Two of the 35 have a monthly plan with no upfront fee as their cheapest option. Leave those two out and 33 remain. On 10 October 2026, their lowest advertised prices ran from $399 to $4,810, and the median was $1,997.
• 17 of those 33 lowest prices are under $2,000, and at least seven of them are for a single page.
• 21 of the 35 that publish a price show no figure for what you pay after launch, such as hosting or a monthly care plan. 22 of the 35 don’t say beside the price whether GST (the 10% goods and services tax) is included.

Using these figures? The suggested citation and the data file are under how to cite this audit below. If you’re a business owner comparing quotes instead, our own prices are on the pricing page.

The counts, town by town

These are counts only. “Publish a website price” means a dollar figure for building a new website, shown on the designer’s own pages.

Clarkson’s two designers are too few to read as a rate. We also looked in Alkimos and nearby Eglinton, Butler and Yanchep. Three leads had dead or unreadable sites and one Eglinton studio now offers photography-led content with no price, so the area isn’t in the 94.

What the 35 published prices leave out

A “fee for after launch” is any published figure for hosting, maintenance or a monthly care plan, or a monthly plan that covers them.

How the lowest advertised prices spread

These are the 33 designers left after leaving out the two whose cheapest option is a monthly plan with no upfront fee. For each, we took the lowest figure they show for a new website.

Lowest advertised one-off price	Designers
Under $1,000	6
$1,000 to $1,999	11
$2,000 to $2,999	10
$3,000 and over	6
All	33

Line the 33 up from cheapest to dearest and the middle 17 run from $1,499 to $2,499.

A lowest price is a starting point, not a typical bill. 20 of the 33 lowest figures are a “from” price, an “about” figure or the bottom of a range. The highest figure any of the 35 shows for any website is “$25,000 and above”.

How we found and read the websites

• When. All 94 websites were read on 10 October 2026, and every price used was re-read on the designer’s own site that day.
• Where. Nine towns and suburbs outside central Perth: Albany, Bunbury, Busselton, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Mandurah, Margaret River, Rockingham and Clarkson. A designer counts for a town when it’s based in or near it, such as Denmark or Mount Barker for Albany, Australind or Eaton for Bunbury, and Dunsborough for Busselton. For Clarkson we counted only designers based in the suburb itself; two more designers elsewhere in the City of Wanneroo publish prices and aren’t in the 94. We took the location from the designer’s own website, or from its Google or chamber of commerce listing where the site gave no address.
• How we found them. Web searches, Google map listings and local business directories, used only as leads. We didn’t count designers based elsewhere that run a page for the town (for example, an interstate studio with pages for most of these towns), or sites that were down.
• What counted as a published price. A dollar figure for building a new website, shown on the designer’s own pages. That includes a “from” price, a typical range, a block of hours sold for new websites, a launch discount, and a monthly plan with no upfront fee. A price for hosting or care alone didn’t count, and four of the 59 show only that.
• The lowest advertised price and the median. For each designer, the lowest one-off figure shown for a new website, as written. Hosting, care and buy-out figures are left out. The two designers whose cheapest option is a monthly plan with no upfront fee count as publishing a price, but are left out of the 33. One of those two also lists a $1,900 upfront option, plus $50 a month, for a bigger site. Counting it as a 34th price would make the median $1,973.50 instead of $1,997. Another designer’s lowest figure is a half-price launch offer; at its full price the median is still $1,997.
• GST. We recorded what the price line says: included, added on top, or not stated beside the price. We didn’t adjust any price for GST.
• The 3 November re-check. We re-read 34 of the 35 price pages; the 35th showed no figures we could read. Of the 32 re-read designers with a one-off price, 28 showed the same lowest price as in October and three showed a different one. The $399 starter is now “from $499.99”. One designer now asks you to request a quote instead of showing a price. Both monthly plans were unchanged, and $4,810 is still the highest of the lowest prices. We didn’t re-read the 59 designers who don’t publish a price, so the 37% share and the $1,997 median stay as read on 10 October.
• The five-page price. A one-off price for a new website whose package states 4, 5 or 6 pages, as a page count or an “up to” limit. Rebuilds, hosting, care and monthly plans are left out. 11 of the 34 designers re-read on 3 November show one. Keep only packages of five pages or up to five pages (eight of the 11) and the median is $1,998.50. Of the 11 prices, three include GST, two add it on top and six don’t say. Two more designers show a monthly plan for five pages, which isn’t in the 11.

What this audit doesn’t show

• What anyone paid. These are advertised prices. A final quote can be higher or lower.
• What the other 59 charge. Designers who don’t publish a price could charge more, less or the same.
• A random sample. We found designers through search and directories. Designers with little online presence may be missing. CatalystHub isn’t in the 94.
• Like-for-like packages. One lowest price buys a single page on a template, another a 10-page site. Some include hosting or a domain, and others don’t.
• One GST basis. A price “plus GST” and one “including GST” sit side by side, unadjusted.
• Big samples. Each area has between 2 and 15 designers, so one designer can move a town’s rate a long way.
• Today’s prices. The counts are a single day’s reading, 10 October 2026, and the prices were re-checked once, on 3 November 2026.
• All of WA. It covers nine areas outside central Perth. For Perth itself, see our separate Perth web design prices guide, where 32 of 97 Perth designers showed a price.

We build websites too, and we offer them across WA. We read these sites while writing our own town pages, and that’s why we haven’t named any of the designers.

How to cite this audit

Suggested citation:

CatalystHub, “What WA web designers publish as their prices: an audit of 94 websites (October 2026)”. Websites read 10 October 2026, published 22 October 2026, prices re-checked 3 November 2026. https://catalysthub.com.au/guides/wa-web-design-price-audit-2026/

Short form: “An October 2026 CatalystHub audit of 94 web designers in nine WA areas outside central Perth found 35 published a website price on their own site.”

Download the data (CSV, the town counts above). Questions about the method? Call Vish on (08) 6288 0080.

How CatalystHub prices

We publish ours. All the fixed prices include GST.

CatalystHub build	Price
Custom 5-page website (Standard build), with the words written for you	$500 flat
Advanced Design: the Standard build with an animated or 3D design treatment	From $700
About 9 pages	Around $900, as a custom quote
Specialist build, up to 15 pages	From $1,500
Custom Shopify theme	From $700, plus Shopify’s own monthly fee
Larger or custom builds	A custom quote, and we do those too

Every build comes with unlimited revisions, and nothing goes live until you’re 100% happy. You own everything: the code, the domain and the hosting. On the Standard, Advanced and Specialist builds, hosting is free on your own account, and a care plan (hosting, daily backups and security updates) is optional from $49 a month. The Standard build is $500 wherever you are in WA and goes live in seven business days.

In this audit, the middle published price for about five pages was $2,000 on 3 November 2026. Our Standard build is five custom pages for $500 flat, with the words written for you. At least seven of the 33 lowest prices in this audit buy a single page, and packages differ, so compare what’s included, not just the number. See every package on our pricing page, or start your project.

Frequently asked questions

How many WA web designers publish their prices? In our audit of 94 web designers in and around nine WA towns and suburbs outside central Perth, read on 10 October 2026, 35 (37%) show a price for a new website on their own site.

What is the typical lowest advertised website price outside central Perth? Two of the 35 have a monthly plan with no upfront fee as their cheapest option. Leave those two out and 33 remain. On 10 October 2026, their lowest advertised prices ran from $399 to $4,810, and the median was $1,997. The middle 17 ran from $1,499 to $2,499, and most of these were starting prices.

What does a website of about five pages cost outside central Perth? On 3 November 2026, 11 of the designers we re-read showed a one-off price for a package of 4 to 6 pages. The prices ran from $499.99 to $3,750, and the median was $2,000. Six of the 11 are in Bunbury.

Can I quote these figures? Yes. Please give the date the websites were read (10 October 2026) and link to this page. For the five-page price, give the re-check date (3 November 2026).