Slow On A Real Phone
Page builders and stacked plugins produce sites that crawl on mobile data.
Most visitors leave before the hero image has even finished loading.
A modern site has two audiences: the customer reading it and the AI deciding whether to recommend you. We build fast, accessible sites that convert the first and are fully legible to the second.
Google found 53% of mobile visits are abandoned when a page takes longer than three seconds to load, and every one of those visitors was paid for. A website has to perform at 2am on a mid-range phone on mobile data, because that is where much of today's traffic arrives.
Orka Digital has designed and built websites for Australian businesses since 2009, working in WordPress, Laravel, CodeIgniter and modern JavaScript frameworks, for clients from NDIS and care providers through to online stores and national brands.
Illustrative trajectory from legacy template to a purpose-built site across a typical design and build engagement.
Load target
Under 2s
On 4G mobile
Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 AA
Tested, not assumed
Structured data
Built in
Entity and FAQ schema
Ownership
Yours
No proprietary lock-in
A site can look perfectly professional and still cost you customers every day. These are the three reasons we see most.
Page builders and stacked plugins produce sites that crawl on mobile data.
Most visitors leave before the hero image has even finished loading.
Content trapped in sliders and images, with no structured data, gives machines nothing to read.
Your site cannot be quoted by an assistant that cannot parse it.
Low contrast, unlabelled forms and keyboard traps exclude a meaningful share of your audience.
It is both lost revenue and a growing compliance exposure.
Strategy, design, engineering and structured data delivered as one project, not four handovers.
01/04
Page structure mapped to how your buyers actually make decisions.
What's included
Site performance model
+48% / 12 moIndicative model for a structured engagement in a moderately competitive market. Actual results depend on your starting position, budget and sector — we forecast against your own data before any work begins.
Three decisions we make on every project that most agencies quietly skip.
Core Web Vitals targets are written into the brief and tested before launch, so speed is a deliverable rather than something we hope for afterwards.
Learn moreYou get standard WordPress or Next.js, clean code and full repository access. Any competent developer can take it over, which keeps us accountable.
Learn moreStructured data, semantic HTML and extractable content are part of the build, so the site is ready to be cited by answer engines the day it launches.
Learn moreDecisions are made before anything is designed, and nothing launches that has not been tested on a real device.
We review your current site analytics, conversion paths, technical health and the questions your sales team answers most often.
We assess how competitors structure their journeys and where a clearer path to enquiry would give you an advantage.
Sitemap, wireframes and a full design system, signed off before a single template is built.
Hand-coded templates, structured data, accessibility testing and performance tuning on real devices.
Migration with redirects mapped, then post-launch monitoring of speed, rankings and conversion for the first ninety days.
A rebuild should pay for itself in enquiries. These are the metrics we hold ourselves to after go-live.
Core Web Vitals from real visitors in the Chrome UX Report, not just lab tests.
Visitors who enquire, book or buy, tracked in GA4 from launch day.
Mobile visitors who leave without engaging, compared against desktop.
Impressions and clicks in Google Search Console for the pages we built.
A selection of the businesses we have supported with web design, development and digital marketing. Open any project to see what we delivered.
Web design, development & marketing
A custom website and NDIS marketing for a registered provider.
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Web design & development
A custom-built website for an Australian care provider.
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eCommerce design & development
An online store for an Australian-made hygiene brand.
Read case studyBuild projects are quoted on scope after a discovery call, with a fixed price and timeline before any work starts. Call 1300 189 687 or email info@orkadigitals.com.au.
A focused site for established small businesses.
The full build for growing organisations.
For complex, multi-market platforms.
Feedback from clients who needed a website to generate enquiries, not just look current.
“Highly professional and creative team. Anna and Robert are a delight to work with, extremely friendly and patient. They did an exceptional job for us. Thanks guys!”
Rustam Sandhu
Ivisapoint
“Excellent work quality and hard working team. Very happy with their service and fast delivery of the products.”
Abdur Rahman
Techno Point
“Looking forward to working again with this dynamic and hard working team.”
Ashraf
ECO Care Group
Trusted by Australian brands since 2009
Foodworks · IGA · Pizza Hut · Hills · SMG Group · Beyond Care Australia · Eco Care Group
Foodworks & IGA
National grocery groups
Pizza Hut
Hospitality brands
Beyond Care & Embrace Ability
NDIS & care providers
What clients ask us most before commissioning a website build.
Our experts are ready to audit your online presence and guide your path forward.
Get in TouchAn Essential site usually runs four to six weeks. A Professional build is typically eight to twelve weeks, and Enterprise projects three to five months. The single biggest variable is content: projects that stall almost always stall waiting on copy and images.
It means the site is built so machines can read it as easily as people can. Semantic HTML, complete schema markup, content in text rather than baked into images, and self-contained passages an assistant can quote. It is the structural groundwork that makes AI search visibility possible later.
Usually WordPress with hand-built templates, because it gives your team straightforward editing without the bloat of a page builder. For content-heavy or application-like projects we build in Next.js. We will recommend based on who maintains the site, not on what we prefer.
Not if the migration is done properly. We map every existing URL to its new destination, preserve content that is already ranking, keep redirects permanent, and monitor Search Console daily for the first month after launch.
Yes, and that is a design goal rather than an afterthought. You get a component library in the editor, a written handover guide and a walkthrough session with your team. No part of the site requires us to make a change.
We offer both, but neither is compulsory. You own the code and can host anywhere. Our care plans cover updates, security monitoring, backups and a monthly allowance of content changes.
Book a free website review. We will audit your current site for speed, accessibility, conversion and AI readability, and show you what a rebuild would realistically change.
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