Website Redesign Vendor Scorecard: Compare Agencies and Platforms

Use this website redesign vendor scorecard to compare design quality, ease of editing, business features and the experience after launch. Record how each option supports the work your business needs, including who will make future changes.

Start with your must-have requirements. Then record what you have confirmed, what is partial and what is still unknown.

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Area	Question to answer	Option A	Option B	Notes or evidence
Design	Can we achieve the brand and layout we want?
Content	Can we create, import and update the required pages?
Working features	Can visitors complete our actual booking, purchase or account journey?
Existing information	How do our files and current business tools fit?
Review	Can we share and test changes before publication?
URL changes	How are retained pages and redirects handled?
Ongoing editing	Who makes changes after launch, and how?
Support	What help is available under the arrangement?
Costs	What is included, recurring or separately purchased?
Ownership and access	Who controls the website, accounts and business information?

Use confirmed, partial, not available or unknown. Add a note explaining each answer instead of hiding important differences in a single average score.

Test a real journey

Choose a representative task from your business:

A customer chooses a location, books the right service, receives confirmation and appears in the team’s booking view.

Ask how that whole journey works. A homepage screenshot cannot show whether the complete flow meets your needs.

For a content-focused site, try a different task: find a relevant resource, open it on a phone and understand how the team will update it later.

Compare an agency and a platform fairly

An agency service and a software subscription assign work differently. Record who handles content decisions, design refinement, imports, publication and ongoing updates.

Revamp is built for business owners, founders and professionals who want a professional website and direct control without technical work. Create the design, refine it by chatting or editing visually, and add bookings, payments or customer areas in the same project. Agencies can use that workflow to deliver and maintain client websites.

Compare the owner workflow with the agency workspace based on how much work you want to do yourself.

Review the existing website before choosing the migration path

List useful pages, important links and customer journeys that need to remain reachable. Ask each option how it handles them.

The content inventory template gives you a concrete record. Avoid treating “SEO-friendly” as a complete explanation of what will happen to existing URLs and content.

Look at the ongoing experience

Ask for the process of changing a service, adding a page or introducing a new business feature after launch.

For Revamp, that means continuing in the same project, preparing changes in preview and publishing when ready. SEO analysis and visitor analytics are available inside Revamp on the relevant plans; customer operations live in the customer’s website.

Compare the full arrangement

Separate initial service fees, platform subscriptions and connected-service costs. Check which updates and support are included.

Do not assume the cheapest headline price covers the same work. Equally, a higher price is not proof that an option meets a missing requirement.

Frequently asked questions

Should every criterion have the same importance?

No. Mark essential requirements separately. An option missing a necessary business flow should not win because it scores well on unrelated extras.

Do I need proof for every small feature?

Focus review effort on the important decisions and uncertain workflows. Keep routine confirmed facts simple.

Can I use this before writing a full brief?

Yes, but define the main audience, required actions and essential content first. The requirements checklist helps.

Is this a ranking of vendors?

No. It is a worksheet for your own requirements, not a claim that one provider is best for every project.