Websites for Chester and Cheshire West businesses that look as good as the city and work hard for every enquiry. Designed, built and looked after by two experienced specialists. £1,000 to start, then from £200 a month for 12 months, and then the website is yours.
The ONS doesn’t publish business counts for Chester on its own, so these figures cover the whole Cheshire West and Chester borough, which also takes in Ellesmere Port, Northwich and Winsford. According to the ONS UK Business Counts for 2026, the borough has 13,845 VAT or PAYE registered businesses, and 88.4% of them employ fewer than ten people.
What stands out is the professional sector. Professional, scientific and technical firms make up 19.7% of the borough’s businesses (2,725), a bigger share than in Manchester (18.1%) or Liverpool (15.8%). Construction follows with 1,560 businesses, then business support services and leisure. Agriculture, forestry and fishing accounts for 890 businesses, or 6.4%, a reminder of how rural much of the borough is.
For consultants, solicitors, accountants and specialist firms, the website often does the first part of the selling. It needs to look credible. Explain clearly. And make booking a conversation easy.
We’re a Manchester web design team based in Whitefield, and we work with Chester businesses over video call. Design, development and marketing under one roof, at a sensible price.
Chester Northgate’s first phase cost £70m and opened in late 2022. It brought an indoor market with about 30 traders, which Invest Chester says has served over 6 million customers since opening, along with a six-screen cinema, an 800-space car park and 10,000 sq ft of offices. Phase 2 will add more than 400 homes, with a development partner confirmed in 2025. More people living in and visiting the centre. More people searching for somewhere to eat, shop and book.
These are Chester searches in sectors we work with, from Ahrefs’ UK data in October 2026.
Ahrefs shows volume bands rather than exact counts, plus its own rating of how hard each search is to rank for.
| Search | Searches a month | How hard to rank |
|---|---|---|
| restaurants chester | 1,000+ | Medium |
| wedding venues chester | 100+ | Easy |
| plumber chester | 100+ | Easy |
| electrician chester | 100+ | Medium |
| accountants chester | 100+ | Hard |
| estate agents chester | 100+ | Hard |
| web design chester | 100+ | Hard |
Chester is a visitor city, and the searches show it. “Restaurants chester” is searched more than 1,000 times a month. Chester draws visitors as well as locals, and someone searching this way usually hasn’t decided where to go yet. A restaurant’s own website is often where they make up their mind. Restaurant websites
Wedding venues are a clear opening. “Wedding venues chester” gets more than 100 searches a month and is rated Easy, which makes it one of the best opportunities in the table. Couples compare venues closely, so galleries, clear packages and an easy enquiry form make the difference. Event and venue websites
Professional services are the hardest. “Accountants chester” and “estate agents chester” are both rated Hard. That fits a borough where nearly one business in five is a professional firm. With that much competition, the quality of your website, how quickly it loads and how easily people can get in touch all count for more. Websites for accountants · Estate agent websites
Plumbers have an easier run. “Plumber chester” is rated Easy. A fast trade website with a page for each service and area has a fair shot.
In October 2026 we looked at the search results for “web design chester”, then checked the websites of Chester restaurants, beauty salons and solicitors that showed up in local searches. The samples are small, so treat these as “of the sites we checked”, not a judgement on the whole city.
Chester has real local web designers. Unlike some cities we looked at, most of page one for “web design chester” was genuinely local: small studios and freelancers based in or near the city, plus a couple of location pages from agencies elsewhere. If you want a web designer you can drop in on, Chester has them. What we offer is different. A monthly price that ends. A website you own after a year. Your website, yours to keep.
For “beauty salon chester uk”, 3 of the top 9 results were Facebook pages rather than websites, and booking platforms took 3 more. Of the two salon websites we checked, one had no tap-to-call link and no main heading, and neither had local business structured data. A salon with a fast website of its own can stand out here.
All four were secure, with tap-to-call and contact forms, and 3 of the 4 had structured data. This sector is mature online and led by long-established firms, so a new website needs to be properly good to compete.
What it means for you. In Chester, the gap isn’t between good and bad web designers. It’s between businesses that keep their websites looked after and those that don’t. A dead link, an old copyright date or a missing phone button quietly sends customers elsewhere. Our plan includes hosting, care and changes, so your website doesn’t drift.
For businesses who know what they want to say.
From £200a month for 12 months, after £1,000 to start
For businesses who’d rather spend their time running the business.
+£900from, one-off, on top of the plan
You can also pay £3,000 in full, half to start and half at launch, saving £400, with the first year of hosting and care included. There’s no VAT on top, because we’re not VAT registered.
Once the first year is up, the website is yours. Stay with us for hosting and care at £49 a month, or take it wherever you like, free. If you’d rather we handled the move, it’s a one-off £250. Most websites go live 3 to 4 weeks after you sign off the homepage design, once your content is with us.
Wrapd is a specialist business where customers compare options carefully before they get in touch, much like a Chester venue or professional firm. We rebuilt their website around making that enquiry easy. Their conversion rate doubled, their cost per enquiry halved, and they had 338 more leads than in the same period the year before.
“If you’re looking for a professional and approachable team that’s dedicated to helping you succeed, I highly recommend The Marketing Guys. They’ve been a great support throughout the process!”
The wider borough: Ellesmere Port (CH65, CH66), Neston (CH64), Frodsham (WA6), Northwich (CW8, CW9), Winsford (CW7) and Tarporley
Just over the Welsh border: Saltney and Broughton in Flintshire
More Cheshire towns are on our North West page.
Anything else, just ask. You’ll get a straight answer from one of us.
No. We’re based in Whitefield, Manchester, and work with Chester businesses over video call. A 20-minute call to start. Your homepage design on screen. Changes by email or WhatsApp whenever you need them.
Yes. The whole of Cheshire West and Chester is covered, and the business figures on this page are for the full borough. If your customers come from several towns, we’ll give each one its own page so you’re found in all of them.
Yes. Being just over the border in Flintshire makes no difference to how we work. Your customers may well search for Chester rather than your village, so we’ll make sure your website speaks to both sides of the border.
Make it easy to picture the day and easy to ask about a date. “Wedding venues chester” gets more than 100 searches a month and Ahrefs rates it Easy, so a strong venue website has a real chance of being found. We’d plan galleries, clear packages and a short enquiry form. See our event and venue websites
Yes. Setting up or tidying your Google Business Profile is part of the done-for-you option, and every website we build includes the local business details Google uses, which most of the Chester restaurant and salon sites we checked were missing. For ongoing work on the map results, we offer local SEO from £250 a month.
No hard sell. Just an honest conversation about your current website, what we’d change and why. All over the phone or video, with a clear price at the end.
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