Which web design agencies should a clinic shortlist?
Start with the four highest scores on our rubric; tap a card for the full entry.
- #162/100Digital SilkBest for a clinic group or health brand that wants a custom site from a design firm with named health results it labels client-verifiedRead the entry →
- #256/100Cardinal Digital MarketingBest for a multi-location group that wants its website built by the same healthcare-only team that runs its adsRead the entry →
- #350/100WebFXBest for a practice that wants published prices and a very large review base, and can live with a generalistRead the entry →
- #449/100SagapixelBest for a med spa, home care or telehealth practice that wants a team that has written down how HIPAA applies to a websiteRead the entry →
How do the thirteen web design agencies compare?
Digital Silk leads with 62 of 100, and the table shows every grade, with PELORA’s row shaded.
| # | Agency and base | Scoreof 100 | Best for | Starting priceas published | Nicheof 25 | Complianceof 20 | Resultsof 20 | Reviewsof 15 | Priceof 10 | Designof 10 | Speed (lab) | Read on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Digital SilkNew York, NY | 62 | Clinic groups and health brands | Not on its site; Clutch minimum $10,000+ | 12 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 2.8 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 2 | Cardinal Digital MarketingChamblee, GA | 56 | Multi-location groups | Not published; Clutch minimum $5,000+ | 23 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 21.1 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 3 | WebFXHarrisburg, PA | 50 | Practices that want published prices | No build price; paid search from $650 a month | 12 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 3.4 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 4 | SagapixelCherry Hill, NJ | 49 | Med spa, home care and telehealth practices | No prices published | 18 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3.3 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 5 | GeonetricCedar Rapids, IA | 46 | Hospitals and health systems | Not published | 25 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3.6 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 6 | Etna InteractiveSan Luis Obispo, CA | 42 | Plastic surgery and aesthetic practices | Not published | 22 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 3.1 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 7 | Rosemont MediaSan Diego, CA | 41 | Plastic surgery and dental practices | Not on its site; Clutch minimum $5,000+ | 22 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 21.2 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 8 | Healthcare SuccessIrvine, CA | 39 | Healthcare organizations | Not on its site; Clutch minimum $25,000+ | 24 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2.8 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 9 | Lounge LizardNew York, NY | 35 | Health brands wanting a design-led build | Not on its site; Clutch minimum $10,000+ | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 0.8 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 10 | PrimacyWest Palm Beach, FL | 35 | Large health systems | Not on its site; Clutch minimum $25,000+ | 12 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1.8 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 11 | MyAdviceLehi, UT | 28 | Aesthetic, medical and dental practices | Not published | 18 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5.8 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 12 | Big Drop IncNew York, NY | 27 | Large health organizations | Not on its site; Clutch minimum $50,000+ | 6 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1.6 s | Oct 10 / 11 |
| 13 | PELORA Marketing This is usNewport Beach, CA | 22 | Clinics wanting the site and ads from one team | Published on our web design page | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 7.1 s | Oct 11 |
Points per criterion out of its weight. Speed: largest content painted on our throttled phone test, 11 Oct, not scored. The shaded row is PELORA, scored by PELORA with the same rubric. Tap a column heading to sort; tap it again to reverse.
What does a clinic website have to get right?
Speed on a phone, accessibility, and how forms and tracking handle patient data.
- SpeedLargest content within 2.5 seconds, interactions within 200 milliseconds, layout shift 0.1 or less, at the 75th percentile of page loads.Google Core Web Vitals, read 11 Oct 2026
- AccessibilityThe DOJ applies the ADA to the websites of businesses open to the public, without a detailed technical standard for them.DOJ web accessibility guidance (March 18, 2022), read 11 Oct 2026
- Public hospitalsState and local government entities must meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA, from April 26, 2027 or April 26, 2028 depending on size.DOJ Title II rule page, read 11 Oct 2026
- Patient dataForms, chat and tags can carry health information; ask which form tool an agency uses and what its tags send.HHS’s tracking bulletin denied our reader on 11 Oct 2026, so we quote none of it
- RemarketingGoogle lists Health as a sensitive interest category, which limits remarketing to site visitors.Google personalized advertising policy, read 11 Oct 2026
Read the sources word for word, with links and read dates
A clinic website is not regulated like an ad, but three sets of rules decide whether it works and whether it creates risk. We read each source quoted here on 11 October 2026.
Speed on a phone. Google’s Core Web Vitals set the bar: “LCP should occur within 2.5 seconds of when the page first starts loading”, “pages should have a INP of 200 milliseconds or less”, and “pages should maintain a CLS of 0.1. or less”, measured at “the 75th percentile of page loads”. Most clinic traffic is on phones, and ads send it to the slowest page you own. That is why we measured every agency’s own homepage below.
Accessibility. The Department of Justice’s web accessibility guidance (dated March 18, 2022) says “The ADA requires that businesses open to the public provide full and equal enjoyment of their goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations to people with disabilities”, and that “The Department of Justice does not have a regulation setting out detailed standards, but the Department’s longstanding interpretation of the general nondiscrimination and effective communication provisions applies to web accessibility.” For state and local government entities, which includes public hospitals, the Title II rule picked WCAG 2.1 Level AA, and an interim final rule published April 20, 2026 moved the compliance dates to April 26, 2027 for entities serving 50,000 or more people and April 26, 2028 for smaller ones. An agency should name the WCAG level it builds to.
Patient data on forms and in tracking. Booking forms, chat and analytics tags can carry health information. The HHS bulletin on online tracking technologies is the usual reference, but its page returned “Access Denied” to our reader on 11 October 2026, so we quote none of it here; read it yourself or ask your counsel. Google’s personalized advertising policy also lists Health among its sensitive interest categories, which limits how a clinic can remarket to site visitors. Ask any agency which form tool it uses, whether that vendor signs a business associate agreement, and what its tags send to ad platforms.
Do healthcare web design agencies publish their compliance practice?
None of the thirteen states both a WCAG level and a business associate agreement practice on the pages we read. The best published compliance evidence comes from Geonetric (a managed filter for analytics and ad tags) and Sagapixel (a detailed HIPAA website guide that stops short of saying what Sagapixel itself signs). One agency, Rosemont Media, publishes a contact form notice that its messages “are not encrypted”. One publishes a website price on its own site, PELORA; WebFX publishes prices for its other services and a market survey for web design. And on our phone test, 3 of 13 agency homepages painted their main content within 2.5 seconds; PELORA’s came 11 of 13, fastest first, at 7.1 seconds, which we report because we measured ourselves the same way.
Three charts: swipe sideways to see each one.
Source: the scorecard above; agency sites read 10 Oct 2026, Clutch re-read 11 Oct 2026. PELORA in purple. Download this chart (PNG).
Source: the Compliance points on this page; a WCAG level, a BAA practice or managed form and tracking tooling scores highest. Pages read 10 Oct 2026. Download this chart (PNG).
How fast are the agencies' own homepages?
On our throttled phone test, 3 of 13 agency homepages painted their main content within 2.5 seconds; PELORA’s came 11 of 13, at 7.1 seconds.
A web design agency’s homepage is the one site it fully controls, so we loaded each one on a throttled phone profile. This is a lab test, not Google’s field data, and it is not scored; it is here so you can see how each firm builds for itself.
Source: our lab test, 11 Oct 2026: headless Chromium at 390 by 844, 4x CPU slowdown, 1.6 Mbps and 150 ms latency, median of three runs. Lower is better; compare the agencies with each other, not with Google’s field data. Download this chart (PNG).
How did we choose and score these agencies?
We read each agency’s own site on 10 October 2026, re-read Clutch and measured every homepage on 11 October, and scored all thirteen on six criteria worth 100 points in all.
What each score means, and how ties are broken
Six criteria, scored in points up to each weight, summed to 100.
| Criterion | Up to | Full points | Zero |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niche: healthcare specialization | 25 | Healthcare only | No health work (a named health practice with health clients sits in between; a few health logos score low) |
| Compliance: health know-how, published | 20 | Specific: a WCAG level, a BAA practice, HIPAA-safe forms or tracking, managed tooling | Nothing (a generic “HIPAA and ADA compliant” claim scores low; a published “forms are not encrypted” notice counts against) |
| Results: published, on health clients | 20 | Named health client with a number | None (anonymized numbers, then names without numbers, score in between) |
| Reviews: independent | 15 | A high Clutch rating on a large base | 0 reviews (self-displayed counts with no named platform get partial credit) |
| Price: transparency | 10 | A public price or range on its own site | Nothing (a Clutch minimum scores 4; prices for other services but none for a build score 6) |
| Design: recognition | 10 | Design awards (per agency) and portfolio breadth | None |
Ties go to the agency with the larger review score; if that ties too, PELORA sits below.
How we built this list, in full, with the read log
We started from the agencies named on the six competing lists we read (Intrepy appears on five of them; it was not on our research shortlist for design, and it is scored on our Google Ads list), kept firms whose own sites show health web design work, and read each one’s homepage and its healthcare, compliance or case-study pages on 10 October 2026 (Pacific). One was cut: Huemor, which publishes a $50,000 to $100,000 typical project range but shows no healthcare clients or industry page. On 11 October we re-read every Clutch profile and measured every agency’s own homepage, PELORA’s included, with the same lab test. Agencies we did not shortlist were not read; their absence is not a judgment.
Every result is the agency’s own claim, labeled “per agency”. The speed column is not scored: it is our own measurement, shown so you can see how each firm builds its own site.
Read log and test method
- 10 October 2026 (Pacific): each agency’s homepage plus the pages named in its card’s sources.
- 11 October 2026: all thirteen Clutch profiles re-read; Google’s Core Web Vitals article, the DOJ’s web guidance and Title II rule page read; the HHS tracking bulletin attempted (access denied).
- Speed test, 11 October 2026: each homepage loaded three times in headless Chromium at 390 by 844 pixels with a 4x CPU slowdown, 1.6 Mbps download, 750 kbps upload and 150 ms added latency, cache disabled; we recorded the largest contentful paint, cumulative layout shift and bytes transferred, and took the median. The accessibility checks are four quick DOM checks (page language, image alt attributes, pinch zoom, form labels), not a full audit. Results depend on the test machine and the day.
What does each agency do well, and where may it not fit?
Each entry shows the rank, who it suits, the grades and a one-line verdict; open it for pricing, what we verified, where it may not fit and our sources.
1. Digital Silk · New York, NY (Clutch); Miami, FL (site footer)
Best for a clinic group or health brand that wants a custom site from a design firm with named health results it labels client-verified
Price Not on its site; Clutch minimum $10,000+Highest grade: reviews 14/15. Lowest grade: price transparency 4/10.
Compliance published: Says its sites are “ADA-compliant” and that QA validates “HIPAA and ADA guidelines”. No WCAG level and no business associate agreement statement on the pages we read.
Health results: Per agency, labeled “client-verified” on its own page: OrthoEast +138.1% organic clicks; ABC Senior Services +118% sessions; Laser By Aleya +70% organic sessions; iS Clinical Education +940% course starts. Other health work: MD Total Wellness, TRC Healthcare, IVE Mental Health.
Pricing: Not on its site. Clutch lists a $10,000+ minimum and $100 to $149 an hour. Build time, per agency: 2 to 4 months for a basic site, 6 to 12 for a complex one.
What we verified: Founded in 2015 (Clutch). Its site footer gives a Miami, FL address and Clutch gives New York; offices also in Chicago and San Diego. Award, per agency: Forbes “Best Digital Agency of 2025”.
Independent reviews: 4.9 from 51 reviews.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 2.8 s, layout shift 0.00, 1.3 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 0 of 138 images with no alt attribute, 2 of 32 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: Its compliance language is generic: ask for the WCAG level it tests to and how booking forms handle patient data.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: healthcare web design page, Clutch.
2. Cardinal Digital Marketing · Chamblee, GA (Atlanta area)
Best for a multi-location group that wants its website built by the same healthcare-only team that runs its ads
Price Not published; Clutch minimum $5,000+Highest grade: health focus 23/25. Lowest grade: design recognition 0/10.
Compliance published: A “HIPAA-compliant digital marketing strategy” and help building a “HIPAA-compliant tech stack”, without specifics; nothing on accessibility.
Health results: Per agency: ATI physical therapy +77% conversion rate; Peak Dental, a dental group, +116% lead volume; an unnamed 400+ location veterinary network +54% leads year over year.
Pricing: Not published. Clutch lists a $5,000+ minimum and $100 to $149 an hour.
What we verified: Founded in 2009 (Clutch). Now Power Digital’s healthcare division, announced January 2026 (Business Wire).
Independent reviews: 5.0 from 4 reviews.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 21.1 s, layout shift 0.10, 7.4 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 0 of 31 images with no alt attribute, 0 of 9 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: Web design is part of a growth program rather than its headline; check the measured line above before you judge its build quality.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: homepage, Clutch.
3. WebFX · Harrisburg, PA
Best for a practice that wants published prices and a very large review base, and can live with a generalist
Price No build price; paid search from $650 a monthHighest grade: reviews 15/15. Lowest grade: published compliance 4/20.
Compliance published: Mentions compliant campaigns and “HIPAA-compliant email marketing”; no BAA or accessibility statement found.
Health results: Per agency, mostly anonymized: an addiction rehab +175% SEO leads year over year; a dermatology practice +183% paid search revenue; an orthopedic practice +150% SEO traffic. Named: Merrimack Valley Psychological Associates (a testimonial).
Pricing: Published on its own site: SEO from $3,000 a month and paid search from $650 a month. Its web design cost guide gives a $1,000 to $30,000+ range from a survey of 250 marketers; that is a market survey, not WebFX’s quote. This list scores the price of a website, so service prices without a build price score 6 of 10: above a Clutch minimum (4), below a published build price (10).
What we verified: Founded in 1995 (Clutch). “230+” healthcare-focused staff, per agency; its own RevenueCloudFX platform.
Independent reviews: 4.9 from 450 reviews, the largest base on this list.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 3.4 s, layout shift 0.01, 3.8 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 0 of 111 images with no alt attribute, 6 of 27 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: No published BAA or accessibility commitment, and no published price for a website build itself.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: healthcare page, web design pricing guide, Clutch.
4. Sagapixel · Cherry Hill, NJ
Best for a med spa, home care or telehealth practice that wants a team that has written down how HIPAA applies to a website
Price No prices publishedHighest grade: health focus 18/25. Lowest grade: reviews 0/15.
Compliance published: The most detailed published guide on this list: founder Frank Olivo’s “HIPAA Compliant Website Design” covers BAAs with every vendor that touches patient data, TLS 1.2 or higher, HIPAA hosting, BAA-covered form tools, fixing Google Analytics and Meta Pixel leakage, and audit logging. It does not say Sagapixel itself signs BAAs or uses those tools, and has no WCAG statement.
Health results: Per agency: Nurse Next Door #1 for “caregiver” searches in Texas; a Visiting Angels franchise ranking turnaround; a telemedicine site from 150 to 34,000 monthly visitors in six months; a weight loss clinic in position 1 for a drug name plus its city.
Pricing: No prices; its contact form offers monthly budget bands from under $1,000 to $15,000+.
What we verified: Founded in 2015 (Clutch). Google’s Partners directory, read 11 October 2026, lists it as a 2026 Premier Partner, which matters for its ads work rather than its design.
Independent reviews: 0 reviews.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (1 valid run of 3; the others returned a near-empty page, likely a bot check): largest content painted at 3.3 s, layout shift 0.01, 2.8 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 6 of 30 images with no alt attribute, 3 of 7 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: No independent reviews, and the guide describes what a compliant site needs rather than what Sagapixel contracts to do.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Google Partners directory read 11 October 2026. Sources: HIPAA website guide, Clutch, Google Partners entry.
5. Geonetric · Cedar Rapids, IA
Best for a hospital or health system that needs a health-specific CMS and a managed way to keep analytics without leaking patient data
Price Not publishedHighest grade: health focus 25/25. Lowest grade: reviews 0/15, price transparency 0/10.
Compliance published: A managed Privacy Filter that strips or anonymizes high-risk data so health organizations can keep GA4, Google Ads and Meta Ads tracking “without violating HIPAA”, per agency. The most concrete tracking safeguard on this list; no accessibility claim found.
Health results: Case studies for University Health, FirstHealth of the Carolinas and St. Bernards Healthcare, with no figures on the pages we read.
Pricing: Not published.
What we verified: Founded in 1999 (Clutch). Its own CMS (VitalSite), Optimizely One work and a Formulate form builder. Clients, per agency: UHS, Adventist, St. Bernards, Hartford HealthCare and Bryan Health.
Independent reviews: 0 reviews.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 3.6 s, layout shift 0.00, 0.9 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 3 of 44 images with no alt attribute, 0 of 9 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: Built for hospitals and systems; a single clinic is not its customer, and it publishes no results or price.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: homepage, Privacy Filter, Clutch.
6. Etna Interactive · San Luis Obispo, CA (fully remote)
Best for a plastic surgery or aesthetic practice that wants a specialist site and marketing team with a long track record
Price Not publishedHighest grade: health focus 22/25. Lowest grade: price transparency 0/10.
Compliance published: Nothing on HIPAA or accessibility on the pages we read.
Health results: “10:1 average ROI for first year, based on audited lead data”, per agency, method not stated. Named clients without figures: Dr. Mark and Mary Jewell, Camp Plastic Surgery, Quatela Center, White Orchid Spa.
Pricing: Not published.
What we verified: Founded in 2002 (Clutch). It shows 4.63 from 72 reviews without naming the platform, which this rubric gives partial credit. Its homepage text and one badge say Premier Partner; Google’s directory listed it as a Google Partner on 11 October 2026 (a second badge on the page says Partner); see our Google Ads list.
Independent reviews: 0 reviews on Clutch.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 3.1 s, layout shift 0.10, 1.8 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 1 of 55 images with no alt attribute, 5 of 11 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: Silent on patient data and accessibility, which matters on a consultation form.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: homepage, Clutch.
7. Rosemont Media · San Diego, CA
Best for a plastic surgery or dental practice that wants a custom, non-template site and an accessibility service
Price Not on its site; Clutch minimum $5,000+Highest grade: health focus 22/25. Lowest grade: published health results 2/20.
Compliance published: Lists Website Accessibility Services and an accessibility statement, with no WCAG level. Its own contact form says communications “are not encrypted and are not necessarily secure”, which counts against it on a list for clinics.
Health results: Named clients without figures: Dauwe Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery Reno Tahoe, Scottsdale Smile Center, Boynton Plastic Surgery.
Pricing: Not on its site. Clutch lists a $5,000+ minimum and $100 to $149 an hour.
What we verified: Founded in 2008 (Clutch). Shows “5.0 stars from 132 reviews” without naming the platform (partial credit).
Independent reviews: 0 reviews on Clutch.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 21.2 s, layout shift 0.00, 5.5 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 0 of 68 images with no alt attribute, 0 of 12 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: Its own form disclaimer is the opposite of what a patient form needs.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: homepage, Clutch.
8. Healthcare Success · Irvine, CA
Best for a healthcare organization that wants its site inside a healthcare-only marketing program with HIPAA-protected call tracking
Price Not on its site; Clutch minimum $25,000+Highest grade: health focus 24/25. Lowest grade: reviews 0/15, design recognition 0/10.
Compliance published: A “HIPAA-protected call tracking platform”; an accessibility statement is linked from its site (we did not read its contents).
Health results: Named clients without figures on its homepage: Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, Pomona Valley Health Centers, Feldman Orthodontics, Illinois Dermatology Institute, SynergenX.
Pricing: Not on its site. Clutch lists a $25,000+ minimum and $150 to $199 an hour.
What we verified: Founded in 2006 (site and Clutch). “40+” staff, per agency.
Independent reviews: 0 reviews.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 2.8 s, layout shift 0.01, 2.0 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 0 of 37 images with no alt attribute, 1 of 13 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: No published design results or reviews, at a $25,000+ minimum.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: homepage, Clutch.
9. Lounge Lizard · New York, NY
Best for a health brand that wants a design-led custom build and values awards and reviews over health specialism
Price Not on its site; Clutch minimum $10,000+Highest grade: reviews 13/15. Lowest grade: published health results 2/20.
Compliance published: Accessibility checked in QA, per agency, with no WCAG level; nothing on HIPAA.
Health results: Health results not found. Non-health, per agency: viLogics +200% sales leads; Pimberly +67% clicks. Its Healthcare and Life Sciences page returned an error when we read it; the closest health work shown is ImagineSoftware, a medical billing software firm.
Pricing: Not on its site. Clutch lists a $10,000+ minimum.
What we verified: Founded in 1998 (site and Clutch). Awards, per agency: Davey, W3, an Awwwards Honorable Mention and UpCity National Excellence 2025.
Independent reviews: 4.8 from 43 reviews.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 0.8 s, layout shift 0.02, 0.5 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 0 of 75 images with no alt attribute, 0 of 27 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: Little health work to judge it on. Tied with Primacy at 35 and placed above it on reviews.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: homepage, Clutch.
10. Primacy · West Palm Beach, FL
Best for a large health system that wants a digital experience firm with big health logos
Price Not on its site; Clutch minimum $25,000+Highest grade: published health results 12/20. Lowest grade: published compliance 0/20.
Compliance published: Nothing on HIPAA or accessibility on the pages we read.
Health results: Per agency: a Catholic Health redesign, +62% leads. Logos include Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, UChicago Medicine, Phoenix Children’s and SCAN.
Pricing: Not on its site. Clutch lists a $25,000+ minimum and $150 to $199 an hour.
What we verified: Founded in 1994 (Clutch); offices in Hartford, CT, Florida and Boston, MA; part of the Digital United network, per its footer. Healthcare is one vertical beside higher education and financial services.
Independent reviews: 5.0 from 1 review.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 1.8 s, layout shift 0.01, 3.4 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 4 of 28 images with no alt attribute, 0 of 18 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: Enterprise scale and silent on patient data and accessibility on the pages we read.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: homepage, Clutch.
11. MyAdvice · Lehi, UT
Best for an aesthetic, medical or dental practice that wants a website platform plus marketing from one vendor
Price Not publishedHighest grade: health focus 18/25. Lowest grade: published compliance 0/20, reviews 0/15, price transparency 0/10.
Compliance published: Nothing found on the pages we read.
Health results: “490% more leads in just three months”, per agency, as an average among fast-adopting clients of its Amplify product. Named: Saltz Plastic Surgery, Park Meadows Cosmetic Surgery, The Orthopaedic Center.
Pricing: Not published.
What we verified: Founded in 1998 (Clutch). ceatus.com redirects to myadvice.com; the relationship is not stated. Award, per agency: Healthcare Business Review “Top Healthcare Practice Digital Marketing Service 2026”.
Independent reviews: 0 reviews.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 5.8 s, layout shift 0.00, 4.7 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 1 of 47 images with no alt attribute, 0 of 1 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: Platform model: ask what you keep (site, content, domain) if you leave.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: homepage, Clutch.
12. Big Drop Inc · New York, NY
Best for a large health organization that wants a general design and development firm that has worked with Northwell and LabCorp
Price Not on its site; Clutch minimum $50,000+Highest grade: reviews 12/15. Lowest grade: published compliance 0/20.
Compliance published: Nothing found on the pages we read.
Health results: The health figures shown are the clients’ own size facts (Northwell treats 2M+ patients a year), not project results.
Pricing: Not on its site. Clutch lists a $50,000+ minimum, the highest here.
What we verified: Founding year conflicts: 2013 in its site footer, 2012 on Clutch. No healthcare industry page.
Independent reviews: 4.6 from 36 reviews.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 1.6 s, layout shift 0.05, 2.1 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 0 of 39 images with no alt attribute, pinch zoom disabled, 1 of 1 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: No health specialism or health results, at the highest minimum on this list.
What we checked: Site pages read 10 October 2026 (Pacific); Clutch profile re-read 11 October 2026; homepage speed and accessibility measured 11 October 2026. Sources: homepage, Clutch.
13. PELORA Marketing · Newport Beach, CA This is us
Best for a clinic that wants the site built by the same team that runs its ads, with the project price on the page
Price Published on our web design pageHighest grade: price transparency 10/10. Lowest grade: published compliance 0/20, published health results 0/20, reviews 0/15, design recognition 0/10.
This is us PELORA wrote this page and scored itself with the same rubric, using only facts we already publish on our own site (our about page and homepage). Where we publish nothing a reader could check, we gave ourselves the floor score.
Compliance published: None of what this rubric counts (a WCAG level, a business associate agreement practice, managed form or tracking tooling) is published on our web design page, so we scored 0.
Health results: None published for a named client, so 0.
Pricing: Published on our web design page and our pricing page; we link rather than restate it. Scored 10: a published website build price.
What we verified: From our own site, company-reported because it is us: Preston Durnford is the founder (homepage); headquartered in Newport Beach, California, working with clients nationwide, a 5.0 Google rating and a core team that has worked together for 10 years (about page).
Independent reviews: We publish no Clutch rating, so 0.
Measured: Homepage on a throttled phone profile (median of 3 runs): largest content painted at 7.1 s, layout shift 0.00, 2.1 MB transferred. Quick accessibility checks: a page language set, 0 of 48 images with no alt attribute, 0 of 7 form fields without a label.
Where it may not fit: On our speed test, our own homepage was among the slower ones. If you need a documented compliance process for patient forms and tracking today, Sagapixel and Geonetric have written theirs down and we have not.
What we checked: Scored 11 October 2026 from what PELORA publishes on its homepage, about page and web design page; our homepage was measured with the same test as everyone else’s.
How should a clinic choose a web design agency?
Ignore the rankings, including this one, and run four checks.
Ask for the WCAG level and the test.
Not “ADA compliant”, but which level (2.1 AA is the standard the DOJ picked for public entities), which tool, and who fixes what it finds. None of the thirteen states a level on the pages we read.
Ask what happens to patient data.
Which form tool, whether the vendor signs a business associate agreement, and what the analytics and ad tags send. Geonetric and Sagapixel have written about this; ask everyone else to.
Ask for the number first.
One agency here publishes a website price. Ask the rest for a range in the first email, including hosting and maintenance.
Load their own homepage on your phone, then ask who owns the site.
If it is slow for them, ask why yours would be fast. And confirm the domain, hosting and code are in your name; our ownership guide shows how.
Questions clinics ask about web design agencies
How much does a healthcare website design agency cost? One of the thirteen publishes a website price on its own site: PELORA (on our web design page).
WebFX’s web design cost guide cites a $1,000 to $30,000+ market range from a survey, and it lists other services from $650 a month. Others list a Clutch minimum project: $5,000+ for Cardinal and Rosemont Media; $10,000+ for Digital Silk and Lounge Lizard; $25,000+ for Healthcare Success and Primacy; $50,000+ for Big Drop. Digital Silk says a basic site takes 2 to 4 months and a complex one 6 to 12.
Does a clinic website have to be ADA compliant? The Department of Justice’s guidance, read 11 October 2026, says the ADA requires businesses open to the public to provide full and equal enjoyment of their services to people with disabilities, and that its longstanding interpretation of the ADA applies to web accessibility, although it has no regulation setting detailed standards for private businesses.
For state and local government entities, including public hospitals, its Title II rule adopted WCAG 2.1 Level AA, with compliance dates now April 26, 2027 or April 26, 2028 depending on size. Ask your counsel how it applies to you.
Does a clinic website need to be HIPAA compliant? If forms, chat or tracking tags collect or send patient health information, HIPAA questions follow, and the vendors involved may need to sign a business associate agreement.
We could not read the HHS tracking bulletin on 11 October 2026 (its page denied access), so we do not quote it; ask your counsel, and ask any agency which form tool it uses and what its tags send.
How fast should a clinic website load? Google’s Core Web Vitals say the largest content should paint within 2.5 seconds, interactions should respond in 200 milliseconds or less, and layout shift should be 0.1 or less, at the 75th percentile of page loads.
On our throttled phone test, 3 of 13 agency homepages met the 2.5 second mark.
Why is PELORA on its own list? Because we build websites for clinics, and hiding that would be worse than declaring it.
We scored ourselves with the same rubric, using only facts we already publish on our own site, and set one rule in advance: never first. The note at the top of this page says where that put us.
Should a clinic hire a healthcare-only web design agency? Specialism helps with the rules, not with the build: the five firms that score 22 or more on niche (Geonetric, Healthcare Success, Cardinal, Etna Interactive and Rosemont Media) include only one, Geonetric, with specific published compliance tooling.
A general design firm can build a fine clinic site if it answers the data and accessibility questions above.
How do I know these rankings are trustworthy? Check them.
Every agency fact links to its source with the date we read it, results are labeled per agency, the rubric is published, and the speed test method is in the read log so anyone can repeat it. We ranked ourselves, which is a conflict of interest, and the note at the top says so.