A small business website typically takes about 14 days to build, counted from the day the content arrives rather than the day you agree to it. The content is the part that decides everything: the words and images for each page come from you, and the two weeks start once they land. Before any of that you can see a free preview of your own site in about a minute.
What the two weeks actually cover
Design, build, your review, changes, and going live. One person does all of it start to finish — no handoffs and no account managers — which is most of why it is two weeks and not two months.
You approve the build before it goes anywhere. Nothing is published that you have not seen.
What causes nearly every delay
Content. Almost always content. A site can be designed and built in a fortnight; waiting on photos of finished work, a menu, a list of services or a paragraph about the business is what turns a fortnight into two months.
It does not have to be polished. An old brochure, phone photos of your work, and a rough note about what you do is enough to design around.
What happens before the fourteen days
Type in your business name and a free preview of a site for it is generated in about a minute, before you commit to anything and before you have sent a single photo.
The layout in that preview is the real work. The photos are stock and the wording is a stand-in — your own go in when the real site is built.
Related questions
Can a website be built faster than 14 days?
Sometimes, depending on how many pages there are and how ready the content is. It is not something to promise before seeing the scope.
What do I need to have ready before we start?
The words and images for each page. Rough is fine — an old brochure, phone photos of your work, a menu. The site gets designed around what you send.