Lounge Lizard

Lounge Lizard as a studio

Lounge Lizard has built websites since 1998 and now lists 50 to 249 people across New York, Washington, Nashville and Holbrook. Web design and web development are 45 percent each with branding at 10 percent, for a design share of 55 percent. Nine industries share the book equally and 75 percent of clients are mid-market. Hourly rates are undisclosed; the minimum is $25,000+. Reviews describe a WordPress site rebuilt on the same template with SEO cleanup and financial services sites with UX and SEO management. Rating 4.8 across 43 Clutch reviews.

Who it fits

Hire Lounge Lizard when you are a mid-market marketing team that wants a dependable, long-established US agency to design, build and maintain a corporate website with SEO attached. It is a volume web shop, not a taste studio; branding is a tenth of the work and the reviews are about rebuilds and rankings.

Strengths

• Longevity: 25+ years since 1998 with four US offices.
• Design and development in equal measure, so sites are built by the team that designed them.
• Mid-market and enterprise only, at 75 percent and 25 percent of clients.

Watch-outs

• Hourly rates are undisclosed on the record.
• Nine industries at an equal share and a 50 to 249 headcount make this a generalist volume model.

Evidence

• Service mix: web design 45 percent, web development 45 percent, branding 10 percent.
• A Clutch reviewer says the team "rebuilt the site using the same WordPress template as it stands on a new hosting platform and cleaned up the client's SEO".
• Offices in New York, Washington DC, Nashville and Holbrook; minimum project $25,000+; rating 4.8 across 43 Clutch reviews.