Provider facts
What does ShareWeb charge, and what do you get?
Disclosure: Appear is run by creativebyjake, which appears in this comparison. Every fact is from each provider's own pages with the date we read them, ours included.
ShareWeb (NSW, no town or street address shown: "NSW, Australia"; "Local NSW business" (contact page)): Five pages from $1,650, hosting on Cloudflare at no extra charge, and one developer doing the work. Below is everything its own pages say about price and packages, read 13 Oct 2026, with each source linked.
ShareWeb, from its own pages
Named by: Claude (8 Oct) for "affordable website for a tradie in Australia".
- Website price shown
- "From $1,650" for the standard 5-page build: "5-page builds from $1,650, lead capture, on-page SEO, and PageSpeed 90+." (meta description and footer of the home page). No GST note on the pages read. The services page lists the package without a price.
shareweb.com.au - What a build includes
- "The Standard Build": "5 pages" (Home, Services, Portfolio, About, Contact), "Premium mobile-first design", "Contact form with instant email lead notification", "On-page SEO" (meta, headings, sitemap, robots.txt), "PageSpeed 90+ on mobile and desktop", "Hosted on Cloudflare Pages (fast, secure CDN)", "SSL encryption (https://)", "2 rounds of revisions included". Add-ons, priced only as "Ask us", "One-time fee" or "Quoted per page" with no figures: "WhatsApp Lead Notifications", "Google Business Profile", "Extra Pages", "AI-Assisted Copywriting", "Brand Discovery".
shareweb.com.au/services - Ongoing fees
- Hosting: "At ShareWeb, hosting is included at no extra charge on Cloudflare's global CDN." Changes: "ShareWeb sites can be handed over for self-management or maintained on a monthly retainer." Retainer price not shown on the pages read.
shareweb.com.au/blog/tradie-website-cost-australia - Local SEO or marketing
- On-page SEO is in the standard build; "Google Business Profile" is an add-on at a "One-time fee" with no figure shown; after launch "we offer a monthly retainer for ongoing updates, portfolio additions, and SEO monitoring" (price not shown). Not offered: "We don't do Google Ads, social media management, or custom web applications." No AI search (GEO) service shown.
shareweb.com.au/services - Platform
- Client sites hosted on Cloudflare Pages, as stated: "We host it on our Cloudflare Pages account for performance and reliability, but you're free to move it any time." Build tool for client sites not stated. ShareWeb's own served HTML loads "/_astro/" assets (an Astro build).
shareweb.com.au/services - Named person
- One person, first name only: "ShareWeb is run by Alfred", "a web developer based in NSW who specialises exclusively in websites for trades and construction businesses." "Founder, ShareWeb". "No middlemen. No outsourcing. I do the work myself". Surname not shown.
shareweb.com.au/about - Reviews on its own site
- Three testimonials on the home page: "Shane Mitchell" ("Director, Mitchell Concreting"), "James Okafor" ("Owner, Okafor Electrical"), "Linda Torres" ("Owner, Torres Tiling"). No Google rating or review count shown on the pages read.
shareweb.com.au - Example builds
- Home page "Recent work": two marked "Live site", "Laundromum" (laundromum.com.au) and "Ronbo Glass" ("a Canberra glazing specialist"), plus six marked "View demo": "Apex Concreting", "BlueLine Electrical", "Ridge Roofing", "ProPlumb NSW", "GroundUp Builders", "GreenEdge Landscapes". No separate portfolio page in the sitemap.
shareweb.com.au - Page for tradies
- Tradie only. Electrician page: "Electrician Website Design NSW" at /electrician-website-design-nsw; the sitemap also lists builder, concreter and plumber pages and Canberra, Central Coast, Newcastle and Wollongong tradie pages. "5-page builds from $1,650" repeated on the electrician page.
shareweb.com.au/electrician-website-design-nsw - Based
- NSW, no town or street address shown: "NSW, Australia"; "Local NSW business" (contact page)
shareweb.com.au/contact
Other things its pages say
- "PageSpeed 90+ guaranteed"; "No lock-in contracts"; "Local NSW business" shareweb.com.au
- "Minor fixes in the first 30 days are on us." shareweb.com.au
- "Do you only work with trades and construction?" "Yes. We've chosen to specialise" shareweb.com.au
- "A professional electrician website from a specialist agency costs between $1,650 and $5,000." shareweb.com.au/electrician-website-design-nsw
- "A fixed-price specialist like ShareWeb at $1,650 is usually better value than weeks spent learning a website builder." shareweb.com.au/blog/tradie-website-cost-australia
- Also runs "TradesBill": "Free invoicing for Australian tradies."; "ABN: 65 925 429 847" shareweb.com.au
Is ShareWeb right for you?
Best for: NSW tradies who want a fast five-page site with hosting included.
Worth asking them: the price of the Google listing add-on and the monthly retainer (neither is published), and to see live client sites: most of its recent work is demos.
How does creativebyjake compare?
creativebyjake runs this site, so read this as our side of it. Same date, same kind of source.
| ShareWeb | creativebyjake (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Website price shown | "From $1,650" for the standard 5-page build: "5-page builds from $1,650, lead capture, on-page SEO, and PageSpeed 90+." (meta description and footer of the home page). No GST note on the pages read. The services page lists the package without a price. shareweb.com.au | $500 + GST for a two-page site, paid once; going live on a domain in the client's own name is $100 plus the domain's own fees creativebyjake.com.au/tradie-websites/ |
| Ongoing fees | Hosting: "At ShareWeb, hosting is included at no extra charge on Cloudflare's global CDN." Changes: "ShareWeb sites can be handed over for self-management or maintained on a monthly retainer." Retainer price not shown on the pages read. shareweb.com.au/blog/tradie-website-cost-australia | Maintenance at $50 + GST a month, no contract, two weeks' notice to stop; hosting: not stated on its pages creativebyjake.com.au/tradie-websites/ |
| Local SEO or marketing | On-page SEO is in the standard build; "Google Business Profile" is an add-on at a "One-time fee" with no figure shown; after launch "we offer a monthly retainer for ongoing updates, portfolio additions, and SEO monitoring" (price not shown). Not offered: "We don't do Google Ads, social media management, or custom web applications." No AI search (GEO) service shown. shareweb.com.au/services | Appear at $250 + GST a month: the Google listing kept up, details matched across directories, a review kit, a local page every second month, Maps read weekly and AI answers monthly; Appear and maintenance together are $300 a month including GST creativebyjake.com.au/appear/ |
| Reviews on its own site | Three testimonials on the home page: "Shane Mitchell" ("Director, Mitchell Concreting"), "James Okafor" ("Owner, Okafor Electrical"), "Linda Torres" ("Owner, Torres Tiling"). No Google rating or review count shown on the pages read. shareweb.com.au | Not shown on the pages read creativebyjake.com.au |
| Example builds | Home page "Recent work": two marked "Live site", "Laundromum" (laundromum.com.au) and "Ronbo Glass" ("a Canberra glazing specialist"), plus six marked "View demo": "Apex Concreting", "BlueLine Electrical", "Ridge Roofing", "ProPlumb NSW", "GroundUp Builders", "GreenEdge Landscapes". No separate portfolio page in the sitemap. shareweb.com.au | Example builds for made-up businesses, labelled as such: Pipeworth Plumbing Co. and Brushmore Painting Co. creativebyjake.com.au/tradie-websites/ |
Worth asking us: about how new it is: its examples are builds for made-up businesses and its site shows no reviews, so ask Jake for a call and judge for yourself.
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