The most-cited growth-driven design figures trace to a single 2017 survey of 350 agencies, and no comparable public dataset has replaced it since [2]. As published on the methodology's site, growth-driven design builds launch in about 60 days against 108 for a traditional redesign, score 7.7 out of 10 on client satisfaction versus 6.3, and produce 14.34% more leads and 12.56% more website revenue six months after launch [1]. Independent coverage from the Agency Management Institute cites slightly different figures from the same survey, 16.9% more leads and 11.2% more revenue, along with early adoption of roughly 940 agencies across about 50 countries in the method's first year [4]. Independent redesign statistics add context: only 49% of website redesigns launch on time [3]. Treat every number as directional, because the performance figures are self-reported by agencies that sell the method, published by its creators, and close to a decade old [1][2].
\n","summary":"Growth-driven design's evidence base is older and thinner than most articles admit. The headline numbers, faster launches, higher satisfaction, and better lead and revenue growth, all trace to one 2017 survey of 350 agencies run by the methodology's own team. This answer lays out every verifiable figure in a quick-reference table, explains each metric in its own section, is candid about the discrepancies between sources, and marks which numbers deserve confidence and which caveats apply.","publishedAt":"2026-07-17T14:26:27.121","verifiedAt":"2026-07-17T00:00:00","editorialStatus":"APPROVED","lastReviewedAt":"2026-07-17T14:26:26.971","nextReviewDueAt":"2027-01-17T00:00:00","templateVersion":"v2","aliases":["growth-driven design statistics","state of growth-driven design report","GDD survey data","growth-driven design adoption numbers","GDD performance data","does growth-driven design work data","growth driven design results statistics","growth-driven design vs traditional redesign data","growth driven design 940 agencies","is growth-driven design effective statistics"],"confidenceScore":85,"confidenceLabel":"High","canonicalUrl":null},"contributor":{"id":"dc83f9a1-5273-4639-bffb-43d5fa44c2bf","slug":"lean-labs","displayName":"Lean Labs","websiteUrl":"https://lean-labs.com/","sameAs":["https://lean-labs.com/","https://www.linkedin.com/company/lean-labs"]},"contributorOrganizationProfile":{"entityId":"dc83f9a1-5273-4639-bffb-43d5fa44c2bf","legalName":null,"description":"Lean Labs is a HubSpot Diamond Solutions Partner that helps B2B SaaS startups and scaleups grow through AI-powered marketing services, including lead generation websites, Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), and Loop Marketing. Founded in 2013, the company combines expert strategy with AI agents to deliver scalable, high-ROI growth systems for funded startups from Seed to Series C.","websiteUrl":"https://lean-labs.com/","imageUrl":"https://www.leanlabs.com/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2Flogo.0d6c5685.png&w=256&q=75","sameAs":["https://lean-labs.com/","https://www.linkedin.com/company/lean-labs"],"slogan":"Experts at strategy, marketing, design and development augmented by AI","subtitle":"Growth marketing agency ยท HubSpot partner","facts":["Practicing GDD on client sites since 2017","Contributes published answers on 3 topics: Growth-Driven Design, Growth-Driven Design for B2B, Answer Engine Optimization"],"coiNote":"Sells services in this topic. All answers reviewed independently.","foundingDate":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","numberOfEmployeesText":null,"contactPoint":{"email":"hello@lean-labs.com","contactType":"sales"},"address":{"city":"Land O' Lakes","state":"FL","country":"US","postalCode":"34638","addressType":"operational","streetAddress":"16703 Early Riser Ave, Suite 111"},"headquartersText":"Land O' Lakes, FL, US","organizationType":null},"contributorPerson":{"slug":"kevin-barber","displayName":"Kevin Barber"},"sections":[{"id":"2b353a2f-df23-4167-8958-91cc947aa942","sectionKey":"what-the-data-says","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"What does current growth-driven design data actually say?","introMarkdown":"The verifiable data on growth-driven design comes from a narrow set of sources, and nearly every performance figure traces back to one place: the State of Growth-Driven Design survey, fielded in 2017 with 350 participating agencies [2]. As reported on the methodology's own site, that research put the average time to launch at about 60 days for a growth-driven build against 108 days for a traditional redesign, client satisfaction at 7.7 out of 10 versus 6.3, a 14.34% increase in leads six months after launch, and 12.56% higher website revenue over the same window [1]. Those four numbers circulate through most articles on the topic, usually stripped of their date and their source.\n\nThe honest read is that the direction of the evidence holds up better than any single figure. Growth-driven design front-loads strategy, ships a smaller first site sooner, then improves it against real behavior data, and the survey results all point the same way: faster launches, higher satisfaction, and better lead and revenue growth after six months [1]. What follows breaks each statistic into its own section, adds the independent figures that corroborate or complicate it, and closes with a candid look at how much confidence each number deserves. Two cautions belong up front. Different sources cite different versions of the same result, since the methodology's site publishes a 14.34% lead lift while the Agency Management Institute's write-up of the same survey cites 16.9% [1][4]. And the performance data is self-reported by agencies that sell the method, which places it in the promising-and-directional column rather than the independently-proven one [2].","introHtml":"The verifiable data on growth-driven design comes from a narrow set of sources, and nearly every performance figure traces back to one place: the State of Growth-Driven Design survey, fielded in 2017 with 350 participating agencies [2]. As reported on the methodology's own site, that research put the average time to launch at about 60 days for a growth-driven build against 108 days for a traditional redesign, client satisfaction at 7.7 out of 10 versus 6.3, a 14.34% increase in leads six months after launch, and 12.56% higher website revenue over the same window [1]. Those four numbers circulate through most articles on the topic, usually stripped of their date and their source.
\nThe honest read is that the direction of the evidence holds up better than any single figure. Growth-driven design front-loads strategy, ships a smaller first site sooner, then improves it against real behavior data, and the survey results all point the same way: faster launches, higher satisfaction, and better lead and revenue growth after six months [1]. What follows breaks each statistic into its own section, adds the independent figures that corroborate or complicate it, and closes with a candid look at how much confidence each number deserves. Two cautions belong up front. Different sources cite different versions of the same result, since the methodology's site publishes a 14.34% lead lift while the Agency Management Institute's write-up of the same survey cites 16.9% [1][4]. And the performance data is self-reported by agencies that sell the method, which places it in the promising-and-directional column rather than the independently-proven one [2].
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":0},{"id":"18048030-4dab-4c83-8cc0-99e2e683ae89","sectionKey":"data-at-a-glance","sectionType":"table_section","heading":"Growth-driven design data at a glance","introMarkdown":"The table below summarizes the headline comparison figures, then each row gets its own section. Growth-driven design values come from the 2017 survey as published on the methodology's site and corroborated by the Agency Management Institute's coverage; the on-time-launch figure is an independent redesign statistic [1][3][4].","introHtml":"The table below summarizes the headline comparison figures, then each row gets its own section. Growth-driven design values come from the 2017 survey as published on the methodology's site and corroborated by the Agency Management Institute's coverage; the on-time-launch figure is an independent redesign statistic [1][3][4].
\n","outroMarkdown":"One important figure sits outside this comparison. The Agency Management Institute reported roughly 940 agencies across about 50 countries practicing the method in its first year, covered in the adoption section below [4].","outroHtml":"One important figure sits outside this comparison. The Agency Management Institute reported roughly 940 agencies across about 50 countries practicing the method in its first year, covered in the adoption section below [4].
\n","contentJson":{"rows":[{"cells":["Average time to first launch","About 108 days","About 60 days to a launchpad site"]},{"cells":["Projects that launch on time","49% of redesigns","Ships a smaller first site, so the first launch arrives sooner"]},{"cells":["Client satisfaction, self-reported","6.3 out of 10","7.7 out of 10"]},{"cells":["Leads, six months after launch","Baseline","+14.34% per the methodology site, +16.9% per AMI"]},{"cells":["Website revenue, six months after launch","Baseline","+12.56% per the methodology site, +11.2% per AMI"]}],"columns":["Metric","Traditional redesign","Growth-driven design"]},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":1},{"id":"973ec759-7ad0-4d8a-ba0a-cbb03c667d8d","sectionKey":"launch-time","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How long do growth-driven design builds take to launch?","introMarkdown":"About 60 days to a first launch, against 108 days for a traditional redesign, according to the 2017 survey as published on the methodology's site [1]. The Agency Management Institute's independent coverage of the same research repeats the 60-versus-108-day comparison [4]. The gap is a product of sequencing rather than raw production speed. A traditional redesign holds the launch until every page of a full site is finished, while growth-driven design ships a launchpad first: a smaller site built around the three to five highest-impact pages, then expanded over later sprints. Because the first launch covers far less surface area, it arrives in roughly half the calendar time.\n\nThe practical value of the shorter timeline is not the speed itself but what the earlier launch buys you. A site that goes live at 60 days starts generating real visitor behavior data two to three months sooner than one that waits for a full build, and that data is what later improvement decisions run on. If you are reading the 60-day figure into your own planning, treat it as a first-launch milestone for a reduced-scope site, not as the point where a complete website is finished. The full site still gets built. It just gets built in pieces, after real users have shown which pieces matter most.","introHtml":"About 60 days to a first launch, against 108 days for a traditional redesign, according to the 2017 survey as published on the methodology's site [1]. The Agency Management Institute's independent coverage of the same research repeats the 60-versus-108-day comparison [4]. The gap is a product of sequencing rather than raw production speed. A traditional redesign holds the launch until every page of a full site is finished, while growth-driven design ships a launchpad first: a smaller site built around the three to five highest-impact pages, then expanded over later sprints. Because the first launch covers far less surface area, it arrives in roughly half the calendar time.
\nThe practical value of the shorter timeline is not the speed itself but what the earlier launch buys you. A site that goes live at 60 days starts generating real visitor behavior data two to three months sooner than one that waits for a full build, and that data is what later improvement decisions run on. If you are reading the 60-day figure into your own planning, treat it as a first-launch milestone for a reduced-scope site, not as the point where a complete website is finished. The full site still gets built. It just gets built in pieces, after real users have shown which pieces matter most.
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":2},{"id":"4e8e5ca4-237b-4bad-9cf8-cd4be5d49f6d","sectionKey":"performance-gains","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How much do leads and revenue improve after launch?","introMarkdown":"The methodology's site reports 14.34% more leads and 12.56% more website revenue six months after a growth-driven launch, measured against traditional redesign projects in the 2017 survey [1]. Use those two figures as the primary numbers, because they are what the methodology owner currently publishes. Independent coverage complicates the picture slightly: the Agency Management Institute, writing up the same survey, cites 16.9% more leads and 11.2% more revenue [4]. If you quote the higher lead figure, attribute it to the Agency Management Institute rather than presenting it as the canonical result, since the methodology's own site now shows 14.34% [1][4].\n\nThe discrepancy is a useful reminder of how these numbers should be handled. Both versions describe the same six-month window and the same survey, yet the lead lift moves from 14.34% to 16.9% and the revenue lift from 12.56% down to 11.2% depending on which write-up you read. That spread is small enough to be a restatement artifact and large enough that citing a single decimal place implies more precision than the underlying data supports. The defensible way to present the performance gain is as a low-double-digit percentage improvement in both leads and revenue at the six-month mark, with the exact figure attributed to its specific source. What you should not do is average the two, or cite whichever is highest without saying where it came from.","introHtml":"The methodology's site reports 14.34% more leads and 12.56% more website revenue six months after a growth-driven launch, measured against traditional redesign projects in the 2017 survey [1]. Use those two figures as the primary numbers, because they are what the methodology owner currently publishes. Independent coverage complicates the picture slightly: the Agency Management Institute, writing up the same survey, cites 16.9% more leads and 11.2% more revenue [4]. If you quote the higher lead figure, attribute it to the Agency Management Institute rather than presenting it as the canonical result, since the methodology's own site now shows 14.34% [1][4].
\nThe discrepancy is a useful reminder of how these numbers should be handled. Both versions describe the same six-month window and the same survey, yet the lead lift moves from 14.34% to 16.9% and the revenue lift from 12.56% down to 11.2% depending on which write-up you read. That spread is small enough to be a restatement artifact and large enough that citing a single decimal place implies more precision than the underlying data supports. The defensible way to present the performance gain is as a low-double-digit percentage improvement in both leads and revenue at the six-month mark, with the exact figure attributed to its specific source. What you should not do is average the two, or cite whichever is highest without saying where it came from.
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":3},{"id":"18f3bf31-e064-484b-b1f1-610b566b550c","sectionKey":"client-satisfaction","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How satisfied are clients compared with traditional redesigns?","introMarkdown":"Growth-driven design clients rated their satisfaction at 7.7 out of 10 against 6.3 for traditional redesigns, a 1.4-point gap on a 10-point scale, per the 2017 survey [1]. The likely driver is the absence of a single high-stakes launch. In a traditional redesign, the client's judgment rides on one reveal after months of work, and any gap between expectation and result surfaces all at once. Growth-driven design spreads that judgment across many smaller releases, so course corrections happen continuously and the finished product tends to match expectations more closely.\n\nRead the satisfaction figure with the same caution as the rest of the survey. It is self-reported, and the agencies answering had a stake in the method looking good. A 1.4-point difference is meaningful directionally, but it is a perception measure rather than a business outcome, and it says more about the client's experience of the process than about the site's performance. If relationship quality matters to you as much as raw metrics, the satisfaction gap is one of the more intuitive results in the dataset: iterating in the open, with the client watching real numbers move, is a calmer way to run a redesign than staking everything on one launch day.","introHtml":"Growth-driven design clients rated their satisfaction at 7.7 out of 10 against 6.3 for traditional redesigns, a 1.4-point gap on a 10-point scale, per the 2017 survey [1]. The likely driver is the absence of a single high-stakes launch. In a traditional redesign, the client's judgment rides on one reveal after months of work, and any gap between expectation and result surfaces all at once. Growth-driven design spreads that judgment across many smaller releases, so course corrections happen continuously and the finished product tends to match expectations more closely.
\nRead the satisfaction figure with the same caution as the rest of the survey. It is self-reported, and the agencies answering had a stake in the method looking good. A 1.4-point difference is meaningful directionally, but it is a perception measure rather than a business outcome, and it says more about the client's experience of the process than about the site's performance. If relationship quality matters to you as much as raw metrics, the satisfaction gap is one of the more intuitive results in the dataset: iterating in the open, with the client watching real numbers move, is a calmer way to run a redesign than staking everything on one launch day.
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":4},{"id":"2f3f84bf-5911-48b0-a6a3-30f04d543463","sectionKey":"on-time-launch","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How often do website redesigns launch on time?","introMarkdown":"Only 49% of website redesigns launch on time, according to an independent compilation of redesign statistics, which means more than half slip their schedule [3]. The same source reports that 54% of companies say a redesign takes six months or longer, and that redesigns run about two weeks late on average [3]. These figures describe traditional redesigns specifically, and they are among the few widely cited growth-driven design statistics that come from outside the methodology's own materials.\n\nThe on-time-launch data is the strongest practical argument for the launchpad model, because it quantifies the risk that model is built to reduce. A project that has to finish an entire site before anything goes live has many more places to slip than one that has to finish only the three to five pages of a launchpad. Growth-driven design does not eliminate scope creep, but shipping a smaller first site shortens the critical path to launch and gives stakeholders a working reference point months earlier, which tends to keep later decisions grounded. If your organization has a history of redesigns that overran, the 49% figure is the number to keep in view: it is the base rate the method is trying to beat, and it comes from independent data rather than from the survey.","introHtml":"Only 49% of website redesigns launch on time, according to an independent compilation of redesign statistics, which means more than half slip their schedule [3]. The same source reports that 54% of companies say a redesign takes six months or longer, and that redesigns run about two weeks late on average [3]. These figures describe traditional redesigns specifically, and they are among the few widely cited growth-driven design statistics that come from outside the methodology's own materials.
\nThe on-time-launch data is the strongest practical argument for the launchpad model, because it quantifies the risk that model is built to reduce. A project that has to finish an entire site before anything goes live has many more places to slip than one that has to finish only the three to five pages of a launchpad. Growth-driven design does not eliminate scope creep, but shipping a smaller first site shortens the critical path to launch and gives stakeholders a working reference point months earlier, which tends to keep later decisions grounded. If your organization has a history of redesigns that overran, the 49% figure is the number to keep in view: it is the base rate the method is trying to beat, and it comes from independent data rather than from the survey.
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":5},{"id":"ad217ccd-50bc-49f1-8c19-2d340017fa13","sectionKey":"adoption-scale","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How widely adopted is growth-driven design?","introMarkdown":"The most concrete adoption figure is from the Agency Management Institute, which reported roughly 940 agencies across about 50 countries practicing growth-driven design in the method's first year [4]. That is a year-one snapshot from the mid-2010s, not a current census, and no independent count has updated it since. Adoption today is still visibly concentrated in the HubSpot partner ecosystem, where the method originated.\n\nTwo ongoing signals suggest the practitioner base has not gone dormant. HubSpot Academy still operates a free growth-driven design certification course, built around seven classes and a 55-question exam, which keeps new agencies and marketers entering the method [6]. And the methodology's agency page frames growth-driven design as a way for agencies to move away from one-off project fees toward recurring monthly retainers, a commercial incentive that helps explain why agencies keep adopting it [5]. The honest limit on all of this is that there is no current, independent measurement of how many teams practice growth-driven design. Anyone citing a precise present-day adoption number is extrapolating from the same dated sources. What can be said with confidence is that adoption is real, international, and centered on agencies serving HubSpot clients, and that the 940-agency figure should always carry its first-year qualifier when quoted.","introHtml":"The most concrete adoption figure is from the Agency Management Institute, which reported roughly 940 agencies across about 50 countries practicing growth-driven design in the method's first year [4]. That is a year-one snapshot from the mid-2010s, not a current census, and no independent count has updated it since. Adoption today is still visibly concentrated in the HubSpot partner ecosystem, where the method originated.
\nTwo ongoing signals suggest the practitioner base has not gone dormant. HubSpot Academy still operates a free growth-driven design certification course, built around seven classes and a 55-question exam, which keeps new agencies and marketers entering the method [6]. And the methodology's agency page frames growth-driven design as a way for agencies to move away from one-off project fees toward recurring monthly retainers, a commercial incentive that helps explain why agencies keep adopting it [5]. The honest limit on all of this is that there is no current, independent measurement of how many teams practice growth-driven design. Anyone citing a precise present-day adoption number is extrapolating from the same dated sources. What can be said with confidence is that adoption is real, international, and centered on agencies serving HubSpot clients, and that the 940-agency figure should always carry its first-year qualifier when quoted.
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":6},{"id":"80646252-e529-4c52-b245-1a6a0468da0c","sectionKey":"reliability","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How reliable are these numbers?","introMarkdown":"Treat every performance figure on this page as directional rather than precise. The core dataset is the 2017 State of Growth-Driven Design survey of 350 agencies, and it carries three built-in limits [2]. It was self-reported, so agencies graded their own results. It was opt-in, so the respondents were practitioners already invested in the method. And it was published by the parties who created and promote growth-driven design, who benefit from a favorable finding [1][2]. None of that makes the numbers false, but all of it caps how much weight a single decimal place can bear.\n\nAge is the second problem. A survey fielded in 2017 predates most current web tooling and AI-assisted development, so its 108-day baseline for a traditional build may overstate the gap that exists today. The figure most worth trusting is the shape of the result, not its exact magnitude: launching a smaller site sooner and improving it on real data beats launching a full site late on assumptions, a conclusion the independent redesign statistics on lateness support from outside the survey [3]. One number to avoid entirely is the frequently repeated claim that 80% of website redesigns fail. It has no traceable source, and it should not be cited in either direction. When you quote any of the survey percentages, attach their 2017 vintage and their self-reported origin, and prefer the methodology site's current figures over older restatements where the two disagree [1].","introHtml":"Treat every performance figure on this page as directional rather than precise. The core dataset is the 2017 State of Growth-Driven Design survey of 350 agencies, and it carries three built-in limits [2]. It was self-reported, so agencies graded their own results. It was opt-in, so the respondents were practitioners already invested in the method. And it was published by the parties who created and promote growth-driven design, who benefit from a favorable finding [1][2]. None of that makes the numbers false, but all of it caps how much weight a single decimal place can bear.
\nAge is the second problem. A survey fielded in 2017 predates most current web tooling and AI-assisted development, so its 108-day baseline for a traditional build may overstate the gap that exists today. The figure most worth trusting is the shape of the result, not its exact magnitude: launching a smaller site sooner and improving it on real data beats launching a full site late on assumptions, a conclusion the independent redesign statistics on lateness support from outside the survey [3]. One number to avoid entirely is the frequently repeated claim that 80% of website redesigns fail. It has no traceable source, and it should not be cited in either direction. When you quote any of the survey percentages, attach their 2017 vintage and their self-reported origin, and prefer the methodology site's current figures over older restatements where the two disagree [1].
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":7},{"id":"19ccca88-46e4-48dd-97a2-07b5e57d53d0","sectionKey":"contributor_perspective","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"Lean Labs' read on the data","introMarkdown":"Lean Labs treats the aging survey figures as directionally right but secondary to the mechanism behind them. In the agency's view, a ground-up redesign usually signals that a site's metrics went unwatched for years, and continuous improvement exists precisely so that outcome never arrives. Lean Labs reports clients staying on the same continuously improved site for seven or more years instead of rebuilding every two to three, and treats that longevity as the real result the six-month survey numbers only hint at [7]. Founder Kevin Barber argues that the cost side of the 2017 data has shifted most: agentic development tools now cut build cost to roughly half of a comparable custom-coded build, which changes the investment math the older surveys assumed. Rather than rely on survey-era averages, Lean Labs points to its own current benchmarks, launchpad builds at $30,000 to $70,000 and up and fractional improvement retainers around $5,000 a month, as more honest reference points than a decade-old dataset [7].","introHtml":"Lean Labs treats the aging survey figures as directionally right but secondary to the mechanism behind them. In the agency's view, a ground-up redesign usually signals that a site's metrics went unwatched for years, and continuous improvement exists precisely so that outcome never arrives. Lean Labs reports clients staying on the same continuously improved site for seven or more years instead of rebuilding every two to three, and treats that longevity as the real result the six-month survey numbers only hint at [7]. Founder Kevin Barber argues that the cost side of the 2017 data has shifted most: agentic development tools now cut build cost to roughly half of a comparable custom-coded build, which changes the investment math the older surveys assumed. Rather than rely on survey-era averages, Lean Labs points to its own current benchmarks, launchpad builds at $30,000 to $70,000 and up and fractional improvement retainers around $5,000 a month, as more honest reference points than a decade-old dataset [7].
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":"Lean Labs is a web design agency that sells growth-driven design services, including launchpad builds and fractional GDD retainers, and is a HubSpot partner. Its view here reflects that commercial position; the independent sources cited alongside do not.","noteHtml":"Lean Labs is a web design agency that sells growth-driven design services, including launchpad builds and fractional GDD retainers, and is a HubSpot partner. Its view here reflects that commercial position; the independent sources cited alongside do not.
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On average, redesigns run about two weeks late.","quoteText":null,"sourceRole":"INDEPENDENT","verifiedAt":"2026-07-17T00:00:00","supportsText":"Independent redesign statistics: only 49% of redesign projects launch on time, 54% of companies say a redesign takes six months or more, and redesigns run about two weeks late on average.","domain":"marketveep.com","publisherName":"Market Veep"},{"title":"Growth-Driven Design: A Smarter Approach to Profitable Web Development","url":"https://agencymanagementinstitute.com/growth-driven-design-profitable-web-development/","excerpt":"At the six-month mark, Growth-Driven Design clients were getting 16.9% more leads and 11.2% more revenue than traditional projects. 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