A website in Padua: a budget, not a promise

A website for a Padua business is better built static: with 206,496 residents (2023) it is the smallest comune in this series of five, and the item that weighs most is not design. It is maintenance.

Population 206,496 residents, year 2023, read from Wikidata Q617 on 1 November 2026. Province of Padova, region Veneto. Same region as Verona, roughly 49,000 fewer residents: that changes the band, not the kind of project.

Three ways to spend, one national price list

The range does not say what a site costs in Padua: it says what it costs in Italy. A quote outside the band is not automatically wrong, but it needs explaining: ask which item differs, not which discount applies.

Static against CMS: the bill nobody adds up

A static site has no panel to update and no plugins to patch: the typical CMS maintenance, €300-1,200 a year under our national ranges, almost disappears. Domain (€10-20 a year), hosting (€5-20 a month) and backups stay. The trade-off is that every change goes through whoever holds the code, or through a headless panel configured once.

What to measure before you sign

• Weight of the home page: under 1 MB is a good sign, above 3 MB ask why.
• LCP on mobile: under 2.5 seconds, because that number decides whether the site gets read.
• Requests on the first screen: they depend on the theme, not on luck.
• Indexable pages: how many are in the sitemap and how many carry a distinct title.
• Ownership: domain, repository and analytics must be yours.

The catalogue figures

EneUI measures 1,556 blocks and 12,808 icons on 1 November 2026, across 111,985 components from 1,472 libraries. A static five page site needs two categories: 13 table blocks for hours and price lists, 35 stat blocks for the business numbers. Everything else is optional.

curl -s "https://ui.eneawork.it/api/blocks?category=table&limit=200" | jq '.total'

Three records, all small

Table 01 from blocks is a table with accordion: hours, prices, what is included. The table category holds 13, the lowest count among the categories we use, and that is information already: publishers do not love tables. The list closes with the stat category and its 35 blocks, for two or three real numbers on the home page. Licences read «see source» on every record.

The limitation to state

The catalogue is not hosting and not a CMS: it holds React and Tailwind components to copy into your own project. Without someone maintaining the code, a static site stands still, and a site that stands still ages like an abandoned CMS. The difference is that it does not pay a subscription for standing still.

The part that does not change

The budget is decided by features, not by page count: the comparison between quotes is in agency or DIY, the item-by-item bill in what a website costs and the recurring cost in what it costs to maintain a website. For the technical base WordPress, Wix or React components.