New York, NY

Stranger Creative

Reach 12.5PageRanker 40

Stranger Creative is a web design company based in New York, NY. Its own home page scored 55 for mobile speed and 77 for access in our lab test on October 24, 2026, faster than 186 of the 450 firm sites we tested. Its websbz Score is 48.1 out of 100. Its Reach, a separate score, is 12.5.

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Home page of Stranger Creative at strangercreative.com

Our Read

Stranger Creative is an independent studio in Lower Manhattan. It designs websites and design systems and says it builds both the audience facing work and the system behind it. It serves finance, retail, tech, nonprofit and education clients.

What sets them apart. It pairs every website job with a design system so brand pieces stay consistent as work grows.

Best for. Brands that need a website and a reusable design system together.

Services

Web designDesign systemsDigital product designMedia and digital productionDigital transformation

Industries

Financial services and insuranceCPG and retailB2B and technologyNonprofit and public sectorEducation

Our Lab Test of strangercreative.com

Mobile emulation, tested October 24, 2026. One run from our desk. Field data from real visitors can differ.

55Performance

77Accessibility

77Best Practices

100SEO Basics

Largest paint: 39.3 seconds
First paint: 14.5 seconds
Blocking time: 34 ms
Layout shift: 0.000
Page weight: 9.5 MB
Requests: 263

Proof of Work

Google for Retail websiteWebsite redesign
Miller Center websiteWebsite redesign
Pure StorageProduct design project page

Clients They Name

GooglePure StorageDrive ChangeApex for YouthMiller CenterMarr Labs

Work

No verified client sites yet. Firms can submit their sites. We show and count only the ones whose live footer names the firm. Send your sites.

Signed Work

signed client sites found so far

We have not yet found a live client site with a Stranger Creative footer credit in our crawl of local business sites. Studios that sign their work, like Website by Stranger Creative, can claim this profile and send us the sites to count.

Search Authority

PageRanker Score, link authority from 0 to 100

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websbz 2025 Look Back

Rank 84 with a Look Back score of 32.3 out of 100. Scored in October 2026 from 2025 archived copies of each firm’s site. It is a separate list and does not change the 2026 websbz Score.

Proof 16 of 30, openness 5 of 20, tenure 0 of 15, scaled to 100. Home page copy saved April 5, 2025. See the 2025 copy. Read the Look Back.

Reviews

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websbz Score

48.1websbz Score

Own Site QualityOur lab test of the firm’s own home page. Speed counts most, then access, then build and search basics.25.1/35
Proof of WorkNamed projects, named clients and awards the firm lists, plus live client sites we found carrying its credit.18/30
OpennessDoes the firm publish a street address, a phone, its founding year, its team size and a starting price.5/20
TenureYears in business, from a founding year the firm states. Twenty years earns the full share.0/15

How the score works

Reach

12.5

out of 100. How far the work reaches, kept apart from the websbz Score

Verified client sites0/40none verified yet
Named clients6/106 named clients
Client scale4/102 named clients with a Wikipedia page
Offices2.5/101 office
Countries0/101 country
Team size0/12not published
Years0/8not published

How Reach works. A fact the firm does not publish counts as zero.

Facts

Website: strangercreative.com
Headquarters: New York, NY
Country: United States
City ranking: Best Web Design Companies in New York City
Address: 20 Pine St. Studio 2312, New York, NY 10005

Where They Rank

Best Web Design Companies in New York City#9 of 10
Best Web Designers in the United States#207 of 282
Best Web Design Companies in the World#345 of 450

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