{"id":23,"date":"2017-11-29T12:58:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T12:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmsdetect.com\/blog\/?post_type=reviews&#038;p=23"},"modified":"2024-12-05T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T09:06:27","slug":"wix-review","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/cmsdetect.com\/blog\/reviews\/wix-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Wix Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is Wix?<\/h2>\n<p>Wix is a very popular website builder, in fact it&#8217;s one of the most popular ones out there with over 100 million users worldwide. If you&#8217;ve done any searching for website builders before, you&#8217;ve definitely seen Wix up there at the top of the list. In fact, you might have seen their commercial in the 2017 Superbowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wix.com Big Game First Spot with Jason Statham &amp; Gal Gadot\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bcrrxRk-YeQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are many website builders out there obviously and more and more are being created as you read this Wix review. Building a website with a website builder has its ups and downs. If you are not a web developer, you might have a hard time building websites any other way. With that said, a good website builder needs to have tuns of designs (themes \/ templates) ready for any type of website and lots of functionality. Even a huge company like Wix has a hard time doing that.<\/p>\n<h2>What You Get With Your Wix Website<\/h2>\n<p>Once you signup for Wix, you will be able to create your very own website which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choosing a design template that will best fit your business<\/li>\n<li>Add any type of available functionality you need (contact form for example)<\/li>\n<li>A mobile website (Wix&#8217;s design is 100% responsive. Meaning, your website will look great on any screen size, PC, tablet or mobile)<\/li>\n<li>Statistics &#8211; you can add a Google Analytics snippet which will then give you the ability to fully track any activity on your website<\/li>\n<li>For that matter, you have the ability to add scripts to your website&#8217;s &#8220;head&#8221;, so you can run external scripts too<\/li>\n<li>If you have the need, you can build an eCommerce website on Wix as well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are the main features that come with a website on Wix.<\/p>\n<h2>Wix Pricing<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/cmsdetect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wix-prices1.png\" alt=\"wix prices\" width=\"1196\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmsdetect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wix-prices1.png 1196w, https:\/\/cmsdetect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wix-prices1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/cmsdetect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wix-prices1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/cmsdetect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wix-prices1-1024x682.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the above image, Wix offers 5 pricing options. Though, what you don&#8217;t see it the free option. You can <strong>build website for free with Wix<\/strong>. It&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s the best option but if you don&#8217;t have a budget at all, this can be a great option. You will have some limitations such as the URL and branding. Obviously since you aren&#8217;t paying anything you won&#8217;t be getting your own domain. Your site&#8217;s URL will look something like this:\u00a0<code>jack.wix.com\/jacks-cool-site\/<\/code>. Your site will also have the Wix branding on it, so whenever anyone goes to your site, they will know it&#8217;s a Wix site, but in general &#8211; if you don&#8217;t have a budget this can be the best option for you.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, there are a few types of plans and generally speaking, the prices aren&#8217;t bad at all. Considering the fact that you have a website for that price. If you took a developer to develop on any platform, it would probably cost $700 for the bare minimum while using a pretty cheap developer. Here you get a website for a fraction of that monthly. Not that that&#8217;s a fair comparison but these are the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>There are several (most important) differences between the pricing options. Here are some of them:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Bandwidth (the amount of people that go into your site) &#8211; varies between 1GB to unlimited<\/li>\n<li>Storage (the actual space that hosts your images, files, etc.) &#8211; varies between 500MB &#8211; 20GB<\/li>\n<li>Removing Wix ads<\/li>\n<li>Form Builder &#8211; pretty important for a real business website<\/li>\n<li>An eCommerce store on your site<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Wix Loading Speed<\/h2>\n<p>In the past, there were a whole lot of complaints about Wix&#8217;s loading speed. Throughout the years Wix has been very attentive to its users&#8217; needs and has many improvements. It&#8217;s important to understand that there are many speed factors that are out of Wix&#8217;s hands. Some of these are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Image size (weight and size in pixels)<\/li>\n<li>External scripts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It should be noted that Wix has done a great job with speed issues, here are some things that are built-in as a default:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Automatic image optimization &#8211; optimizes images as you load them into the site<\/li>\n<li>CDN &#8211; to serve files closest to where the user is browsing from<\/li>\n<li>Defer Javascript<\/li>\n<li>Minify JS, HTML &amp; CSS<\/li>\n<li>GZIP<\/li>\n<li>And much more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All these are great, however while writing this Wix review, we ran a few tests on a few Wix built websites and they all loaded in about 7 seconds, which is way longer that it should take a website to load. This isn&#8217;t a deal breaker but it&#8217;s something to take into consideration.<\/p>\n<h2>Wix Mobile Website<\/h2>\n<p>There is a well known phrase in the web development world: &#8220;Mobile first&#8221;. When designing websites, the first thing you should do is design for mobile first and work your way up. Not the other way around. Wix has a bunch of templates which are all &#8220;fully responsive&#8221;. They will work great both on mobile and desktop. Not only that but you can change the editing view to mobile and make some changes there that won&#8217;t affect the way the desktop version will look like. How cool is that?<\/p>\n<h2>Wix &amp; SEO<\/h2>\n<p>This is a very known topic when talking about Wix. Wix has made a few mistakes in the past that haunt them till this day. 2 big issues which as connected are using AJAX and second is having ugly URLs with <code>!#<\/code> in them. These issues gave them a bad name in the SEO world and even though they claim to have made some serious improvements (which they did), it&#8217;s hard to change such reputation. They went all out a while ago when they decided to create a competition called &#8220;SEO hero&#8221; where they challenged anyone to rank higher than them for the term &#8220;SEO hero&#8221;. Just to prove their SEO is as good as any.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obvious that they can&#8217;t have perfect SEO since it&#8217;s a website builder and not an open source website. So if you decide to use a website builder &#8211; do not worry about Wix&#8217;s SEO. It passed our tests.<\/p>\n<h2>The Downside of Website Builders<\/h2>\n<p>This has nothing to do with Wix per se&#8217;, but with website builders as a whole. When we build a website we want it to look professional, cool and most importantly &#8211; unique. When using tools that have set designs, no matter how elaborate they are, they have their limits. There is only so much you can do that hasn&#8217;t been done before. That&#8217;s in terms of design.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger issue is functionality. Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Say you have a company that uses a CRM that was built from scratch especially for your needs and you want to build a landing page with a website builder and have the leads connect to your CRM automatically.<\/li>\n<li>How about you decide you need to add some caching rules to your server for speed reasons<\/li>\n<li>Or want to add a special dynamic code for SEO reasons<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These are impossible to do in website builders since you have no access to the core code. There are about a million examples but you get the picture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>CMS Detect Verdict<\/h3>\n<p>No matter what people say, there aren&#8217;t a lot of successful website builders like Wix. Yes, there are issues but that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s not an open source. They have to try and fit all types of clients. If you have an actual serious business, our opinion is to work with a professional designer and web developer, if you want to do it all on your own &#8211; Wix is definitely a high contender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":85,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-23","reviews","type-reviews","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","reviews_taxonomies-website-builders","entry","has-media"],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"Yes","cwp_rev_product_name":"Wix Website Builder","_wppr_review_template":"default","cwp_rev_product_image":"http:\/\/cmsdetect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wix.com_website_logo.svg-iloveimg-resized1.png","cwp_image_link":"link","wppr_links":{"Try Wix":"https:\/\/wix.pxf.io\/c\/1959501\/2096727\/25616?trafcat=wsb&#038;subId1=CMS&#038;subId2=review"},"cwp_rev_price":"Free \/ $4.50+","wppr_pros":["Easy to use for non developers","Great designs - wide array of themes to choose from","","",""],"wppr_cons":["Can't add custom functionality","Slow loading speed","","",""],"wppr_rating":"92.50","wppr_options":{"1":{"name":"Price","value":"100"},"2":{"name":"User Friendly","value":"100"},"3":{"name":"Speed","value":"70"},"4":{"name":"Design","value":"100"}},"wppr_review_type":"Product","wppr_review_custom_fields":{"additionalProperty":"","additionalType":"","aggregateRating":"","alternateName":"","audience":"","award":"","awards":"","brand":"","category":"","color":"","depth":"","description":"","disambiguatingDescription":"","gtin12":"","gtin13":"","gtin14":"","gtin8":"","height":"","identifier":"","image":"","isAccessoryOrSparePartFor":"","isConsumableFor":"","isRelatedTo":"","isSimilarTo":"","itemCondition":"","logo":"","mainEntityOfPage":"","manufacturer":"","material":"","model":"","mpn":"","name":"","offers":"","potentialAction":"","productID":"","productionDate":"","purchaseDate":"","releaseDate":"","review":"","reviews":"","sameAs":"","sku":"","slogan":"","subjectOf":"","url":"","weight":"","width":""}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wix Review - CMS Detect Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cmsdetect.com\/blog\/reviews\/wix-review\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wix Review - CMS Detect Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What is Wix? 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