In the process of building websites, users may come across one of these website builders like Wix, Squarespace, or Weebly. You may already know about all three websites, that’s good. We will suggest the one which is good for your business. We will review each & every feature, easiness, flexibility, etc. of these platforms. each Platform has some unique & distinct features that set them apart. In this review, we will be highlighting these key features.
Whether a user is a beginner or an expert everyone looks for a good user experience. Which is an essential feature to have for customer acquisition. As we say the first impression is the last impression it also holds the same in the process of website building. We will be providing in-depth solutions on whether you should choose Wix or Squarespace or Weebly.
All three websites mentioned provide built-in hosting, and other settings to get started with their platforms. These website builders have taken care of storage, hosting, and security-level technicalities.
WiX is easy to get started just create an account & then log into the created account. WiX Provides plenty of Options to create a website. Users can create a site from scratch or let WiX do it for them. Yes, you heard it right, WiX has WiX ADI(Artificial Design Intelligence) feature that creates a website using AI techniques based on user’s preferences.
If you choose to create one from scratch then the WiX drag’s & Drop feature can be your friend. The drag & drop feature lets users drag web elements anywhere on the page.
Squarespace is also easy to get started just signup & login. Squarespace will present plenty of Beautiful themes with quality images, built-in blocks, etc. Its editor has a drag & drop feature which is limited within the section blocks. You can’t drag & drop web elements on the whole website.
Squarespace has made it easy to access all the Main features, and sub-features in one place. This offers easy navigation to the feature user is looking for.
Weebly is a well-known platform for creating business sites, blogs, portfolios, etc. Square has acquired Weebly and started providing online store functionalities.
Weebly has a simple editor with few web elements and design settings. The web elements can be dragged & drop to the homepage.
Weebly Sites
Key points
WiX has minimized the steps of setting up a store by Introducing ‘WiX ADI’ automation & Providing a user-friendly interface to customize the store. There are a variety of themes & apps to assist in building a beautiful store hence it is easy to use than Squarespace & WiX
Squarespace offers a comparatively easier interface and good drag & drop technique than Weebly hence Squarespace is easier than Weebly.
WiX has various plans for websites & businesses. The basic plan starts from $16/month and it provides various benefits from these plans. WiX has categorized plans for personal use, freelancers, Online branding, etc. The Business plan contains various features too. WiX has an enterprise plan which has custom pricing & it merely depends upon the volume of the business.
Squarespace
Squarespace Monthly plans
Squarespace Annual plan
Squarespace has 4 monthly plans which cover personal, business, and eCommerce websites. The selling features start from the Business plan. Squarespace provides a 14-day free trial to try & test the platform before choosing a paid plan.
Weebly
Weebly has four pricing plans with a free plan. The free plan can be used only with Weebly’s subdomain. To connect a custom you need to be on a $5 plan. Weebly’s monthly and annual plans do not have much difference in pricing.
The eCommerce features can be accessed from the $12/month plan that allows the listing of 25 items. The Business feature is enough to get most of the essential eCommerce features. Overall it’s very economic pricing for all. If you are looking for creating a blog, portfolio, or small business those can be achieved in the just $5 plan.
Key Points
Weebly has provided both business & eCommerce features in a very economical plan. It also can be used for free with a subdomain. The annual plan ranges from $8 – $38 per month.
Squarespace & WiX have similar prices but they have marketing plans which need to be paid separately.
Weebly & WiX have plenty of paid apps that needs to be purchased
WiX has over 800+ free themes which have been put in categories like fashion & Clothing, Jewelry & Accessories, Arts & Crafts, etc. The themes can be changed to different variations of colors. The themes are mobile responsive they can also be edited differently for mobile.
WiXThemes
WiX theme options
The Theme editor of Wix has plenty of options users can just drag & drop the web elements, prebuilt sections, design elements, media, etc. into the theme editor. All these elements can be dragged & drop anywhere on the theme page. WiX has really good design elements & animations.
WiXCustomization
Squarespace
Squarespace has plenty of beautifully designed themes. These themes can be termed ready-made designed templates. Theme library also has a variety of themes to choose from. All the themes of Squarespace are responsive to mobile.
Squarespace themes
Squarespace Editor consists of an “add section” button upon which clicking will show lists of the prebuilt section that can be simply dragged to the homepage. There is an “add block” option that has Web elements like a Text editor, Buttons, lines, newsletters, etc. After adding sections they can be edited for different designs, fixtures, etc.
There is a reason for concern as themes cannot be interchanged. It can be duplicated and if you have a team then you can pass on the permission to manage the themes.
Squarespace Editor
Squarespace sections
Weebly
Weebly has plenty of themes they have organized in categories such as Online Store, Business, Portfolio, Personal, etc. All of these 70+ themes are free. Users can start customizing themes and at any point in time if you find themes are not looking great on the site you can interchange the themes.
Weebly Themes
The Weebly editor has a very basic editor that doesn’t offer great customization. They have basic web elements which are located on the left dashboard. These web elements can’t be designed to a greater extent.
Weebly Editor
Key Points
WiX has 800+ themes to cover all kinds of businesses. These themes can be customized, and designed with drag & drop features. They provide plenty of built-in design, animation functionality
Squarespace too has beautiful themes, sections, and customization features.
Weebly has plenty of themes but has very limited design & customization features.
Weebly has been acquired by square. Square provides eCommerce solutions for both online/ offline businesses. Weebly is good for those who are on a tight budget and are looking to sell online. It has some good features but is not enough for running & managing large businesses.
Squarespace & WiX are good for small businesses. They have essential tools, themes, applications & features for managing small businesses. WiX is also a good companion to the enterprises level business as they provide a separate plan for that.
Key Points
WiX has multiple eCommerce plans as they house small to enterprise-level businesses. They have plenty of online store themes, payment gateways, and apps.
Squarespace & Weebly are good for small businesses.
SEO & Blogging
Features
WiX
Squarespace
Weebly
Edit Title/Descriptions
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Edit Alt text
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Edit Permalink
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Sitemaps
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Edit Robots.txt
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URL redirects
✔
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SEO Apps
✔
❌
✔
Apart from these above features, WiX has special features WiX SEO Wizard provides suggestions on keywords based on the business to make the website rank higher. Weebly & WiX Provide plenty of SEO guides to help users. Squarespace has plenty of other options built in inside their SEO setting.
WiX has brilliant blogging tools, It has provided various tools & features that allow smooth blogging. As we can see on the left of the dashboard it has SEO, blog setting, monetize, and translate options. The blog elements can be simply dragged & drop on the blog editor.
WiX Blog
Squarespace has beautiful blogging themes & features. The blogging option can be accessed in the theme setting option. Squarespace provides plenty of blogging tools that can be inserted into the blog. Squarespace provides various integration that can also be inserted into the blog.
Squarespace Blog
Weebly has a very basic blogging feature. To add a blogging feature click on the pages section and add the blog page. Weebly will provide blog-related elements which can be added to the site by drag & drop method. These blogs can be archived, authors can be assigned, and can be categorized.
Key Points
WiX has good on-page & off-page SEO Features. It has an “SEO Wizard” tool that provides keyword suggestions.
Weebly has a good SEO setting but has very basic blogging features.
Squarespace has good blogging features & decent SEO features.
Marketing Features
WiX
Squarespace
Weebly
Apps
500+
25+
350+
Inbuilt email marketing tool
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Integration with eBay, Amazon, etc.
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WiX
WiX has big apps store with over 500+ apps. The apps have been categorized as marketing, sell online, design elements, etc. Wix offer are free as well as paid apps.
WiX App Market
WiX has integration with various multi selling social media channels Facebook, Instagram, Google and eCommerce Channels like Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc.
WiX has it’s own marketing tools WiX Ascend that provides email automations, store automations, social automations, chat & form services, etc. The WiX Ascend has free plan with limited features.
WiXAscend Plans
Squarespace
Squarespace has an app store with only 25+ extensions. Squarespace has plenty of inbuilt marketing features. There is an inbuilt email marketing tool which is free up to first 3 campaigns and then basic plan starts from $7/month. For Social media marketing you can use an mobile app Unfold recommended by the Squarespace.
Squarespace Extensions
Although Squarespace has many inbuilt marketing features but it doesn’t have multichannel integration like Weebly or WiX.
Weebly
Weebly has 350+ Apps to cover features like eCommerce, Marketing, Social, etc. Some of the apps are free as well as paid. These apps can be installed in 2-3 easy steps.
WeeblyApp Market
Weebly offers only few marketing tools like lead capture forms, Pop-ups, cart recovery mails. For most of marketing features we need to rely on Weebly apps. There are plenty of email marketing apps like Aweber, Automailer, etc to create email automations. There are plenty of social media integration apps like outify, social media stream, etc to un social media campaigns.
Weebly offers multichannel integration with social media channels like Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and eCommerce channels like Amazon, eBay to sell.
Key Points
Weebly and WiX have more than 350+ apps. Weebly has fewer inbuilt features but WiX provides marketing features through both inbuilt & third-party services.
Squarespace & WiX has inbuilt marketing plans to offer marketing automation.
Support & Resources
WiX
Squarespace
Weebly
Email
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Live chat
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Phone
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✔(depends on plan)
WiX
WiX has good support system. After visiting to their contact center users will be communicating with the bot, the bot tries to solve queries if it’s not able to find answerers then it will connect to the support assistance. Support assistance provide support through live chat, call support.
Apart from these they have plenty of blogs, tutorials, Videos, forums & active community.
WiX Support
Squarespace
Squarespace offers one to one solution to their users. They provide support through email, live chat. They have plenty of resources in form of blogs, videos, community, forums, etc. Users can also hire a Squarespace expert to seek assistance.
Squarespace Support
Squarespace has been improving their support. User can request for the issue that they want to be solved and Squarespace will help you with the providing suitable articles.
Squarespace support
Weebly
Weebly has provided all three forms of support live chat, phone & email. The support merely depends upon the plan. They claim to provide 24/7 support but customer success team has provided 12 hour time duration.
Weebly Support by Plan
Weebly has plenty of resources in the form of blogs, articles & has community to discuss the queries with the fellow Weebly users.
Weebly Support
Key Points
Weebly support level depends on the plan.
WiX and Squarespace provide 2 forms of support
Weebly Vs Squarespace vs Wix : Pros & Cons
WiX Pros
WiX Cons
1. Plenty of themes & apps.
1. Storage & Bandwidth Cap on Plans
2. Excellent themes & blogging customization
2. Additional costs inform of WiX Ascend, apps
Squarespace Pros
Squarespace Cons
1. Beautiful free themes
1. limited multichannel integration
2. It has good blogging tools
2. It has very few apps
Weebly Pros
Weebly Cons
1. Economical plan with a free plan
1. Limited theme customization features
2. Plenty of Third party apps
2. Not suitable for large businesses
Conclusion : Wix vs Squarespace vs Weebly
When to Use WiX?
If you want good designs, animations customization freedom.
If you have a restaurant, beauty/spa, or retail business services then WiX is a good option
Declan Kingston mainly works around strong Data to create powerful visuals, complex graphs to make the right decision for companies. He has been working in this field for over 8 years, has a strong knowledge of eCommerce platforms and website builders. He has worked with Ethereum and Looker Data Sciences, Inc. (now part of Google Cloud).
