Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Wix	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Wix is a website builder used to grown an online presence. The platform allows users to build their website from scratch, choose from designer-made templates, or use an AI website builder to add sections, images, and text.	$17 per month
WordPress	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Wordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.	$3 per month 6 GB storage

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	Wix	WordPress
Considered Both Products	Wix Rae Carson Communications Strategist in Marketing at Institute for Cultural Communicators (Non-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Wix Wix feels very similar to the experience I had with Squarespace some years ago. It far exceeds Drupal, which we found impossible to customize or integrate with things without the help of a professional developer. WordPress, of course, offers infinite customization options for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix I was pleasantly surprised at how much more complex Wix was a designing a website than WordPress was, and yet it maintained the same level of simply pleasing aesthetic quality. Whereas before, when I first use WordPress, it was simply just a tad more than a blog, Wix as allowed … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Hey Head of Growth in Marketing at Coursebox (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Wix easier and more efficient to manage than WordPress, but there are times when you are unable to customise things. Wix is sort of like canva compared to photoshop, it does what it needs to the vast majority of the time and actually quite well Incentivized Helpful? Adrian Romero Brand designer in Marketing at Berlin Grey (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Wix Thanks to the intuitive interface that Wix has, we've been able to accelerate the speed of some of our projects, which is very important for us. We find Wix easier and faster than WordPress or Squarespace, as these 2 are definitely more complex and hard to comprehend at some … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix I selected Wix as I have used it before. Wix is a website builder. It’s easy to use and offers lots of technical support. WordPress is a content management system, which is more scalable but also demands more technical know-how. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix I selected Wix because it is way more user friendly. With WordPress, you need to either have advanced knowledge in coding and development, or you can hire someone to optimize your website for you. With Wix, you don't need to hire someone of have a lot of knowledge in coding - … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix Wix is a less aesthetically pleasing option in comparison to WordPress and Squarespace. WordPress is much more robust in regard to its capabilities, especially with SEO. Squarespace has better themes to use and is more pleasing to look at it however I think Wix's usability … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix Squarespace and WordPress are great options but both are more expensive options and they can be more complex for the beginner user. The thing I like about Wix is how easy to use it is and basically, you can drag and drop things that you need to make a great-looking website. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix Wix is easier to use and much more intuitive than WordPress. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix Wix is much easier to use on a daily basis and, in my opinion, offers much more features and modifications than WordPress. In addition, I believe that the community for Wix is much more engaging and helpful than the community for WordPress. I also appreciate that Wix has a … Incentivized Helpful? Julia Gonzalez Administrative Services Officer in Information Technology at Consulting (Oil & Energy, 11-50 employees) Chose Wix Wix is much easier for beginners to use than WordPress. But Wix does sacrifice some of the tools and customization abilities that WordPress has. Wix has eCommerce platforms whereas for WordPress you will need to do this through one of their plugins. Also, if I remember right, … Incentivized Helpful? Mildred M. Tassone Partner in Professional Services at Montalix \| Digital Marketing & Photography (Real Estate, 501-1000 employees) Chose Wix Wix has many more features and advanced technical capabilities. Wix support is good and the online help is also good. WordPress help was not up to Wix. The video and images included with Wix are excellent and provide enough options that a separate photo program is not an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix Like I said before, Wix is great for more basic and straight-forward websites that don't need a lot of complexity. However, if you are looking to get a little more complex with your website, WordPress is better because it is a more in-depth platform which you can do a lot more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix Wix is 100% easier than WordPress and a much nicer interface. Incentivized Helpful? Josh Kratovil Senior Marketing Manager in Marketing at Riverside Insights (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Wix We considered WordPress for our site, but Wix's WYSIWYG editor made it a clear choice given our timelines and experience with building pages. Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Newman Marketing Director in Marketing at MGT Films (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose Wix Wix is GREAT for a drag-and-drop website editor, but I prefer Squarespace. Squarespace has a lot more polished drag-and-drop modules. Squarespace feels more like a name-brand editor, as it's frequently discussed by many influencers online and has a high level of brand … Incentivized Helpful? Gil Parrish Founder & CEO in Corporate at Parrish, Brumfield & Associates (Public Relations and Communications, 1-10 employees) Chose Wix Wix is much easier to use and manage Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix Wix is super easy and straightforward; in comparison to the competitors I've used, it eliminates a lot of stress and anxiety around creating and maintaining a website. The affordability of Wix in comparison to other website platforms is also something that I appreciate. I … Incentivized Helpful? Qaisar Shakoor Research Assistant Intern in Research & Development at Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University (Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees) Chose Wix I have chosen Wix because of its great templates design and customization features Incentivized Helpful? Kristen Zatina Marketing & Communications in Marketing at Fortego (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees) Chose Wix Wix is cleaner and easier to navigate. I'd go so far as to say something about it feels sleeker and almost "sexier," I may be so bold... Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix It is easier to use it Incentivized Helpful? Jessica Groff Blogger at Self-employed (Writing & Editing, 1-10 employees) Chose Wix Wix does not hold a candle to WP or Squarespace. We selected Wix because it was the cheapest option, and when working with nonprofits, cheap wins. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Wix Wix is more or less like Weebly. Wix is for the same level of user who uses Weebly but has a bit more technological knowledge. Wix is more advanced and allows users to control their web development to the next level. I have 2 similar websites, one using Wix and other Weebly. I … Incentivized Helpful? Horacio Carcamo Product Development Asst. in Marketing at Myron Manufacturing (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees) Chose Wix Wix can give the user great customer service or technical assistance when needed. I think that this factor can stack up against other competitors. Wix also provides a great tutorial for web page creation when you start with a template, every field of the web page is clearly … Incentivized Helpful?	Automattic Verified User Chose WordPress WordPress simply has so many more options to customize both our and the users experience. Wix also is really expensive in the long run, does not let you add plugins or customize as much as you want. Jimdo is similar, just not quite as expensive. When growing our business, those … Incentivized Helpful? Maria Clara Daly Director of Interactive Strategy in Marketing at Stratacomm (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose WordPress There are no other site builders/platforms that stand up to the ease and versatility (heavy custom coding and customizations included) as Wordpress. Drupal is clunky and outdated, as is Joomla, and while Wix or Squarespace may be sufficient for someone with very low web needs, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress Wix is more expensive to use, and, in my opinion, not as easy to navigate. You are more limited in what you can do with a Wix site, app wise. Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy Bryant Marketing Manager in Marketing at CheapAir.com (Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 51-200 employees) Chose WordPress Wordpress and Shopify don't support e-commerce. Wix is more design-focused. Blogger was limiting but easy to use with Google products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress Using sites like Wix, Square, Space, and Blogger may be more beginner-friendly as they provide more robust templates and a purely drag-and-drop interface. However, they quickly become frustrating as they are very difficult to customize. These websites make more sense for a … Incentivized Helpful? Collins Sarkodieh Aning Senior Web Developer in Information Technology at Ghadverts.com (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress I used Wix and Squarespace for a few projects then I found WordPress, as a developer with programming background I needed the flexibility of adding a touch of code on my website be Wix did not allow me or give me that flexibility. WordPress gave me the room for customization … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress WordPress is the grandest of Wix and Squarespace just alone in how many theme and plug-in options you can have access to. Also SEO is another big role in comparison – better SEO with WordPress Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Huisjen Owner in Marketing at Daedalus Designs (Graphic Design, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress I found WordPress to be a bit easier to navigate through and better suited to an all around website creation. Squarespace is geared specifically towards eCommerce while Wix felt the most artsy of the three. WordPress feels like a middle ground with great customization options … Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress is more popular and has more default templates for website creation. Moreover, it is easy to use. The availability of large communities makes it easier to fix any encountered bug or problem during the development process. Apart from this, WordPress is open source and … Incentivized Helpful? Gary Gray Concierge Technology Consultant in Information Technology at Tech Haven (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress I'm not a fan of being locked into the limitations of a single-use platform like Wix or Squarespace, and greatly prefer the portability of having a WordPress website. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress I have never been a huge fan of platforms like Squarespace because a lot of the code is hidden behind locked doors, so from a speed and performance perspective, there's only so much you can do in order to optimize. On page speed insights, I haven't seen a Squarespace site do … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Berchak Owner / Creative at BerchakDesign (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress its all in what you want and how you want to do it. The newer SaaS platforms can be much easier to use for non web people. Also the increasing political issues within the WordPress leadership and communities is starting to get annoying. Incentivized Helpful? Amy Highland Head of Operations at WIRO Agency (Design, 11-50 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress has the most open abilities to change the technical foundations. Whereas, other platforms typically have their own niches of use cases; e.g. focusing on page builders, drag and drop, more static code, themes etc... WordPress offers a bit more flexibilities as it can … Incentivized Helpful? John Dykstra Small Business Owner at JRD Apps (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress I like that WordPress sites can be backed up and moved to new servers if needed. Some of the other template sites lock you in because their back-end code is what makes it run. Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Cetina Founder in Marketing at Immunity Digital Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress To work with WordPress your company needs a developer, no matter what. Unless you have the experienced developer in house, you will need one. Squarespace is superfriendly and easy to work. Has all the features for a simple and clean website. WordPress lacks this part. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress DIY builders have their place for people that don't have technical ability or support. But Wordpress opens a world of custom options to anyone with the ability to learn/create those things. even if you're not a back end developer / use No-code options Incentivized Helpful? Gil Parrish Founder & CEO in Corporate at Parrish, Brumfield & Associates (Public Relations and Communications, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress offers greater control over content design and editing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress I've just been using WordPress forever so it is my go to recommendation for non technical people Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Montgomery CTO in Manufacturing at Animal Necessity (Veterinary, 11-50 employees) Chose WordPress We've tried a decent variety of other platforms throughout the years, and all-in-all we still consistently use WordPress for all kinds of business solutions. We have found while others excel in specific areas, WordPress excels in almost every area pound for pound. We highly … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Sweeting Marketing Operations Manager in Marketing at AOT Technologies (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress offers reliability which is very important for our business. Incentivized Helpful? Ash Shenker General Manager in Corporate at Australian Fitness Academy (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose WordPress I have only used Shopify as an alternative website/e-commerce builder. Whilst Shopify has better functionality, particularly for an online store, WordPress has more capability to build a comprehensive website with large volumes of content and integrations with other platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Tom Mulhern Freelance Web and Graphic Designer in Marketing at Boombox Creative (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress WordPress is by far the best website CMS available on the market. It is an open-source free solution with endless possibilities of websites that you can build. You don't need to be a developer to build a site, but there are options to use code to take your website to the next … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress It is the best and free platform if you compare others and if you will use WordPress you don't have to know how to code. Basic information will be more than enough to start. Creating pages and editing posts you created is so easy to manage. If you use other platforms, it will … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WordPress I think WordPress is a superior platform compared to others because of the vast number of plugins and themes. Developers are always creating more plugins and functionality for WordPress as well, so it is constantly being improved upon. There are limitless possibilities for what … Incentivized Helpful? Lisa Keyser Owner \| Principal at LMK Web Design & Consulting (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose WordPress We only build and support websites on WordPress and Joomla!. In general, WordPress is a good fit for our smaller clients who want to handle all of the maintenance and updates themselves. Our clients with larger and more complex content needs, or more sophisticated … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Wix	WordPress
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published March 15, 2021

	Wix	WordPress
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (98 ratings)	8.4 (173 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (37 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)	8.7 (20 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)	9.5 (3 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (2 ratings)	8.6 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	6.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (11 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (10 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)