I tried Wix—And I Wouldn’t Use It Again

I’ve tried using Wix—both the studio and standard version—and I can say with complete confidence, DO NOT USE WIX.

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Wix is very popular by now and focuses a lot on marketing. Lots of people have heard of it and end up using it because it is something familiar and the arguments for using it sound pretty good.

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People generally pick it for two reasons:

1. It’s cheap
2. It’s easy to learn

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And it is relatively cheap and easy to learn compared to other platforms but there are also A LOT of downsides.

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The editor is slow, has a lot of bugs and is a complete pain to use

The time to load the editor? Slow. Very. Dragging an element a few pixels to the left? Impossible. You can’t do that anymore, and you have to refresh the page. Time to reload the editor? Slow. Very. Can you drag the element over now? No.

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Never have I been more frustrated with a website. Making a page on Wix takes 5 times longer than any other platform I have used due to the slow speeds and all the bugs in the editor (you suddenly lose the ability to drag elements around, sometimes the forms don’t work, the margins keep resetting).

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Wix websites tend to be slower to load

I have seen and done audits for a few different websites built on Wix, and they all took noticeably longer to load. The code on the website always ends up a little bloated when you use a website editor, but it seems to be worse on Wix.

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A lot of its plugins and apps like a calendar, a booking tool, or a form, also end up slowing the site even more.

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Not many options to make your website look how you want

The design options in Wix aren’t a lot. A lot of it is built around templates although you can also build a full site from scratch. However, Wix doesn’t really give you that many options on how your website will end up looking in the end.

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You can’t control the layout fully, you can’t format text exactly the way you want sometimes, block sections like forms or blog posts give you even less control over its layout and design. You are always working within the confines of Wix’s editor, and it can definitely be hard to fully realize your design for the website.

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Bad for SEO

Wix is also quite bad for SEO. That means that websites on Wix tend to have a harder time ranking higher on Google and other search engines than websites built on other platforms do, and it’s quite hard to get all your settings and website optimized for SEO so that it gets as high as possible in search results.

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