WordPress or Wix for your website?

With the rise of the internet era and the increase of screen time and competition, many businesses go digital or are born from digital. Few companies answered a collective need to have a website with easy-to-use platforms called CMS (Content Management System). WordPress or Wix are among the most knowns, but which one to choose for your project?

An increase in entertainment platforms and social media has produced intense global competition between such platforms.

Here the victory lies in momentarily capturing the minds of consumers.

Why is it important to choose the right website for your Blog or Business?

WordPress or Wix are great platforms, but they’re also very different from each other. Wix, on one hand, is a website builder, which means it’s easy to use and it offers a lot of technical support. 

While on the other hand, WordPress is a content management system (CMS), which is more scalable but also demands more technical know-how.

For an online business/ blogger, a slow load speed on a webpage can lead to a lack of sales conversions and a general loss of traffic. Today the consumers would prefer to search for a new page than spend time waiting for a page to load. But there are actionable steps that can be taken to improve the speed of the website, therefore which website to choose becomes an important question. Should a consumer opt for WordPress or Wix is something that needs to be thought upon. 

So, let’s find out that WordPress or Wix, which is the site for you with the following Comparison:

1. Ease of Use

WordPress

➲ WordPress is easy to use, so it is easy to get started. After your web host installs WordPress you can start building your website.

➩ But if we see WordPress or Wix, WordPress needs to be understood. Especially its basics that may need the help of plugins to build their site.

➲ Here there is no drag and drop interface by default. You’ll have to install a third-party plugin like Elementor for drag and drop features or use menus to create items.

➩ Many templates and plugins can be found in WordPress. Everything else you’ll have to find elsewhere.

➲ You’ll have to find solutions to problems online or pay extra for technical support.

Wix

➲ Wix comes with powerful and easy-to-use tools to build your website. Here the user doesn’t need to spend much time learning the platform.

➩ Easy to get started. Create an account and start building your website right away.

➲ Drag and drop interface. Drag and drop items where you’d like them to appear on the screen.

➩ Everything you need such as templates, apps, and images is free from within your WIX account.

➲ Technical support available by email or via the WIX Help Centre.

➩ If you choose between WordPress or Wix, then Wix provides you with better Ease of Use.

2. Web Hosting

WordPress

➲ In WordPress, you can opt for any third-party web host.

➩ Here you will have to pay a monthly fee for web hosting services.

➲ Most third-party hosts give you a lot of features to manage your hosting account.

Wix

➲ Here, you can’t host any other website, you can only host your WIX website on WIX.

➩ WIX account comes with free web hosting.

➲ The options for managing your hosting account are slim to none.

➩ If you choose between WordPress or Wix, then WordPress provides you with better Web site hosting.

3. Flexibility

WordPress

➲ On WordPress, you can host your website on most if not all third-party web hosts.

➩ Third-party web hosts provide a variety of tools to configure your website.

➲ You can start with WordPress.com if you don’t want to manage the hosting side of your website.

➩ Over 10,000 free and premium themes are available, with that you can create your own theme here.

➲ Many developers contribute to making plugins. There are usually several plugins for the same type of application.

Wix

➲ WIX is the only place you can host a WIX website.

➩ Here, you have virtually no tools to manage your website.

➲ You have to use what they provide. You can’t create your own apps or templates.

➩ The features you need to customize your website might require you to upgrade to a more expensive plan.

➲ If you choose between WordPress or Wix, then WordPress provides you with more flexibility. 

4. Customization options

WordPress

➲ In WordPress, the customization options are available to you but it depends entirely on the theme you’re using.

➩ The Premium themes have extensive customization options, which allows you to extensively tweak the layout of your website.

➲ Free WordPress themes usually limit making fairly minor modifications (e.g. to text color, button color).

➩ You can install your own fonts using a plugin; you can edit your site’s CSS (the code that determines your website’s visual appearance). Also, the built-in WordPress customizer makes it easy to add CSS to your site.

Wix

➲ In Wix, the built-in Wix Editor makes it straightforward and easy to edit and customize templates. 

➩ Here, you simply click on the web element you’d like to customize and click the Change Design button to see the different design options available to you.

➲ Wix provides around 100 different web fonts to choose from out of the box and gives you the option to upload your own fonts directly via the Wix Editor too.

I➩ f you choose between WordPress or Wix here, then Wix provides you with more customization options. 

5. Search Engine Optimisation (S.E.O)

WordPress

➲ WordPress is considered to be a very SEO-friendly platform or we can say pro SEO. 

➩ Herein, you can install a plugin named Yoast SEO. It has both versions,  free and premium, and is the most preferred tool for doing SEO.

➲ With some technical configuration work and good SEO, WordPress can easily be indexed by search engines. 

➩ It is very user-friendly and therefore it is easy to configure your website name, tagline, heading tags, URL structure, image alt tags. 

Wix

➲ Wix covers the SEO capabilities that a standard website needs for enhancing its visibility and performance. 

➩ It provides basic SEO features like search console integration and sitemap generation. 

➲ The Wix SEO asks you a few simple questions about the site and creates a personalized SEO Plan.

➩ One can follow the step-by-step guide mentioned to connect the site to Google and rank their sites on search engines.

➲ The con is that the page loading time for Wix websites is generally slow which in turn is a major back set for Wix websites in terms of SEO.

➩ If you choose between WordPress or Wix here, then WordPress will provide you with a higher SEO ranking. 

So what is the best option between WordPress or Wix?

Choosing between WordPress or Wix depends on what your goals are. If you are aim is running a business or making more money through online marketing, SEO (which is essentially Google search ranking), image compression, detailed analytics insights then we then WordPress is best for you. 

If you are focusing on starting your content marketing firm and your focus is to have an attractive website wherein you run different marketing campaigns and are looking for more flexibility, then choose Wix. As it lets you build and maintain your site without too much (or any) help from a third-party service provider. 

It is basically like a contest that is played out with different roles in many different areas. So, be it in our home, during our vacation, in our airline seat and at the restaurant where you eat. 

Which one do you use for Money-Education…

WordPress or Wix do you now plan to use?

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