Export Squarespace vs Wix to HTML

If you're coming from a design background, Squarespace feels right. The templates are crafted, not just assembled. Typography works. White space breathes. Things line up.

Wix templates vary. Some are good. Many look like someone threw widgets at a page and hoped for the best. You can make Wix look professional, it just takes more effort.

That effort is the trade-off. Squarespace constrains you to the template's structure. Sections, blocks, predefined layouts. Beautiful results, limited flexibility. Want something the template doesn't support? Tough.

Wix lets you drag anything anywhere. Complete freedom. Complete responsibility too, it's easy to make a mess. No grid snapping, no automatic alignment. You're on your own.

Pricing favors Squarespace slightly. Personal plan is $16/month, Business is $23. Wix Basic is $17 but most people need the $32 Business plan for professional features. Both charge more for e-commerce.

Here's something designers don't talk about: the code underneath is messy on both.

Squarespace markup is deeply nested, class names are cryptic, and everything loads through their JavaScript framework. Page speed suffers. Lighthouse scores drop.

Wix is worse. Their proprietary rendering system adds massive overhead. A simple portfolio page on Wix can transfer 4MB before anything shows up. Thats not a typo, megabytes of JavaScript for some images and text.

Both platforms optimize for the editor experience, not the output. Makes sense for them, the editor is what you see while building. But visitors experience the slow, bloated result.

For portfolio sites, restaurants, small businesses, places where design matters but interactivity doesn't, there's a third option. Build on either platform, then export.

Our tool renders your Squarespace or Wix site and extracts clean HTML. Same design, fraction of the file size. Host it free, load it fast.

The design debate misses the point. Pick whichever tool you're comfortable with. Then export when you're done and stop paying monthly for files that don't change.

Premium templates don't matter much when the site just sits there.