No export of the working site
Content can be copied manually. The actual built site, its structure and logic, exists only inside the platform.
REBUILD · FROM WIX AND SQUARESPACE
A closed platform, and what leaving it actually involves
Wix and Squarespace are closed, drag-and-drop website builders: the site only exists inside their platform, with no export of the working site to run anywhere else. A custom build is code in your own repository, runnable on any server, closed to nobody, including you.
WHAT ACTUALLY RECURS
What the platform trades off, and what it costs to stay
Not a criticism of ease of use. A description of what that ease costs long term.
Ease of drag-and-drop over page weight
Optimised for anyone being able to move a block around, not for how much a browser has to download to render it.
A subscription for as long as the site exists
The site stops working the day the subscription does, because it was never actually yours to keep running.
BY INDUSTRY
What breaks depends on what you run
A booking-heavy business fails differently from a photography portfolio.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Questions about migrating off Wix or Squarespace
The ones that come up before anyone signs anything.
Wix and Squarespace are closed, drag-and-drop website builders: the site only exists inside their platform, and there is no way to export the working site to run anywhere else. A custom build is code in your own repository, runnable on any server, closed to nobody.
Leaving means starting over. There is no export that hands you a working copy of the site to move elsewhere, only content you can copy manually into something new. The platform fee is the visible cost. Being unable to leave without a rebuild is the hidden one.
They are built for ease of editing, not for page weight or load speed, and that trade-off shows up as heavier pages than a purpose-built static or server-rendered site would carry for the same content. The gap widens as a site grows past a simple brochure.
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