Why does wix keep crashing

Graphic and web design being one of them. You are clearly upset, and your biased overview reminds me of a five year old throwing a temper tantrum; it is abundantly clear to the point that the majority of your readers took notice and have called you out on it. Wix is a wonderful option for people, such as myself, that are trying to make a better life for themselves. Without this program, I likely would never have A. Been able to learn coding in order to build my own website from scratch or B.

Been able to afford to hire someone to do it for me. Try looking outside your own privileged world for two minutes… Maybe then you might wake up and realize that the majority most often do have have the financial means to procure a website for their business as you have so ill advised.

But hey! Btw, I have met you several times in real life, and I must say that I am shockingly appalled by this article; I sincerely never expected something like this from you. I have been a wix user since they first released. The above comments are more than likely from wix employees themselves!

There is also the issue of page speed. The plain and simple fact is THEY tell you not to alter the image and they will display it appropriately. Wix is like Groupon. Darren, you are completely right and I felt the need to shut those wix employees up! Thank you for your post and hopefully more people will find out about wix and their deceptive practices before they have to start over like I did. Hi Amber, Thanks for your comments.

I absolutely agree people should enjoy trying new things, even women riding horses. Like everything though, there are trade offs and compromises. The whole point of this article is to realise the trade off you may be making by using platforms like this, without investing in the right knowledge to understand how your online presence works. Often this is more than the initial investment would have reaped them. This is no different from me going to the local racing track, and being driven around in a top end McLaren race car.

Would the experience be the same if I was driving it? Make the most of what you have as I can tell you are even reading articles like this. Every serious web person will say the same thing if they know what they are talking about. A friend a web developer recently called me to ask about doing some work for a client who they have built a Wix website for. They were professionals but the same thing happened.

Their SEO was appalling, and that costs in website visibility unless you are willing to pay for traffic, and even then it will cost you more. So go for your life with Wix and optimise it as best you can.

When you get some more money, use the money saved on website development on advertising or goods. Best of luck with your entrepreneurship.

Hi and thanks for your comments. Your image size issue is a real one, but it would affect any platform. I was just working with a developer on a site, and there were Kb images on it that could have been 30Kb. Hello, first of all thank you for your advice. It really makes sense. However, I am one of those people who never coded before to do a website.

I tried last year to use namecheap host, and it was so hard. I was not able to create a site that looks the way I wanted it to be. It was horrible experiment for me. I was not able to find exactly where I should go or how I can easily do a site. However wix can help beginners. It is easy to do a website for those who have no experience in coding.

I want your advice please, is there any place that I can make a website that is user friendly like wix? Other than wordpress its expensive. Hi Darren, thanks for the article! Darren, I just want to say I am proud of you for leaving up dissenting opinions.

You are a true professional. I am currently using Wix for my first website. I am quickly finding out the limitations. What I thought were some obvious features are missing — such as a text box that expands or contracts when you click on the little arrow.

I am hoping Wix will implement more tools, fast! Thanks for taking the time to comment. Thanks for commenting. Yes it is part of the problem. Selling a website is quite easy. Selling a functional online presence is harder, but far more beneficial to everyone involved.

Your first line about sums it up. Better something than nothing, just please take some time to learn the basics of search engine optimisation so that something can work a bit better for you. Unless you are paying or using their preferred platforms you can quickly find yourself out of luck. At times like this something that would be a 2 minute job on a platform you control can quickly become a 2 hour or even impossible job as you attempt to work around the limitations the platform imposes on you.

Yup the SEO options are reasonable, but like you said when building using platforms like these as a business user, you have to find out about these things. The main intention with this article was to say when using platforms like Wix, be aware of the non visual things you should know, and understand the limitations of DIY or the platform.

I only wanted to make a small website for fun, nothing business related. However, if for some reason in the future I wanted to change hosts, is that possible? And how much would that cost or how much effort does that require? WordPress is a free platform too though, you just need cheap hosting, and most have fast WordPress installs.

There are tons of themes you can install from within wordpress, and that will have you in as good a state as wix. For this scenario though, Wix will prevent you having to be worried about updates, plugin updates etc. It is not possible to change hosts with Wix. They are your content management system, and your host. For a WordPress Host, you could try Siteground. They also have a fast WordPress installation guide. I hope that helps a bit. Hi fullycharged after creating more then 35 premium Wix websites I am here to share my experience and opinion about Wix.

I will drop the links of my website below. I found out he was a website developer by his number. Similarly I see most of the website developer and digital marketing experts are the ones to speak about or speak against Wix. I am not saying you are one but this is the fact. How many so called web designers would have loss their work to wix. I am happy. And believe me as a tech savvy person or I was misled by the designer and he had me pay that much money on some shitty website nowhere to be found on google.

And interestingly he was considered one good renowned web designer and he did lots of websites those days ripping as many people as he can. Check my websites and you yourself check on google and it is not shitty platform. Thanks a lot for your comments, and a nice way to get backlinks to your sites ;- I only looked at the geoasiatravel.

Those sites are nice to look at, BUT… on a couple of the services pages so I presume the rest , you have a very basic tag, and absolutely no Header tags.

As well as content, those are very important tags for Google. Sure you can be found without them, but in this case you have demonstrated all the behind the scenes things I highlight are often overlooked with Wix websites.

When I do site:www. Note — I never said Wix is absolutely terrible but most good professional developers would think this , it just hides the technical elements that make nice looking sites awesome, and unfortunately your geoasiatravel site demonstrates this. I used WordPress for 6 years. It was an awful experience.

I also had plenty of trouble with speed, even from expensive hosting platforms specifically for WordPress sites. It was always slow and made me lose customers. The difficulty in building web pages how I wanted also resulted in lower quality pages, even if the content was great. Developers like you are wrong about the superiority of WordPress.

Wix is awesome. It allows me to just create, which has led to more sales and better page ranks. Load times are way faster than any WordPress site I created, and bugs are cleaned up for me without asking. The one downside to Wix is the extra time you have to spend optimizing for mobile and SEO on the backend, but guess what?

WordPress never did this automatically either. In fact, where it was automated it was the same effect over and over. Hi Stephen, thanks for taking the time to comment. Sure you get bad developers and bad hosts as well, but there are options to improve it.

Change hosts, tweak settings, change caching, optimise the site. Poor practices can always make a site slow, regardless of platform. You sound a lot more educated in elements of digital marketing than in my experience most Wix users, so you can see behind just the drag and drop features.

I see plenty of sites with poor SEO settings, again, regardless of platform. If you take time to override these per page, or have good page titles and structure, of course it will make a difference. Thanks again and best of luck. Felt the need to reply after reading so many ridiculous comments mainly the first ones … As others have said, definitely Wix employees! We had a client a long time ago. They hired us to build them a new website and from day one they put themselves in the position of SEO experts.

Because they had managed to get their old website to rank first for a keyword that absolutely no one was searching for. As someone who has worked with hundreds of business owners, there are a lot of them out there who are doing real damage to their businesses by not investing into their online presence properly. It works and I was able to verify my ownership of the the site using Google Webmaster. My webpage works perfectly and it actually pops up when you search for it with any search engine, on any device.

I think you should give another chance. My site pops up using the tags I created for it. Your post sums it up well. A good tip is if you really are going to stick to Wix or any web platform, WordPress included , and are basing your site on a template or theme, ensure that theme has a good layout for search engine optimisation.

Sometimes templates have a tendency to have these H1s as the main text on a page — e. Congrats on your site. Hey Wow, lots of extreme bias in the comments here! Just wanted to weigh in real quick with my experience. Firstly, depending on business needs, Wix can be a really good platform to set up on, due to its ease of use and great layouts. The code on the back-end is a lot smoother now than it was a couple years back, but still has a lot to do.

I found that if you use their ADI to build then enhance on that, websites maintain great functionality. Alt texts, metas, headings, and building backlinks will get your site on page 1 with Wix for reasonable keywords. To be honest, saying using wix is going to cost you , dollars or whatever ridiculous number was up there is quite far from the truth.

But I do understand the power of click-bait and leveraging human psychology. You made some nice points there anyway. As you said Wix can be a good platform if you spend the time learning how to implement the SEO elements. As you know based on your experience, what a user sees, and what a search engine sees is quite different.

No doubt about it, there are a lot of bad WordPress sites out there too! Having read your totally rational comments and the over angry responses, I suspect I should leave well alone. Thanks for your comment.

Totally agree with you. WIX is good to start with but after a while you will start hitting so many issues you just want to cry. Issues like posts sharing on social media WIX forces you to use their goo. They also have regular outages. I keep seeing my site down even casually browsing, then I installed kingdom and track the outages, you will be surprised how often your site goes down, even if for a short while.

Nearly got me updating my domain Nameserver record when it had nothing to do with it. It turned out that WIX is not supported on older version of android below v7. This is pretty ridiculous. Luckily I did not touch my hosting as their incorrectly advised otherwise all my sub-domains, email setup etc would have got unmapped. Basically people saying in this day and age you do not have resources to host yourself.. Good luck to you then when if your business picks up and you run into during WIX issues.

Great article although there is no mention of file sizes of wix webpages. I even removed the images. This is the breakdown I got. Script But I have been testing wix example webpages and they all seem large in size and the script element is dispropionately large.

This is a great article. The web has empowered a lot of people to make websites. I recall that parallax effect that got really popular a few years ago was a good example. Flash over substance. I see the same garbage with themes like Divi.

The same patterns get repeated over and over again. That said, the CMS is what you make it of it. Unlike WordPress or Drupal, you code up the site you want and then let the CMS render out the content the way you want it, where you want it. The front end is up to you.

You basically insert fields where you want the website content to go. If you do it right, you can even create reusable content blocks such as pull quote, heading, image that let you mix and match. In saying that and in light of some of the comments saying the article is biased — my site is far from the best in terms of performance! If it makes you feel better, Google say conversions drop significantly after a 3 second load, but I see plenty of new expensive sites being built that take way longer than the times you talk about.

What a great article! They lure people in, and disrespect their time by slapping on charges when they try to do anything effective. The reason was that Google now rated all their pages as poor quality. Yes it makes it easy to have an online presence.

But so did GeoCities and MySpace and this is just as bad. A lot of baloney. Fix is awesome. I have built over 60 sites it. They make SEO very easy. This is just an attempt to get you the public to keep paying web designers.

This article is nonsense. Self serving to keep the public using over priced web designers. Thanks for your contribution. Not at all. I recently attended a conference where Mark Wright Apprentice winner was the speaker on digital marketing. I was happy with WIX until I was pushed by several mails to pay a yearly fee which I thought was a way to reduce the monthly cost of 18 euros. Then I discovered I was charged not only 18 euros monthly, but also I wanted to cancel all this and keep the 18 euros only.

Looks like I have been swindled and I do not like this. Since writing this post there has been huge improvements in SEO for wixsite. Maybe you should update this post? I am quite new to the website building game, and have been using Wix for eCommerce because it is simply SO easy. However, I am aware of its limitations and messy back-end coding, so have been starting to mess with SquareSpace. I have limited coding skills but an eye for design, so SS is bearable.

What website builders besides WordPress are you in favor for? For eCommerce? Not sure if you have a separate written article for that, but would love to know. Thanks for your comments.

For WordPress, good recommended page builders include Elementor and Divi. Sure there will be reasons to use something else, and it depends on the scale of your operation, but Shopify is so well integrated to Analytics, tracking and Facebook pixels, and you get so much functionality in there for ecommerce and a plethora of apps to add functionality. You are a bit tied into their themes and coding if you want to customise things, but you could argue that about any theme you use.

I have a Shopify article in me somewhere…just need the time to write it! Hi Darren I have been in sales and marketing all of my life, and what you are saying is absolutely correct, and also I have to say, when you use a pre fab like wix. Your getting exactly that. Like a pre-fab home. I see so many websites out there that look the same. This currently ruins the branding of your company.

Not only this your website, and your online advertising should also match your appearance in the real world not only your virtual world, and a company needs to do both. After all its about name recognition of the company! Such as Mcdonalds big arches. I am sure Mcdonalds online advertising arcs look the same on paper advertising. Or lets say wixs has a picture of a nice dimmed lighted pitcher of beer with glasses of beer. The problem is every bar in town is using that same picture on their website!

Wow, there goes your brand looking like everyone else! I saw a local social media company here in the Osceola wi that did a website for a local business here, at the time I was working in online marketing. The thing about the pre fab website. Every body can build one, but you may be damaging your companies online presence instead of helping it. Unless you take the time to understand googles algorithms.

So I totally agree with what you are saying. But also I might suggest that anyone that does online marketing and websites, and local search also should understand that its also important to be in the real world advertising, such as magazines, newspapers, and the virtual online presence as well. Key to branding and name recognition is about recognizing the company by the company be unique and standing out!

Hi, thanks for sharing all this info. I am a Six user and I am trying to better positioning my site, so I started applying Structured Data rich snippets to it. Am I wrong? I do thank you in advance. Some one is salty they lost business to Wix. I know several web developers with this same mentality. A competitor came in and did what you do but made it easy and affordable for the every man. Times change. Technology changes. People get smarter. This is how the world is going. Now if your building a reaaally big website with hundreds or thousands of pages like an online store then yes I would say get your self a professional web developer.

BUT not every one needs a PRO web dev that charges hundreds of dollars for a website for their photography, home craft sales, ect. There is also NO wait time for changes and NO extra charge for changes. Boom done. No wait time No extra charge for changes. What do you mean by Six? It looks like this site is in Wix. Happy to be proven wrong with this though. Hi thanks a lot for your time to reply.

The website was a single page website. All the essentials were overlooked — absolute basic Search Engine Optimisation , nothing to do with business listings, no Google Analytics on the site. Sure, if you just want a brochure to send out via email go ahead.

I think it may be time to close the comments as it was more than 3. I would have agreed with your post back then. WordPress is irrelevant to small business as the market is moving so quickly at every level.

A small business using WordPress is like using an articulated truck to deliver a single letter across the city when a bike would be much more appropriate. The agile bike is what the market wanted. No matter how much you shout online about why a truck is better than a bike, you have to realise that the market has moved. People just want a bike.

This is revolutionary! PS: I like horses too. I also like my car. There are times when I would much prefer a horse and others my car. As they say, horses for courses.

I create almost all of my websites in wix for my small business clients. I am a graphic designer and also was a computer programmer and a technology marketer. WIX has been by far, the best platform to build a website at a reasonable price. All of them rank on page one of google.

WIX does have very easy google analytics integration. This article feels bit outdated. I have to respectfully disagree with your analysis on WIX. I find WordPress requires too much maintenance for a website and requires too much technical expertise for my clients. In the future, less and less technical expertise will be required to create great websites that help grow your business.

I agree with Darren. I find it is very easy for me to create a website with Wix, however the function is not up to speed. For example, I can strip the page down to just the Wix elements and it still take 5 seconds to load on a desktop. Which would not be a problem for me IF there was some indication around second point that the site was actively loading. With the exception of the spinning element in url, the page remains white until after the 5 second mark.

Way too long to wait without knowing if you are really connecting. And because everyone else has a site… This is the wrong approach. So I visited some sites I knew had been using it. This speaks volumes! The site looked like it was made using Microsoft frontpage about 15 years ago.

Yes, it needed to be changed! And more importantly, its making them money! I think the WIX reviews speak volumes about the service, and why people might want to reconsider! Thanks for taking the time… very well put and exactly the same scenario I see a lot. Your problem might be a network issue, or perhaps there was a temporary system issue. You should contact regarding these type of issues. Wishlist Page is the official platform for requesting new features.

You can vote, comment, and track the status of the requested features. To see this working, head to your live site. Chris Chong. Aug 28, Then it didn't worked. Then they asked me to clear the DNS cache in Windows. Now the frequency of crash is reduced but the crash is still hapohappe. I would recommend people with problem to contact wix support as then they will have more examples to debug the issue.

BTW the crash is only happening in chrome. Firefox is working fine. Well here is my latest situation Safari wont hold up more than 3 minutes when i work. Hope this can help anyone who has the same probem.

By the way i cleared all the cookies on Safari and didnt help at all. It keeps crashing. Pages stop working properly. Editors crashes all the times. Several times a day. Mostly my changes are saved, but this is extremely annoying. I use Wix Code and a lot of javascript on the page. It seems to be related to the Wix live code analysis. If I write a mistake in a JSON object, even if for a second before fixing it, the editor will have higher chances to crash in the following couple of minutes.

Same problems on me chrome. September and still having the same problem on chromebook October , The same problem with Chrome Browser. Yes, same with me in Chrome on my Mac, but it is usually after I've been editing for about an hour. As for Safari, I gave up on that my first week using it because as another member stated above, I too get multiple warnings from Safari on Mac that it is using up a lot of memory. I haven't tried Firefox yet. And, I routinely after every use clear my history, cache, cookies, etc.