Let our smart finder decide for you in 5 easy questions. Here you can see the uptime of our Squarespace demo website for a period of about half a year. The uptime should ideally be above A good value would be milliseconds. As loading time has become a ranking factor for Google, page speed is now more important than ever before.
Is Squarespace secure? How much traffic does it support? Squarespace uses SSL encryption in editing mode — a feature that sets it apart from most other tools.
Both their Unlimited and Business plans support unlimited traffic and can handle tremendous amounts of concurrent website visitors.
If you have used WordPress in the past you will probably appreciate this. Will my Squarespace site work on an iPad or iPhone? They also offer mobile apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android that allow you to edit your site on the go. Does Squarespace include email accounts? No, you will have to set it up elsewhere. They recommend Google Workspace. Alternatively you can purchase your domain name through a registrar like Go Daddy or Namecheap and let email run through them.
This allows you to offer premium content, such as classes, workshops and videos, to paying members. You can find out more here. Yes, you can set up URL mapping. If you are moving your site over from a previous system, you can redirect old URLs that would otherwise lead to an error page. Can I use Disqus for comments on my blog? Can I import my existing blog into Squarespace?
Yes, Squarespace supports imports from. Squarespace also allows you to export your blog. Hi, my name is Robert Brandl, and I am the founder of Tooltester. I used to work in a digital marketing agency where I managed website and email marketing projects.
To optimize my client's campaigns, I always had to find the optimal web tools. Tooltester founded in opens this knowledge to you, hopefully saving you endless hours of research. If you have any questions, please leave a comment. You can also find me on LinkedIn. Squarespace Review — Plenty of style, but is it worthwhile? Robert Brandl. Squarespace Review Summary Squarespace has a better blogging tool and better support than most competitors.
Wix vs Squarespace: What's the best website builder? Pros Cons. Recommended If Not Recommended If. You are a podcaster and need a platform for easy publishing. You want to create a stylish website. You need a really easy website editor. Page speed is very important for you.
Sound Equipment Voltasound. Photography Punodostres. Jewelry Phyllis Rosie Jewelry. Read More. Can I create a members-only area? Does Squarespace support redirects? Yes, Squarespace has a direct integration with Disqus. Latest Review Updates 09 Sep - Squarespace in 90 seconds video added. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Our work is supported by affiliate commissions. Learn more.
Personal A good solution if you don't need an online store. The Squarespace payment page only has one language option your default site-wide language.
No code currently can touch that page, so you're left directing your multi-language audience to the same page. Don't panic!
Squarespace is great for beautiful and simple websites, but you will run into clients who could use a different platform. You want to work with awesome clients and you want to provide them with the best platform possible for their needs.
Sometimes that's Squarespace, and sometimes that's another platform entirely. Consider branching out and trying a different platform. Maybe you'll find a new favorite or maybe you'll remember why you love Squarespace just the way it is. Update : When I originally wrote this in , I was still supporting Squarespace designers.
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You need to add features. That means finding code or having a developer add a back-to-top button for you. You may also want the ability to: add more SEO options change how the Squarespace forms work automatically optimize your images show your pages in another language add more cookie banner options filter your blog posts These aren't things you can do with the basic Squarespace platform. This article was very helpful, and I wanted to check on recent developments within the Squarespace platform.
I have minimal CSS experience but want a professional looking and relatively intuitive product. Any thoughts? These are crucial for eCommerce. I noticed that SS updated to layout engine 2 today. Read the rolling list of complaints posted by unhappy Squarespace customers, including yours truly. Thank you for what appears to be an impartial, professional and apparently impartial review of a DIY Website Design site.
I currently have a site up with GoDaddy using their DIY templates but now want to move up to a professional looking site with key pieces of functionality. I have been considering the possibility of using Squarespace but based not just on your review but also the supporting comments of the many people who have commented on it I believe it wise to keep looking.
I am an international consultant, a one-man show, and the one thing I do not want to do is set myself up so that it takes weeks of work and alot of hassle and frustration to first get the site up and then many hours every week to maintain and make changes to the site. I had given the green light to a website designer overseas but after a few months found out they were not actually working on the site and that the business was downsizing and not interested in doing sites of the type I want representing my business, thus I returned to the idea of a DIY site.
Hi Mark — thanks for your comments. Although there are some negative aspects to Squarespace 6, my overall feeling is that it is still one of the better DIY website building tools out there, so long as you can live with the Internet Explorer problems. The main issues I have Entering and formatting text is fiddly. This sounds crazy, but I add and remove bold and italics, switch on and off bullet points, copy-paste text, and it gets all messed up.
Sometimes I have to copy the text to notepad, clean it up, delete the page, create a new one, enter the text, and make the formatting from top to bottom. How things look in the editor has very little connection to how it will look like in real life.
I have a browser window open on a second screen, and publish in the editor and hit refresh in the viewer-browser to see how it would look like. Doing this on a single screen like my laptop on the go , makes it a really slow process.
Positioning blocks in a page is very fiddly. When I type the text in to a new blog article, and I want to add an image to the top of the page, I have click-drag-scroll several times until I arrive finally to the top of the page. Pressing home skyrockets the cursor to the first caracter position in the top-most block, instead of just jumping it to the beginning of the line.
The analytics tool cannot exclude page views coming from my own machine when using the custom domain www. So, if I want to test my website without logging in as an administrator, and using the real life domain, it litters up the statistics. This is a great review. It even prompted me to write to squarespace and to ask them to reconsider their decision not to perfect and add functionality in 5, because 6 is useless to me for many of the reasons you so eloquently state in your review.
Sadly, squarespace does not seem to understand that. Thanks for a very honest review of Squarespace. Especially from a long time user. Thanks so much for your great review! As a non-coder I found it incredibly helpful — but also frustrating.
Hi Chris — Great review. I typically design with rapid weaver, and have been really happy so far. However, as you mentioned in your posts — I would like to find a quick, and inexpensive solution to create sites at low cost. Do you have a pricing scale that you have found to be fair? Wondering how slow or fast would be the page I have made, if hosting is done in the USA as I understand , but most of the visitors are from Latvia, for example.
Thank you all for the great feedback. I have built a few websites in Wix and wanting to do more for clients. I was also looking at Dreamweaver CS6. Glad I found this thread before switching to Squarespace. Anyone working with the Developer Beta? This is very helpful as I am now being forced to upgrade from v5 to v6 so we can use the commerce tool.
I see that all the hours spent customizing the existing sites css are all lost and many more hours will be needed to figure out how to make everything look the same in squarespace 6. I had no idea to simply add the commerce options I would need to completely redo the existing site. If I am missing something please let me know. Any tips are appreciated. Hi Rima, thanks for your comment and sorry to hear you are having a headache with V6.
So annoying. If only they had Git or FTP integration. What really brought home how far back 6 went from 5 was editing text. While editing, there are huge spacing gaps between each line of texxt, like double or triple spaced, then when you view it normally, it compresses down to regular spacing.
You have to guess how it looks. Plus if I want to have a page that is broken into sections, the links for every other page all show up everywhere. All the pages have the same links, unless I missed something in how to set it up. I agree. Spacing is off here or there and makes everything look amateurish. Not to mention the page looks completely different in IE than Chrome or Firefox. The photos are all awkwardly sized but only on IE. Any recs on WP or other options—same business requirements as the SS value prop—just need it to actually work!
Jimdo possibly worth a look — although my experience to date is that the templates are a little bit dated-looking! Thanks for your comments Jamie. I really wanted the new styles of the web which ss6 looked to have but I agree that its painful to try and customize sites the way you could in ss5 and I DONT want to have to learn the developers side.
Its a great idea to let developers add on to what ss6, which I ran into as a problem with ss5 but not if the whole benefit of the site ie out of the box you can do a lot and not need to program is comprimised. Thanks for your comment James. Agree with what you have to say! But still not convinced. Might do so for my next client. Alischa WunschGreat review Chris and spot on with all the issues.
Have recently returned to trial Squarespace 6 and have found it very frustrating. Also spot on that it is useful for blogs or portfolio sites but fairly useless for small business websites which is what I was looking to use it for. Have to admit I am really disappointed that Squarespace has gone in this direction with this update. Sadly I have to cross it off my list now.
Thanks again for highlighting all the key issues — helps to have a regular user outline what has changed. V5 was perfect for me when I needed to do a smaller site and not give half my budget on paying my programmer to code a WP site. It really feels like they missed the mark here. Cheers for your comments Eric — I agree that it is incredibly frustrating. Alex from Squarespace here.
Thanks for the update Alex. Appreciate you taking the time to post here. If there is any news on the other issues raised in the review especially the minimal depth of navigation and the way that Google Adwords tracking code cannot be added to thank-you pages of forms that would be great. As several other commentators here point out, Squarespace 6 is pretty useless for business websites without a lot of the V5 functionality that you have removed being reinstated. Thanks for your comments guys.
Hopefully situation will change though! Yea I understand what you mean. V5 was incredibly difficult for any business owner to build with. Overall it was usually a pretty bad result. V6 seems to offer more tools for the non-technical users to work with, like LayoutEngine blocks. Squarespace 5 was admittedly quite restrictive with the layout of templates i.
Yes, you can go and do a lot of stuff with the V6 developer platform…but I guess the problem there is the learning curve and time commitment. Most small business owners will not be bothered with that. For me the 2 levels of navigation limit and lack of a place to put in Adwords tracking code after a form are dealbreakers for using the regular version of Squarespace 6 to build a small business site…. Great Post Chris! I would love if they add back permissions especially.
It really depends on the project and the requirements mainly. I ask a lot of questions up front to figure this out. SqSpace is adding a lot of features weekly with v6. There are a lot of hidden gems they are letting us devs know about.
Hey Chris, great in-depth analysis of Squarespace! Much of what you said is very true for the default templates on Squarespace, but keep in mind the Developer platform solves many of the issues and is definitely what I would call the "pro" version of Squarespace. When you visit any web site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to.
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So… not a lot of useful information. What a coincidence… Thanks for the helpful read. Justin your old neighbour from Shakespeare. Very small world indeed Justin!!! I hope you are keeping well. Thanks a million Mario for the kind words on our Squarespace review — I agree with your outlook!
Thanks for subscribing to the mailing list! But these are, admittedly, pretty advanced eComm needs. SS is great for most people, I imagine. Nice honest review! Thanks … you saved me some pain! MIchael www. Hello Chris. First, let me just say that this was a top-notch review!! Again, awesome review! Excellent review by the way. Thanks for this.
So Thank You again for your professional review and the comments of your readers. Have you found or are you looking at any alternatives?
Cheers for your comments Alischa — am also researching alternatives….. No probs Alischa! Thanks for commenting. Hey Chris, Alex from Squarespace here. Hopefully that clears up any confusion! For me the 2 levels of navigation limit and lack of a place to put in Adwords tracking code after a form are dealbreakers for using the regular version of Squarespace 6 to build a small business site… Interested to see if they make any improvements though!
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