Framer
A design-first website builder that lets you build and publish sites visually, with code export.
Edition 2026
The best website builders
A builder that makes a pretty site nobody can find is an expensive brochure. This list weighs what the visitor's browser receives and what a search engine can read.
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Squarespace
A drag-and-drop website builder with templates for portfolios, stores and blogs.
Webflow
A visual web design tool that generates production-ready HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
WordPress.com
A hosted version of the WordPress publishing platform, with themes, plugins and a built-in blog.
How we judged this
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What we look at
- Server-rendered content a crawler can read without running scripts
- Control of titles, canonicals, redirects and structured data
- Core Web Vitals passing on a stock template, measured
- Export or self-host your content if you leave
- Custom domain and SSL without a premium tier
Helps if you have it: A field Core Web Vitals report for a site on a stock template, and a documented content export.
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