Duda vs. NVU

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Duda
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Duda, the eponymous platform from the company in Palo Alto, is a web design platform for companies that offer web design services to small businesses. The company serves customers from freelance web professionals to digital agencies, all the way up to the large hosting companies, SaaS platforms and online publishers.
$25
per month
NVU
Score 2.0 out of 10
N/A
NVU is an open source web authoring tool for Linux, Windows, and Mac. It is designed to allow users to create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.N/A
Pricing
DudaNVU
Editions & Modules
Basic
$25
per month
Team
$39
per month
Agency
$69
per month
White Label
$199
per month
Custom
Contact Sales
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DudaNVU
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details25% discount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
DudaNVU
Features
DudaNVU
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.9
Ratings
10% above category average
NVU
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
Ratings
13% above category average
NVU
3.0
Ratings
87% below category average
API9.10 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.8
Ratings
13% above category average
NVU
3.0
Ratings
88% below category average
WYSIWYG editor9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates7.90 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Library of website themes8.30 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator8.50 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
Ratings
16% above category average
NVU
3.0
Ratings
84% below category average
Content taxonomy8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management8.60 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management8.80 Ratings3.00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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User Ratings
DudaNVU
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(0 ratings)
3.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DudaNVU
Likelihood to Recommend
Duda is great for small to medium sized websites building, where some level of animation is ok and mostly for presenting online information, and its SEO performance is very good then. But for very large or heavily interactive websites it may not be the best choice.
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NVU is an easy self explanatory program that helps us edit the Landing Pages for the company for which I work. However, many of the features of being able to edit text & text boxes is out of date & very jumpy. I often have to rewrite sentences in order to fit better on a line because I can't adjust the text box without it messing up the entire Landing Page.
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Pros
  • Ongoing Education for agencies and users. Anton has done what he does best and turned Duda into a go-to-source for information, ideas, and practical implementation.
  • UX - The ability to create simple yet highly customizable sites.
  • Speed - Sites take much less time to build and maintain, allowing agencies to scale and business owners to spend more time on growing their core revenue channels.
  • Reliability - From technical reliability, reduced down-time to support, Duda is a reliability option.
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  • It allows me to easily create the Landing Pages for my company. I can easily create a copy of an NVU file & then rename it in order to create a new file. Then once I've made the necessary changes to the new file, I just drag & drop the new file into our backend to automatically upload to our site.
  • It allows me to edit text fairly easily. I can drag & drop the text within a text box.
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Cons
  • Ecommerce can use some improvement--but this should be taken care of in 2023
  • A more robust app marketplace
  • More custom widgets
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  • I can't widen a text box without it jumping & messing up the entire Landing Page.
  • I can't drag text from one text box into another.
  • The text settings change if I don't copy a word that already exists in a word box & paste it into the new line of text before starting to type a new sentence.
  • Sometimes I try to open a Landing Page to edit it & it says that NVU is unavailable & I have to close the program & try again.
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Usability
Upon using the builder for the first time, I found Duda to be extremely intuitive and easy to figure out, but also has a high skill-ceiling. After 5 years of building in the drag-and-drop builder, I continue to teach myself new tricks and methods to continually improve my process and design capabilities within the platform. I've built dozens of Duda sites and each one is better than the last.
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Alternatives Considered
Duda lets me customize the entire page. With Squarespace, many of the templates were limiting on editing the header and footer. Also in the past, I couldn't change the page title and page header to be different in Squarespace. This was not good for SEO. Wix is good but also a little bulky and glitchy.
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Return on Investment
  • Duda has allowed our team to function quicker
  • Duda has allowed us to have more clients
  • Our clients are happier with their sites now
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  • I think my boss has actually decided to stop using NVU to create & edit our webpages because of it's lack of updates & features for editing text.
  • It takes me a lot of time trying to adjust text boxes to get them to fit on the Landing Page correctly with the entire desired content.
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