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
Squarespace
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.
$25
per month
Pricing
Duda
Squarespace
Editions & Modules
Basic
$25
per month
Team
$39
per month
Agency
$69
per month
White Label
$199
per month
Custom
Contact Sales
Basic
$25
per month
Core
$36
per month
Plus
$56
per month
Advanced
$139
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Duda
Squarespace
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
25% discount available for annual pricing.
28% to 36% discount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
Duda
Squarespace
Features
Duda
Squarespace
Security
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Duda
8.9
Ratings
10% above category average
Squarespace
8.5
Ratings
5% above category average
Role-based user permissions
8.90 Ratings
8.50 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
Ratings
13% above category average
Squarespace
4.3
Ratings
55% below category average
API
9.10 Ratings
5.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
8.10 Ratings
3.50 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.8
Ratings
13% above category average
Squarespace
7.1
Ratings
8% below category average
WYSIWYG editor
9.10 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
8.90 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Admin section
9.30 Ratings
6.10 Ratings
Page templates
7.90 Ratings
7.00 Ratings
Library of website themes
8.30 Ratings
7.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
9.30 Ratings
7.30 Ratings
Publishing workflow
9.30 Ratings
6.20 Ratings
Form generator
8.50 Ratings
7.10 Ratings
Web Content Management
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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.
We've found Squarespace perfect for quick, well-designed websites that you can literally design and launch in a day. However, if you want to get more complex with your website, including custom backend integrations or code, Squarespace presents a bit more of a challenge when it comes to what they will allow you to modify on their platform (especially using third-party integration apps).
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.
Squarespace is very easy to use, this is a super helpful thing as small business owners we have to wear many hats and being a full blown website developer doesn't need to be one of them.
Squarespace has quick and simple plugins.
Squarespace allows you to easily expand as you need to.
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.
It's dead simple to use. There are no over complicated controls or tons of menus to screw things up. People with bad taste couldn't make an ugly website. While it may be frustrating for the pro designer to get exactly what they want, it prevents the uninitiated from making something ugly
Help is available directly from the back end and uses full sentence searching to find answers to questions others may have asked before. With a ton of articles and support questions documents, it is very likely that your question has been answered. If not each page has the ability to open a direct email to support. Each case has a number and can be followed. Responses are often quick and have links and directions clearly stated
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.
Squarespace if much less work than WordPress, plus hosting and security are not an issue. GoDaddy and Wix are okay, but nowhere near the flexibility or advanced feature set that you can get with Squarespace. Compared to the other products that I have used, Squarespace definitely offers more options, customization, advanced features and design options than others, for a great price.
I can see how squarespace can improve efficiency since it's so quick to build a site on there.
For those who don't want to hook up a bunch of different stuff to their website and make it work...they most likely have whatever plug in you need and you can add it. Worst case scenario, they have developers you can hire who can make what you need.
As your business grows you can add an online storefront to your site and make more money that way! Easy peasy!
They have an easy system for adding special SEO words/phrases so you don't have to learn SEO at all!
