The faster Wix alternative for small businesses.

A Wix alternative is worth it once the template that felt easy to start with has become a slow, fiddly site that Google will not rank. Wix is a reasonable way to get something online. Plenty of small businesses then outgrow it. The templates are heavy, so pages load slowly. The editor looks simple until you actually need to change something. The monthly fee climbs as you add the features you thought were included. For a business that just needs to be found and contacted, it is a lot of effort for a site that still feels slow.

Page Forge is the simpler way. We hand-build your site so it loads fast and ranks well, with no heavy templates and nothing for you to wrestle with. We host it, secure it and make your changes for you, and there is a real person in Sussex to call. One clear price, everything included, live in about five working days. If you are moving from Wix we handle the switch, domain and email included. The full process is on moving off Wix.

This is not theory. Oilfire Heating in Uckfield, Ruby’s Bakery in Burgess Hill and Sindall Building Contractors all came to us from slow Wix sites. All three now load fast and are set up to rank for the work they actually want. That is the same rebuild we would do for you.

Wix also gets in the way of AI search. Assistants like ChatGPT prefer clean, factual pages they can quote. A Wix site is a thick layer of editor code wrapped around your words, and many Wix installs silently make it harder for crawlers to read the useful bit. We strip that back, add question-and-answer pairs and structured data, and check the AI crawlers are allowed in. Google likes the speed. GEO likes the clarity.