Ecwid vs. Google Sites
Looking for an alternative to Google Sites?
Ecwid has various customization options, SEO tools, unlimited storage, great support, and more — find out which platform is better for your online store.
Frequent Google Sites concerns
Minimal marketing & ecommerce tools
Limited support
Less room for customization and SEO
Low potential for growth
How Ecwid compares to Google Sites
Ecwid
Google Sites
Free plan
Free with the potential to grow and upgrade your plan to gain new functionality
Only a free plan is offered with limited features
Payment methods
70+ payment methods (Lightspeed Payments, PayPal, Stripe, etc.)
Limited payment methods (credit, debit, PayPal)
SEO
Clean URLs, metadata,
Lacks crucial SEO features (metadata, sitemaps, robots, canonical tags, hreflangs)
Storage
Unlimited, 25GB for digital files
Limited to 15GB (shared with other Google Apps)
Domains
Purchase and setup your domain directly on Ecwid
Must go through a
Customization options
Customizable website templates and content blocks
Integrated apps
App market with tools to help grow your business
No apps — limited to Google Site’s features
Support
Great support, 24/7 + resources accessible anytime
No training resources and slow customer support
Marketing
Ads on social media, email marketing, performance tracking
Google Analytics and announcement banners
Ecommerce features to sell anywhere
Ecwid offers all the ecommerce features you need to sell effectively such as shipping, 70+ payment options, inventory management, and more.
Options to add payment methods like PayPal, or credit and debit. For additional features, you will need to add a
Free ecommerce, but at what cost?
On Ecwid’s free forever plan, you can kickstart your ecommerce journey with the proper selling tools, and upgrade as you grow.
Google Sites falls short for serious sellers, offering only a free plan with restricted features. Upgrading your plan (or your business) is not an option.
Unlimited storage for your store
With Ecwid, you get unlimited storage and bandwidth for your complete product catalog, client information, and more. Plus, you can store digital files up to 25GB each.
Storage on Google Sites is limited to 15 GB, and it is shared with other Google apps, resulting in less storage to run your store.
SEO for website visibility in search results
Ecwid provides all the essentials for SEO, including clean URLs, customized meta data,
Google Sites lacks many crucial SEO features, such as the ability to add metadata, sitemaps, robots, canonical tags, and hrenflags for multilingual support, which results in manual tasks and unoptimized pages in search results.
Apps to add even more functionality
On Ecwid, you can download apps and tools to help grow your store such as social media management, analytics, marketing tools, etc.
You cannot download any apps through Google Sites. You are limited to their
Great support, whenever you need it
Ecwid is
Google Sites does not have many resources available to help navigate you through your store (customer service rated 3.8).
Create your store on Ecwid — it’s easy and made for ecommerce
If you're looking to sell online, Ecwid provides you with the ecommerce tools you need and more. Sell on social media, your own website, existing websites, and marketplaces. Expand your brand's reach and experience continuous growth without running into any limitations.
