Duda vs Wordpress - What's best for SMBs?

Duda platform provides a secure, natively mobile responsive platform.

WordPress is about as close as a CMS can come to a household name and it’s easy to understand why. An incredible 32% of sites on the web today are powered by the behemoth blogging platform. For many small business owners who aren’t overly tech savvy, ‘WordPress’ often becomes a byword for ‘website.’ The problem is a WordPress website usually isn’t what they actually need or mean.

Don’t get me wrong, the platform is certainly powerful and flexible enough to build amazing websites — nobody is contending that. However, you don’t need a sledgehammer to tack down a nail and you don’t need a complicated open source CMS with 50,000+ plugin options to create a 5-10 page small business website that converts customers.

WordPress and Security

Thanks to the decentralized nature of open source software, you can bet on a lot of ongoing site maintenance.

According to data from website security service Sucuri, WordPress websites were the most hacked of all sites in 2017, and by a huge margin — 83% of all infected websites monitored by the company were created using WordPress.

Though that number seems extreme, it shouldn’t shock anyone. Open source software is notoriously plagued by routine security issues due to the fact that independent teams are constantly working on the code, introducing amazing new innovations along with a lot of hackable flaws. With no centralized authority watching over the WordPress ecosystem, these security breaches can go unnoticed and unaddressed for far too long. Combine this with the fact that WordPress is the most popular CMS on the web today, and you have a recipe for the number one hacker target on the internet.

Using Duda’s proprietary platform, Piinch Web Design provides a beautiful, secure, conversion-driving website for our customers in a matter of hours instead of days or weeks at a much lower price point. And our intuitive drag-and-drop site builder and unique roles and permissions feature allow us to hand off our website to our customer with no fear they’ll break it or get overwhelmed.

We also take care of all software updates seamlessly and offer free, auto-renewing one-click SSL certificates, so you never need to worry about your sites breaking or getting hacked.

Most importantly, Duda innovates on your behalf by continuously incorporating the most cutting-edge technology into the platform, so our customers always have access to the latest and greatest tools without the pain of working with WordPress.