About Wix - Website Builder
Wix Website Builder Performance Issues
Users are experiencing significant performance issues with the Wix website builder, describing it as slow, laggy, and prone to freezing. This leads to frustration, especially for those paying for premium plans, as the app often requires multiple refreshes to function properly.
9 different people have complained about this since 27 Aug 2026, most recently on 22 Sept 2026.
“Horrible, Moves slow, can’t do anything on here always states “need a desktop,” if I need a desktop for everything then what is the point of the app?”
“I can’t believe I pay for the priciest Wix plan and their app is still this slow.”
“Wix - Website Builder — So slow and laggy.”
9 people in 9 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain moderate, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 9 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 9 people using Wix - Website Builder
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 100% of posts are complaints · pain score moderate (57/100)
- Since
- 27 Aug 2026 → 22 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Wix - Website Builder
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
People are asking for
In their own words — asks pulled from the evidence, most-repeated first
“Horrible, Moves slow, can’t do anything on here always states “need a desktop,” if I need a desktop for everything then what is the point of the app?”
“I can’t believe I pay for the priciest Wix plan and their app is still this slow.”
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint9100%
Sources
9 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…le It’s lagging so badly it’s impossible to use. Buttons don’t work. Everything is horrible
Strong complaintWix - Website Builder — Horrible Horrible, Moves slow, can’t do anything on here always states “need a desktop,” if I need a desktop for everything then what is the point of the app? Moves very slow.
Looking for a tool…t seems ever since the New Year the app has been absolutely terrible. It’s slow and freezes all the time. I can barely use it. I run my entire business with this app. And you guys just raised your prices for membership by about 20%+ .. I emailed you and got a response from a guy that said he’s on maternity leave and…
Wix - Website Builder — Horrible I can’t believe I pay for the priciest Wix plan and their app is still this slow. It’s been slow for four years.
Would payWix - Website Builder — So slow and laggy I like the app itself but it takes me an hour to even get a single screen to open. It’s SO SLOW that it actually becomes less efficient to even use the app.
Market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
Every score change is stored as a snapshot — click a sub-score to overlay it
Why did it move?
Score unchanged at 46.4 · 27 Sept 2026, 03:00 → 04:15 UTC
How the score was measured39 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Wix Website Builder Performance Issues a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 9 different people described it independently, in 9 mentions, the earliest from 27 Aug 2026 and the most recent from 22 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: emerging — newly appearing in the evidence. Momentum is 78/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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