Platform
Best website builders for a blog or content site
The builders that treat writing as a first-class thing rather than a tab, ranked by how easily a beginner gets going.
Best website builders for an online store
Everything here can take a payment. They differ enormously in what happens after the order arrives.
Best website builders for a portfolio
When the work is the argument, the site's job is to stay out of its way. Ranked by how good the result looks without a designer.
Best website builders for bookings and appointments
For a business whose website exists so people can book time — salons, clinics, trades and consultants.
Features
Easiest website builders for a complete beginner
Ranked on how far someone with no experience gets alone, from signing up to a live page on their own domain.
Website builders that produce the best-looking sites
How good the result can look with nobody but you working on it, and how far the templates bend before they break.
Cheapest website builders worth using
The options under fifteen dollars a month at the renewal rate, and what each one gives up to get there.
Website builders with a genuinely free plan
Not a trial. A tier you can publish on and keep, with the branding and domain limits stated plainly.