Who we build forPick the roofing business you run
ServicesHow the site gets built and found
The offerWhat it costs and what you get
MoreReading, answers and a person to talk to
Theme
Accent
Saved on this device only.
Wix compared
Wix is a genuinely capable hosted builder and a roofing company can have something live on it in a weekend, which is worth a lot when the alternative is no website at all. The catch is what comes after: every town page, every gallery update, every article and every seasonal change is you, at a laptop, after the crews are off the roof. A managed build costs more per month than a builder subscription and removes all of that, plus it guarantees a speed score and publishes content every week.
The short version
Wix is the fastest way to get something online yourself. After launch you are the webmaster, and that is the part roofing companies underestimate.
Getting a home page, an about page and a contact form live is a Saturday. The part that decides whether the phone rings is the twenty or thirty pages after that: roof replacement, roof repair, storm damage, metal retrofit, each crossed with each town you cover, plus a gallery sorted by roof type and a warranty page. On a DIY builder that is your evenings for a month, and then it needs maintaining as you add towns and finish jobs worth photographing.
Search engines and AI assistants both favor sites that keep publishing specific, dated material. On a builder subscription, that is a blank editor waiting for you. Every plan here includes 2 to 3 researched articles a week, each 2,500 to 3,200 words, sourced and written for roofing in your service area. That is the difference people actually feel six months in, not the editor interface.
Hosted builders carry a general-purpose runtime because they have to support every kind of site their customers build. On a strong connection nobody notices. On one bar of signal in a driveway, with a homeowner comparing three tabs, it decides whether your page is the one that opened. We guarantee 90+ on mobile and desktop and keep checking it after launch, which is a promise a DIY platform cannot make about a site you built yourself.
The same twelve dimensions on every comparison page, so you can hold two of them side by side. Where a competitor answer says "varies" or "depends", that is the honest answer rather than a dig.
| What matters | Wix | GetRoofingWebsite |
|---|---|---|
| Page speed and Core Web Vitals | Varies with the template, apps and images you use. No guaranteed score. | 90+ PageSpeed guaranteed, monitored, and fixed at no charge if a page slips. |
| SEO control | Solid built-in controls for titles, descriptions and slugs. Building a page per town and service is still manual. | A page per town and service built for you, expanded any time you move into a new area. |
| Schema and structured data | Some is generated automatically; anything specific is added by you. | Correct markup per page type, generated from the page data itself. |
| AEO and GEO readiness | Possible, but it depends entirely on how you write and structure the content. | Answer-first content, visible FAQ blocks and llms.txt built in from launch. |
| Hosting and security | Included in the subscription and handled for you, which is a real advantage of the model. | Cloudflare hosting, SSL, CDN, DDoS protection and unmetered bandwidth included. |
| Maintenance burden | Light technically, heavy in content: everything on the page is yours to write and keep current. | None. You send a change request, we do it. |
| Who does the work | You, or somebody you hire per project. | We do, within 2 to 5 working days per revision. |
| Content and blog | A blog is built in. Writing it is not. | 2 to 3 sourced roofing articles a week, written for your towns. |
| Design quality | Template-led, and good templates are available. Many roofing sites on the same templates look alike. | A design built for your brand and your roof systems, not shared with the next roofer down the road. |
| Accessibility and policy pages | Generators and tools exist. What gets published is on you. | Written for your business, with a consent banner that genuinely gates scripts. |
| Cost model | A monthly subscription plus paid apps, which is the cheapest option on this page in cash terms. | $127 a month plus a $697 build fee after launch, with nothing else to buy. |
| Lock-in and ownership | Your content is yours; the site itself does not move to another platform. | Domain in your name, content yours, export within 14 days if you leave. |
Not either or
The move is straightforward and your current site stays live until you sign off on the new one. Bring your photos, your reviews and any content that is working; we rebuild it properly, redirect the old addresses and switch over on a day you choose.
Marcus Feeney
General manager, residential roofing company
Greensboro, NC
Our last rebuild took four months and two agencies. This one was live the week after the onboarding call, and the build fee did not get invoiced until I had actually seen it and signed off.
A launch measured in days, not months
Sample review
Illustrative examples. These are sample reviews written to show the kind of feedback this service gets, not quotes from named clients, and they carry no ratings or review counts. Verified client reviews replace them as they are collected.
It depends what your time is worth and how many towns you serve. A builder is cheaper in cash and more expensive in evenings. If the site would sit untouched for a year, the managed fee buys the work that actually makes it earn.
Yes. If you own the domain we point it at the new site, and nothing changes for anyone who already knows your address. If the domain sits with the builder, we help you transfer it out.
Send them across and we rebuild the gallery and the review section properly, sorted by roof type so a visitor can find a job like theirs.
No. The design is built for your brand, your roof systems and your proof. Shared structural patterns exist, which is true of every site on the web, but the look and the copy are yours.
You send a revision request instead of editing the page yourself, and we make the change within the standard turnaround. If editing pages yourself matters more than anything else, a builder is honestly the better fit.
As many as your services and towns need. Page count is not capped or priced per page; new pages are built as revisions.
Tell us what they do during onboarding. Most of the common ones, forms, galleries, booking and chat, are part of the build or replaced by something equivalent.
7 days from your onboarding call on Deck, and the old site stays live the whole time.
A live walk-through of the build for a roofing contractor like yours, in about 30 minutes. Plans from $127 a month, the $697 build fee invoiced only after launch.
Book a live demoGetRoofingWebsite uses the cookies below. Necessary cookies keep the site working and cannot be turned off.
Saved on this device only. Press Esc to close.