Duda Reviews & Product Details
Duda’s host of incredible features is perfectly suited to facilitate collaboration. Whether you intend to work with clients or want a platform designed for seamless team coordination, Duda makes it really easy for users to develop different pages at the same time. It also includes support for a multilingual site and features tools that make it more user-friendly for global audiences such as language-specific URLs based on where the viewer is located. It also features a drag-and-drop editor for ease of use and reliable backup and restores functionality. The basic plan starts at $19 monthly but signing up for annual plans offers more discounts.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Duda Pros and Cons
- Collaboration tools
- Drag-and-drop editor
- Backup and restore functionality
- Can be expensive
- Limited third-party integration
It's easy to create pages and they have a good UX
They have a lot of bugs if you customize even a little bit. They make your life hard if you try to leave (hard to export, import, and cancel the account). They need to improve a lot for SEO. It's impossible to fix the technical SEO aspect.
I was looking for a user-friendly builder that doesn't hurt my SEO.
I liked how quickly and easily you are able to get a mobile friendly website up and running.
The restrictions, the quality, look and layout of the end result just doesn't fit with where web standards are today.
If you need a mobile site up fast and just need to share info like hours, a menu, address, contact info, etc, then sure, its fine.
Simple to use, and somewhat intuitive. It's easy to manage the buttons, add pages and edit pages.
Apparently, once your desktop site is over a certain number of pages dudamobile just stops working. We were still paying the same monthly fee, but the features of dudamobile suddenly stopped working. We essentially had to start syncing the site on the weekly, and we noticed things weren't being picked up on the mobile site. Most of the time we're manually editing dudamobile because the syncability was gone. The support side of dudamobile was no help, they did not even try to fix the problem but kept trying to up sell us. I would have preferred to delete older pages from the mobile site, but they would not help with that instead push me towards buying support/different mobile site plan.
We needed a mobile site to better our google SEO as our classic site was not doing this. Also, our classic site is not optimized for mobile so we decided to go with dudamobile. However, we ended up reverting back to our classic site because it not only looked way better than dudamobile, it was more efficient to use our classic site. So no benefits were truly seen, apart from it helping out SEO for the first little bit.
Nothing really. The user interface is simple enough as long as you can embed code, and it's quick to install, but it's a little archaic at this point. Good for already archaic websites that aren't mobile.
It's useless if you have a responsive mobile site. It's just too much money for the service, unless it is impossible to make your site mobile, but any good site nowadays should have that capability or risk using obsolete code in the future as browsers evolve. However it doesn't reflect website changes well, so it's double the work content-wise.
None. I realized it was an unnecessary cost established by our previous marketing manager who knew nothing about website management.