Wix to Astro Migration Own Every File.
Leave Any Time.
Wix keeps your website inside its editor, on its terms and on its bill. We move businesses off Wix and onto Astro: the same content and the same brand, but yours this time, with the files in Git, hosting free on Netlify and 100/100 PageSpeed as standard.
What Wix Is Actually Costing You
Wix is the right answer for a weekend project. It's a poor long-term home for a real business — and the platform is built to make you stay anyway.
You Don't Own Your Site
Your Wix site doesn't exist as files you can download. The pages, the styling, the content — it all lives inside Wix's database, accessible only through Wix's editor. You can't take it to another developer. You can't move it elsewhere. You're paying rent on a flat where the landlord owns the furniture, the keys, and the records of everyone who's ever written to you.
It's Slow on Mobile
Wix loads a serious amount of platform JavaScript on every page — the editor, the analytics, the dashboard hooks, the upsell triggers. Google PageSpeed scores for typical Wix sites sit between 30 and 60 on mobile, which is most of your traffic. Astro sites score 95-100. Google has been ranking sites on Core Web Vitals for years now. The speed gap is a ranking gap.
The Bill Keeps Climbing
Wix lists its plans in US dollars — $17 to $39 a month for Light to Business, billed yearly, read 3 September 2026 — and says prices vary by location, so your invoice is the only sterling figure. Then there are apps — booking systems, advanced forms, premium email, custom integrations — each charged separately. Whatever your combination, it recurs for as long as the site is live. An Astro site on Netlify, after the one-time migration, costs £0/month.
What You Get After the Migration
Every Wix to Astro migration we deliver lands in the same place. The numbers don't vary because the technology doesn't compromise.
You Own Every File
Your new Astro site is a folder of plain text files. Pages, styling, content, configuration: all of it sits in a Git repository that you own. If you ever decide to stop working with us, you take the folder to any developer in the world and they can pick up exactly where we left off. No platform extraction, no hostage negotiation, no rebuild from scratch.
100/100 PageSpeed Scores
Not 90. Not "close to 100." Every Astro site we build scores 100/100 on Google PageSpeed Insights. Astro ships zero JavaScript by default: clean HTML served from a global CDN. There is no platform code to slow it down because there is no platform.
Free Hosting on Netlify
Your old Wix bill was whatever your plan and location made it — Wix lists $17 to $39 a month for Light to Business, billed yearly. The Astro equivalent on Netlify hosting is £0 for a typical UK business website, and you don't trade ownership for the saving. Custom domain, SSL, forms and analytics are all included free, at traffic levels most business websites never approach.
SEO That Improves, Not Just Survives
Every migration includes full 301 redirect mapping, structured data rebuild, and SEO foundations baked into the new site. Wix's structural limits — slow load, limited URL control, heavyweight rendering — disappear. Within a month of the switch, the search numbers are usually better than they were on Wix.
The Transformation, Every Time
Wix (Before)
- PageSpeed: 30-60/100 (mobile)
- Load time: 3-5 seconds
- File ownership: none
- Hosting: a Wix plan, listed from $17/month in US dollars
- Editor lock-in: total
Astro (After)
- PageSpeed: 100/100
- Load time: under 1 second
- File ownership: complete
- Hosting: free on Netlify
- Editor lock-in: none
Real example: we have migrated client sites off Wix where the PageSpeed jumped from 69 to 99 overnight without a single content change. The architecture is what's changing — the words on the page stay the same.
How the Migration Works
Your Wix site stays live throughout. The switch happens only when you've reviewed the new site and given the green light.
Audit Your Wix Site
We map every page, every URL, every form and integration. Wix doesn't give you a clean export, so this audit becomes the migration spec.
Build on Staging
We rebuild your site in Astro on a staging URL, with the content, design, forms and structured data all transferred. Your Wix site stays live the entire time.
You Review
Walk through every page on the staging site. Test the forms, check the content, compare it against your Wix original. Adjustments happen here, not after launch.
Switch and Monitor
The domain points to the new Astro site and 301 redirects catch every old Wix URL. We monitor search performance for 30 days to make sure rankings hold and improve.
Why Bring Us In
Moving a site between platforms is where the friction sits, and we have done it often enough to know exactly where. One senior-led process runs from the audit to the recrawl.
Senior-Led, Every Project
The audit, the rebuild, the SEO mapping and the launch run as one process led by our principal, Tony Cooper, with no handover anywhere between them.
Tested on Our Own Sites First
We have moved sites off Wix, WordPress, EKM and Magento, and migrated our own sites the same way. We know what goes wrong because we fixed it on our own projects first.
The Right Destination
If you need a real ecommerce checkout, we will point you at the Wix to Shopify route instead. We would rather send you to the right destination than sell you a migration that doesn't fit your business.
Already know you want to move? Book a call about the migration, or read how we approach a custom Astro build. Either way, the Wix bill stops next month.
Everything Transfers. Nothing Gets Lost.
A migration is only as good as the detail. This is what moves across from your Wix site.
Content and Design
- All pages and blog posts
- Images and media (optimised)
- Design and brand styling
- Navigation and site structure
Functionality
- Contact forms (rebuilt natively)
- Analytics and tracking
- Booking integrations (case by case)
- Custom features (case by case)
SEO and Technical
- 301 redirects for every URL
- Meta titles and descriptions
- Structured data (Schema.org)
- XML sitemap and SSL setup
Wix to Astro Migration — Frequently Asked Questions
The questions buyers put to us before the first call.
Related Services
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What clients say about the work, in their own words.
"Tony has had the patience of a saint with all the changes and tweaks and endless calls about our website and business."
Dee Little
28 Jul 2021
"Tony and the Team at We Build Stores have been invaluable in upgrading and streamlining our online presence. We needed a complete overhaul and they delivered."
David Behan
5 Jun 2021
"We’ve been working with Tony for over a year now, and his support has been great. Beyond building a great website for us, he has provided continuous marketing guidance and hands-on help whenever we needed it. He is not only a great professional, but also an empathetic person who genuinely understands the daily reality of running a business."
Carlos Escudero
Escudero Auto
14 Oct 2026
"I originally reached out to Tony to help with SEO but unfortunately my website crashed to a point where I thought it was beyond repair. I was panicking and didn't know what to do when Tony asked if I would allow him to help me recover my website. After a very long few weeks I got a message from Tony telling me my website is back up and running."
Salma Sanji
Sals Forever Flowers
23 Aug 2025
"Absolutely amazing work from the moment we joined. As a family business we needed someone who understood our needs and delivered results."
Hannah
Tel Tyres
4 Jun 2021
"I've had a great experience working with Tony. He was professional, efficient and understood what I needed. Communication was clear throughout and the result exceeded my expectations. Highly recommended!"
Jeremy Webster
Marbles PR
29 Mar 2025
Tell us what the website has to do for the business
Call us, or set out what you need below. Every enquiry is read by Tony Cooper, our principal.
Before we speak, Tony reads your site against what you want to be found for, so the first call starts with what we found. We answer every enquiry within 24 hours on working days.
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