Duda vs Jimdo

2021. Web building platform Duda snaps up e-commerce cart tool Snipcart



Duda has completed the acquisition of Snipcart, a Canada-based startup that specializes in providing businesses with the ability to incorporate a shopping cart feature into their websites. Duda primarily collaborates with digital agencies and SaaS companies and boasts approximately 1 million paying sites. The acquisition was prompted by the surge in e-commerce websites during the global pandemic. By joining forces, the two companies will introduce enhanced functionalities within the Duda platform, including payment and membership tools. With Snipcart on board, Duda's customers, who often possess inventory and prefer not to manage it on separate e-commerce platforms, can seamlessly transform their products into purchasable items on the web.


2018. Website builder Duda integrates with Q&A service Yext



The renowned website builder Duda has partnered with Yext, the leading provider of Digital Knowledge Management solutions. This collaboration aims to streamline the process of managing a successful online presence by seamlessly integrating crucial business information, such as locations, operating hours, and product offerings, from Yext into Duda. The integrated solution ensures data synchronization across various web platforms. By directly importing business data into the Duda platform, website creation becomes faster, while simultaneously maintaining the consistency of essential SMB information across their website and the extensive Yext Powerlistings Network, which includes major platforms like Google, Apple, Facebook, Bing, and Yahoo. Moreover, Duda will leverage Yext's Knowledge Tags to incorporate Google-friendly schema markup, enabling search engines and other services to extract and display comprehensive website information in search results. This integration enhances the overall quality of information and improves the search experience across the internet.


2017. Jimdo now allows to add Search Bar to business websites



The inclusion of website search functionality enhances the user experience by allowing visitors to easily find their desired content on your website. This exciting new feature is now accessible to all JimdoBusiness websites utilizing Jimdo Creator. With the flexibility it offers, you can effortlessly add the search element anywhere on your website. Once integrated, you have the ability to search for specific items or words within your website. Additionally, you can personalize the placeholder text within the search bar, replacing the default "Search ..." with something more tailored like "Looking for something in particular?" Moreover, you have the control to specify which sections of your website should be included in the search results.


2017. Jimdo adds Booking app



If you have a website created with Jimdo Creator and offer services, events, or courses that require appointments, our new Jimdo Booking app for Android is the ideal solution for you. With this app, you can easily create a booking calendar directly from your smartphone, which will be displayed on your website for visitors to see. Once your calendar is set up, visitors can conveniently book your services directly on your Jimdo website. Whenever someone makes a booking, you will receive a push notification right in the app, ensuring that you stay informed about the number of bookings you have received. Stay up to date and effortlessly manage your appointments with the Jimdo Booking app for Android.


2017. Duda launched new tablet editor



In today's fast-paced world, people are constantly on the move, and this holds especially true for website builders who are not always stationed at their desks when they need to edit and construct their clients' websites. Recognizing this need, Duda has made significant enhancements to our tablet editor, enabling customers to effortlessly build and modify sites from any location. The new tablet editor is not simply a scaled-down version of the desktop editor. It has been thoughtfully designed and adapted to provide you and your customers the freedom to create and edit websites with ease and speed, no matter where you are. Whether you're at your customer's place of business, on a train, at a coffee shop, or even at the beach, you can seamlessly load images, rearrange widgets, fine-tune content, analyze analytics, publish sites, and much more.


2016. Duda introduced new responsive website builder



Duda has completely redesigned its responsive website builder to enhance the speed of site creation, improve the user experience, and ultimately deliver a more intuitive platform. The new builder has been developed using React, an open-source JavaScript library renowned for creating dynamic user interfaces. This implementation of Facebook's technology ensures that the platform is highly robust and adaptable. The drag-and-drop functionality now feels even smoother, and the editor itself loads up to 40% faster compared to its previous version. Notable additions to the builder include expanded layout options, an increased selection of color overlays, the introduction of the Icon Widget, 22 additional fonts, interpage anchors, customizable backgrounds per page, the ability to use video backgrounds within columns and popups, support for Open Graph, and a more flexible Photo Gallery feature.


2016. Duda Partnered with Let’s Encrypt to provide Free SSL Certificates



Duda has recently announced that SSL certificates will now be provided at no additional cost to all paid Duda responsive websites. This initiative brings several benefits to website owners. In an attempt to encourage webmasters to adopt a "secure internet" approach, major players in the web industry have been using a combination of incentives and penalties. For instance, Google rewards encrypted (secured) sites with SEO benefits. Furthermore, certain web browsers are starting to restrict the features accessible to unsecured websites, as highlighted in a Mozilla article discussing the limitations imposed on unsecured websites, including advanced features like service workers.


2015. Online site builder Jimdo raised €25M



Spectrum Equity has invested €25 million in the site-building service Jimdo. Founded in 2007 by Christian Springub, Fridtjof Detzner, and Matthias Henze, Jimdo has been operating profitably since 2009. Notably, Jimdo was the pioneering website builder to achieve cross-platform functionality, launching its iOS app in 2013 and its Android app in 2014. With offices in Hamburg, San Francisco, and Tokyo, the company employs a workforce of 200 individuals. Offering its services in eight languages, Jimdo has facilitated the creation of over 15 million websites. The developers behind Jimdo have expressed their commitment to making the platform stronger, faster, and more flexible, delivering an enhanced experience for its users.


2014. Duda unveils own Website Analytics



A while back, Duda unveiled a new statistics interface. It was the free version of Google Analytics, which is a commendable service. However, when dealing with a substantial amount of data, Google only utilizes a small portion of the overall statistics for calculating the final results. Although this approach works well to provide a statistically valid estimation, it can sometimes lead to misleading outcomes when delving into detailed reports. Another drawback is the prolonged calculation time for certain requests. The new solution, hosted by Duda, resolves these issues by internally storing all the data and performing all calculations. This approach is faster because it is specifically optimized for our system, and more accurate as it utilizes the complete dataset instead of relying on a sample.