Choose Webflow if your team wants to edit pages visually and launch quickly. Choose Astro if speed, custom features or long-term flexibility matter most. Both can rank well and convert well when they are built properly.
Choose Webflow if your team wants to edit pages visually and launch quickly. Choose Astro if speed, custom features or long-term flexibility matter most. Both can rank well and convert well when they are built properly, so the right choice depends on how your business works, not on which tool is trendier.
What Webflow is good at
Webflow is a visual website builder with hosting and a CMS included. Your team can change text, images and even layouts in the browser, without a developer.
- Visual editing that non-technical teams pick up quickly.
- Hosting, security and backups handled for you.
- A built-in CMS for things like team members, case studies or FAQs.
- Fast to launch, which suits marketing sites and smaller budgets.
The trade-offs: you pay a monthly hosting plan, you work within what Webflow allows, and very interactive or data-heavy features can get awkward.
What Astro is good at
Astro is a modern framework that builds your site into plain, lightweight pages. Content usually lives in a headless CMS such as Sanity, so editing stays easy while the front end stays fast.
- Very fast pages, because visitors download very little code.
- Freedom to build custom features, integrations and calculators.
- Cheap or free hosting for most marketing sites.
- No lock-in: the code is yours and can move anywhere.
The trade-offs: changes to the design itself need a developer, and the first build takes more planning.
What we have seen in practice
When we rebuilt the Norwegian Fjord Explorer website in Astro, the home page went from about 34 MB to about 4 MB and its Lighthouse performance score from 28 to 78, measured on the same day. For Iceberg Quest, the main content started appearing in 1.4 seconds instead of 11. Webflow sites can be fast too, but Astro makes it easier to stay fast as a site grows.
A simple way to decide
- You want to edit layouts yourself and launch soon: Webflow.
- You need custom features, the best speed or no monthly platform fee: Astro with a headless CMS.
- You are not sure: start from how your team will update the site each week, and choose the tool that makes that easiest.
Not sure which fits your business? Tell us about your project and we will recommend one, with the reasons, before you commit to anything.