Framer vs Webflow vs WordPress: What Should You Use in 2025?

If you’re building a new website, one of the first questions is:
Which platform should I use?

The answer matters more than you think. Your choice will impact:

• How fast your site loads

• How easy it is to update

• How good it looks

• Whether or not it converts

• And how much it costs long-term

At Omis Digital, we specialize in building fast, conversion-focused websites. We’ve worked in all three major platforms — Framer, Webflow, and WordPress — and this post breaks down how they stack up for real businesses.

Let’s dive in.

Framer: Fast, Beautiful, Modern

Framer is a newer website builder that’s making big waves in 2025. It's built with speed, simplicity, and modern design in mind. We use it for ~90% of our clients at Omis Digital.

Pros:

• Blazing fast load speeds (most Framer sites load in under 2s)

• Intuitive editing for clients — drag and drop content updates

• Stunning design out of the box — built for clean layouts and animations

• Seamless mobile optimization

• Lightweight and hosted on modern infrastructure (no plugins needed)

Cons:

• CMS is improving, but still limited for complex use cases (blogs with tags, deep content trees)

• Smaller ecosystem — fewer plugins, developers, or prebuilt integrations

• Requires knowledge of how to use their logic and CMS features well

Best For:

• Startups

• Agencies

• Personal brands

• Local service businesses who need speed + simplicity

Bottom Line: If you want a fast, beautiful, high-converting site without technical headaches, Framer is likely your best choice.

Webflow: Flexible and Powerful (But Slower to Learn)

Webflow is a visual web design platform that gives designers and developers the ability to create pixel-perfect sites — without code.

It’s incredibly powerful and supports full CMS, animations, logic, and even e-commerce.

Pros:

• Strong CMS capabilities (great for content-heavy sites)

• Pixel-level control over layout and styles

• Excellent for SEO and metadata customization

• Clean code output and export options

• Logic-based forms and workflows (new in 2025)

Cons:

• Steep learning curve for non-designers

• More time-consuming than Framer for basic sites

• Can get expensive with CMS and logic features

• Not ideal for clients who want to self-manage content unless trained

Best For:

• Design-savvy teams

• Businesses publishing a lot of content

• Clients who want CMS + Web App hybrid setups

Bottom Line: Webflow is a great tool for power users. But if you want to move fast and focus on performance, it might be overkill.

WordPress: Old King of the Hill

WordPress still powers over 40% of the web, and for good reason: it’s flexible, well-documented, and works with just about anything — if you can manage it.

But for most small businesses in 2025? It’s become a bloated, plugin-heavy, dev-dependent dinosaur.

Pros:

• Endless plugins and themes (literally anything you can think of)

• Large global community and support

• Great for blogging and content publishing

• Works with nearly every tool or integration

Cons:

• Requires constant plugin and theme updates

• Bloated code = slow performance unless heavily optimized

• Frequent security issues (especially on shared hosting)

• Often needs a developer for any serious customization

• Difficult for clients to edit visually

Best For:

• Long-standing blogs or businesses with legacy WordPress setups

• Projects that need a very specific plugin or integration

• Companies with in-house dev teams to maintain it

Bottom Line: Unless you absolutely need WordPress-specific features, we recommend newer, faster platforms like Framer or Webflow.

Real Examples from Omis Digital

We’ve built sites on all three platforms. Here’s what we’ve seen:

Framer Site (Local Gym)

• Went live in 7 days

• 40% lift in mobile conversions

• Client edits homepage themselves via CMS

• SEO-ready from day one

Webflow Site (B2B SaaS)

• Highly complex CMS with blog, glossary, client dashboard

• Fully animated interface

• Took 3x longer than Framer, but worth it for scale

WordPress Site (Law Firm)

• Inherited a mess of plugins and dev issues

• Took weeks to clean up and optimize for speed

• Still required ongoing dev help

Moral of the story: pick the platform that fits your real goals, not just the one your last designer used.

How to Choose the Right Platform (Without Guessing)

Still not sure what’s right for you? Here’s a cheat sheet:

• Choose Framer if you care about speed, looks, and conversion

• Choose Webflow if you want control, CMS, and flexibility

• Use WordPress only if you must have plugins, or have an existing investment in it

Want help choosing? We’ll audit your current setup, goals, and future needs — and tell you exactly what platform to go with.

What We Recommend at Omis Digital

Here’s our honest breakdown:

• Framer for 90% of small–medium businesses. It’s fast, elegant, easy to update, and gets results.

• Webflow for complex, content-heavy, or high-design sites.

• WordPress only when the project demands it (custom plugins, legacy blog, etc.).

And no matter which one you go with, we’ll make it clean, fast, and conversion-optimized.

Ready to Build the Right Way?

If you’re stuck with an old WordPress site, or unsure where to start, we’ll help you figure it out — and even build you a free homepage concept so you can see what’s possible.

→ Click here to book a free intro call with us!

Let’s build smarter — not slower.