Jimdo Review 2024 | Top 8 Pros & Cons You Should Know

Does Jimdo website builder really help you to build a website according to your dreams and imaginations? This
review will help you to decide whether Jimdo fits you or not. You will get a clear idea of when to and when NOT to use Jimdo.

Jimdo Review Highlights

1. Overview
2. Top 8 things you should know about Jimdo website builder before making big mistakes & wasting time (You may get surprised..!)
3. At the end of every section, you can see a Clear list of Jimdo Pros & Cons.
4. Separate Jimdo reviews (out of 5 stars) [8th Section Of This Post] From,
   • Users
   • Web Designers & Masters From The Point View Of Dummies
   • Our Complete Step By Step Review
5. Personalized advice for you..! (When to use & when NOT to use)

Jimdo – Is It Really a Good Company?

Before taking any web-based services, you should know whether the company is good or bad. Because your, all website information will be stored in your hosted company. Let’s see how many people are using it and how many customers are satisfied etc.

How Many People Are Using Jimdo Website Builder?

If you know how many people are using a service, then you can assume how much you can believe the company. If more users are using a service, then more bugs are fixed and more discussions & help you can get, If you are a beginner, then you should not buy a service with very fewer users.  Let’s check the monthly active users.

Checking Jimdo’s number of users or customers will not tell you whether Jimdo fits your needs. Numbers just represent how popular it is. Continue to read to know Jimdo’s real value for you.

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More than 8 Million people are visiting Jimdo. This is a good number. you don’t need to worry about the Jimdo community. But are they renewing their plan with satisfaction? To know continue to read.

Jimdo Customer Satisfaction – Are Its Users Leaving Or Continuing?

You should know whether its customers are satisfied or not. Because there is so many scam website builder make you happy at the beginning. But after you build everything with hard work, they will raise their price or forcefully offer you many unnecessary kinds of stuff. Let’s check it.

You can see how Jimdo searches on Google are constant. If users are not satisfied, they will leave and review it very badly. then slowly users’ interest will decrease. From the above graph, we can conclude, Jimdo maintained its interest in the Google trend. This means Jimdo able to satisfy its customers  or hold its customer’s interest in the internet

How Is Jimdo Portfolio?
We reviewed Jimdo premium users and also contacted many of its old customers. We got nearly 90% good responses. If you want to know more about people who already running their website with Jimdo, then see Jimdo example premium users live websites.

Jimdo User Experience – Is Its Website Builder Easy For You Or Give You Headache?

In this section, you will know,

• How Easy Is Jimdo?
  
• Do Your Skill Level Enough To Build Amazing Websites?
  
• Do You Get Many Problems After You Publishing Your Website?
• How Is Its Dashboard & Main Settings?

To know answers, let’s walk through with Jimdo,

How Much Easy? Let’s Walkthrough From The Beginning Quickly To Know Its Issues.

Building a website with Jimdo is not difficult. You can make a website in 3 steps.
Here I just gave a clue about how Jimdo is easy. If you want a detailed step-by-step tutorial, then read this one – How To Build a Website On Jimdo .
(There, you will get all the answers for your doubts related to its ease of use).

Go to  Jimdo  & click on Create a Website (You don’t need to pay anything). Once you clicked, many ready-made website designs or templates will appear. You can select any template you want. Once you selected a Jimdo template, Sign up form will appear. You need to create an account with Jimdo. Once you created, Your site builder will load on your screen. Edit, adding elements, drag & drop the blocks many more things you can do. (But, a few cons are there. You can’t use any of its site builder functions in its style mode. I explained it in the Pros & Cons box below) After you finished your web design, you can publish by clicking on the upgrade button.

How Is Jimdo Dashboard & Main Settings?

Jimdo dashboard is really good enough to run any type of websites. Take a look at its Dashboard settings.

You can manage a website easily from one place.
In the Account section, you can change your password, email, profile, and language. Also, you can delete entire your account & information with one click. They give the highest level of user privacy.
In the Website section, You can modify your site title, footer, hide login (Protecting from hackers). Password Protected Areas option will help you to restrict users from any page and give permission only if they sign up for your website.

You can view your plan available storage, adding your privacy policy, activating scroll up button for your web pages, adding your site favicon (default browser icon for your all web pages. Favicon image with size 16X16 pixel appears in left side of the browser tab when that tab is opened your website), inserting contact form using form archive, adding any codes to your site head section and many more things you can do. You can deactivate & reactivate your website at any time.

In Email & Domain Management, You can get professional emails, an email forwarding option & you can manage your domain name.

In-Store section, you will get all the essential settings for an online store website. (This one, I explained & reviewed in the eCommerce category)

You can add your site with Google Analytics to get all your website statistics like how many people are visiting your website, which page is viewed highest, where you are getting traffic, audience demographics, keywords and many more things you can know in a single view. (It is not Jimdo’s App. It is a Google application. Jimdo makes you easy to connect that app)

Jimdo Templates & Designs – Is Everything Good Enough Or Out-Dated?

In this section, you will get the answers to the following questions.

1. How really good are its templates and designs?
2. How is theme customization & flexibility?
3. How your Jimdo website will appear on mobile, tablets, and other different-sized devices with different browsers?
4. Do Its templates are developed with good codes?
5. What are the pros & cons?

Below clear your doubts now.

Are All Jimdo Templates Good Enough For You?

We tested all its 40 templates. Its designs are modern & professional. You will get wide as well as boxed layouts. The only disadvantage is the limited number of templates. But if you invest a little time to design your website by adding its elements and using all its functions, you can make an amazing site.

See Jimdo Portfolio 

Are Jimdo Templates Really Developed With Good Codes? Yes/No?
We tested all Jimdo template coding structures. See a sample of our test below. In the screenshot, you can find the test results of an example of a Jimdo Template.

Templates Structures back-end test to know how well coded. This result showed no zero errors and warnings. From the above test, we can conclude, Jimdo templates are developed with good codes.

Jimdo  Template Responsiveness – Does Your Jimdo Website Will Appear Good On All Sized Devices With All Browsers? How Much Mo
bile-Friendly?

From the above test result, we can conclude, Jimdo templates are mobile friendly. It got 99 out of 100. It is a really good score. But its mobile speed is very slow, even desktop speed is also not good. Website speed depends on its template codings as well as its hosting. I discussed more on Jimdo website speed in the 5th section of this post.

Jimdo Templates Flexibility – Will You Get Full Freedom?

In Jimdo Design You can sort templates in a very flexible manner. Look at the below screenshot, Just select what type of elements (header sections, navigation, content area, sidebar, responsive) you want to include on your website. Then the perfect templates will appear for your needs.

If you don’t satisfied with any of those themes, you can get customized templates according to your imaginations from third party services. But you need to pay for it.

Jimdo Website Builder Features – Do You Really Get Magic Tools?

What you can do with Jimdo?
Style

• Using its Style Features, you can change your entire website’s colors and fonts.
• You can switch for the entire site or block-wise to change its colors and fonts.

  

Text Editor

• You will get all the basic text editing options like bold, italics, fonts, size, color, formats, delete, undo, redo, link, unlink, lists, text alignments and duplicate
• If you know HTML programming,  you can add HTML codes in any text editor.
• You can drag and drop the text editor.( To drag, you need to click on another block. Then hover on edges of the text box. You will see dragging icon)

Essential Elements

• It included all essential elements like Heading, text editor, media, columns, buttons, share, Store items.
• You can add entire gallery or photos with text or single images.

Functions

• You can add Google maps to show your office address
• You can Let users download your files, photos or videos
• You can add comment box (Guestbook). It included basic functions like moderate, Captcha, comment order, email notification and discussion active.
• Using store catalog, you can sort your items by tags and names.
• Widget/HTML help you to add your own HTML codes or third party apps codes.
• Using form, you can create a contact form in a single click. So that, you can get touch with your site visitors without revealing your email address.
• You can create tables. You will get all necessary options like adding rows, columns anywhere, text, links and much more.
• You can add facebook like box, Twitter follow bar, Google plus profile, RSS feed, Instagram feed widget in a single click. Also, you can customize your social box appearance.
• You can add Newsletter signup box to get your site visitors email. It will help you in email marketing.
• Search box helps your visitors to search items or blogs within  your website.
• Google Calendar will help you to manage events or anything those are time sensitive.
• You can create appointment booking system on your website. Also, you can add live chat system.
• Music player function is available
• You can add all POWr plugins to your website. It included 50+ plugins. There you can add anything you want.

Blog

• You will get all text editing options in blog writing.
• You can choose your blog layouts. there are many blog layouts with category-wise.
• You can tag your blogs.
• All Jimdo’s website builder functions, elements work well with the blog.

E-Commerce

• In setting, you will see all eCommerce options under store section.

  

• The main setting included SEO, tax, Currencies, Country, item shipping details, Store catalog styles and more.
• Paypal settings including credit card, debit card and bank transfer.
• Invoice, payment in advance, Local delivery, Local pickup, Collect on delivery, Check by mail functions available for Jimdo business plan
• You can add shipping costs by destinations.
• Terms, return and policy
• Email marketing and other automatic mail services
• You can Customize checkout forms.
• You can set up Confirmation Page.

Jimdo Mobile Apps

• Jimdo app for iOS
• Jimdo app for Android

Jimdo Web Hosting – Does It Runs Your Website In a Good Manner?

1. Is It Runs Your Website Smoothly? What It’s Up-time? Jimdo passed in our Uptime test.

   

   jimdo web hosting uptime & website availability test

From the above result, we can conclude its web hosting uptime is good. You no need to worry about its up time.

• Jimdo Security – How Really You Will Be Protect From Viruses & Hackers? We tested its security. Here is our result.

  

  Jimdo security tests results revealed its websites are safe. You will be protected from any viruses or malware.

• Domain: You will get a free domain name. In setting, a Separate domain name management option available. There you can add, change or redirect from any domain name.
• Do You Get Professional Emails? Yes. You can get free email accounts with your own domain name ending.
• Backups:- No backup setting is given. But you can take your website backup using third party services.(But if you are a non-tech, you can’t easily understand)For more details see Jimdo Website Backup
• Import & Export : There is no option for export or import. That means you can’t transfer your website if you don’t like Jimdo.
• Jimdo SEO:– You site will appear in all major search engines. Separate SEO settings are given. It will help you to get your site on Google index in a healthy manner.
• Website Speed:- Jimdo website speed test result showed it is faster than only 27% of all tested websites. All our top website builders showed more than 90% faster than all tested websites. This revealed Jimdo web hosting will not boost your site loading speed. Your site will get slower than 73%.

  

Jimdo hosting overall score – 71%
6.

Jimdo Support – Will They Really Help You?

If you are a beginner, you need some help frequently while you are building a website. Let’s check how much you can get support from Jimdo team.
In Jimdo support, you will get all guides, FAQ’s, video tutorials and more. If you got any problem, there you can get the solution.
How to contact Jimdo customer care?
This link Jimdo contact carry you to the customer service page. There you can send your problems to Jimdo customer care team.
Jimdo will not provide you phone support. Also, you can’t get 24X7 support even you purchased it’s the Jimdo business plan. There is no Skype option or chat or any file and screen sharing option to contact their customer care.

Jimdo Pricing & Plans – Is It Worth Your Investment?

If you look at Jimdo pricing, you will see 3 different plans.
Free, jimdo Pro & Jimdo Business.
Free users can’t get domain names and also their website will not get index on Google or any search engines.
Jimdo Pro is the best plan to start. It costs $7.50/month.

Jimdo business pricing is $20/month. All plan’s amounts billed annually. that means, if you want to purchase Jimdo pro plan, you can’t order for one month, you should buy for 1 year. That costs you 7.50X12=$90/year.

Jimdo pro plan is best for beginners who just want to build their personal website or any artists, design related websites.

Jimdo business is fit for eCommerce or if you are very confident to get a large number of visitors to your website.

Jimdo Reviews By Web Designers & Our Team

Web Designers & Web Masters Review To The Point View Of Dummies
We invited many web designers & web master to review Jimdo on our website.

My Final Review

My final rating for Jimdo – 2/5

Jimdo Review Conclusion : Personalized Advice’s For You..! (When To Use & When Not To Use)
When To Use or For Whom Jimdo Is Ideal?
If you are a dummy and you want to make a simple website, then you can try Jimdo.

When Not To Use?
If you want to sell something or you want stunning designs & layouts, Jimdo is not for you
If you want to start an online store, then don’t see at Jimdo.
If you need a portfolio like website, then it may not fit for you.
If you are a dreamer and you want amazing animations, effects, professional & modern look, then Jimdo will not satisfy all your imaginations.

Jimdo is one of the top website builders in the world. But it has its own limitations. Every service starts with to provide a solution. Most of the time, that solutions may not fit for all. If you think, Jimdo is not for you, then see another site builder review. If you are in confuse, leave a comment below. I will help you.

Jack Cox

Jack is the Co-founder of WebsitebuilderLy, a Software Engineer from Standford University, An entrepreneur with 12 years of Website Creation, Management, Marketing Automation & App Development Experience. Worked for the world’s leading companies such as Roblox, HTC, etc.