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Webnode at a glance

Vendor
Webnode AG
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
Webnode is a template-based website builder for small businesses and personal sites, and the scores show one shape: legal paperwork public, business substance not. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 28 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 29 Oct 2026. all sources

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The panel's verdict

Webnode is a template-based website builder for small businesses and personal sites, and the scores show one shape: legal paperwork public, business substance not. Legal compliance scores cluster at 4 on a cookie-consent banner naming ads personalisation and analytics, plus a published privacy policy and data processing agreement. Hosting and portability scored 3-4 from five judges, resting on a public domain price list and an automatic-backups policy, with nothing public on SSL, storage, data-centre locations or export. Editor and design scored 2-3 from five judges: template galleries — an art-and-design category and a new-templates page — are confirmed; the editor's depth is not. Weakest are forms and business at 0 and SEO and marketing peaking at 1, with nothing public on contact forms, bookings, page titles, sitemaps or analytics. Pricing pages exist but confirm no figures. Sovereignty spans 0 to 3: two judges credited captured terms naming Webnode AG of Zurich and Webnode s.r.o. of Brno (jurisdiction unconfirmed); the others found nothing public on hosting or subprocessors. Computed persona totals: 2.4 to 3.6 across five; the marketing lead's was not computed.

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Speaks for it

  • Cookie consent management naming ads personalisation and analytics is confirmed on the vendor's own pages.
  • A data processing agreement and a privacy policy are published.
  • A dedicated domain-pricing page and a separate automatic-backups policy page are public.
  • Template galleries, including an art-and-design category and a new-templates collection, are published.

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Held against it

  • We found no public information on contact forms, spam protection, bookings, member areas or payments (forms and business scored 0).
  • We found no public information on page titles and descriptions, sitemaps, redirects or visitor statistics (SEO and marketing peaked at 1).
  • No plan figures, introductory or renewal prices, minimum terms or notice periods were confirmed on the pricing or domain pages (pricing transparency scored 0 to 3).
  • We found no public information on SSL, storage or bandwidth limits, uptime commitments or export of site content.
  • We found no public information on the contracting entity's jurisdiction, ownership, hosting locations or any subprocessor.

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Best for

  • You want a template-based website for a small business or personal site and can judge the look from the public galleries.
  • You want a builder whose privacy policy and data processing agreement are published before you sign.
  • You want custom domains and automatic backups as named, public parts of the offer.

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Avoid if

  • You need to compute the full cost before committing — no plan figures, renewal prices or contract terms were confirmed on the pricing pages.
  • You must verify hosting locations and subprocessors before signing — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
  • You need documented search controls before launch; SEO and marketing peaked at 1.

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The scores

Too little public evidence to rate — fewer than 1 captured source or 3 proven facts — so no star rating is shown. The panel's reasoning is below.

Editor, templates & design control

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How this is scored

How a site gets built and how far the owner can shape it: the editor (drag and drop, sections, AI drafts), the template range, responsive and mobile editing, fonts and brand styles, multilingual pages, custom code, and roles for collaborators or clients.

0 — Not a website editor; the product hosts files or code that are built elsewhere.

3 — An editor with a small set of templates and fixed layouts, where colours and texts change but structure, mobile view and languages are not described.

5 — A visual editor with a template gallery for several industries, layouts that adapt to mobile, brand colours and fonts, a blog, and the option to add pages in a second language or custom code snippets.

8 — Fine design control documented: free layout or section editing, separate mobile and breakpoint editing, reusable components or global styles, built-in multilingual sites with translated URLs, user roles for collaborators or clients, and site versions or history that can be restored.

10 — Design work at a professional level without leaving the tool: a design system with variables and components, interactions and animations, a CMS with custom collections, staging or branching before publishing, client handover with restricted editing, and the editor documented in depth.

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The Small-Business Owner

There are published template galleries — an art and design category and a new-templates page — so the look is template-based, but nothing captured describes the editor itself, mobile layouts, fonts or a second language, and I cannot tell how far I could shape a joinery site on it. 7 8

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The Freelance Web Designer

The captured pages present Webnode as a website builder with a template gallery sorted into industry categories, an art and design category among them. Beyond that we found no public information on the editor itself — layout freedom, mobile or breakpoint editing, fonts, multilingual pages, custom code, or roles for collaborators and clients — which is exactly what I need before building a client site in it. 1 2 7 8

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The Marketing Lead not rated — no public information

We found no public information on the editor, template range, responsive editing, brand styling or collaborator roles. The captured features and template gallery pages confirmed nothing on how a site is built or shaped. 2 7 8

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The Practice Owner

The captured pages show ready-made design galleries — an art and design category and a collection of new templates — so a site clearly starts from a template. We found no public information on how far the layout can be reshaped, mobile editing, fonts and brand colours, additional languages, or letting my therapists log in to edit their own pages. 2 7 8

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The Data Protection Officer

Public template galleries organised by category (an art-and-design listing and a new-templates listing) are published, which is where the documented design story starts and ends. We found no public information on the editor's depth, mobile editing, additional languages, custom code or collaborator roles. 2 7 8

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The Skeptic

The captured pages confirm a template gallery organised by industry and a rolling 'new templates' section, and that is where the evidence stops: we found no public information on the editor itself, mobile layouts, languages or custom code. A builder with templates is proven; how far an owner can actually shape the design is not. 1 7 8

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Hosting, domains & portability

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How this is scored

What runs the site once it is built: included hosting, custom domains and domain registration, SSL, email mailboxes, speed (CDN, image optimisation), backups and restore, availability commitments — and whether pages, content and media can be exported when the owner moves on.

0 — No hosting; the product produces a design or files and the owner finds a host.

3 — Hosting on a subdomain with a custom domain on paid plans, but SSL, backups, storage limits and export are not described.

5 — Hosting included with a custom domain (or one included for a first year), free SSL, stated storage or bandwidth, a CDN or speed optimisation, automatic backups or a restore function, and an export of at least blog posts or content.

8 — Hosting described in depth: data-centre locations named, a stated uptime commitment, versioned backups with self-service restore, email mailboxes on the own domain, performance figures or Core Web Vitals addressed, and a documented export of pages, content and media.

10 — Hosting the owner can rely on and leave: an uptime SLA with credits, the hosting region selectable, DDoS and security measures named, a complete site export (code or standard formats) documented step by step, and domains transferable without fees or lock-in.

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The Small-Business Owner

The vendor publishes a domain-pricing page and an automatic-backups policy, so custom domains and backups are part of the offer; the captured pages give no details on hosting itself, SSL, storage limits, restore or export, which is what I would want to know before moving in. 9 10

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The Freelance Web Designer

The captured pages include a domain price list and a page on automatic backup policies, which points to custom domains and backups being part of the offer. We found no public information on hosting itself, SSL, storage or bandwidth limits, a restore function, uptime commitments, or any export of pages, content and media when a client wants to move on. 2 9 10

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The Marketing Lead not rated — no public information

We found no public information on hosting, custom domains, SSL, backups, restore or export of site content. The captured domain pricing and backup policy pages yielded no confirmed facts on any of this. 9 10

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The Practice Owner

The captured pages include a domain price list and a page on automatic backup policies, so custom domains and backups are part of the offer. We found no public information on SSL, storage limits, data-centre locations, any uptime commitment, or how a finished site and its content could be exported if we ever moved. 9 10

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The Data Protection Officer

A public page prices domains and a separate automatic-backups policy page exists, so backups and domain handling are at least addressed in public. We found no public information on SSL, storage or bandwidth limits, data-centre locations, uptime commitments, or export of pages, content and media. 9 10

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The Skeptic

A domain-pricing page and an automatic-backups policy page exist, so custom domains and backups are real, named offerings. We found no public information on hosting, SSL, storage or bandwidth limits — and, the question I always ask before signing, no public information on exporting the site and its content when the owner moves on. 9 10

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SEO, analytics & visibility

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How this is scored

How the site is found and measured: page titles and descriptions, clean URLs and redirects, sitemaps and indexing, structured data, local SEO, page speed for search, built-in or connectable analytics, newsletter or social sharing, and guidance for the owner who is not an SEO.

0 — No search settings at all; pages cannot be given titles or descriptions.

3 — Page titles and descriptions can be edited, but sitemaps, redirects, analytics and indexing control are not described.

5 — Editable titles, descriptions and URLs, an automatic sitemap, 301 redirects, social sharing previews, built-in visitor statistics or a documented connection to an analytics tool, and SEO guidance or a checklist inside the product.

8 — SEO documented in depth: structured data, canonical and noindex control, robots.txt editing, image alt texts and compression, local business listings or a Google Business connection, multilingual SEO with hreflang, and privacy-friendly analytics without third-party cookies.

10 — Visibility as a strength: full technical SEO control including server-side rendering and speed figures, AI search or answer-engine readiness addressed, search data shown inside the editor, marketing tools (newsletter, campaigns, A/B tests) built in, and every setting explained in the help centre.

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The Small-Business Owner

The only captured material touching search is a developers' page; we found no public information on editable page titles and descriptions, sitemaps, redirects or visitor statistics — the things that would get a local carpenter found by someone nearby. 2 11

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The Freelance Web Designer not rated — no public information

We found no public information on search settings or analytics — nothing captured describes page titles and descriptions, sitemaps, redirects, structured data, visitor statistics or newsletter and social tools. The pages I read for this were the homepage, the features page and the developers search page. 1 2 11

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The Marketing Lead not rated — no public information

We found no public information on page titles and descriptions, clean URLs, redirects, sitemaps, structured data or analytics. Nothing was confirmed from the captured search-related page or the features page. 11 2

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The Practice Owner not rated — no public information

We found no public information on search settings or visibility: nothing on page titles, descriptions, sitemaps, redirects, visitor statistics or a connection to an analytics tool was confirmed. The homepage, the features page and a developer page about search were read, and none of them established how a site gets found or measured. 1 2 11

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The Data Protection Officer not rated — no public information

We found no public information on page titles and descriptions, sitemaps, redirects, indexing control or visitor statistics in the captured homepage and features pages; the only search-related page captured is a developer page whose content is not confirmed in the facts. 1 2 11

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The Skeptic not rated — no public information

We found no public information on search settings — titles and descriptions, sitemaps, redirects or analytics — in the homepage, the features page, or the developer-subdomain search page that was captured. Visibility settings remain unknown to a buyer on this evidence. 1 2 11

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Forms, bookings & business features

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How this is scored

What the site does for the business beyond showing pages: contact and custom forms with spam protection and notifications, where form entries are stored, appointment bookings, member areas, events, integrations with CRM or calendar, payments and a small shop as an add-on — judged as features of a website, not as a shop system.

0 — No forms and no interactive features; the site shows pages only.

3 — A contact form that sends an email, with spam protection, storage of entries and further business features not described.

5 — Custom forms with several field types, spam protection and email notifications, entries stored or exportable, and at least one further business feature (bookings, member area, events or a small shop) described.

8 — Business features documented in depth: forms with conditional fields, file uploads and confirmation emails, appointment booking with calendar sync, member areas or gated pages, payments, integrations with named CRM, newsletter or automation tools, and an app or extension marketplace.

10 — The site runs a small business: forms, bookings, payments, invoices or memberships work together with consent and data retention settings per form, an API or webhooks for form data, and a documented integration ecosystem — while the shop stays one feature among several.

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The Small-Business Owner not rated — no public information

We found no public information on contact forms, spam protection, notifications to my inbox, bookings or payments on the captured homepage and features pages. 1 2

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The Freelance Web Designer not rated — no public information

We found no public information on contact or custom forms, spam protection, where form entries are stored, bookings, member areas, events or payments. Nothing in the homepage and features pages captured speaks to business features of any kind. 1 2

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The Marketing Lead not rated — no public information

We found no public information on contact forms, form entry storage, bookings, payments or integrations with CRM or calendar tools. The captured features page confirmed nothing on any business feature. 2

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The Practice Owner not rated — no public information

We found no public information on contact or custom forms, appointment booking, where form entries are stored, or any payments, newsletter or calendar integrations. Online booking is the main reason I would change providers, and the captured homepage and features pages said nothing about it. 1 2

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The Data Protection Officer not rated — no public information

We found no public information on contact or custom forms, spam protection, where form entries are stored and for how long, bookings, member areas, payments or integrations in the captured homepage and features pages. 1 2

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The Skeptic not rated — no public information

We found no public information on contact forms, spam protection, bookings, member areas, events or payments in the homepage and features pages that were read. Every business feature of the site is unknown from this evidence. 1 2

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European sovereignty panel opinion

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How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where the sites, the form entries and the visitor data are hosted, and who the subprocessors are (hosting, CDN, email delivery, analytics, payments, AI features). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; the data subjects here are the owner's own visitors and customers, so the whole chain counts, not only the editor.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and no data processing agreement offered.

3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the subprocessors are not listed.

5 — EU hosting available or an EU contracting entity, a data processing agreement offered, but parts of the chain (CDN, email, analytics, AI features, support) run through non-EU providers or the subprocessors are listed without locations.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with their locations, a data processing agreement published, and security certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) stated.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, data export and deletion documented, and certifications published with their scope rather than implied.

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The Small-Business Owner not rated — no public information

The terms page names a legal entity, but the captured pages do not confirm its jurisdiction, the ownership, where sites and visitor data would be hosted, or a single subprocessor; we found no public information on the data chain behind my customers' details. 4 5 6

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The Freelance Web Designer not rated — no public information

We found no public information on the contracting entity's jurisdiction, ownership, where sites and visitor data are hosted, or any subprocessor — the captured pages leave all of this open. The privacy policy, terms and data processing agreement pages that were captured name no locations for any part of the chain. 4 5 6

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The Marketing Lead not rated — no public information

We found no public information on where sites and visitor data are hosted, on the contracting entity's jurisdiction, on ownership, or on any subprocessor in the chain. The captured privacy policy, terms and data processing agreement pages confirmed nothing on these dimensions, so there is nothing to score. 4 5 6

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The Practice Owner not rated — no public information

We found no public information on the contracting entity's jurisdiction, the ownership, where sites and patient data would be hosted, or any subprocessor — the terms, privacy policy and data processing agreement pages left all of this unconfirmed. From these pages I cannot tell whether my patients' details would stay in Europe. 4 5 6

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The Data Protection Officer

Per the captured terms the contracting entity is Webnode AG of Zurich with day-to-day operations by Webnode s.r.o. of Brno (jurisdiction marked unconfirmed against the captured pages), and a privacy policy plus a data processing contract are published. We found no public information on where customer sites, form entries and visitor data are hosted, or which subprocessors process them — the named hosting and the filable subprocessor list are exactly what is missing for an annual review. 4 5 6

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The Skeptic

A privacy policy and a data processing agreement are published, and the captured terms are noted as naming a Swiss company with day-to-day operations run from Brno — an entity in Europe, though the captured pages alone do not confirm the jurisdiction. We found no public information on where sites and visitor data are hosted, on the vendor's ownership, or on any subprocessor — hosting, CDN, email, analytics — so the chain beyond the front door cannot be verified. 4 5 6

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Pricing transparency

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How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real cost over two or three years from public pages alone: the monthly price per plan, the introductory price and how long it lasts, the renewal price after it, setup fees, minimum term and notice, domain and mailbox renewals, transaction fees on sales, and which features (ad removal, extra languages, bookings, more storage) cost extra.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or a free plan is shown, but what the plans include, what they cost after the first term or how the cost scales is unclear.

5 — Plans are public with prices and their main inclusions, but at least one commonly needed piece (the price after an introductory offer, domain renewal, a mailbox, transaction fees, an add-on) is unpriced or hard to find.

8 — Every plan priced publicly with the introductory price, its duration and the regular price after it, setup fee, minimum term and notice period, domain and add-on prices listed, and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: the cost of a given site over several years derivable from public pages, with every add-on, renewal, transaction and support fee, the cancellation terms and what happens to the site and domain after cancellation published.

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The Small-Business Owner

A pricing page and a separate domain-pricing page are published, but the captured pages show no plan figures, introductory or renewal prices, minimum term or notice period, so I could not work out what a site would cost in the second year. 3 9

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The Freelance Web Designer

A pricing page and a separate domain price list exist among the captured pages, so some prices are public. Those captures give no figures at all — no plan prices, what plans include, introductory or renewal prices, minimum terms, notice periods, mailbox or add-on costs — and we found no public information on transaction fees, so a client's cost over two or three years cannot be worked out from this. 3 9

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The Marketing Lead not rated — no public information

We found no public information on plan prices, introductory versus renewal pricing, contract terms, domain or add-on costs. The captured pricing page confirmed no figures a buyer could compute a two-year cost from. 3

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The Practice Owner

A plans page and a separate domain price list were captured, so plan and domain pricing are addressed on the site, but no figure for any plan, introductory term, renewal price, notice period or VAT treatment was confirmed in what I read. I cannot work out from these pages what two or three years with our own domain would cost. 3 9

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The Data Protection Officer

A public pricing page for plans and a separate page for domain prices exist. We found no public information in the captured facts on introductory prices and their duration, renewal prices, minimum term and notice, VAT treatment or add-on costs, so a two- or three-year cost cannot be computed from what is captured. 3 9

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The Skeptic

A pricing page and a separate domain-pricing page are public, which is where computability starts. We found no public information on plan figures, the price after any first-term offer, minimum term, notice period or VAT treatment — without the renewal number, no buyer can compute two years of cost. 3 9

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Questions about Webnode

Is Webnode European?

Yes, though not from the EU. whats-best.ai classifies Webnode as UK / wider Europe.

Where does Webnode store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026.

Does Webnode have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Webnode?

As of 4 Nov 2026, the panel rates Duda (3.5/5), Wix (3.5/5) and WordPress.com (3.5/5) highest among the other 17 Website Builders products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Framer (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Webnode alternatives.

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What we left out

A claim that does not survive our checks costs us the claim, not the page. This is what was taken off this one.

Sources (11)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.webnode.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Features page www.webnode.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Pricing page www.webnode.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Privacy policy www.webnode.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Terms naming the legal entity www.webnode.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Data processing agreement (dpa) www.webnode.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Editor, templates & design control — found from sitemap www.webnode.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Editor, templates & design control — found from sitemap www.webnode.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Hosting, domains & portability — found from sitemap www.webnode.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Hosting, domains & portability — found from sitemap www.webnode.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 SEO, analytics & visibility — found from sitemap developers.webnode.page Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →