Wix to Astro Migration Own Every File.
Leave Any Time.

No — and this is the part most people leaving Wix worry about most. Every URL on your Wix site gets a 301 redirect to the equivalent page on the new Astro site. Meta titles, descriptions, and structured data are rebuilt. Rankings typically hold within the first two weeks and improve over the following month because Google rewards the speed gain. The pattern is consistent: I've migrated multiple Wix sites and the search performance has improved every time.

Wix doesn't make it easy to leave — that's not an accident. There's no clean export of pages, no Markdown download, no developer API for the editor content. I extract content page by page from the live site, capture the structure, the copy, the images, the forms, and the SEO data. It takes longer than a WordPress migration for this reason, but the result is the same — a complete, owned copy of your site running on Astro. The export friction is exactly the lock-in you're paying to escape.

Most Wix migrations run two to three weeks end to end. The build itself is usually a week of focused work; the rest is content review, your sign-off on the staging site, and the controlled DNS switch. Your Wix site stays live the entire time — there's no downtime for your business. If your Wix site is large (40+ pages) or has unusual functionality, I'll give you an honest estimate after the audit.

Contact forms rebuild natively through Netlify Forms — no plugin, no monthly fee, submissions land in your inbox the same way. Bookings depend on what you're using; Wix Bookings doesn't have a direct Astro equivalent, but I can wire up Calendly, Cal.com, or a custom solution depending on your needs. Analytics (Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom) plug in directly. The principle is the same as the migration itself: rebuild it natively, own the result, lose the platform tax.

Honestly? The Wix visual editor is easier for daily click-and-drag editing, and I won't pretend otherwise. Most of my clients don't want that — they want a site that stays working, and they email me changes when something needs updating. The trade-off is worth naming. You lose the in-browser editor; you gain a site that's fast, owned, version-controlled, and won't put up its prices next year. If self-editing genuinely matters, I can wire up a headless CMS (Decap, Sanity, or similar) that gives you a visual editor without the lock-in.

A custom Wix to Astro migration is from £1,500 one-time, depending on site size and complexity. The pay monthly route at £49/month bundles the build and hosting together with no large upfront cost. After the migration, the running costs are usually £0/month on Netlify's free tier — compared to £15-35/month for a Wix Business plan. The migration usually pays for itself within 18-24 months in hosting savings alone, before counting the speed and SEO gains.

It depends on whether you need a real checkout. If you're selling more than a handful of physical products, taking payments at scale, managing inventory or shipping, Shopify is the right destination — I cover that on the Wix to Shopify migration page. If you're a service business, a tradesperson, a consultancy, a B2B supplier, or any small business that doesn't need a full ecommerce checkout, Astro is the better fit. I'll tell you straight which one suits your situation in a five-minute conversation, no obligation either way.

Your domain is yours, not Wix's — even if you bought it through Wix originally. After the migration, I update the DNS records to point at Netlify instead of Wix's servers. The domain itself can stay with Wix if you want (you'll pay a small annual renewal) or transfer to a UK registrar like 123-Reg, Gandi, or Cloudflare. I usually recommend transferring it out so you've cleanly separated from the platform, but the migration works either way. Your email, if it's running through Wix, can also be moved or kept depending on what you'd prefer.