Everything people ask before switching.

No. If anything, it gets better. Here's why:

• KeepYourSite ships a fresh sitemap.xml inside your ZIP, listing every page at your new domain. Submit it to Search Console once and Google will find everything.
• A robots.txt is included too, pointing at the sitemap.
• If you tell us your new domain during conversion, we rewrite every <link rel=canonical> and og:url so social shares and search engines don't think you're duplicating your own content.
• The exported HTML is 10–20× smaller than what Squarespace or Wix served, which nudges Core Web Vitals up and can modestly improve rankings.

The one thing we can't control is the move itself: while DNS propagates, there's usually a 24–48h window where Google re-crawls. That's normal for any domain-level change and typically resolves on its own.

If you're keeping the same domain, no. KeepYourSite preserves the same URL structure Squarespace and Wix used, so every old link keeps working. If you're moving to a new domain, add a simple redirect rule at your old registrar (or on Squarespace/Wix itself, before you cancel). All the major hosts support this for free.

You keep all of it. The data is tied to your domain, not the platform. Once the new site is live, verify the same property in Search Console (the easiest way is the DNS TXT record method), resubmit the sitemap KeepYourSite included, and your history follows you.

Three plain tiers for now: small sites are $9.99, medium sites are $29.99, and big sites are $49.99. Local tax (GST/HST/VAT/sales-tax) is added at checkout based on your location. The free scan tells you which bucket your site falls into before you pay.

Vercel's Hobby tier is free forever for personal sites, which covers 99% of KeepYourSite users. A domain from Porkbun, Namecheap, or Cloudflare is $10–15/yr. So you're looking at ~$15/yr total, versus $200–600/yr on Squarespace or Wix.

No. The conversion is a one-time charge. Once you have the ZIP, the site is yours. We don't store it, we don't bill you, we don't even know you exist anymore. Come back for new sites or major redesigns; skip us otherwise.

Marketing sites, portfolios, agency sites, blogs (posts, tags, categories, pagination), landing pages, anything static. We handle custom fonts, images, responsive layouts, contact forms, analytics injections, and mobile layouts.

Up to 300 pages per job, which covers virtually every site we've seen.

The things that need a live backend:

• Stores and checkout (Squarespace Commerce, Wix Stores)
• Password-gated member areas
• Scheduling and bookings (but you can keep the Acuity/Calendly iframe)
• Wix Events, Pricing Plans, Bookings
• Video transcoding (video URLs stay intact; we just don't download them)

The free preview catches all of these before the conversion starts. No gotchas.

For Squarespace sites, most come out 95–100% visually identical, because the converter reads the same design-JSON the Squarespace editor uses, so typography, colors, galleries, and layout math carry across. Wix is more variable because its runtime is heavier; simple marketing sites translate well, but interactive galleries, timeline animations, and CMS-driven pages sometimes come through simplified. We flag any shortfall on the preview.

The form markup is preserved but we disable the submission endpoint (it pointed at Squarespace/Wix servers, so it wouldn't work anymore). The README inside your ZIP walks you through rewiring it to Formspree. It's free for 50 submissions/month, takes 2 minutes, and emails you submissions directly.

If you used Mailchimp, Klaviyo, or any other email service, their embed code keeps working, because it talks to their servers, not Squarespace's. If you used Squarespace's built-in newsletter, you'll want to move to Mailchimp free tier (or similar) before you cancel.

We keep your downloaded ZIP for 1 day so you can re-download if you lose it, then we delete it automatically. No long-term storage, no backups of your content. Save the ZIP somewhere permanent (Dropbox, Drive, a USB stick) the moment you download it.

The ZIP includes a deploy.command (Mac) and deploy.bat (Windows). Double-click it, log in to Vercel in the browser popup, answer 3 yes/no prompts, and your site is live. Total time: ~3 minutes if you already have a Vercel account, ~5 minutes if you don't.

Not the double-clicking type? The Done page has a guided hosting handoff that walks you through getting it into your own Vercel account.

No. Your ZIP is just HTML, CSS, images, and fonts. It works on any static host: Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, Fly.io, S3 + CloudFront, or your own server. Vercel is our default because the free tier is generous and the deploy flow is the smoothest.

Yes. In Vercel, add your domain under Settings → Domains, then at your registrar set an A record pointing at 76.76.21.21 (apex) or a CNAME to cname.vercel-dns.com (subdomain). DNS propagates in minutes to a few hours. Your KeepYourSite README has step-by-step details.

Any text editor works, because the output is plain HTML. But the easiest workflow is to paste the ZIP contents into Claude or ChatGPT and tell it what you want changed. The Done page has a pre-written prompt explaining the file structure so the AI gets oriented immediately.

For bigger redesigns, point Claude Cowork at the folder and let it go wild. It can rewrite copy, swap color palettes, restructure whole pages, add sections, even build you a blog post template in one pass. No CMS to learn, no code to write yourself.

Yes, but it's manual: copy one of the existing post folders, rename it, edit the HTML. If you post a lot, we recommend moving to a Git-based CMS like Decap or Contentful, or converting your posts to Markdown and switching to a static-site generator. Worth it if you publish weekly; overkill if you post 3× a year.

Yes. KeepYourSite is a portability tool for sites you already own and pay for. You're not copying someone else's site; you're downloading your own content from a platform you subscribe to. Squarespace and Wix aren't happy about it, but nothing in their ToS prohibits you taking your own data elsewhere.

KeepYourSite was built around one idea: if you already made the website, you should be able to keep it without renting it forever. The name comes from property law: a freehold is ownership, not a lease.