SmugMug vs Weebly — Platform Benchmark

31.4

SmugMug

12 sites

48.4

Weebly

2 sites

WINNER

Score Summary

Avg AI Readability

37.7 57.3

Avg Security

33.3 16.7

Avg Efficiency

28.4 56.0

Avg Total Score

31.4 48.4

Avg Structure

19.4 51.6

Avg Load Complexity

34.8 61.0

Avg Lighthouse

31.7 55.5

Best Site Score

42.3 53.9

Worst Site Score

23.1 42.9

SmugMug Weebly

Performance by Industry

Average total score for each platform within shared industries.

Industry	SmugMug	Weebly
Corporate-personal	32.7 3 sites	—
Photography	31.0 9 sites	48.4 2 sites

Comparison Insights

Overall Verdict

Weebly meaningfully outperforms SmugMug by 17 points on average. This reflects a consistent quality gap across their sites.

Dimension Edge

SmugMug leads in: Security. Weebly leads in: AI Readability, Efficiency, Structure, Load Complexity, Lighthouse. Weebly has a broader performance advantage across dimensions.

Opportunities for improvement

SmugMug could target AI Readability, Efficiency, Structure, Load Complexity, Lighthouse to close the gap.
Weebly could target Security to improve.

Industry-by-Industry Results

Weebly wins in 1 of 2 shared industries - its overall lead holds across verticals.

Sample Size Consideration

SmugMug has 6× more audited sites than Weebly. Larger samples surface more variation and may pull averages toward the mean, so this comparison should be read with that in mind.