Weebly vs Smugmug — Platform Benchmark

48.4

Weebly

2 sites

WINNER

31.4

Smugmug

12 sites

Score Summary

Avg AI Readability

57.3 37.7

Avg Security

16.7 33.3

Avg Efficiency

56.0 28.4

Avg Total Score

48.4 31.4

Avg Structure

51.6 19.4

Avg Load Complexity

61.0 34.8

Avg Lighthouse

55.5 31.7

Best Site Score

53.9 42.3

Worst Site Score

42.9 23.1

Weebly Smugmug

Performance by Industry

Average total score for each platform within shared industries.

Industry	Weebly	Smugmug
Corporate-personal	—	—
Photography	—	—

Comparison Insights

Overall Verdict

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

Dimension Edge

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

Opportunities for improvement

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

Industry-by-Industry Results

The platforms split industry wins evenly across 2 shared verticals - the overall score gap may be driven by a few outlier sites rather than a consistent pattern.

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.