GitHub Pages vs Webflow: What are the differences?
Developers describe GitHub Pages as "Public webpages freely hosted and easily published". Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live. On the other hand, Webflow is detailed as "Build responsive websites visually". Webflow is a responsive design tool that lets you design, build, and publish websites in an intuitive interface. Clean code included!.
GitHub Pages and Webflow can be categorized as "Static Web Hosting" tools.
Some of the features offered by GitHub Pages are:
- Blogging with Jekyll
- Custom URLs
- Automatic Page Generator
On the other hand, Webflow provides the following key features:
- Build responsive websites
- PIxel perfect control
- Publish and host in minutes
"Free" is the primary reason why developers consider GitHub Pages over the competitors, whereas "Interactions and Animations" was stated as the key factor in picking Webflow.
According to the StackShare community, GitHub Pages has a broader approval, being mentioned in 569 company stacks & 663 developers stacks; compared to Webflow, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
We use Netlify to host static websites.
The reasons for choosing Netlify over GitHub Pages are as follows:
- Netfily can bind multiple domain names, while GitHub Pages can only bind one domain name
- With Netfily, the original repository can be private, while GitHub Pages free tier requires the original repository to be public
In addition, in order to use CDN, we use Netlify DNS.
