Charles
Tons of bugs, terrible service
Tons of bugs, slow, cannot collaborate with multiple people on the same page. They aggressively compress images to save bandwidth, and they look Pixelated/blurry all the time unless you contact their support. They dont support basic things navigation menus with dropdowns, you need custom HTML (aka developer support), which defeats the whole purpose of the tool. Every single page takes ~5 to 10 seconds to load, INCLUDING PREVIEW of what your building. If you’re working on pixel perfect alignment of small details, it gets very finicky and inefficient! If someone edits the page, you have a “exclusive lock” saying that someone else is editing. That’s 2000-ish way of collaborating online, but the worst part is that you have to wait 10 minutes after they have finished to edit to take over, without an option to override. If you have a distributed team, you’re going to spend A LOT of time waiting. Their A/B test user experience is SO confusing, out team ended up deleting the “right” pages by accident several times. The worst part: they never take responsibility and apologize when something goes wrong, and always come up with excuses. You can also see that lack accountability in how they respond to reviews here. Stay away from this tool, use unbounce if you want something lean, webflow if you want something a bit more sophisticated.
Response from InstapageMay 26, 2021
Hi Charles, its been over a year but like they say better late than never! Many thanks for your candid review. While we wish that we could cater to every customer request, the unfortunate reality is that our platform won't always be the best solution for every use case. If you need drop-down menus, you are correct in recommending something similar to a website builder where functions like this come standard. For landing pages, menus tend to detract from a page's primary goal, resulting in fewer conversions. For this reason, among others, we've decided to omit this kind of functionality for now. While no platform can be perfect, we work hard to give our customers a stable platform free of bugs. If we can't provide you exactly what you need at the time, our goal is to guide you towards the next best thing. If there's anything we can do to help guide you in the right direction today, please don't hesitate to reach out. We aim to deliver great customer experiences, and when it's not, comments like these allow us to reflect and improve. Thank you again for your feedback.



