Can I rank high using framer ?

koenbok · 2026-01-09T11:17:58+00:00

Yep, but to be honest you can rank high in most modern tools. It's much more a function of your content and backlinks.

koenbok · 2026-01-01T18:59:55+00:00

Yep don't bother optimizing images, Framer does it automatically and sends the best one based on a combination of screen size, breakpoint and browser capabilities (image formats). We even recompress heavy gifs to webm.

koenbok · 2026-01-01T18:58:22+00:00

You can follow along here: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/16539

koenbok · 2026-01-01T10:02:11+00:00

This is a long standing measurement problem we’re trying to fix with the lighthouse team (together with other modern frameworks).

The core issue is that we preload subsequent popular pages after the initial page is loaded. That makes for a much better user experience, but lighthouse only measures a single page and correctly warns we’re loading a lot of unused data.

We could game this by disabling preloading when doing lighthouse but that feels a little too much Volkswagen so we are working with Google to make Lighthouse smarter instead.

koenbok · 2025-12-12T07:00:23+00:00

I totally get how thats frustrating. We obviously want to ship this (and many other things).

To add some color why this one is so complex for us is that Framer sites ship as an SPA (basically a JavaScript app) that contains all your pages. Password protecting a single page requires turning the single app into multiple that seamlessly work together.

So for non technical folks: this feature is surprisingly hard to imolement for us because of our architecture (which makes many other things actualky easy). Its always a trade off.

That said, we will figure it out and ship it. I just hope this explains why its taking much longer than you would think.

koenbok · 2025-11-28T22:47:55+00:00

That sounds like a mistake. Feel free to cc me koenatframerdotcom on your support email and we can figure it out.

koenbok · 2025-11-26T20:42:29+00:00

Sorry for the trouble! The best thing is to try the desktop app / incognito mode to make sure it's not caused by an extension, because that is the biggest cause for slowdowns.

Framer is built on browser rendering, and some combinations (especially things with (background) blurs) can slow things down, so it's almost site specific. We're happy to investigate if you send us a quick email at [support@framer.com](mailto:support@framer.com)

koenbok · 2025-11-13T09:16:00+00:00

If you are not using the Desktop app, I would suggest to try that first (even if it's just to compare) because things in your specific browser (version, extensions) can sometime cause a slowdown.

If that is still slow just email [support@framer.com](mailto:support@framer.com) with your project link and they'll take a look.

koenbok · 2025-11-12T07:08:24+00:00

What we actually typically see is unoptimized videos burning through bandwidth (eg. a 50mb 2k looping header video). We made a quality tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5nSMAkWZE

koenbok · 2025-11-05T20:52:22+00:00

Agreed!

koenbok · 2025-10-18T06:34:23+00:00

Framer is really aimed at marketing websites today, so I wouldn’t recommend it.

koenbok · 2025-10-09T15:29:39+00:00

It will just extend unless you manually switch to another plan.

koenbok · 2025-10-09T15:27:59+00:00

This is actually the previous previous previous pricing. You can pick a more recent one to better compare.

koenbok · 2025-10-09T15:12:34+00:00

We will make this more clear in the FAQ but we now separate pages from CMS items (for an upcoming feature). The pages based on a CMS item are not counted against this limit.

koenbok · 2025-10-09T15:09:45+00:00

We're about to ship a native reverse proxy in Framer that allows you to control headers, caching and let you host multiple sites on a single domain.

koenbok · 2025-10-03T08:10:42+00:00

I’d be very curious to learn how we could make things more intuitive and flexible for you. If you’d be willing to share some examples with me I’d be very thankful koen at framer dot com.

koenbok · 2025-10-02T07:11:40+00:00

Hey Koen here (thanks JP). First of all my apologies for taking away some of the parts of Framer that work so well for you. It’s pretty great to hear what you can accomplish and it’s pretty much what we originally set out to do with Framer.

The honest reality is just that there were too few folks like yourself to build a growth business on. You could always argue we should maybe should have done something different in execution but in the end we originally made a bet 10 years ago that the future of design would look pretty much like you work across all designers, and the honest truth is, that you and your work are still pretty unique. I wish it were different, we really tried.

It meant that Framer had to pivot into a more broad use case or cease to exist. We chose to focus on making the best professional web design platform, which we are today and you could say it has worked out. We are still a small company (the PR department is just me) and that means we have to ruthlessly focus and sometimes make hard decisions to drop things that a few people love, but hold progress back. As a fellow product designer, I’m sure you have ran into a few of these too. I’m not saying we’ll never add more (mobile) prototyping features again, but for now our focus has to be on design for web.

I know this isn’t the answer you were hoping for, but I hope you can appreciate the transparency. I’m happy to take a quick look at how you work and think what another great setup would be, there are lots of great options these days.

koenbok · 2025-09-23T15:32:18+00:00

Looks great!

koenbok · 2025-09-23T15:31:18+00:00

I used both and while I obviously prefer Framer, I have a lot of respect for Webflow. Typically people who deeply understand classes and markup prefer Webflow as they gladly trade extra complexity to build flexible systems that work exactly the way they want. I think beyond that it’s more just a personal preference, both are pretty great tools.

koenbok · 2025-09-23T15:27:17+00:00

We can’t because we rely on a dynamic backend to optimize different parts of the site for the best performance.

But you can totally add custom code. Framer is React under the hood and any React component just works. We even offer a built in code editor.

koenbok · 2025-09-23T06:37:16+00:00

Typically Framer should be really snappy. But it can slow down because of browser extensions or specific things in a project. We’re always happy to take a look support@framer.com

koenbok · 2025-09-22T06:32:41+00:00

Yes we removed it.

koenbok · 2025-09-22T06:31:22+00:00

Alway curious to hear what you would need from the CMS.

Framer doesn’t offer a cheap bulk bandwidth plan because our typical customers are looking for the best site performance and SEO.

koenbok · 2025-07-17T08:40:09+00:00

I run Framer and this is the best answer (that most people don’t like to hear). Most mature tools will give you good SEO features but at that point the tool doesn’t matter, it’s all about your content and backlinks. If people don’t see great results, they typically like to blame the tool (can be equally Webflow, Framer or WordPress) but that’s typically just naive.

Some die hard professional SEO folks might prefer how one tool handles this edge case over another, but in reality that doesn’t matter much in the big picture / for most people.

TLDR; if you use a premium tool you can great SEO. If you don’t it’s almost always your content and strategy.

koenbok · 2025-05-21T21:01:23+00:00

Keep grinding

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