Google Sites limitations in 2026

Design and page structure

Google Sites is free to use with a personal Google Account. You open Google Sites and sign in with that account to create a site, though accounts managed by parents can't use it. It's also included in paid Google Workspace plans and Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, which is available at no cost to qualifying schools.

For page structure, Google Sites allows subpages up to 5 levels deep. That's a nesting limit, not a total page count. If you're planning a class site or a team resource site, check how far your subpages sit beneath other pages.

What does that look like compared with Heya? Heya is a no-code website builder where you sign in with Google to publish. Its Free plan includes up to 5 pages per site, while Pro Lite allows up to 20 pages per site. Those are page counts, rather than Google's limit on how deeply pages can be nested.

The limits are different.

Heya also has design limits within each page: 40 sections per page, 60 blocks per section and 10 block types. Images can be up to 20 MB. Its 6 embed types are YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud, Calendly and Google Maps, and all 68 templates are included on Free.

Custom domains

You can connect up to 5 custom domains to a Google Site, with up to 20 domain mappings a week. Keep those limits separate: one applies to the domains connected to a site, while the other applies to mappings made during a week.

Google doesn't sell domains anymore. Google Domains was sold to Squarespace, so you'll need to buy your domain elsewhere before connecting it to Google Sites.

Heya doesn't sell domains either; you bring a domain from any registrar. Custom domains start on Pro Standard, which includes 1 custom domain per account with HTTPS. Pro Plus supports up to 10 custom domains.

And watch the wording here: Google's custom-domain allowance is per site, while Heya's Pro Standard allowance is per account. They're different limits, even if you're only setting up a single site at the moment.

On Heya Free, you get a yourname.heya.bio address with HTTPS (no domain purchase needed for that address).

Stores, blogs and forms

Google Sites has no built-in online store or blog. If either is part of your plan, keep that limitation on your checklist before you start building pages.

Heya isn't a built-in store option either. It has no store, checkout or form builder, and its approach is to link a button to your checkout or store page rather than handle the checkout inside Heya.

For forms, you can link to a Google Form or a Tally form. For bookings, you can use the Calendly embed. Those are links and embeds, not a built-in Heya form or checkout.

Here's the side-by-side view:

Heya Free costs $0, with no credit card and no time limit. It includes 3 sites and a small Made with Heya badge.

Pro Lite is $3 a month and includes 3 sites, with no badge. Pro Standard is $6 a month and includes 5 sites. Pro Plus is $15 a month and includes 25 sites, plus the option to download your site as a ZIP of HTML files.

Older Google website products

Classic Google Sites isn't the current builder. Google stopped allowing new classic sites in 2021, and editing classic sites ended on January 30, 2023. The new Google Sites replaced it.

Websites made with Google Business Profile, using business.site addresses, were a separate product. Those websites were turned off on March 5, 2024, and redirected to the Business Profile until June 10, 2024.

If you're reading an older guide, check which Google product it's talking about.

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