The short answer to that question is yes. There are many reasons why a custom website will outperform a free website in terms of SEO, including improving your site speed through caching, reducing the number of page loads, and providing more accurate data to the search engines. These factors will rank your site higher with search engines. Secondly, people used to see unique and engaging pages on the web and love to navigate such websites or spend time. All these things are the biggest SEO ranking factors.