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I’ve started using Elementor to build some
pages, while most of the old site is just using a theme. I have noticed considerable extra CCS and JS being loaded in lab tests.
Is Elementor considered heavy? For a blog site, is it not worth the overhead of using a page builder, is it just better to go with a theme with little customization?
Thanks
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The thing is that these site builders store all the changes on the page itself. That means that during load time, an SQL query is made to read all the contents. You have multiple ways of dealing with this.
Don’t be too heavy on your Elementor pages.
Use SQL cache for your wp_post: [MySQL Query Cache](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/query-cache.html)
Or, just use page cache.
Depending on the case, you could implement these techniques together.
Yes it’s hot garbage
Please search the sub. We’ve covered the weight of Elementor. You can use it with a good host and a lot of optimization.
does a bear find relief in and around wooded areas?
the worst. avoid like the plague
Elementor is heavier than a good clean theme, however it offers a lot of flexibility down the line. Annoyingly they’ve pitched their packages so that free Elementor is basically unusable, so you’re all in or all out. But Elementor Pro with the Hello Elementor theme and without tonnes of 3rd party plugins can be extremely optimised and perform nearly as well as a light theme but with the added bonus of easier/cheaper customisation. For just a small blog, probably not needed. But if you think you might want more functionality down the line it could be good.
Yes Elementor has a bloated messy codebase. Use a professional builder that exports clean semantic code.
I use Elementor…Ive no idea what you are all talking about 😉
Any page builder is going to be bloated by nature. There’s no real way around it.
Big E is bloated crap
That really depends on how much media you’re putting on your site. I personally have hostinger’s premium hosting and I find no issue with using elementor. My websites load just fine.
If you have a lot of images and videos on your site, that might also slow your website down. Try optimizing the images by converting them to webp (you can find a plugin for this)
If you are using elementor pro without many 3d plugins and all properly optimisations is just fine for most of projects.
I’ve built many blogs using Beaver Builder. I’ve had no problems with site speed and SEO. It’s worked well for me and it’s easy to use.
A mistake I see over and over on older sites I inherit or adopt is people using page builders for normal blogging.
Even if it didn’t introduce additional complexity in the results it just raises obstacles to efficient production, editing, and revision.
That includes the Gutenberg “builder,” which has good output but obscures controls like categories and tags that are irrelevant to building pages but are quite important for organizing and relating posts.
Use Breakdance instead! Better UI and performance
Definitely yes. Go all-in with Gutenberg. Don’t think it twice.
Beaver builder and bricks are better. Elementor is ass
That is probably the biggest issue with it.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ncQcxnD-CxDk4h01QYyrlOh1lEYDS-DV/
I recommend going through the doc and implementing the recommendations when you’ve got time. Elementor’s performance issues are very easy to solve.
Heavier than lead…
It’s heavy if you’re an old school coder that hasn’t realized web dev has changed.
Test your site, if it loads slowly on mobile with 4g, then you need to add a plugin for caching and then a cdn for css/js/images. But that’s more of a hosting solution.
Don’t waste a lot of time on optimizing because internet speeds are getting faster every year.
A couple years ago home wifi was 200mbs (in the states). Now it’s 1gbs or more. And mobile is pretty much 5G.
The speed testers aren’t taking into consideration real world speeds.
If you will use a page builder then elementor is one of the worst choice. Performance wise it’s quite bad. Unless you power it up with a lot of caching or premium hosting. If you use pro, you get to do some stuff without elementor but if you use free, for each additional feature you must add a plugin. Security wise it doesn’t have the best track record.
Elementor also realized how bloated their sites are and launched their own hosting to lock customers with in their business.
On contrary. If you check other page builders that are used on well performing sites. They’re, breakdance, bricks builder (most loved due to its performance), Gutenberg and some others.
The only time I have seen people use elementor is when they have not tried the above mentioned builders ever or they havnt known anything else or are completely new in the field of building no code websites or are those mass producers who will do $50 websites and do 100s of them.
But anyone who has done research, has tried other builders or cares about performance and has little experience goes with other better made builders.
That doesn’t mean elementor is the worst. There are worse ones out there. But elementor is one of the builders where most medium to advanced users say let’s rebuild the site in something else.
A lot of clients go to devs with complains and a lot of devs move the site from elementor to something else as the first step