{"id":22090,"date":"2021-11-01T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T07:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.angoramedia.com\/?p=22090"},"modified":"2023-08-19T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T20:57:02","slug":"does-wordpress-website-builder-affect-page-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angoramedia.com\/blog\/does-wordpress-website-builder-affect-page-speed","title":{"rendered":"Beaver Builder vs Elementor vs Brizy vs Gutenberg: How Much Does Your WordPress Website Builder Affect Page Speed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the age of WordPress, there have been some blazingly fast innovations in terms of page builders. Putting WordPress aside for a second, nearly every platform like Wix, Squarespace, and others, has made building websites easier than ever with WYSIWYG page builders (What You See Is What You Get). One of the big benefits of these types of page builders are the ready-made blocks and website elements, with various settings, so you don\u2019t have to manually code, padding, text size, color, accordion menus, and many more.<\/p>\n

While page builders have opened the door for website creation to be within reach for non-developers, there is a potential consequence to this. Let\u2019s take a look at the following example:<\/p>\n

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This is a snippet of code from a website with Elementor installed. Elementor has paved the way in easy, drag and drop page WordPress builders, and is one of the most popular and easy to use on the web. You can see in the yellow highlighted text that \u2018Elementor\u2019 appears all over the place in the code. Whether this has an effect on page speed we will get to momentarily. But there is no doubt that page builders do increase the HTML and CSS size, which means more KB to transfer, larger file sizes, and large DOM (Document Object Manual<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Core Web Vitals June 2021<\/h2>\n

In June 2021, Google finally fully implemented its Core Web Vitals<\/a> as a ranking signal. This was highly anticipated, resulting in SEOs scrambling for at least a year before to prepare websites for the \u201cnew\u201d ranking signals.<\/p>\n