WordPress Page Speed: Elementor v Bricks v Breakdance 

I like that E is improving a little bit on speed/code on each major update now. It is much faster today than 2-3 years ago. And it will probably be even faster in 6 months. It is anyway fast enough, and a couple of hundreds milliseconds does probably not matter.

Bricks is just too good.

Invaluable information, and great ammo for convincing my one client not to abandon Elementor on performance grounds

I was an Elementor user but now I've switched to Bricks and couldn't be happier. Bricks require some more refinements and I think it will become the Swiss Army knife for all section of users ranging from newbies to pros. :)

Interesting tests and results. Did you use SiteGround for your host? If so, did you leave the server level caching features enabled or disable and flush them?

This is great to see the updated tests! The improvements are making good waves!

Another great video Imran, plenty of interesting detail, and I like that you stripped it all back, and kept it honest and transparent. I’ve gotta say, the recent improvements in Elementor have been very well targeted. Given that speed optimisations have been one of the biggest requests for Elementor, it shows that we are being heard. Excited for future of Elementor.

You should have included the chasing request improvements for all others as well when used a caching plugin.

Elementor improving is a big win for the WP ecosystem as a whole. The sheer number of sites using it is so big that it will help recover the overall reputation of sites built on WP.

One of the reasons for the better performance is also due to PSI now testing mobile using 4G. They were testing with 3G previously. I'm not sure when they upgraded to 4G.

Truly good WP video!

Good video Imran. Missed the live stream for Camo Studio you were in. Overall I can see your point on Elementor, however, what do those numbers begin to look like when you begin building out full pages and start adding additional plugins for more functionality without having to resort to any optimizer? That’s just where Breakdance shines, as you can achieve more without having to rely on 3rd party plugins that begin affecting page load times. Glad to see that the team at Elementor is making progress on what used to be a real process to resolve!

I think it also comes down to the quality of the code as much as speed. Elementor still does not generate proper semantic code. It would have been interesting to have seen screen shots of the code inspector for each too.

Good review. Once it's over 90 for desktop and mobile, fussing over these differences is splitting hairs.

From my own tests, Gutenberg is the fastest, with Bricks being next at almost no difference. (Less than 1% difference) Breakdance then and lastly Elementor in terms of speed. Tests done on Hostinger hosting. 3 tests on every page builder to make sure it's not the server acting funny. It's weird how the WordPress classic 98% (I'm assuming you mean Gutenberg with this?) is slow in your tests compared to the page builders.

For me the issue is less about speed these days but code bloat. You can clearly see all the exra code on an Elementor site. In some sites that have small amounts of content per page the HTML far outweighs the content, which can be a problem for GOOD SEO. Will be interestign to see how much difference the newer block themes are, such as Spectra One.

Very interesting subject, I'm trying to build a directory site with elementor, running really slow specially the admin panel. Wil try and put it on a better server soon. My question is, I understand elementor has worked on page speeds and is getting better, but does that just render 3rd party speed improvement plugins pointless, because if so, you can still use them other pagebuilder to gain extra speed advantages. If elementor is built in does that give it an unfair advantage as others can also be improved apon but elementor can't?

Can you explain a bit about old website/legacy code? I have one older ecommerce website and I get about 40 on mobile and 70 when on blank page with one header (also mobile), while new ecommerce website is just like you showed 99-100. How to fix old website?

You should have added Generatepress in the test

Hello SIr, I am building a wordpress ecom website in elementor. I have around 50-100 products on the store, with custom fonts and design. I can feel the website loading getting slower. So far, everything is optimized using WP optimize plugin. I've made sure not to use images above 100-150kb in size. What would you suggest to improve the loading speed for my entire website other than changing the page builder, since I have already invested in elementor pro. Thank you.

Now show the code output 🤣

I wish you had included Oxygen in the test. Just to cover them all!

Took Elementor 2 years just to catch up on performance for a very simple Heading + Image page 😂

Dominic :v