I see that there is a group of people that think Elementor and other page builders are the worst because they make your website slow. Often it is people that are really fanatic when it comes to page speed.
In this video, I want to talk about what the goal is of a website, if Elementor makes your website slower and if that is a problem.
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It is true that Google will rank your website lower when your website is slow but it does not rank you higher when your website is blazing fast. When you have a decent web hosting provider and you use Elementor in combination with a few other plugins there is nothing to worry about.
I really hope my virus joke does not offend anyone. It comes across as a bit stronger than I intended. While there is a virus in the world I try to focus on my family, friends, and the good things in life. I know people with a lot of different views on the situation on earth and I respect every one of them. So again. I hope I do not offend anyone.
Kinda funny that the "fanatic" group on the internet that doubted the CCP and WHO joint narrative on a certain bug were ultimately proven correct because they simply used a little logic. Maybe the bug came from the factory in town dedicated to researching and designing new bugs? Heretical thinking.
Thanks Ferdy. I feel better after watching your video, but I do not completely agree with your opinion. My ecommerce website competes on a national basis with 5 or 6 major players, all of which started at least 10 years before I did. At first, I was glad that I even showed up on google, but now to earn a living I need to be #1, #2, or #3 in google search. As I added features (security, reviews, etc) my site slowed down so that my mobile results went from OK to 'needs improvement'. WordPress upgrades seem to slow my site down as they add cool functions that I don't need or want (gutenberg on each page load… to a mobile…??? give me a break), but PHP 8.1 speeded it up slightly. My pagespeed scores were in the low 40's for mobile and low 60's for PC's for my original AWS lightsail instance. After moving this to AWS EC2 instance I managed to get the mobile up to the low 50's, which at least is acceptable to google for now. I have tried all of the usual caching plug ins over the last 6 months but have found that they either don't do have any effect or they cause my astra themed woocommerce site to crash or malfunction. I tried to get object level caching working with AWS Elasticache (Memcached and Redis based) but have found them to be incompatible with my bitnami WordPress distribution. Right now, I can manage for a little longer but if google needs my site to go faster to retain ranking then I need to move to a different platform. The question is which one…
Of course nobody cares about 1 sec delay……………but what most people ARE experiencing is 3,4,5,6,7 secs delay and even more than that
so elementor does slow down your website AND IT CERTAINLY IS A PROBLEM!………A BIG ONE!!!
I'm so glad you said all this. I am not super new to building websites, but I have only begun having issues since using Elementor. I know I have a lot of plugins and it's slowing it down. But I've simplified everything as much as I can. The problem is, my website isn't fast. It's so slow. I need to know how to speed it up without sacrificing function and design.
Why is elementor builder SUPER slow for me? It takes 15 seconds for every click to load. The builder itself, working inside the workspace.
70 score for desktop and 50 for mobile its very good, don't be an addictive to speed, and make it against your content.
I would correct your statement to "No it´s not problem to have a slower website, unless somebody has the same quality content but better page speed."
Okay I'm happy now 🙂 I was getting speed addicted !
U know Kent Hovind`s jokes as I can see)
Ferdy, thank you. At last – a voice of reason. Great wisdom, much appreciated.
HAHAHA its hapenned to me,.
my site in 0,7s – 1,4s load , and in the first page (number 5) in targeted main keyword.
But guess what, that 4 websites above me, had 2,7s – 4,7s load.
I regret to reduce the content so much.
I know you don’t think Elementor slows down the website but with a Ezoic it apparently does slow it down. If I remove Elementor, can I keep the pages I’ve already built but then go forward with Gutenberg? Will that speed up my site?
Hi I don’t know why I didn’t see any of the problems with Elementor before I built my website with it and 48 posts! Now I am trying to add Ezoic and seeing how it slows things down. Can you tell me: if I very slowly work on one post at a time, converting to Gutenberg, but leave the pages as they are, will this improve my site speed with Ezoic ? Ezoic doesn’t tell you up front that this will be a problem and while I was researching pagebuilders trying to figure out how to do this on my own, I never heard one bad comment mentioned about Elementor. I also have Astra which is supposedly an additional “problem.”
Always brilliant. Straight to the heart of tech. 👍
Thanks, Ferdy. Very insightful. You’re a good man.
Great presentation Ferdy… I fear we have the same sense of humour, your children will be very grateful when they hit their teenage years, as are mine… NOT lol. I wondered how you could tell if your host was a "good host"? I have been hosting with a UK company for years but also have a "Grow Big" account on SG. Is there a way I could compare them?
totally agree, I built a Candle shop and we get orders. We don't have clients timing page loading ect. I'm also mastering oxygen not necessarily because of speed, but complete creative freedom. I want to state I love both Elementor and Oxygen !
I absolute love your content Ferdy, straight to the point with great humour. Very Inspirational
I dont like this type of joking. Apart from that I like your content.
My major competitor who rank no. one in google search has a speed score of 25 for mobile and 44 for desktop.
Hi Ferdy,
It was a great video! Thanks a lot for sharing your insights about this. I think there is a lot of misconception around Elemantor, and I am so glad that somebody decided to bust these questions and talk about them in a professional manner. I really enjoyed watching your video, and I will definitely be sharing this within my network to let others know about this as well. Looking forward to watching more such amazing videos from you!
I think its better if you your wife make a shorter website for the books she is selling. The domain is very long. I always like your great tuturials. Thank you
Hi Ferdy! I have a problem in wordpress. I want to use Bitter typography and in the elementor it works but as soon as I go to the page it turns to Sans-Serif. The other problem is that the pictrues I upload to elementor do not appear on the page. Could anyone please help me? Thank you in advance.
Very nice video. Things that matter :
1. Good use of elements and widgets of elementor. Only the necessary and only the minimum number of sections you need to build.
2. Use of elementor pro, because some of the features include and replace other plugins like the contact forms or social media share icons.
3. A quick server.
4. A cache plugin like wp-rocket.
5. Optimization of images with jpg or webp format.
And of course, content is the king.
You started the Crocoblock series in January and stopped updating it in February, but you're still promoting the product. When you say in your videos "Over the next weeks I'm going to make tutorials for everything" you need to continue to do it. Or dont say it at all.
Hello ferdy Make a video about Ezonic ad network and setup.🙂