Item: Elementor
Rating: 9
Author: David Victorine

Overall Satisfaction with Elementor

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Elementor on a weekly basis to build WordPress websites for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from local mom and pop service shops up to multi-location and franchise websites. I also educate business owners and their teams on how to use Elementor and make their own updates to their websites when they need to. Elementor provides an easy UI for building a world-class website with responsive designs.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Mobile friendly layout and responsive designs
Image optimization
dynamic content
SEO friendly web builder

Cons

reducing DOM size and increasing page speed times
additional SEO features would be great
better global settings and education around those features

Return on Investment

Positive: allowed us to expand our team and have multiple people work on website builds.
Allowed us to educate clients and help them take over their own websites.
Negative - it's hard to prevent people from uploading large image files.

Usability

Extremely dynamic and responsive. It is the superior WordPress builder that can easily handle complex designs and complex websites with different layouts and functionality for multiple pages. Very SEO friendly and the custom templates make workflows extremely fast to work with. Specifically this is a massive upgrade if you are coming from Divi.

Alternatives Considered

Divi

Elementor does have some bloat, but nearly as much as Divi has. In comparison, it's extremely light weight and much faster to use with the front end builder. It's so much faster to edit and move elements around with Elementor compaired to Divi. I still have to do some work on Divi sites and end up moving so slow in Divi compared to Elementor.

Key Insights

Do you think Elementor delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Elementor's feature set?

Yes

Did Elementor live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Elementor go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Elementor again?

Yes

Other Software Used

WPForms, Rank Math, WordPress

Likelihood to Recommend

Elementor is well suited for a lot of different website types, from basic static sites, to sites with dynamic content. E-Commerce is where it starts to get tricky, and can sometimes struggle with robust site search functionality. If you're building a very large site, you may want to consider a more stream-lined and light weight solution.

Elementor Feature Ratings

Using Elementor

Users and Roles

6 - SEO, Video team, and web dev team all use elementor. Primarily our web dev and SEO teams use Elementor the most and help our clients learn how to use it themselves as well. Our SEOs use the built in RankMath functionality and FAQ schema feature quite a bit. Our web dev team uses Elementor daily to bring new web designs to life.

Support Headcount Required

4 - The types of skills required to support Elementor include basic html/css as well as a familiarity with WordPress, WordPress plugins, and basic web page layout design knowledge. Elementor users need to be able to understand how to use a layout from a mockup file or an example website and use it on the website they are building.

Business Processes Supported

Building Websites
Improve SEO
Improve User functionality and ease of use

Innovative Uses

a newspaper website
a sports publication website
online rental car websites

Future Planned Uses

more interactive websites using wpforms
increasing the amount of dynamic content
multi-sites

Likelihood to Renew

Elementor is critical to our ongoing success and providing our clients with world-class websites.

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Excellent front end WordPress Builder