Performance metrics Building a performant editor is a very difficult task, it requires constant attention and monitoring to some key metrics. In the context of the WordPress block editor (aka Guten…

I’ve recently replicated the Elementor’s official home page in Gutenberg as an experiment & to create a tutorial. That tutorial is on the way, but, I would like to highlight about the HTML markup both page builders generate. You will be surprised to see how much clean markup Gutenberg produces compared to Elementor. Visual Comparison First Here are the screenshots of both pages side by side. You can see that both look almost similar, there are of-course few differences as I’ve not made extra efforts to match 100%. Also, I skipped two sections that won’t be possible now in Gutenberg…

As you may know, WordPress 5.0 introduced a new editor experience (for those that haven’t decided to explicitly disable it), and the response has been mostly “ok, cool.” from users, despite the controversial release schedule, and the decision to punt many accessibility and performance issues to subsequent patch releases. And while I won’t try to […]

Your WordPress page builder may be easy to use, but is it fast? Compare Gutenberg, Classic Editor, Beaver Builder, Divi, and Brizy to see which is fastest!

I ran a simple performance test on WordPress's new Gutenberg Editor. The results were a little surprising.