22/06/2022
Gutenberg vs Elementor: Everything You Need To Know About These Two Builders
Gutenberg vs Elementor: an In-depth comparison
To help us make a good comparison between Gutenberg and Elementor, we will judge them on five aspects: Ease-of-Use, Features, Responsiveness, Page Speed, and Pricing.
First off, let’s take a look at the ease-of-use.
Gutenberg vs Elementor: Ease-of-Use
The Gutenberg block editor looks clean, and doing simple tasks such as adding blocks is straightforward.
Speaking of blocks, Gutenberg provides you with plenty of types. Ranging from something as simple as a paragraph block to help you with your written content, to something like code and custom HTML blocks if you’re tech-savvy.
Furthermore, the Gutenberg ecosystem is growing exponentially with free and premium collections, such as Stackable (this site!), so the number of blocks you can choose from will only increase from here on out.
Gutenberg vs Elementor: Responsiveness
Since 2017, mobile devices have accounted for more than half of internet traffic worldwide, eclipsing traffic from computers.
Because of that fact, the need to make websites look great on mobile devices has increased. Fortunately, both Gutenberg and Elementor are perfectly compatible with mobile screens, therefore making them responsive.
Elementor gives you quite a bit of control when it comes to responsive design. For example, you can choose to hide or show what widgets are visible on your website’s mobile version. You can even hide images that are too big to view on a mobile screen. While Gutenberg doesn’t have that function out of the box, you will have to rely on plugins to do this. Here in Stackable, we have responsive options across all our blocks.
To conclude, both Gutenberg and Elementor are perfectly responsive. You can use either one to create a great-looking mobile version of your website.
Our advice is to use Gutenberg if you’re starting out and need more straightforward options. Should you need more control in terms of what content to show on different devices, Elementor is better suited.
Gutenberg vs Elementor: Page Speed
Page speed refers to how fast your content loads on your website, and in this aspect, Gutenberg comes out on top against Elementor. At least, that’s according to this test, which found that Gutenberg loaded the test page and home page faster than Elementor.
To provide some context, Gutenberg had the smallest test page size, while Elementor had the largest. So as you can see, Gutenberg loads a webpage faster than Elementor, and if your page loads more quickly, then people can read your content faster.
Gutenberg vs Elementor: Pricing
Gutenberg is free and built into WordPress.
What’s more, the Gutenberg ecosystem is always growing, with more free and premium blocks such as Stackable, constantly added.
Elementor meanwhile, has a free version, and you can use it on any number of websites. However, it only gives you access to basic widgets and templates.
If you need or want access to features like pro widgets, templates, and ecommerce, you should upgrade to one of Elementor’s pricing plans.
Currently, there are three pricing plans that Elementor offers, Personal, Plus, and Expert, with all of them giving you everything the page builder has to offer.
The only difference is the number of websites you can install Elementor on.
Gutenberg vs Elementor: which one is right for you?
We hope that by the time you reach this point, you’ve already got a better picture of what Gutenberg and Elementor is.
But if you’re still wondering which one of them suits you better, we’ve got you covered.
Gutenberg is the perfect starting point if you’re still new to WordPress. If you want more power and flexibility, choose Elementor instead.
However, more power and flexibility means more things to figure out and maybe overwhelming if you do not take the time to learn about what each feature does.
As a reminder, you can also alternate between them, and even use them together. For example, you can use Elementor templates to get you started quickly and write on the Gutenberg editor if you’re more comfortable creating content with Gutenberg.
In the web design agency I run, my team uses both Gutenberg – and Stackable – along with Elementor, depending on the project requirements.
How are you using Gutenberg and other page builders in your business? Let us know by leaving a comment below!