Bricks Builder Vs Elementor

Bricks Builder

Bricks is our current weapon of choice when it comes to building lean, mean, business growth machines.

The builder itself is snappy, and is built on Vue, as opposed to react.js; opening the doors to a wider array of developers to create useful 3rd party functionality.
The code output is pretty much as clean as it gets, when compared to other builders like Elementor, for example; which suffers greatly from ‘Divception’ (simple elements stuck multiple levels deep in code, when really they only need to be a few deep)
We’ve noticed a much faster workflow when using Bricks, and coming back to an old project to make changes is incredibly easy, thanks to the CSS class-based workflow.

The team is very open, and the product is led equally by the userbase and the team itself. There’s an open roadmap and ideas board, and big product updates are arriving almost monthly most of the time.

The future of Bricks is bright, with features listed for the highly anticipated 2.0 release being very exciting indeed.

There are yearly and lifetime subscriptions, and the product never goes on sale.
As is said often in their very busy communities; there is never a better time than now to get into Bricks.

We’re always open to the idea of changing our preferred pagebuilder; but to do so requires a large investment of time and patience.
When we first encountered Bricks, back in 2021, we knew very quickly that the investment would be worth the it, for us and for our clients.

We’ll revisit our analysis of Bricks after the upcoming 2.0 release, but we expect nothing but great things and industry leading innovation from these guys.

Kudos to the Bricks team!

Elementor

Elementor has long been touted as a leading page builder in the WordPress ecosystem, but a closer examination reveals several critical flaws that overshadow its popularity. Primarily, it suffers from the infamous ‘Divception’—where the illusion of flexibility and ease of use leads to a cumbersome experience for users, particularly those who are not seasoned professionals. With a heavy focus on catering to a broad audience, Elementor often compromises on performance, resulting in unwieldy code bloat that not only slows down websites but also diminishes the user experience.

Another significant issue is Elementor’s lack of a lifetime licence, which forces users into a cycle of perpetual upsells and cross-promotions within the builder itself. The constant push for additional features and premium templates detracts from the core functionality that users initially sought. Additionally, their foray into artificial intelligence for design assistance has proven to be poorly executed, leaving many users disappointed rather than empowered. For professional web designers seeking a robust and efficient tool, Elementor may ultimately feel like a step backward rather than forward.