This will be the start of the end of many of the third party page builders. As a professional SEO I know how important speed is and not just for UX, but now for rankings as well. You can’t mitigate or trick using layout shift and delays like before. That means most pagebuilders like Divi and Elementor, Breeze, Beaver and others will be gone. From the only one that I think is not that bad on speed – Oxygen, but the problem with it that you need to be an airplane pilot to know how to drive this thing.

So the transition will start next year, where marketers, SEOs and then small business owners would demand their projects or would make their projects without these heavy page builders. Then some big vendors will start to crumble.

This is really good news for Gutenberg, however I wish Gutenberg team STEP UP their game and introduce more DRAG AND DROP everywhere so that people who came from Elementor/Divi and the others don’t feel like they are on another planet with much limited functionality.

One of the benefits of Elementor and Divi is exactly that, you like something and you drag it. It’s not about multi-clicking on the sidebar like Gutenberg is.

DRAG AND DROP – that is the most intuitive task you can think about it, especially with devices that have touch capabilities.