Website Builders Vs WordPress

[Nomad]

Website builders are software that allows you to build websites without any knowledge and skills in programming. These programs have drag-and-drop features and prebuilt templates to create websites. WordPress is a content management system to create websites. In order to use website builders to their full capacity, you will have to pay, however, WordPress is completely free.

 

[Cedric]

To be honest, I use WordPress for my business website and it easily creates and manages a very clean website for you. So yes, I'm a big fan of WordPress.

 

[Gandiba]

WordPress is actually the best available platform for one to use in getting their website running.

It's so unique and makes things easy even for those who are completely new into these systems of websites.

WordPress beats every other website builder.

 

[Lewis.]

The way it's going, WordPress is becoming a drag-and-drop builder anyway. There are so many plugins to make it whatever you want it to be anyway.

 

[nana kwasi]

Actually, the greatest platform for someone to use to launch their website is WordPress.

Even for people who are absolutely unfamiliar with these internet systems, it is so distinctive and simplifies things.

WordPress outperforms all other website builders.

 

[Xilia]

AVOID WIX - they are SO slow and cumbersome. I try so hard to convince clients to try literally any other web builder when they hire me, but they demand Wix. The amount of time I've spent on Wix when making sites for clients that could have easily been chopped off because of Wix shenanigans (there's so many drawbacks to their "drag and drop" design styling tool) :|

 

[Arantor]

So here's a fun story. I had a client with a WooCommerce store and they'd built a pretty neat store using it, alongside Elementor and maybe 100 other plugins.

Trouble is, the average page time for all that was 30-70 seconds per page. I ripped it all out, replaced it with a custom theme that did what they wanted, average page load now a second.

 

[Cedric]

So here's a fun story. I had a client with a WooCommerce store and they'd built a pretty neat store using it, alongside Elementor and maybe 100 other plugins.

Trouble is, the average page time for all that was 30-70 seconds per page. I ripped it all out, replaced it with a custom theme that did what they wanted, average page load now a second.

Wordpress does tend to load slow when there's a lot of plugins. Many are just poorly written. If you look at XenForo, that's not the case. You can have many plugins and still have a quick load time, we're lucky to have great devs and 3rd party developers for XF.

 

[Arantor]

That's largely a design matter, though; the way XF is designed is expressly with plugins in mind; WP had that grafted on much earlier and in a much more primitive way.

That said, a lot of the problem is not really the number, but the number multiplied by the levels of bad coding. Too many authors make their primary loaded file be a huge initialisation wedge, when really all it needs is a few lines to signal WP when to load any more.