Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder: What Users Actually Complain About

Users report significant performance problems including slow loading times, excessive resource consumption, and bloat that negatively impacts website functionality.

“the plugin has so many performance issues and create so many problems under the hood”

“It's so slow. It use to have really great speed and I love the page building UX”

“Elementor has always had a problem with bloat. Now it has also become unusable”

Users experience critical issues with the Atomic editor causing data loss and making the page builder unreliable for important work.

“I went in and disabled automic editor and THE WHOLE PAGE I HAD BEEN WORKING ON IS GONE”

Users face challenges with plugin compatibility, unreliable updates that don't fix existing issues, and version instability causing erratic behavior.

“unable to update our pages due to a conflict between Elementor and the Yoast SEO plugin”

“The plugin is updated regularly, but the lagging issues and functionality problems are never fixed”

“V4 is utterly unreliable and causing all kinds of erratic behaviour and difficulties”

Users report multiple security vulnerabilities that undermine trust in the plugin's reliability and safety.

“I can't even keep track of how many security issues there have been recently”

Users struggle with a steep learning curve and lack of adequate documentation, while also expressing frustration with limited support options.

“the learning curve is quite steep for new users. Better documentation would help”

“contacted the support team for assistance, but they informed us that support is only available through a paid support pl”

Users are annoyed by persistent subscription reminders and excessive advertising within the dashboard, detracting from the user experience.

“A month before your subscription is up you will get nagged relentlessly to repurchase”

“repeated display of promotional messages in the dashboard leads me to give it only one star”