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Are you looking for a fast WooCommerce WordPress theme? We’ve compiled a list of 7 themes you can use for your next e-commerce project! An online shop often means a lot of images, text, videos, reviews, and payment gateways which can, unfortunately, impact the performance. Your clients will not like a slow WordPress site and may be reluctant to complete any purchase if the page takes forever to load. Actually, Portent ran some studies about the impact of site speed on the conversion rate, and you can see the correlation on the graph below. The more it takes for the page to load, the lower the conversion rate is. 

In this article, you’ll find 7 WooCommerce themes you can use for your next project. As a bonus – to prevent you from losing sales and customers on the way – we’re sharing some tips on optimizing your WooCommerce site and making your online store faster than ever. 

Let’s dive in. 

The 7 Fastest WordPress Themes + Test Data

We have selected the most popular WooCommerce themes on the market, and here’s the shortlist we come up with: 

1. Storefront
2. Astra (+ The Pro WooCommerce add-on)
3. Flatsome (+ The UX theme builder)
4. Avada (Fusion WooCommerce builder)
5. Divi (Divi WooCommerceBuilder)
6. BeTheme (BeBuilder)
7. The 7 (Elementor page builder)

We’ve run some fair performance tests for each theme which should help you choose. 

Let’s get to the data! 

1. Storefront

A very basic free theme developed by WooCommerce themselves. The theme is built and maintained by WooCommerce core developers, which avoids compatibility issues. The customization options are limited, but if you want to launch a simple online store, it does the job. 

Performance results for the Storefront theme:

• PageSpeed mobile score: 85/100
• First Contentful Paint: 2.1s
• Largest Contentful Paint: 1.7s
• Cumulative Layout Shift: 2.8s
• Speed Index: 1.3s
• Time To Interactive: 1.3s
• Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
• Total Loading time: 2.1s
• Total page size: 990 KB
• HTTP requests: 18

2. Astra

Astra is one of the best WooCommerce WordPress themes due to its lightweight code, user-friendly interface, and thousands of starter templates for your next shop. The premium add-ons for WooCommerce allow you to create a custom payment page, add an advanced product gallery, filters, and unlimited scrolling to create a site like Pinterest. 

Performance results for the Astra theme (and the WooCommerce add-ons):

• PageSpeed mobile score: 83/100
• First Contentful Paint: 2.2s
• Largest Contentful Paint: 1.7s
• Cumulative Layout Shift: 2.1s
• Speed Index: 1.1s
• Time To Interactive: 1.3s
• Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
• Total Loading time: 2.5s
• Total page size: 990 KB
• HTTP requests: 16

3. Flatsome

The #1 selling WooCommerce theme on Themeforest is multipurpose and responsive for WooCommerce. It comes with the UX builder and some interesting options for your online store, such as the live search, add to wishlist, sale bubble options, change the number of products per row, or the catalog mode options if you don’t want to display any prices. 

Performance results for the Flatsome theme:

1. PageSpeed mobile score: 81/100
2. First Contentful Paint: 2.5s
3. Largest Contentful Paint: 1.7s
4. Cumulative Layout Shift: 1.6s
5. Speed Index: 1.3s
6. Time To Interactive: 2.5s
7. Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
8. Total Loading time: 2.7s
9. Total page size: 997 KB
10. HTTP requests: 18

4. Avada (+ Fusion Woo Builder)

It’s the #1 selling theme on Envato for years, with many thousands of easy-to-customize templates in the library. Avada comes with the Fusion Builder, allowing you to build your site from the header to the footer. It also has powerful WooCommerce widgets allowing users to build customized online stores. You can also use their builder to build custom product and shop pages. 

Performance results for the Avada theme:

• PageSpeed mobile score: 78/100
• First Contentful Paint: 2.9s
• Largest Contentful Paint: 1.8s
• Cumulative Layout Shift: 1.6s
• Speed Index: 1.3s
• Time To Interactive: 2.6s
• Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
• Total Loading time: 2.8s
• Total page size: 998 KB
• HTTP requests: 17

5. Divi (+ Divi WooCommerce Builder)

Divi is a powerful WooCommerce theme thanks to its visual WooCommerce builder. Elegant Themes was among the first companies to bring the WYSIWYG to WordPress. The promise is that you can build everything visually using the Divi framework without touching a single line of code. The WooCommerce builder and modules allow you to create your custom product and shop page quickly. 

Performance results for the Divi theme:

• PageSpeed mobile score: 75/100
• First Contentful Paint: 4.1s
• Largest Contentful Paint: 1.5s
• Cumulative Layout Shift: 2.8s
• Speed Index: 2.4s
• Time To Interactive: 1.2s
• Total Blocking Time: 0.1 ms
• Total Loading time: 3.1s
• Total page size: 1.2 MB
• HTTP requests: 19

6. BeTheme (+ BeBuilder)

BeTheme is a multipurpose website builder and best-selling WordPress theme with 650+ pre-built websites (with a modern design). Their BeBuilder is also compatible with WooCommerce, and they even launched a query builder to build loops and dynamic websites. The promise is that you can build the WooCommerce site you want and design versatile shops & single-product layouts that convert. You can either use a ready-to-use template or create your own. 

Performance results for the BeTheme theme:

• PageSpeed mobile score: 72/100
• First Contentful Paint: 4.1s
• Largest Contentful Paint: 3.9s
• Cumulative Layout Shift: 2.8s
• Speed Index: 1.9s
• Time To Interactive: 1.7s
• Total Blocking Time: 0.5 ms
• Total Loading time: 3.6s
• Total page size: 1.3 MB
• HTTP requests: 21

7. The7 

It’s the #1 selling Elementor theme that offers a lot of customization for WooCommerce. The7 has 60+ prebuilt dummy websites with exclusive templates that can help launch an online store easily. You can build attractive templates for the storefront, product pages and lists, checkout, cart, and more with the advanced WooCommerce Theme Builder. The highlight is that you can easily modify any WooCommerce page and add advanced filters to improve the user experience. 

Performance results for The7 theme:

• PageSpeed mobile score: 70/100
• First Contentful Paint: 4.4s
• Largest Contentful Paint: 4.3s
• Cumulative Layout Shift: 2.9s
• Speed Index: 1.2s
• Time To Interactive: 1.5s
• Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
• Total Loading time: 4.1s
• Total page size: 1.5 MB 
• HTTP requests: 25

Summary Table of the Performance Results

Below we’ve put together the summary of the performance results for each WooCommerce theme. We used Lighthouse’s global “PageSpeed mobile score” to rank them. 

Key Takeaways:

• None of the themes are in the red on mobile, they all lie between the orange and the green regarding the global performance. 
• Storefront, Astra, and Flatsome seem to be the top 3 fastest. 
• The7 seems to be the “slowest” which makes sense with all the advanced customization available. The performance is still acceptable, though, and in the last section, we will show how to put all the KPIs in green! 

How We Tested the Themes 

The selection was based on popularity, high numbers of downloads or sales, library templates, and quality reviews. The performance tests were made using the following performance tools:  

• PageSpeed Insights
• GTmetrix

Both tools are powered by Lighthouse. They analyze the performance and the user experience of your website. Here are the 10 KPIs we’ve used in our tests – measured on mobile: 

From PageSpeed Insights:

• PageSpeed mobile score 
• First Contentful Paint
• Largest Contentful Paint
• Cumulative Layout Shift
• Speed Index
• Time To Interactive
• Total Blocking Time

From GTmetrix:

• Total Loading time
• HTTP requests
• Total page size 

Then, we chose 7 themes that define themselves as WooCommerce friendly because they come with add-ons or specific customization related to online stores: product page or checkout process customization, advanced galleries, personal account page, etc. 

The Test Site

We built a realistic WooCommerce site for each theme. In all cases, the homepage has a hero banner with a button, 1 call to action, 4 icons with texts, 3 customer reviews, 1 ad, and 12 products. Of course, we used the same image and products for each test, we simply swapped the themes between the round of tests. 

We did a fresh installation for each theme and used the same server for each theme’s speed testing (servers are in London).

Disclaimer: Those performance tests have been run on a server based in London, and we built each e-commerce page ourselves. The results we have presented are from our own experience, and the results may differ according to your project.

Give an Extra Performance Boost with WP Rocket

WP Rocket is one of the best caching plugins to optimize any WooCommerce theme, including the ones on our list. Your online store’s performance and Core Web Vitals score will drastically improve upon its activation. 

To understand the impact of WP Rocket on speed, let’s see it in action with the7, which was one of the most complete themes we tested in terms of features and customizations. 

Below are the performance issues flagged by Lighthouse, listed under the “Opportunities” tab: 

Lighthouse suggests using caching, enabling text compression, reducing unused CSS/JS, and deferring offscreen images (image optimization with lazy loading). 

After using WP Rocket on the test site, we noticed that our issues were moved to the “passed audits” section:

But there is more to come. All our performance KPIs improved thanks to WP Rocket, including the mobile score on PageSpeed Insights. The performance score got a 99/100.

WP Rocket also boosted the Core Web Vitals scores (all in green) and decreased the total loading time (from 4.1s to 1.9s). It also reduced the page size and the number of HTTP requests, as you can see in our table below: 

Performance KPIs	The7 Score (no WP Rocket)	The7  Score (with WP Rocket)
PageSpeed mobile score	70/100	99/100
First Contentful Paint	4.4s	1.7s
Largest Contentful Paint*	4.3s	1.7s
Cumulative Layout Shift*	2.9s	0s
Speed Index	1,2	2s
Time To Interactive	1.5s	1s
Total Blocking Time	0ms	0 ms
Total Loading time	4.1s	1.9s
Total page size	1.5 MB	680 KB
HTTP requests	25	8

*Core Web Vitals

Here are more tips about testing and improving the Lighthouse performance score on WordPress.

To address all the PageSpeed Insights warnings and boost the performance, we used the following WP Rocket features:

• Text compression and caching – both features are automatically activated right upon activation of the plugin. You don’t need to do anything. 

You can also set your own options from the advanced cache tab in the WordPress admin:

Want to learn more about page caching on WooCommerce? Read our 7 tips to learn how to implement caching on a WooCommerce site

• CSS code optimization – from the file optimization tab, we selected the optimize CSS delivery button (using the handy remove unused CSS option). We also minified and combined the CSS code to help the browser download and process these files faster.

• JavaScript code optimization – from the files optimization tab, there are also some options to optimize the JavaScript of your WordPress site. In our case, we minified JS files, loaded JS deferred, and delayed the JS execution: 

• Lazyload – to defer offscreen images (and prioritize the loading of the images located in the viewport):

What’s the Best WooCommerce Themes For You?

While we can’t advise you on a specific theme as it highly relies on your design and technical specifications, here are a few pieces of advice: 

• If you need a simple online store with the WooCommerce look and feel by default, without any advanced design or options, then go with Storefront. 
• If you are a freelancer looking for a theme with many demos that you can show to your clients for different industries, then Divi, BeTheme, and the7 may be your best options. 
• If you are an Elementor’s fervent user, then Astra and The7 may be your best bet. 
• If you want to use the WPBakery Page Builder, the 7 theme is the way to go. 
• If you plan to upload thousands of products, a lightweight theme like Astra or OceanWP may be wiser. They both come with advanced WooCommerce features so you can create your own store in minutes. 
• If you need to create your own single product layouts and shop pages and add dynamic data to your website, then take a theme that works well with any other WooCommerce builders.
• If you want to get your theme from Themeforest, then pick Avada, which has been #1 on Themeforest for years. 
• If you are hesitating between two themes, check their demos and remember to look at them on several devices. Many sales happened on mobile!

Finally, our last recommendation would be to choose a theme that is safe with recent updates, fast support, accurate documentation, and in-depth tutorials. You can also check some popular YouTubers that review all those themes and record their screen while they build an online store from scratch. 

Wrapping Up

Now, you should be able to choose the right WooCommerce theme for your next project! 

 In any case, no matter which theme you pick, WP Rocket is the easiest way to improve your WordPress site’s speed, optimize Core Web Vitals, and fix the performance audits on PageSpeed Insights. Plus, you don’t take any risks with the 30-day money-back guarantee. 

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Are you interested in GeneratePress and Astra for your next web project? It makes sense to consider them because they are both lightweight WordPress themes that put performance at the top of their priorities.  

In this article, we’ll look at the performance of GeneratePress and Astra and collect comparison data from a real-case scenario. We’ll also share some techniques for boosting performance and reviewing their main features to help you choose between them.

Which theme is faster: GeneratePress or Astra? You are about to figure it out!

How We’re Testing GeneratePress vs. Astra Performance (Full-Mobile Approach)

To measure the performance of GeneratePress and Astra, we are taking a full-mobile approach with servers located in France. 

Performance Tools and KPIs

Themes: We are comparing the two free versions of the GeneratePress and Astra themes. Although they both offer premium add-ons, we haven’t installed them for this audit. 

Tools and metrics:

• GTmetrix (Page size, fully loaded time, and the number of HTTP requests on mobile – from an iPhone 12 in Paris)
• Google PageSpeed Insights (For the Core Web Vitals: Largest Contentful Paint and the other key performance metrics: Cumulative Layout Shift – Speed Index, Total Blocking Time, and First Contentful Paint)

The Test Sites

To keep things as fair as possible, we built our test sites with the WordPress Editor blocks, and then we simply swapped the themes. We have designed the following modules:

• A hero header with a background image 
• Text and images boxes 
• Icons
• Images gallery (we use the same images for both)

Disclaimer: Our tests have been conducted on a server based in France, and the results we present are from our own experience. They may differ from yours according to your technical setup and the content you add to your site.

GeneratePress vs. Astra Performance Compared

Now let’s compare our two sites using PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix. Let’s get to the data!

Must read: Check our full guide about how to test your WordPress site performance.

For reference, this is how both our testing sites look like: 

Our page with GeneratePress (same modules)	Our page with Astra (same modules)

Let’s start with the first metric, the mobile performance grade: they are quite similar for both themes. We are getting an orange grade on Google PageSpeed Insights with 81/100 for Astra and 82/100 for GeneratePress.

Astra vs. GeneratePress Summary Performance

Here is a summary table with all the performance KPIs we got for both themes. It should help you to visually compare both themes:

*Core Web Vitals

Is Astra Faster than GeneratePress? – Key Answers 

• Both themes are very similar in performance as they got 81/100 (Astra) and 82/100 (GeneratePress) on mobile. 
• Astra and GeneratePress have almost the same full loading time of around 3 seconds. 

• About the Core Web Vitals: 
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: Astra is performing better than GeneratePress and avoids the sudden shifts in layouts (with a CLS of 0 s, compared to GeneratePress, which is in the red with a score of 0.521).  
  • Largest Contentful Paint: GeneratePress’s Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is 3.3 seconds against 4.1 s for Astra (which puts this Core Web Vital in the red.
• The number of HTTP requests is similar (20 and 21), but the Astra page size is lighter: 788 KB (against 953 KB for GeneratePress).

To go deeper into the performance audit, let’s have a look at the Lighthouse diagnosis and opportunities sections below.

PageSpeed Insights Opportunities Section for GeneratePress

GeneratePress’s performance is satisfactory, but there is room for improvement in the following areas:

• Enable text compression – By compressing your content, you ensure that your pages will be served to visitors more quickly.
• Reduce initial server response time – Meaning that we should try to delay JS to have a faster server response. The main solutions are to clean the database, use clean code and implement caching. 
• Reduce unused CSS – Trimming your code by reducing the unused CSS will positively affect the page’s loading time.
• Serve images in the next-gen format – Lighthouse recommends serving images in WebP or AVIF to offer better compression when using images online.
• Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy – It’s all about using an efficient cache plugin.

PageSpeed Insights Opportunities and Diagnostics Section for Astra

Overall, we found out that a lack of caching and poorly optimized images are the main culprits for the red flags below. Here are the improvements we need to implement for our Astra’s test site:

Hint: Most of the performance issues mentioned above can be fixed with WP Rocket and an image optimizer plugin like Imagify, which are very easy to use as they do all the heavy lifting for you. We introduce them in the next section.

Now that we know where we stand in terms of performance for both themes, let’s follow the PageSpeed Insights recommendations and take advantage of WP Rocket (and Imagify) to fix all these performance issues easily.

How to Speed Up Astra And GeneratePress 

To speed up Astra and GeneratePress, the first Lighthouse recommendation is to use a caching plugin like WP Rocket. It reduces the server response time by caching the content, optimizing the code and the database, and implementing text compression. 

WP Rocket is one of the best caching plugins that improve performance and help pass the audit on GTmetrix and PageSpeed Insights. It’s a performance tool recommended by GTmetrix.

Pro Tip: If you are using WP Rocket and run a report on PageSpeed Insights, you’ll see that Lighthouse recognizes the plugin. PageSpeed Insights tells you which features of WP Rocket you should enable to fix each performance issue. Very handy!

Regarding image optimization, Lighthouse suggests enabling Imagify to efficiently encode the images and ensure performance. Imagify is an easy-to-use image optimizer plugin that compresses images and converts them to WebP. 

Alright, it’s time to look at how both themes are now performing after addressing all the issues. 

Improved Performance Results Thanks to WP Rocket (and Imagify)

WP Rocket and Imagify have significantly improved the score on Lighthouse for both themes. We are now scoring 100/100 for GeneratePress and Astra: 

GeneratePress + WP Rocket + Imagify (PSI)	Astra + WP Rocket + Imagify (PSI)

Thanks to WP Rocket and Imagify, we are now passing the PageSpeed Insights audit! We fixed all the issues flagged in the opportunities and diagnostics sections of GeneratePress. 

GeneratePress’s issues flagged by Lighthouse	WP Rocket and Imagify fixed them all!

The same improvements and fixes happened for Astra: 

Astra’s issues flagged by Lighthouse	WP Rocket and Imagify fixed them all!

To summarize, we put together a global comparison table showing both themes’ performance with and without WP Rocket + Imagify (the image optimizer):

Performance KPIs	GeneratePress Performance (no WP Rocket)	GeneratePress Performance with WP Rocket + Imagify	Astra Performance (no WP Rocket)	Astra Performance with WP Rocket + Imagify
PageSpeed mobile score	82/100	100/100	81/100	100/100
Total Loading time	3,1 s	2.1 s	2.9 s	2.2 s
First Contentful Paint	1.5 s	0.5 s	2.8 s	0.4 s
Largest Contentful Paint*	3.3 s	0.7 s	4.1 s	0.6 s
Cumulative Layout Shift*	0.521 s	0 s	0 s	0 s
Speed Index	5 s	0.6s	3.5 s	0.7 s
Total Blocking Time	30 ms	0 ms	0 ms	0 ms
Total page size	953 KB	547 KB	788 KB	588 KB
HTTP requests	20	15	21	16

*Core Web Vitals

Key Conclusions with WP Rocket

Thanks to WP Rocket, we have noticed major performance improvements for both themes, such as:

• The mobile performance grade on PageSpeed Insights moved up to 100/100 for both. 
• WP Rocket improved our Core Web Vitals score, and they all moved to the green.
  • The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) went from 3.3 s to 0.7 s for GeneratePress and from 4.1 s to 0.6 for Astra.  
  • The Content Layout Shifts (CLS) went from 0.524 to 0 for Generatepress.
• We saved around 1 s in the page loading time for both.
• The number of HTTP requests has also decreased for both themes: from 21 to 16 for Astra and from 20 to 15 for GeneratePress.
• The Speed Index is now 0.6 s for GeneratePress (it was 5 s and was in the red). 
• The page size is much smaller for both themes. It went from almost 788 KB down to 588 KB for Astra and from 957 KB down to 547 KB for GeneratePress.
• All the issues flagged in PageSpeed insights issues are now in the passed audit. 

Key Conclusions with Imagify

• Imagify compressed our images in a couple of clicks which makes it very easy to use. 
• All our images got compressed and converted to WebP (the next-gen format recommended by Google).
• Imagify helped solve the “serve image to the next-gen format” and the “efficiently code images” issues from PageSpeed.

Below are the two buttons we pressed to optimize our images: 

• WebP conversion to make images lighter.

• Smart bulk image compression – The compression of all your images automatically works in the background and does the job for you.

With WP Rocket – no matter the theme you pick – you increase your chances of passing the PageSpeed Insights audits.Â

Let’s discover all the WP Rocket’s features that helped to give an extra speed boost to both page builders: 

• Caching and GZIP and text compression – WP Rocket automatically applies with caching and GZIP compression upon its activation.

• Minify CSS, Combine CSS, and Remove Unused CSS – To optimize the CSS delivery.

• Similarly, there are also some options to minify, defer and delay JavaScript.

Go further on your performance optimization journey and implement more WordPress page speed optimization best practices.

Our performance audit is now completed. Let’s look at each theme’s main features to help you decide which theme is the right choice for your needs.

GeneratePress vs. Astra: Key Features and Pricing

Astra and GeneratePress have the same approach: their free version is a basic framework that allows you to build anything on top of it without impacting performance. 

• Popular lightweight themes – Both Astra and GeneratePress are popular lightweight themes that are a great foundation for having a fast-loading site. A fresh GeneratePress install adds less than 10kb (gzipped) to your page size, and Astra only adds 50KB on the front end. Astra is used on over 1 million sites, and GeneratePress recently passed 500 000 installations. 

Use of the Customizer to customize the theme – They rely on the WordPress Customizer to tweak the options and make the changes visually.

GeneratePress + Native WordPress Customizer	Astra + Native WordPress Customizer

• Starters site library  – They both have intuitive interfaces that are very easy to use. All you need to do is select and import the template you want to use on your WordPress site. You don’t need to be an advanced developer to use both tools, and the templates are very well-designed. 

How to Use the Library For Astra:

• Install the free “Starter Templates” plugin.
• Choose the template of your choice, you can sort by category and add a “premium” filter.
• The import will start automatically..

How to Use the Library For GeneratePress:

• You need to have GP Premium and the site library module activated.
• Go to Appearance > GeneratePress > Site Library.
• Choose your layout to start the import.

GeneratePress Sites Library	Astra Sites Library

• Compatibility with page builders – GeneratePress and Astra are compatible with the most popular page builders, and both offer pre-made templates built on Elementor, Beaver Builder, and the WordPress Editor. 

Page builder-ready GeneratePress templates (Example: Elementor + GeneratePress)	Page builder-ready Astra templates (Example: Elementor + Astra)

• Premium add-ons – Both themes are freemium, meaning that if you want to unlock some advanced features, templates, and integrations, you’ll need to purchase a premium add-on.

What’s In GeneratePress Premium?	What’s In Astra Pro?

• WooCommerce compatibility – both themes are compatible with WooCommerce, and they offer some dedicated features. They both have ready-to-use templates built with WooCommerce to build an online store on solid foundations. 

Dedicated WooCommerce-based demos GeneratePress (extract)	DedicatedWooCommerce-based demos Astra (extract)

• International community – both have a great community worldwide with interesting Facebook groups (10K for GeneratePress and 54K for Astra). However, you are more likely to meet Astra’s team (led by Sujay Payar) at WordCamp as they seem to be more involved in the WordPress community. 

GeneratePress vs. Astra: The Main Differences

• The Customizer is less detailed for GeneratePress – which makes sense for its lightweight, bloat-free approach – but it’s less beginner-friendly than Astra’s, where the customization seems easier. For example, if we need to modify the footer, there is a visual representation of the layout:

• The template library is richer for Astra – Astra comes with many pre-made blocks that can be used, such as header, testimonials, pricing tables, and call-to-action. GeneratePress has a library with pre-built pages, but the blocks are not as impressive from a design perspective. Astra provides more premade headers, so it’s a good idea if you are a beginner or don’t want to start from scratch. 
• White labeling (Astra only) – Astra Pro gives you the option to do white-label which is interesting if you are planning to hand over the site to a client and add your customizations.

• GeneratePress more closely follows the theory of “less is more” and does offer a more minimalistic theme than Astra: everything is integrated into the WordPress interface, and when it comes to activating the advanced options, everything is very straightforward. 
• Astra has more tight integrations with popular plugins like Learndash or LifterLMS that allow you, for example, to launch a complete online course in a few clicks. 

GeneratePress vs. Astra Pricing 

GeneratePress offers two prices with access to the same features. Either you pay $59/year, or you get the lifetime license for $249.  In both cases, you’ll have the premium features, the library, updates, and support. The only limit is using GeneratePress on up to 500 websites.

Astra also offers lifetime and yearly pricing. It starts at $47, but you’ll need the “Essential Bundle” at $137 to access the library. The best value is the “Growth Bundle” because it gives you access to many blocks and SEO add-ons as well as advanced training. 

Wrapping Up

When it comes to speed, the two themes got similar results, the mobile loading time was about the same, and so was the page loading time. The ultimate choice will depend on your needs and how much you need a theme integrated with the rest of the WordPress ecosystem. 

In any case, you can build an advanced site and supercharge it with powerful premium features from both themes. 

If you come across some performance issues during your development process, then you can use WP Rocket and Imagify to tackle them. 

WP Rocket is recommended by GTmetrix to reduce the server response time, for example. 

So, which theme are you going for? Are you currently using a theme that slows down your site? Remember that WP Rocket and Imagify have significantly increased performance and made us score 100/100 on PageSpeed Insights. Use WP Rocket to improve the speed of your WordPress site, and you can also try Imagify for free. You don’t take any risks because if you don’t see any improvements, we provide a refund within 14 days of your purchase. 

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Are you hesitating between Beaver Builder and Elementor for your next WordPress project? Page builders are efficient tools that help design beautiful websites faster than ever. However, you want to make sure that you are opting for a builder that offers clean code, an intuitive interface, and that provides regular updates. You also need a tool that does not slow down your WordPress site because website speed is essential for the user experience and SEO. 

In this article, we’ll look at the performance of Beaver Builder and Elementor to help you decide which one fits your next project. We’ll also share some activable tips about boosting performance and review the main features to help you choose the best solution for your needs.

Which page builder is faster: Beaver Builder or Elementor? Let’s find out!

How We’re Testing Beaver Builder vs. Elementor Speed (Full-Mobile Approach)

To measure the performance of Beaver Builder and Elementor, we are taking a full-mobile approach with servers based in Paris. Beaver Builder and Elementor offer both a theme. We are using them respectively on each test site. 

WordPress Versions, Tools, and KPIs

Themes we are using: Beaver Builder theme / Hello Elementor theme 

Plugins we are using:  Beaver Builder Page Builder and the Beaver Themer add-on  / Elementor Pro 

Why is there another plugin installed on my Beaver Builder site? To be fair towards Elementor and compare similar features, I’ve installed another add-on on my Beaver Builder test site called Beaver Themer add-on. I’ll get more design flexibility and control over parts of my site (header, footer, custom templates, dynamic content, post grids, etc.). Those features are also included in Elementor Pro.

Performance tools and KPIs:

• Google PageSpeed Insights (Core Web Vitals: Largest Contentful Paint and Cumulative Layout Shift – Speed Index, Total Blocking Time and First Contentful Paint)

• GTmetrix (Fully loaded time, page size, and the number of HTTP requests on mobile – from an iPhone X in Paris)

The Test Sites

To keep things as equal as possible, we have built our test sites with modules available in both Beaver Builder and Elementor:

• A hero header with a 487 KB image (png format)
• A button with a link
• 3 services using icon boxes  (text and icons)
• A number counter 
• 1 FAQ with 3 toggles and some content 
• A pricing table (two plans available)

Important: Our tests have been conducted on a server based in France, and we built each page from scratch. The results we present are from our own experience, and they may differ from yours according to your whole technical setup and content.

Beaver Builder vs. Elementor Performance Compared

It’s time to compare our two test sites using PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix. Let’s get to the data!

Interesting reads: Our detailed guide about testing WordPress site performance to learn more about how to audit your WordPress site.

This is how both our testing sites look like: 

Our page with Beaver Builder (same modules)	Our page with Elementor (same modules)

On Google PageSpeed Insights, the first finding is that the mobile performance is orange for both, with an advantage for Elementor (83/100) over Beaver Builder (68/100). 

Elementor vs. Beaver Builder Summary Performance

We put together a summary table with all the performance KPIs so you can visually compare both builders: 

*Core Web Vitals

Is Elementor Faster than Beaver Builder? – Key Takeaways  

• Elementor’s full loading time is 3.8 seconds, slightly faster than Beaver Builder, which loaded in 4.2 seconds. Both builders are not too far away from each other regarding speed.

• Core Web Vitals: Elementor is performing better than Beaver Builder. Beaver Builder’s Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is 7.1 seconds against 3.3 s for Elementor. The Content Layout Shift (CLS) is in green for both. 
• Beaver Builder has a better First Contentful Paint score (2.5 s – it’s 4.8 s for Elementor)
• Their page size is similar, but Beaver Builder triggers fewer HTTP requests than Elementor (17 against 39).  

To go further in the performance analysis, we are sharing the diagnosis and opportunities section from Lighthouse below.

PageSpeed Insights Opportunities Section for Beaver Builder

• Eliminate render-blocking resources – some resources are blocking the first paint of our page, making the page load slow. We should load critical JavaScript and CSS inline immediately and defer/delay all non-critical JS and CSS. 
• Enable caching for static assets text compression – we should cache our content to improve the page speed loading time and offer a better user experience.
• Enable text compression –  we should enable GZIP compression to compress HTML, CSS, and JS files to get smaller and faster files to serve on the visitor’s browser.
• Reduce initial server response time – we should try to eliminate or delay JS to let the server answer faster. 

PageSpeed Insights Opportunities Section for Elementor

Below are all the improvements we need to do for the test site built with Elementor. We found out that a lack of caching, text compression, and a poorly optimized code are responsible for the red flags below: 

Important: Most of the performance issues mentioned above can be fixed with WP Rocket, which we introduce as a solution in the next section.

Now that we have tested both builders’ performance and got the PageSpeed Insights recommendations, it’s time to take advantage of WP Rocket to fix all these performance issues easily!

How to Speed Up Elementor And Beaver Builder 

To speed up Elementor and Beaver Builder, Lighthouse recommends using a caching plugin like WP Rocket. The goal is to reduce the server response time, for example, or even optimize your code. WP Rocket is one of the best caching plugins that helps improve performance and pass the audit on GTmetrix and PageSpeed Insights. 

Important: If you run your report on PageSpeed Insights with WP Rocket activated, PageSpeed Insights automatically detects it. Then, it tells you which features of WP Rocket you should enable to fix the performance issues.

PageSpeed also suggests enabling the “Remove Unused CSS” and “Load JS deferred” features in the WP Rocket dashboard to eliminate render-blocking issues. 

We activated WP Rocket’s options. It’s now time to look at how both page builders perform.

Improved Performance Results With WP Rocket 

WP Rocket improved the score on Lighthouse for both Beaver Builder and Elementor. We finally got a green score mobile and went from 68/100 to 100/100 for Beaver Builder and from 83/100 to 99/100 for Elementor.

Beaver Builder + WP Rocket (PSI)	Elementor + WP Rocket (PSI)

Thanks to WP Rocket, we passed the PageSpeed Insights audit! We fixed all the issues flagged in the opportunities and diagnostics sections for Beaver Builder. The same improvements and fixes happened for Elementor.

Beaver Builder’s issues flagged by Lighthouse	WP Rocket fixed them all!

Here’s a comparison table showing both builders’ performance with and without WP Rocket activated: 

Performance KPIs	Beaver Builder Builder Performance (no WP Rocket)	Beaver Builder Performance with WP Rocket	Elementor Performance (no WP Rocket)	Elementor Performance with WP Rocket
PageSpeed mobile score	68/100	100/100	83/100	99/100
Total Loading time	4.2 s	2 s	3.8 s	1.8 s
First Contentful Paint	2.5 s	1.1 s	4.8 s	1 s
Largest Contentful Paint*	7.1 s	1.1 s	3.3 s	2.2 s
Cumulative Layout Shift*	0 s	0 s	0.026 s	0 s
Speed Index	6 s	1.1 s	4.7 s	1 s
Total Blocking Time	30 ms	20 ms	30 ms	10 ms
Total page size	0.98 MB	179 KB	0.96 MB	252 KB
HTTP requests	17	13	39	11

*Core Web Vitals

Key Conclusions With WP Rocket

We have noticed major performance improvements for both builders, namely: 

• The mobile performance grade on PageSpeed Insights moved up to 99/100 for Elementor.  We hit a 100/100 for Beaver Builder.
• All Core Web Vitals moved to the green. The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) went from 7.1 s to 1.1 s  for Beaver Builder, which is quite impressive. 
• The fully loaded time metric has decreased for both (it went from 4.9 s to 2 s for Beaver Builder and 3.8 s to 1.8 s for Elementor). 
• The number of HTTP requests has also decreased for both builders: from 39 to 11 for Elementor.
• The total blocking time (TBT) has decreased for both.
• The Speed Index is now 1.1 s for Beaver Builder (against 6 s without WP Rocket).
• The page size is much smaller for both page builders. It went from almost 1 MB down to 252 KB for Elementor and from 1 MB down to 343 KB for Beaver Builder.
• All the issues flagged in PageSpeed insights issues are now in the passed audit (green section), thanks to WP Rocket.

With WP Rocket – no matter the page builder you choose – you increase your chances of passing crucial and complex audits on the Google PageSpeed Insights report.

Did you know? WP Rocket automatically applies 80% of web performance best practices to guarantee blazing-fast websites. Let’s discover all the WP Rocket’s features that helped to give an extra speed boost to both page builders: 

• Caching and GZIP (text) compression – WP Rocket automatically applies caching and GZIP compression as soon as you activate it. On top, you can take care of caching for mobile devices and change a few more settings, including the cache lifespan (the time after wich the global cache is cleared).

• Minify CSS, Combine CSS, and Remove Unused CSS — all the features you need to optimize CSS files.

• We also have activated the options to minify, defer and delay JavaScript — all the features you need to tackle JavaScript.

You can go further with optimizing your site by implementing more WordPress page speed optimization best practices.

Our performance audit is now done. Let’s look at each builder’s main features and pricing to help you choose the right tools for your next project. 

Beaver Builder vs. Elementor: Key Features and Pricing

Both Elementor and Beaver Builder are intuitive and powerful visual drag-and-drop page builders for WordPress. We put together a list of similar features, and you’ll see that they have quite a lot in common. 

Common Key Features For Elementor and Beaver Builder

• Powerful front-end page builder based on the “what you see is what you get” principle  (WYSIWYG) – they have intuitive and ergonomic interfaces that are very easy to use. You don’t need to be an advanced developer or web designer to use both tools.

Beaver Builder Global  Interface	Elementor Global Interface

• Ability to design advanced custom layouts for your WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types.
• Easy customizable modules/widgets – the whole design process is straightforward for both builders, thanks to the “advanced design” tab.

Beaver Builder Styling	Elementor Styling

• WooCommerce builders – both builders allow you to create single product templates and customize your WooCommerce shop page. We personally find Elementor WooCommerce builder easier to use and customize.  

Beaver Builder Woo Builder	Elementor Woo Builder

• Full theme editing/building features – you can design everything around the page’s content, such as custom headers, footers, and other parts of your website. You get full control of everything. 

Header builder (Beaver Builder)	Header builder (Elementor)

• Global modules – you can easily create your own library of reusable content for your website. That’s time-saving because you can reuse your work indefinitely. 
• Dedicated themes and add-ons – Beaver Builder comes with its own theme that offers a lot of customization. Elementor has the lightweight Hello theme that is more of a simple canvas to get you started. The most popular WordPress theme houses (and the best-sellers on Themeforest) have some dedicated designs and themes built with Beaver Builder and Elementor (Astra, OceanWP, etc.). If you need to extend the features of both builders, you’ll find hundreds of interesting add-ons for Beaver Builder and Elementor.
• Extensive international community – both have a great community worldwide with interesting Facebook groups (70K for Beaver Builder and 140K for Elementor). You can also come across both teams at different WordCamps.

Beaver Builder vs. Elementor: The Main Differences

• The block and template library is richer for Elementor – Elementor comes with many pre-made blocks that can be used, such as header, testimonials, pricing tables, and call-to-action. Beaver Builder has a library with pre-built pages, but the blocks are not as impressive from a design perspective. Elementor provides more premade headers, so it’s a good idea if you are a beginner or don’t want to start from scratch. 

Beaver Builder Library (pre-made pages)	Elementor Library pre-made(blocks and pages)

• A/B testing (Beaver Builder only) – The split testing is only available for Beaver Builder thanks to the module called “Beaver Builder Lead”.
• White labeling (Beaver Builder only) – Elementor does not offer this feature, and you’ll need a third-party plugin if you want to go ahead with white labeling. On the contrary, Beaver Builder gives you the option to do it. 

• The loop/query builder (Elementor only) – This allows you to build advanced queries and loop custom post types.

• Conditional logic: Beaver Builder is better than Elementor on that, and everything is controllable from the settings panel: 

Beaver Builder vs. Elementor Pricing 

If you buy the whole Beaver Builder suite, you’ll have access to a theme, a page builder, a theme builder, a WooCommerce builder and a templates library from $199/year. You must go with the agency package if you want the white-label option. Something great with Beaver Builder is that you can use their product on an unlimited number of sites, even if you subscribe to the cheaper package.

For Elementor, the pricing starts at $59 for 1 single site. To have the same features as Beaver Builder (which offers unlimited sites), you’ll need the agency plan, which costs $399/year.

Wrapping Up

When it comes to performance, the two-page builders balance each other out. The loading time was about the same. The number of HTTP requests was higher for Elementor, but the Largest Contentful Paint was much better than Beaver Builder. The final choice will depend on your needs and if the white label option is important for you when you hand over the site to clients. 

WP Rocket is recognized by Lighthouse as a powerful plugin to reduce your server response time, for example. GTmetrix recommends the plugin, and PageSpeed Insights detects that you are using WP Rocket on your site and gives you recommendations based on the functionalities available in the WP Rocket admin.

GTmetrix recommends WP Rocket	PageSpeed Insights gives tailored advice according to WP Rocket’s available features.

So, which page builder are you going for? Are you experiencing any performance issues? Remember that WP Rocket has significantly increased performance and the PageSpeed Insights scores for both Beaver Builder and Elementor (we went up to 99/100 and 100/100). Try WP Rocket to improve the speed of your WordPress site built with a page builder today! You don’t take any risks. If you don’t see any improvements, we provide a refund if you request it within 14 days of your purchase. 

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WordPress is a popular content management system that helps businesses create and manage their websites. However, one of the drawbacks of WordPress is that it can be slow and clunky when paired with multiple plugins, and themes that haven’t integrated the latest technologies. This is where React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) comes in. 

React is one of the most popular JavaScript (programming language) libraries that helps make web pages more responsive and fast. Many web applications for WordPress, such as Visual Composer, are built with React due to its advantages. 

In this blog post, we will discuss the benefits of using a React-based website builder to achieve better WordPress performance alone and with the help of the WP Rocket web performance optimization plugin. 

The Downside of Using WordPress Alone

First off, let’s look at some of the reasons why you should consider using WordPress products that use React-based technology.

As we know, WordPress (.org) is one of the most popular open-source content management systems on the web. More interestingly, WordPress already uses React at its core – for the Gutenberg Editor and full site editing. Although WordPress is a popular and widely-used content management system, it is not without its drawbacks. Some developers and businesses may be looking for ways to minimize the time and effort required to build and maintain a WordPress website. 

By using WordPress alone, you might run into performance problems, security breaches, and other issues, that are commonly caused by:

• Using too many third-party plugins – plugins demand to be updated regularly to maintain optimal security, but with each update, there’s always chance to run into issues which can compromise your site’s functionality. Plus, different plugins might not be compatible, which might cause you to run into even bigger issues, and using too many plugins is just never a good idea
• Using themes that don’t comply with WordPress coding standards – with thousands of WordPress themes on the market, you can never be sure if you’re choosing one that won’t make you page speed suffer and cause slow loading times

One way to assure you don’t run into the issues mentioned above, is by incorporating a React JS website builder into your WordPress site, which can help make your pages more responsive, safe and fast, by eliminating the need of countless plugins and themes.

ReactJS With WordPress (Benefits Of Using Both)

React can improve the performance of a website by speeding up the loading time of your code. This is particularly important for conversion rates. Research shows that for each additional second a site takes to load, the chances of conversion drop by 29% – 40%. For the highest conversion rates, you should aim for a loading time of no longer than 2 seconds.

React works by rendering components as they are needed. You could even say that React was created specifically to resolve the problems of traditional web development, as it makes it easier to maintain code (by splitting it into reusable components) and speed up DOM (stands for Document Object Model) re-renders. Plus, the virtual DOM that React uses, is designed with enhanced performance.

Before we dive into React, it’s important to know that it is commonly used with REST API (also known as RESTful API), to fetch data from a server. Basically, it ensures sharing of the data between two or more systems, via HTTP requests, which is fundamental for website and software development. 

The WordPress REST API is becoming more commonly used to separate content from the front end, which allows developers to use WordPress as a headless CMS (Content Management System).

React JS with WordPress is most commonly used for developing the user interface for modern web applications. In other cases, as we mentioned, it’s used for creating a headless WordPress site, which mainly uses WordPress for managing content, and another technology, such as React, to build the front end (interface) of the website and display its content.

In addition, React in WordPress is commonly used in various third-party plugins and themes. This makes it easy to incorporate other necessary features into your site while still maintaining good performance.

For those purposes mentioned above, some of the most popular React frameworks, commonly used in conjunction with WordPress projects, are: Next.js, Frontity, Gatsby.js, and Create React App (CRA). 

Benefits Of Using A React-Based Website Builder 

Before we dive into the benefits, it’s worth noting that there is no single answer to whether a website built with React will be faster than one built without React. Factors such as the complexity of the website, the number of pages, and the browser the website is being viewed on can all play a role in how fast the website is. So, it’s always a good idea to test the performance of a website and make any necessary optimizations.

However, React-based website builders have some distinct advantages that can improve the performance of a WordPress website. Some of the key benefits could potentially include improved website speed and performance, enhanced user experience, and more reliable security through efficient updating and rendering of components, reusable code, and built-in security features such as input validation and sanitization.

Compared to traditional WordPress builders, React-based website builders offer faster load times and enhanced performance, allowing you to deliver a better user experience to your visitors. 

Additionally, they are more efficient at handling large volumes of traffic and data thanks to their scalable design. 

Furthermore, using a React-based builder can help ensure the security of your website, as these tools are built with modern technologies that are up-to-date and help protect against online threats.

So, let’s dive deeper into each benefit of using a React website builder and how it works, to help you achieve better results. For this example will be using the Visual Composer website builder.

1. Improved Performance and Page Speed

The very first thing to point out about the use of the latest technologies in Visual Composer is it is a no-shortcode, full website builder, meaning it allows you to build a full site with, more or less a single, low-code, drag and drop tool.

This includes pages, posts, custom website elements (using API), and to some degree even your own theme by using the Layout Builder and Font Manager combo. How this works, is that you can use a minimalistic theme for the base of your website, that doesn’t bloat your site with unnecessary code, and simply override the theme’s default design with your own. 

The next thing that helps with performance is the Visual Composer Hub – a cloud library that offers hundreds of website elements, temples, addons, and free stock images. The highlight is, that you have everything you need for a website within the Hub, plus you can download only the assets you need – keeping your pages lightweight and fast. 

Having all the necessary components you need to build an online store, a portfolio, or a personal website within a single tool means you won’t need to download as many additional third-party plugins. This ties together with what we mentioned before – more plugins, more problems.

2. Better SEO, Responsiveness, and Accessibility

Next up we have search engine optimization (SEO) benefits that come with a modern website builder. How performance ties in with SEO is simple – page load speed is one of the key determining factors for Google’s algorithm, which will either make your website rank or tank. And, while WordPress itself is an ​​SEO friendly CMS, you might always need additional help.

In addition to SEO, Visual Composer also helps improve the accessibility of your website. This means that your site is not only accessible to all visitors but also has optimal color contrast, visibility, and readability. This is important for the UX, because what is the benefit of a fast-loading website if it’s not accessible to all visitors?

This is where Insights comes in. It’s a built-in WordPress content analysis tool, that analyses your pages, and rates them based on Web Accessibility Standards and best SEO practices on the go. That way you can improve your page load time by adjusting them based on smart scenarios Insights provides, such as adding missing meta descriptions, optimizing image sizes, and so on.

The last thing that’s just as important as speed for user experience, is having a responsive website on all devices. For example, the latest studies show that mobile internet usage has increased by almost 25% in the last 5 years. Luckily, modern builders, such as Visual Composer adjust the responsiveness automatically, and also offer custom responsiveness options for all elements on your website.

In addition to image optimization, you should use lazy loading for media on your website. All images in Visual Composer are optimized by using the WordPress native lazy load. This means that media is loaded only when a user actually lands on the image. For example, if all your imagery is on the bottom of the page, the lazy load won’t load it unless the user actually scrolls down – ensuring a faster loading time of the page overall.

3. Increased Security

In general, WordPress sites are more vulnerable to security threats than other websites. React makes it more difficult for attackers to hack your site because they would need to bypass your security features in order to try and hack it. Plus, React.js is much more secure and has fewer points of attack than other frameworks.

One way Visual Composer helps with securing your sites against potential threats is by allowing you to set up user roles for different users that have access to your website. This allows you to ensure, no changes by clients, designers, content writers, etc., are made without your permission.

Furthermore, always having an automated backup of your WordPress site ensures you won’t lose your data in case of a breach. While Visual Composer doesn’t offer automated backups itself, it’s compatible with all of the top-most WordPress popular backup plugins like BlogVault, and hosting providers. For example, Cloudways is one of the securest cloud-hosting providers that allows you to set up automatic backups as often as you like. 

So if you’re looking for ways to speed up your WordPress site, consider incorporating a ReactJS website builder into your existing setup, as well as using tools like WP Rocket, a WordPress caching plugin, to further enhance your site’s speed and performance.

Testing Website Performance With Visual Composer and WP Rocket: 2 Examples

In this part, we’ll be testing and analyzing the performance results of the following websites using GTMetrix – one of the alternatives to PageSpeed Insights when it comes to measuring the performance of your site.

About GTmetrix

The reason why the different performance tools (GTmetrix, PageSpeed Insights, Pingdom) results differ is that they use different testing methodologies, parameters, and configurations, such as location, browser, device, etc.

In this case, The GTmetrix Performance Score is a measure of how well a website performs based on its measurements taken using Google Lighthouse.

To get a good GTmetrix score for your WordPress websites, or any site for that matter, you have to make sure that your indicators are in the following thresholds:

Testing React-based Website Builder Performance (With a Caching Plugin)

In this paragraph, we will examine how the combination of a website builder and caching plugin can enhance the performance of WordPress sites. Specifically, we will focus on the results of using Visual Composer and WP Rocket to illustrate how these tools can provide an extra performance boost.

We selected two B2C websites as examples, tested on April 17th of 2023, from Vancouver, Canada, using Chrome (Desktop) 103.0.5060.134, Lighthouse 9.6.4:

• The first website has a total page size of 1.98MB, with 819KB (or 40.4%) being images. 
• The second website has a page size of 1.92MB, with 737KB (or 37.6%) being images.

Note why image optimization is such an important factor to consider in the context of website performance, as images can account for a significant portion of a website’s overall page size.

Both websites have the Visual Composer and WP Rocket plugins active at the moment when measurements were taken, and have achieved outstanding performance results by doing so.

Example #1

The first one is the Independent Retirement Professionals firm’s website. They offer financial services and allow people to plan their futures with a strategy that offers them financial freedom.

Their site follows the best practices and passes the Web Vitals assessment. The GTmetrix grade, which is an assessment of your overall page performance is a perfect A, with a 100/100 performance score and 89/100 structure score, which represents how well your page is built for optimal performance.

Example #2

The second site covers a similar industry, which is Madison Financial Strategies firms website, which also provides financial advice. 

It’s no surprise that with WordPress being used by 64.3% of all the websites whose content management systems are known, it has a massive development community behind it, across all different kinds of industries, with customization options being one of the most important factors when choosing a CMS. 

The biggest benefit overall is the option to choose from a multitude of different plugins, that are optimized for performance, such as WP Rocket, and Visual Composer.

Their site also follows the best practices above and passes the Web Vitals assessment. The GTmetrix grade is again a perfect A, with a 99/100 performance score and 95/100 structure score. 

This is the reason why it’s important to use a dedicated caching plugin, such as WP Rocket, to accelerate website loading times even further than website builders can alone. 

WP Rocket is an open-source web performance plugin for WordPress that offers advanced features to optimize your website performance through automatic and custom settings, including caching, CSS and JS optimization, lazy loading of images, and more.

Conclusion

When it comes to improving the performance of a WordPress website, there are a variety of options available. 

One effective solution is to use the WP Rocket plugin, which offers features such as lazy loading of images, caching, and minification of code to speed up load times and improve user experience. 

Another option is to use a React-based builder like Visual Composer, designed with developers in mind, to create fast and responsive websites while offering a range of customization options.

The main benefits of using a React-based builder include improved update performance thanks to React’s virtual DOM, reusable components for more efficient coding, and a lightweight library for faster page load times.

So, whether you’re working with an existing WordPress site or building a new one from scratch, a React-based builder can help you achieve better results without sacrificing customization options or ease of use. 
And best of all, WP Rocket integrates seamlessly with Visual Composer, allowing developers to use both tools together for optimal performance and flexibility.

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