Yes you can use Elementor and WPBakery together. But I WOULD NOT suggest using 2 page builder in the same website, as it will affect the performance, slow down & plugin conflict of the website.
- Size of WPBakery website
- Size of WPBakery and Elementor website
- The Best advice: Convert WPBakery to Elementor
The reason is if your website has WPBakery and Elementor installed, your website will load extra CSS and Java Scripts from each page builder, it will increased the files size and slow down website.
Another nightmare is plugin conflict. So I strongly WOULD NOT suggest using 2 page builder in the same website.
Size of WPBakery website
Take my favorite ThemeForest theme – Bridge as example. The page size of empty website with WPBakery is 1.04MB and 128 requests.
When I import a basic Business demo, the page size increase to 2.06mb with 158 request, fully loaded time increase 1.4sec to 3.3sec
Size of WPBakery and Elementor website
Let’s try edit WPBakery website with Elementor with one headline.
With the additional of a SINGLE headline from Elementor, the page size increase 29.5KB and increase 13 extra requests, fully loaded time from 3.3sec to 4.8sec, additional of 1.4sec. You can see the impact is crazy.
Based on my test site, it have plugin conflict issue and breaks the website layout, the slider on the website no longer working.
Please note that these example is using RunCloud‘ NGINX stack with UpCloud, if you use shared hosting, the fully loaded time will even SLOWER.
The Best advice: Convert / Migrate WPBakery to Elementor
If you are using ThemeForest / WPBakery / Divi and want to use Elementor function, I’ll advice you convert your website to Elementor. With some add-on like Crocoblock or Piotnet Addons For Elementor, you basically can build any website that is more functional that WPBakery.
If you wish to convert WPBakery / Divi website to Elementor You may follow my guide Convert / Migrate WPBakery Visual Composer to Elementor page builder.
The Best theme with Elementor Pro
If you use Elementor Pro, I would suggest you use Hello theme and make use the theme builder function to build up everything.
The Best theme with Elementor
If you use Elementor, I would suggest you use Blocksy or GeneratePress theme, which is super lightweight.
Blocksy’s header & footer builder is the best in class. You can make use of these function to make you site as lean as possible to get better score in Google PageSpeed Insights.
