(Entry was posted by Francisca de Bie on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 07/21/2022).

I want to change my website from elementor to Gutenberg

Hello, I want to change my website from elementor to Gutenberg because I think it would make the website much faster especially for mobile. But i`m afraid it will be a lot of manual work so I plan to do this on the staging and then import this to production. Would this change in any way affect seo rankings negatively? Would it be worth to change to Gutenberg to improve speed performance or would it be better to try to optimize speed using elementor? Any tips? Thanks!

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Andy Wigglesworth: Marginal gains I would`ve thought, a slow site is a slow site whichever free `page builder` you choose.

Probably best to concentrate on speeding up your site for your visitors who you want to convert into customers over the marginal gains for SEO purposes?

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Joe Glenn: Are you sure itâ€™s the page builder causing slow page speed? If you want to drop your url I can take a look

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Francisca de Bie: Joe Glenn Yes, I checked on a staging where I deactivated elementor and the page speed (homepage) increased for both desktop and mobile. There seems to be a lot of css files created by elementor, but I don`t really know how to solve that.

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Mirajul Islam: I think the better option is to stay with elementor (for the homepage), use good hosting and finally do speed optimization. My recommendation: you should use Gutenberg for posts and pages and it will increase speed. Are you using elementor on the whole website?

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Francisca de Bie: Mirajul Islam yes I use elementor for the whole website, even the theme is made with hello elementor.. so if I would switch to Gutenberg I would switch the theme also. Maybe I could instead just switch the theme, e.g. to generatepress and only convert posts etc to Gutenberg. Regarding speed optimization I would have to check with someone that has more expertise in that I think or try a plugin like wp rocket.

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Kolleen Shallcross: Page builders are resource hogs. Blocks are the future so if you have the time to do it right, go for it. I`m redoing my divi sites and using Kadence. Gutenberg blocks are not quite as flexible as GenerateBlocks or Kadence.

As for SEO, your page speed on mobile matters the most in regards to speed. But the blocks will clean up other issues that builders present, you`ll see when you run the issues through Lighthouse.

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Matt Quinn: As long as you`re not changing the url structure or content on site any potential negative SEO effects should be minimal. (note without actually looking at site there is an emphasis on should).

Whether worth it it terms of time largely depends on size of site. If you rebuild on blocks will generally perform better than elementor, but there is still some dependence on development skill.

It`s perfectly possible to get decent scores/load times on elementor so could be quicker to just do proper optimisation/decent host etc. Host on litespeed server use litespeed cache and quiccloud pretty much gives you what`s needed.

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Stephen Kaufman: Switch to siteground hosting and use wp-rocket instead

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