Me: I bought elementor pro, yeahh KZfaq: elementor vs divi Me: confused screaming

The white elephant in the room is the coding for Divi that makes it a sluggish builder which adversely affects page load speed. for the average site this might not be an issue but for anyone interested in good seo it might be a deal breaker to the more astute technician who has a preoccupation with ttfb. Time to first byte (TTFB) is a measurement used as an indication of the responsiveness of a webserver or other network resource. TTFB measures the duration from the user or client making an HTTP request to the first byte of the page being received by the client's browser.

You can't really compare Divi with Elementor because the target audience is different. There is some overlapping, but Divi is essentially built for developers while Elementor is target towards DIY users. For example, let's take the pricing. Last year I built 13 websites. I didn't pay a dime for Divi theme nor will my clients because I got the lifetime option years ago, but I would have paid $199 if I chose Elementor and for every next year my clients would have paid $49/year. So for a developer Divi is the clear winner here, while for a new DIY user Elementor might make sense as they need only the basic functions. Or let's take some of the other criteria you had. In terms of interface you prefer the left sidebar. In Divi you can put it left, right or have it as a popup. Just because you don't know how to use it, it doesn't mean it's a clear win for Elementor. Besides, a lot of developers including myself prefer skeleton mode, not visual editor. Elementor doesn't have that at all. Last but not least, you didn't even mention the core features such as Divi library (incl. import/export, global elements etc.) which is why a lot of developers prefer Divi in the first place. You also mentioned Elementor add-ons and 3rd party themes, but you didn't mention any Divi plugins that upgrade its functionality tremendously. I get it, you prefer Elementor while I prefer Divi and that's fine. However, if you make a review then it would be great if you get someone who is advanced Divi user to present its pros. Most of the videos like this are one sided. And I know my comment is pushing Divi, but if I was doing a comparison I would get an expert from both sides to state their case.

I am using divi for a long time and i will simply say, Divi is amazing !

I think Elementor and Divi are not the same. Elementor is a complete page builder. Divi is a theme with its own page builder. If you use DIVI you are stuck with the theme, if you use Elementor you can choose and need to add a Theme. Elementor has infinite addons and complements from third party developers like Crocoblock so you can fully customize a chosen theme. Divi is almost a close theme with less addons. Elementor is far more superior for me.

One thing I like about Divi over Elementor is it has a LifeTime Pro License. I think more and more I need to learn how to use gutenberg as well as html,css,javascript and php. Hopefully I can afford Elementor later on.

Dude your presentation style is amazing. I can’t believe that I actually understood features of Divi (which I am using for client work and unfortunately do not love and do not have fun with) just by watching the video. Sometimes in-depth tutorials take you much longer just to learn something. Especially the sidebar Divi thing I didn’t know about! I really dislike those little windows everywhere. Thank you!!

Ah finally found this video. Since i'm beginner finally i decided to use elementor first. Though i bought divi theme becase someone told me so. After that i got confused for weeks and can't even start editing my website Thank you Dale, regards from Indonesia

Price goes definitely to Divi. You basicly need the pro version of Elementor, because everything else is just a pain in the ass. I am using Elementor, but i am really tempted to switch to divi because of the lifetime deal.

I just purchased Divi. I'm pretty excited to use it.

I was a huge Divi fan for a while but if you are not good at coding you will run into huge issues. My business partner loves Elementor. This video has made me download Elementor and give it a chance.

I used to be a Divi builder user but it's been a year that im using elementor. To be honest these days I am loving elementor. There are lots of features like custom header, footer, single post, archive post, dynamic gallery including custom posts, perfect mobile optimization and many more.

Been looking at CMS and the difference between Divi and Elementor, at least you touched on some of the differences. I would be more interested in the exact differences like what will one do that the other will not, rather than the interface differences. Thanks for the Overview.

which is the best for beginners like zero experience ( the price doesn't matter )

Great! I loved how simple you have presented their differences. I need not to watch another video. Subscribed!

Used both.. I have to say elementor was ok for the 1st year or so but when I found out DIVI has a lifetime subscription, That was the deal-breaker for me & I've never looked back since. So to anyone who genuinely loves building multiple websites for clients, DIVI is the best. Plus if you are not living in the USA you will find that every time you renew the subscription depending on what country you live in, It's going to be either more expensive or less than the year before(currency).

What do the per/year costs affect? What happens to a website after a year if you don't renew the fee?

Divi is very perfect. Infact it works on touchscreen devices unless elementor which you must use mouse to drag the blocks

Hi, does divi trouble in seo?

If I have a basic website built using a WP theme, can I simply add Elementor as a plugin and continue making changes to the existing webpages from there, or do I have to start building new webpages from scratch in Elementor?

Round 1 - Having trained a great number of clients over recent years in how to update their pages I can honestly say that Divi is not intuitive. The mouse-over and hover actions are confusing and slow to use. Most users are not designers. They repeatedly have to ask what each icon means and struggle to edit text. Dragging of margins/padding may seem like a good idea but I often have to fix these. I even have colleagues who regularly forget to save text edits (due to having the text dialog open at the same time as inline editing) and then complain that Divi is bugged. Elementor to me feels faster to use and I love the docked side panel. When training clients Elementor they display much more confidence using the interface and they even remember to save their edits! I have been a long time Divi fan but I see myself using Elementor more and more going forward. Edit: stupid spelling, missing word...

Please i don't know if you can answer this question in time. I need to create websites but not host Gator, because I stuck to complete my website is to much for me how to create websites without host Gator. Please help me

What a beautifully made video - great transition fx! Love it love it love it! All thumbs! Liked and subscribed! (so, um... cheque's in the mail, yes?)

Your recommendation should be use what's best for the job. I've built with Elementor with their theme, Astra, Beaver Builder, Divi whatever makes the job easier. :)

What about ease of use and simplicity? Elementor needs a ton of learning and it's building from the backend so you can't see what your doing in the moment. On the other hand Divi is front end building drag and drop and you can see what your doing immediately

Unfortunately a lot of presented free Elementor features - such as countdown - are not free anymore.

Grat video - really clear. BUT you haven't mentioned any techy stuff like loading times, the best one for clean codes etc.... what do ya say?

I love Elementor ... Divi is not recommended for a Beginner. If something goes wrong in Divi its really hard to undo and settings are very tough.

For me - it came down to cost because I don't do this as a business (a pipe dream.. maybe) Divi is miles cheaper than Elementor. So it was no contest. Would love to have the option of playing around with both, but *that* I definitely cannot afford. so Divi it is - and there are times when I think ... hmm.. that's getting a bit too fiddly for a builder that purports to be easy as heck. But their support has been brilliant and it is cool.... Thanks for the comparison. Funny how so many YTs stay relevant for long time.

What can be done with DIVI BUILDER can't be created with any other builder. I've used most of the builders on the market for the last 3 years, but Divi is the ultimate solution if you want to make it! I will never use anything but Divi for my personal websites and my client's as well :)

Hello, my name is Diego and I have three questions 1) If you had to design the best possible ecommerce in Woocommerce, which meets the high performance requirements and other features of Google Lighthouse and Google Ads, which of these two platforms would you choose? and 2) I don't use Wordpress, should I install and learn wordpress first before using any of these two applications? 3) The plans that are paid allow to design pages that if I then leave the subscription they will continue working or will I always have to depend on a user license? Thank you very much for answering so many questions !! Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina

Great video, thank you so much. 😊 But I have a question, Which best theme for woocommerce website and why? 🤔

You are forgetting one major issue that Divi has. I am talking about the shortcode mess which means that if you want to switch from Divi to anything else then be prepared to clean up all the shortcode mess it leaves behind. Elementor does not have this issue.

Very useful. I just couldn’t decide for some new projects I’m working on. I’ve been using elementor for years but gonna go for Divi now. Thank you.

I love divi

If you are a designer looking longterm should you be concerned about Divi going away? That is, with a one time $249 price tag how can they stay in business? Or, maybe they have another way of generating sustainable income?

Q1)What is best 1: coding your website by yourself 2: use Divi or something like it Q2) can i use Divi to create a website and then sell it on Fiver.

Personally, I've used both and prefer Elementor. With my experience with Divi, it was buggy and didn't work as smoothly as Elementor. Elementor just works the way you would expect it to.

This may be a little off topic, but I would be interested to know if you’ve had any issues with Elementor. Some people are suggesting that Ad companies may have a harder time placing ads on your site if you are using something like Elementor. It appears some people avoid page builders for their posts. Can you tell me what your experience is with this, and have you ever had an issue with getting ads automatically placed from companies like Ezoic/Adthrive? I’m currently setting up my site with Astra and Elementor, and I’m trying to anticipate any future issue I may encounter. I appreciate any feedback you may be able to offer. 🙂

does Divi has dynamic content like in Elementor?

I just want to make a website for a fashion with multi vendor capabilites for ecommerce. I was thinking of using Dokan plugin. Any recommendations?

Thanks for your comparison, Also we can learn a lot from reading different comments and opinions below..... :)

Great Video Mate. Just what I was looking for before subscribing. I love those transition fx. Which one did u use?

I just started using divi but seem to have problems with almost everything that seemed promised and easy in the beginning. For instance: they say you can customize your header/menu background colour for sepparate pages. Yet, when I run through their tutorial for this, the customization options shown in the tutorial are nowhere to be found in the actual divi customizer menu. Also, divi's responsive view to show what your site looks like on a tablet or phone simply does not work at all. Might try out Elementor on my next project but first need to get over the loss of money I invested into purchasing divi.

Do you think Wordpress is good to create a website food delivery like DoorDash?? If yes what plugin and theme do you recommend??

Your video gave me relief. I was about to start working on my NGO's website but was pretty confused but now I feel little confident. Also, if you could just give me some tips for NGO's website I would be thankful.

Some people when you see them you just don’t like them, but this guy you can’t not like him! Coolest dude on KZfaq 🤙🤙🤙

Divi is best theme builder out there in wordpress community

What is the best for landing page or funnel building

oxygen builder or pinegrow if you want performance , beaver is not bad too

Great content for beginners! hello WP guys i need a suggestion! just wanna know which one is best for eCommerce? please guys reply fast. thank all of you.

Hi D! Congratulation for your work. Could you please help my with an info? I bought a web theme and I am trying to customise it with cornerstone. It is possible to continued the customise of it, with elementor, or divi? If yes, witch one do you recommend? Thank you a lot, for your time. Regards from Romania, the land of Dracula! :))

Have you used Oxygen? If you haven't already, I'd be interested on your take on it. I use it (I also use Divi, Elementor, and occasionally I use Beaver Builder) and like it a bunch for more complicated sites. But, if I am looking to kick a site out rather quickly, I'm probably not going to use it.

nicely explained dude! now i know what builder need to use. Thanks again. keep making video like this. enjoy

I've used both Elementor and Divi and I prefer Divi for the extended ability to do more customizations. I don't like Elementor's user interface when it comes to editing areas. Too choppy and not user friendly, imo. I also have some background in coding so that's a key factor I look into when choosing a page builder. I've been using Webflow but for managing client sites, I'm liking Divi so far. And you just can't beat the lifetime price!!

Hey man, in Round 3 you forgot that you can do the same for Elementor with Envato Themes for free!

You should have led with the pricing part!

Awesome man. Loved it. Thanks for making me capable of taking decision. Btw which tools are you using for screen recording?

Awesome unbiased review!

I have a question perhaps you can help me with. I am just trying to build my website for a small woodturning business. I have no plans to build sites as a profession. I assume from this video, which I liked by the way, Elementor will be good enough. Will I be subject to yearly subscription fees for my one site? Also, where do I find your other videos?

Divi is good, but Elementor is far superior

Elementor is so weak. After using DIVI in the last 3 years I got frustrated with Elementor: no way to modifiy text sizes, a lot of errors like text pasted will be on a white background with no reason, errors in overlapping blocks, errors in drag and drop text blocks into a module,etc. As every thing that is too good to be free Elementor fades in front of DIVI.

So much rivalry in the comments! I'd've never imagined that a video like this could spark so much controversy... It all depends on the viewer's background and there are people out there that need, use and love this video. You've got my voice for sure! Thanks for putting it together, man!

A helpful comparison. I really like your way of speaking dude :)

Learning a lot from your tutorials.. really appreciate your vids☺️☺️

Elementor will change the prices soon (begin march). It will not longer be 1000 sites but 25 for the same price. Also the support will change. 1000 sites will be 500 dollar (per year!). And still (and probably never) a lifetime payment. Only if you buy the 200 dollar version you will keep the 1000 sites as long as you pay that yearly plan. So, choose fast

Hi! Great advice, Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

which one is the fastest one? related to speed?

Thank you, great video. I'm testing both now! Great video.

You are the best! I learned alot from your videos.Thank you.

hi dale, may i know where u bought the microphone. Is look awesome. Very good informative video. Newbie like me love to watch.

Maximum Price Divi Lifetime: $300 Elementor: $999/year... NO lifetime licenses.

You cannot change the main head menu with the free version elementor

I feel you should have covered page load performance as one additional point of comparison. Neither Divi or Elementor is particularly good at generating optimised page loads, but Divi is by far the worst. Given that Google has announced that page load time will be a future metric for ranking sites in searches, Divi has to be the looser all round. Elementor is definitely the builder of choice for beginners but to recommend a builder that produces bloated and slow loading sites for the more advanced is not sensible. If someone has experience there are other options that might be more challenging but should not present any issues for someone with experience.

Divi has slowed my site down , what can I do

DIVI is so much richer and really more capable. But Elementor is much less complex and for some people more than adequate. Results are dependent on who has the best ideas and ability. Not really a comparison of two comparable applications??

Don't you just love that's it's been 2 years and still no response to comments.

Divi is very bad in my eyes. In Elmentor Pro you can configure as good as anything. In divi, adjusting the page width already creates problems.

Great review even though I could sense your Elementor bias. 🙂

I really enjoyed watching this video. It was full of value. You really helped me decide between Elementor and Divi. Thanks a lot!

Elementor Pro costs 999 now for a thousand sites and the old price of 200 only nets you 25 sites. It's a no brainer to go for Divi in 2021.

I’ve been using X theme which uses Cornerstone as the page builder and I absolutely love it. Super usable and quite similar to Elementor in many ways but you can add dynamic content and header/footer customisation in X. And lifetime price! Really not a fan of Divi though but I know it works for lots of people. Who else has used X and can compare with these?

Dear Mcanus, I need to contact you, need your help, no way to contct you on your website...

Divi is awesome ..

You can make the divi settings a sidebar just like elementor

When you add the Unlimited Elementor Elements plugin and the Envato Elements plugin Elementor surpasses Divi by a long stretch. The Unlimited Elements plugin has hundreds of predefined elements but more significantly you can create your own elements giving you complete control over what can be customized in each element. The Envato Elements gives you almost 2,000 predesigned pages divided up into 100+ sets and hundreds of additional blocks. While I do like the Divi interface for working with the design sets the Envato plugin wins as a tool to come up with ideas and starting points for custom sites....

Divi is okay but you need to know a lot of codes because a bunch of stuff doesn’t work properly and you can only fixed them with codes, Even the google Recaptcha badges doesn’t display without writing codes, too many headaches

Hi Dale... love what you do. I was hoping you can answer a question about woocommerce. Let's say I get the 3 website package for a year but the 2nd store will only be created 6months down the line. Will the second store only work for 6 months?

I need no longer to watch other videos, thanks a lot!!

Fair well-founded judgement!

Thank you very much for this eyes opening video. Really good quality and keep it up !

You should see the new price Elementor Pro, it has skyrocketed!

Thanks for this video, basically more or less it is about personal preference, both builders are good

Thank you for the insights. What if I want to thread the extra mile for the sake of loading speed and performance ? What framework should I use to build a responsive mobile-first WordPress website? I’ve been studying HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Bootstrap. Am I in the right track? Thanks again!

I love elementor but its very costly it should have the package for life time like divi

Helpful, thanks!

Elementor works with all pages that we create but for Divi we must activate Divi theme.

Elementor is the best

For free elementor is better. If you wanna pay buy divi.

Excellent video -- nice comparison.