Why You Don’t Need a Page Builder
By Michael Smith
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Jun 12, 2025
Why You Don’t Need a Page Builder
Page builders like Elementor, Divi, or WPBakery are popular tools for DIY site creation. While they offer visual interfaces and fast setup, they come with serious trade-offs that can hold your business back.
1. Bloated Code and Slow Load Times
Page builders add unnecessary code that slows down your website. A slow site frustrates users, hurts your SEO rankings, and increases bounce rates.
2. Limited Design Flexibility
You may feel like you have complete control, but many design elements are restricted to the builder’s framework. Want something truly custom? You'll run into limitations quickly.
3. Poor SEO Performance
Page builders often don’t generate clean, semantic HTML. That affects how search engines understand your content—and can hurt your visibility.
4. Maintenance Nightmares
Updates to plugins or the builder itself can break your site, leading to expensive emergency fixes. Custom-coded websites are leaner, easier to debug, and less prone to conflict.
5. You Own Your Code
With custom development, there’s no reliance on third-party tools or licensing models. Your site is yours, fully portable and built to scale as your business grows.
Our Take:
We build every website from the ground up, optimized for speed, accessibility, and performance. No page builders. Just clean, efficient, future-proof code tailored to your brand.
Page builders like Elementor, Divi, or WPBakery are popular tools for DIY site creation. While they offer visual interfaces and fast setup, they come with serious trade-offs that can hold your business back.
1. Bloated Code and Slow Load Times
Page builders add unnecessary code that slows down your website. A slow site frustrates users, hurts your SEO rankings, and increases bounce rates.
2. Limited Design Flexibility
You may feel like you have complete control, but many design elements are restricted to the builder’s framework. Want something truly custom? You'll run into limitations quickly.
3. Poor SEO Performance
Page builders often don’t generate clean, semantic HTML. That affects how search engines understand your content—and can hurt your visibility.
4. Maintenance Nightmares
Updates to plugins or the builder itself can break your site, leading to expensive emergency fixes. Custom-coded websites are leaner, easier to debug, and less prone to conflict.
5. You Own Your Code
With custom development, there’s no reliance on third-party tools or licensing models. Your site is yours, fully portable and built to scale as your business grows.
Our Take:
We build every website from the ground up, optimized for speed, accessibility, and performance. No page builders. Just clean, efficient, future-proof code tailored to your brand.