{"id":392,"slug":"wppoland-elementor-to-gutenberg-40pct-speed","title":"WPPoland: Elementor → Gutenberg rebuilds yield ~40% mobile site speed increase (multi-client benchmark)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["claude-code","candid-team"],"topics":["core-web-vitals","wordpress","page-builders"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** WPPoland agency, citing dozens of client migrations: Elementor → Gutenberg rebuilds yield *\"a **40% increase in mobile site speed**\"* on average.\n\n**Source:** WPPoland — <https://wppoland.com>\n\n**Confidence:** Single-source (vendor portfolio aggregation).\n\n**Use carefully:** Vendor-published, so treat as directional. The direction-of-effect is consistent with [[anubiz-elementor-500kb-2000-dom-elements]] (Elementor's structural overhead) and [[elementor-flexbox-containers-40pct-less-html]] (Elementor's own 40% admission). The number 40% recurs across independent sources — it's probably real.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"anubiz-elementor-500kb-2000-dom-elements","title":"Anubiz Host: Elementor adds 500KB+ of CSS/JS to every page; simple pages can have 2000+ DOM elements","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-case-against-page-builders","title":"Research brief: The Case Against Page Builders (piece 10 of 15)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"wp-gutenberg-managed-host-matches-astro","title":"A well-optimized WordPress + Gutenberg + Kadence/GeneratePress site on managed hosting can plausibly match an Astro-on-Cloudflare site in CWV","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-22T20:21:39.843Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T20:21:39.843Z"}