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- referenceWordPress CWV gap causal decomposition (May 2026): ~40-50% hosting/TTFB, ~20-30% page builders, ~15-20% plugins, ~5-10% core, ~5-10% theme
- referenceResearch brief: WordPress + Page Builders vs Modern Custom Stacks — sourced performance comparison (piece 18)
- referenceBricks Builder produces the cleanest output of the WordPress visual builders; recommend it only when client absolutely cannot work in Gutenberg
- referenceWordPress page-builder market share, 2025 Web Almanac: Elementor 43% (down from 56% in 2024); Gutenberg 18% (up from ~12%); WPBakery 13%; Divi 10%
- referenceWordPress median mobile JS payload is 528 KB — smaller than Wix (1,462 KB) and Squarespace (1,314 KB), yet WordPress performs worse in the field
- referencePlatform mobile CWV pass rates, November 2025 CrUX Tech Report (SEJ analysis, Dec 2025)
- referenceCandid Creative page-builder transition roadmap: 4 stages over 12 months
- referenceReference: alternative-stack recommendations by use case and budget (Candid 6-tier framework)
- referenceReference: what page builders cost a small-business site — 10 categories ranked by long-term impact
- referencePronto Marketing: Elementor FAQ Accordion + Element Caching breaks FAQPage JSON-LD ("Missing field text")
- referenceElementor does not generate schema markup by default — Schema Pilot: "None of the layouts or widgets add structured data"
- referenceElementor GitHub Issue #11779 (open): "Elementor is not fully compliant out of the box and breaks many accessibility rules"
- referenceElementor 3.26 (late 2024): removed legacy Schemes API + enabled Element Caching by default — risky for shortcode-dependent themes
- referenceElementor 3.24.1 (August 2024): widespread reports of broken sites + entire designs lost in update
- referenceBricks CVE-2024-25600: unauthenticated RCE (CVSS 10) — exploited in the wild ~24 hours after patch release
- referenceBricks Builder retired $199 unlimited-sites lifetime license in January 2024
- referenceElementor Pro Nov 2023: removed ACF/Pods integration from Essential plan for new customers
- referenceGeneratePress official: "You cannot convert Elementor's code to the code required by the Block Editor"
- referenceWPPoland: Elementor → Gutenberg rebuilds yield ~40% mobile site speed increase (multi-client benchmark)
- referenceAnubiz Host: Elementor adds 500KB+ of CSS/JS to every page; simple pages can have 2000+ DOM elements
- referenceElementor own admission: Flexbox Containers ship 40% less HTML output than sections/columns
- referenceW3Techs (April 2026): Elementor on 18.6% of WordPress sites, 13.2% of all websites
- referenceResearch brief: The Case Against Page Builders (piece 10 of 15)
- referenceDivi 5 official release Feb 26, 2026; Divi 4 → 5 is one-way migration; rollback gets harder over time
