InfaCloud’s Honest Review of Elementor After 5+ Years of Using It
Right, let me tell you what it’s actually like to use Elementor day in day out for over five years. Not the marketing spiel, not the affiliate-riddled top ten list you’ll find everywhere else — the real, honest take from someone who’s built hundreds of client sites with it.
I’m Kieran, I run InfaCloud up in the North East, and Elementor is the page builder we’ve used on nearly every client site we’ve built since around 2020. Here’s what I actually think.
What Elementor Gets Genuinely Right
The main thing Elementor nails is speed of build. When a client comes to us with a rough idea and needs a proper website in three weeks, Elementor lets us go from wireframe to finished site faster than any other tool I’ve used. We built ACM Media’s rebuild in a fraction of the time it would have taken with a custom-coded theme.
The widget library is genuinely useful. Not the bloated marketplace stuff — I mean the core widgets like heading, image, button, tabs, accordions. These are solid, they work, and they’re customisable enough to match pretty much any brand.
The responsive controls are also better than most people realise. Once you learn how to properly use the tablet and mobile breakpoints, you can build responsive sites without needing to touch a line of CSS. That matters when you’re handing over to a client who wants to make edits themselves later.
What About Speed? Aren’t Elementor Sites Meant To Be Slow?
This is the myth I want to bust because I hear it constantly and it’s just not true anymore. Yes, Elementor from a few years back had a reputation for being bloated. That reputation has stuck around long after the reality changed.
Our Elementor sites load fast. The trick is running them on decent hosting with LiteSpeed caching, keeping the plugin bloat under control, and knowing which widgets to avoid. When those three things are right, an Elementor site will happily hit 2-second load times or better.
We’ve got Elementor sites on our servers loading in under 2 seconds all day long. Anyone telling you Elementor can’t be fast in 2026 is either working with badly configured hosting or hasn’t touched it since 2021.
Does Elementor Work For E-commerce?
Another myth I want to knock on the head. Elementor Pro plays beautifully with WooCommerce, and we run e-commerce sites on it that convert well and load quickly. Redefine Clothing is a proper working example — full product catalogue, checkout, the lot, all on Elementor.
The Woo Builder inside Elementor Pro lets you design product pages, category pages, and cart layouts visually without touching a template file. That’s massive for smaller e-commerce clients who want to update their own store without hiring a developer every time.
Would I use Elementor for a store with 10,000+ SKUs on a marketplace scale? Probably not, but that’s not what most small business e-commerce is. For a normal shop with anywhere up to a few hundred products, Elementor Pro plus WooCommerce is a genuinely great combo.
The Real Downfall — The New Atomic Editor
Right, brace yourself, this is where the review gets honest.
The v4 / Atomic editor rollout has been messy. I get why they’re doing it — the old editor architecture needed modernising — but the new editor is currently a bit of a mess. It’s buggy, some widgets don’t behave the same as they did before, and the learning curve for anyone who was fluent in the classic editor is real.
I’m hoping — genuinely hoping — that a patch or two will smooth it out because when Elementor gets this right, it’ll be brilliant. But right now, in mid 2026, I’d advise clients and other agencies to stick with the classic editor for anything you actually need to ship this year.
The other downside is if you’re reading this having just seen a job posting asking for “Elementor v4 experience”, know that anyone claiming years of experience with it is fibbing because it’s brand new. Same goes for any agency proposal — nobody has real depth in v4 yet.
Is Elementor Still My First Choice In 2026?
Yes, without hesitation, for most client work. Here’s why.
Speed of build, ease of client handover, huge community of tutorials, decent template library, and the widget system is now mature enough that we rarely fight it. My clients don’t just get a site that looks professional — they get one that loads fast, works on mobile, and lets them update their own content without ringing me every time.
Sites like Hamilton Steel Buildings, CTL Networks, ST Lofts, and Redefine Clothing are all built on Elementor and running beautifully in production.
My Advice If You’re Deciding Whether to Use It
If you’re a business owner reading this trying to decide whether to have your site built on Elementor, my advice is yes, but with two conditions. First, make sure whoever’s building it actually knows what they’re doing — Elementor is easy to use badly and that’s where the “slow” reputation comes from. Second, ask them to use the classic editor for now rather than v4 Atomic, until the new one stabilises.
If you’re a developer or agency trying to decide whether to standardise on it, I’d say yes for the reasons above. Just keep an eye on the v4 rollout and be honest with clients about which editor you’re using.
For now though, Elementor stays as InfaCloud’s tool of choice. It’s not perfect, but the tools I’d swap it for don’t yet exist.
Fancy chatting about your next website build? Get in touch with InfaCloud today and we’ll give you an honest recommendation on whether Elementor is right for your project — including which editor version we’d use and why. Why not send us a message today!
