I spent several years searching for and evaluating several different page builders for WordPress, and now have extensive experience with Visual Composer, Beaver Builder, Elementor, and several page-builder-like themes including Aveda.
It wasn't until I discovered the combination of Neve Pro theme and Elementor Pro page builder, that I felt I had finally found a solution willing to use commercially, for smaller projects, offering the reliability, maintainability and performance required to compete with building a bespoke WordPress theme.
I experimented with Elementor by building two sites for myself, which both achieved over 90% for all metrics using the Google Page Speed service, and I maintained the sites for over 12 months during which time I was happy with organic search performance and the effort required to keep on top of updates. I'd cracked it, finally finding a solution I was happy to use within the agency to delivered smaller and more straightforward brochureware sites,.
Neve Pro costs $69/year and Elementor Pro $59/year for single sites with agency licenses available.
