The 5 Fastest Page Builders for WooCommerce in 2025

When you’re starting a new WooCommerce store, you’ll first have to choose a good WooCommerce theme. Depending on your wishes, you may also need a page builder to finetune your site’s design to your unique requirements. In this article, we have listed the fastest page builders for WooCommerce.

A page builder is a plugin that allows you to edit your site’s design in greater detail without writing any code. It offers more options and flexibility than a theme does.

In this article, we’re going to take a closer look at some of the most popular page builders and we’ll test which one is the fastest in combination with WooCommerce.

Do I need a page builder for my WooCommerce site?

Strictly speaking, you don’t need a page builder to create your website. WooCommerce has built-in templates to display all the necessary pages: the shop page, single product pages, account page, etc.

By default, these templates look quite basic, but that’s where your theme comes in. Your WooCommerce-ready theme has a built-in design that makes these e-commerce pages look good out-of-the-box.

Most good themes also offer additional options to customize their design further. You’ll be able to change your brand colors, update fonts, and choose font sizes.

If you’re happy with this limited choice of flexibility, you don’t need a page builder.

But what if you want greater control over the site’s design? What if you want to rearrange components, display additional sections, or create custom product landing pages?

In those scenarios, you’ll need a page builder to customize your design in greater detail.

Page builders are plugins designed to give you extra control over how your website looks and is organized, going beyond what themes can do. While they may take a little time to get the hang of, they make it easy for you to create your web pages without having to do any coding.

Whether you need a page builder depends on your goals, and how happy you are with the built-in design and options your theme offers.

Type	❌	✅
With Page builder	Adds complexity and unnecessary features, leaving performance in the hands of the page builder’s developers.	Allows for greater control over your site’s design.
Without page builder	Limited design options. Custom changes require PHP and CSS skills if not supported by your theme.	Lightweight, best for SEO.

Personally, we prefer to build websites without a page builder, as we will always favor performance.

Does WordPress come with its own page builder?

Illustration of WordPress and Gutenberg logos

WordPress does not come with its own page builder by default. However, in 2023, WordPress launched “Full Site Editing” (FSE for short), which offers users a way to visually edit all aspects of their site (navigation headers, footers, and anything in between) using “blocks”. Blocks are individual layout components like:

An image
A paragraph
A button
…

While this is not the same as a full-fledged page builder (which offers even more control), this is a step in the right direction. Prior to 2023, there was no way to change the layout of specific pages unless your theme had specific options (or you wrote custom code).

Keep in mind that in order to use FSE, your theme has to enable this functionality.

TLDR

If you’re pressed for time, here’s the list showing the fastest page builders with WooCommerce:

Page Builder	Ranking	PageSpeed Insights score	TTFB score	Average score
Full-Site Editing + Blocks	1	97	74	85.5
Breakdance	2	100	70	85
Elementor	3	97	68	82.5
Beaver Builder	4	97	66	81.5
Divi	5	98	62	80

Should you use FSE over a page builder?

Full-Site Editing (FSE) is a step in the right direction, as WordPress now lets you have more control over how to structure your pages. You can add, rearrange, or remove blocks more easily, so you are not bound by the fixed layout WooCommerce or your theme ships with.

But, it’s not quite like full-fledged page builders that have more advanced design options. True page builders still have these features that FSE currently doesn’t have:

Responsive settings: Page builders allow you to create responsive layouts by adding separate sections or settings for mobile devices only. Currently, WordPress FSE does not have this feature.
Advanced design elements: Page builders often come with more advanced components that you can add to your pages, such as accordions, time lines, Google Map boxes, content sliders, etc.
Pre-designed templates: Page builders allow you to import demo templates to start from. If you’re not in a creative mood, this helps you get started a lot quicker!
Advanced styling options: Page builders will have more advanced options to style elements, like drop shadows or animations.

Moreover, it’s still quite finicky to use, so we can’t recommend it at this time.

How did we test website speed?

When evaluating the speed of different page builders in combination with WooCommerce, it’s important to maintain fairness in the tests. That’s why we created 5 different test sites (one for each page builder) on the same hosting and with the exact same configuration. Here’s how our test sites are set up:

All test sites were hosted on the same host in the same location.
Each test site was running WordPress version 6.4.3 and PHP 8.2.
Only WooCommerce and any plugins required by the page builder were installed.
No additional page optimizations were implemented.
With each page builder, we created a single product page with the same type of components. This ensures all pages have the same layout and one doesn’t load more design components than the others.

The meaning of metrics

To test the speed of any theme builder, you will need to use the right performance-tracking tools available to you. Here are the popular tools we used during our testing:

PageSpeed Insights: PageSpeed Insights (PSI) is popular amongst WooCommerce site owners as a benchmarking tool for site performance. Developed by the team at Google, it’s the best “source of truth” to find out how well your site is performing in terms of SEO, speed, usability, and accessibility. The higher your scores, the higher your chances of appearing in a better position on Google’s search results.
Pingdom: This tool shows you the exact page load time (in milliseconds) as well as how large a page is (in terms of megabytes).
KeyCDN’s TTFB tester: This tool measures the Time To First Byte (TTFB). We explain what this metric is and why it’s useful a little further down the article.

Each of these tools measures and displays specific information. We’ll quickly go over each metric so you know what you’re looking at. Warning: this part is quite technical!

Google PageSpeed Insights metrics

The analysis of PageSpeed Insights offers a lot of information. What we’re interested in most is the all-in-one Performance Score:

Example of results in PageSpeed Insights

This is a number from 0 to 100 (the higher, the better) indicating the overall speed performance of your page. The score is a measure of this data:

First contentful paint: This metric tells you how long it takes for the first image or text to appear while the website is loading. The lower the better.
Speed index: Speed index measures how quickly content is visually displayed during page load. The lower the better.
Largest contentful paint (LCP): This metric calculates how long it takes for the most prominent element or content block to appear on the page. Again, the lower this score, the better.
Total blocking time (TBT): The total blocking time indicates the time a large process blocks the page so that visitors can’t interact with it. You want this score to be as low as possible (ideally zero).
Cumulative layout shift (CLS): This measures the movement of visible elements while the page is loading.

Pingdom metrics

Pingdom shows 4 additional interesting metrics:

Pingdom test results for a site with WooCommerce Blocks

Performance grade: This is an overall evaluation of how optimized a website is for speed based on factors like load time, page size, and the number of requests. This grade is a letter from A to F, where A is excellent and F is the worst possible score.
Page size: This is the complete size of the page, including all assets such as HTML code, scripts, and images. A lower score is better.
Load time: This is the total time your page needed to be fully loaded. This includes loading all included assets such as images and scripts.
Requests: The number of requests during page load the browser makes to your server. A lower number is better.

The Time To First Byte (TTFB) metric

The Time To First Byte (TTFB) is the duration it takes for a user’s browser to receive the first byte of data from a web server after making a request. In easier words: this indicates how long your server is working to render the web page.

A high TTFB usually indicates that you have a slower host, or you are using a lot of plugins and they’re all doing something to render the page.

Logically, if your site is hosted in Europe, and someone is visiting from Australia, the TTFB will be higher because the distance between the visitor and the host is further away. That’s why we’ll measure the TTFB from a few different locations around the world and then take an average.

The fastest WooCommerce page builders

Now that you know how we test the fastest WooCommerce page builders, it’s finally time to dive in and look at the page builder plugins themselves and how they performed during our tests!

1. Full-Site Editing with WooCommerce Blocks

Edting the Sigle Product template with WooCommerce blocks in FSE.

We’ve already introduced the concept of Full-Site Editing (FSE) earlier in this article, which is WordPress’ built-in way to design and structure pages. While it’s not a full-fledged page builder, we still wanted to include it in this comparison as it offers some advantages:

This is the future of WordPress and is being actively developed.
It is built-in, so you don’t need additional plugins.
It’s free of charge, while page builder plugins are a paid expense.

For this test, we used the Twenty Twenty Four theme, which is the first official WordPress theme supporting Full-Site Editing.

Let’s finally dive into some numbers!

Google PageSpeed

Google’s PageSpeed Insights show a near-perfect score for our single product page built with WooCommerce Blocks:

PageSpeed Insights for WooCOmmerce Blocks

Total score: 97
First contentful paint: 0.5 s
Total blocking time: 0 ms
Speed index: 0.9 s
Largest contentful paint (LCP): 1.3 s
Cumulative layout shift (CLS): 0

Pingdom

Pingdom shows the page is fully loaded (including scripts and images) in about 0.9 seconds, which is quite good considering it’s below 1 second and our test sites do not benefit from optimization or caching plugins.

The reason Pingdom’s performance grade is a lower score is that the total page size exceeds 1 megabyte. Unfortunately, both WooCommerce and Full-Site Editing include a few large scripts on the website.

Performance grade: 77/100
Page size: 1.2 MB
Load time: 957 ms
Total number of requests: 67

Time To First Byte

The average Time To First Byte is only 0.5 seconds, which is a very good result. If we access the site from the same location as it is hosted, that drops down to 0.3 seconds.

Performance profile

We measured the individual execution time of WooCommerce and the theme. Since we don’t use a separate page builder (only the built-in WooCommerce blocks), it’s logical that WooCommerce does most of the processing for this page. Total execution time was 0.51 seconds, which was 99% WooCommerce and 1% other theme functions.

Profiler results for a WordPress site running FSE and WooCommerce blocks

Conclusion

Without a doubt, Full-Site Editing with WooCommerce blocks is the fastest contestant on the list. Unfortunately, we can’t recommend it yet because it lacks many of the advanced settings other page builders have.

Moreover, many plugins don’t integrate with FSE and WooCommerce blocks yet, simply because the authors of the blocks don’t provide 3rd-party plugin authors with a proper way to write their integrations. Our own Studio Wombat plugins are integrated as much as possible.

On the flip side, Full-Site Editing is getting better with every WordPress and WooCommerce release, so we are firm believers it will be the way to go in the future!

2. Breakdance

Breakdance is the youngest page builder plugin in this list. The first version was released in September 2022 and was created by the developers behind the popular WP All Import plugin.

Their aim is to be a modern page builder without technical depth like some older builders might have. Let’s see how this new builder does in terms of speed!

Note from our tester

Breakdance looks nice and modern. However, something unintuitive was that I did have to add a “product builder” component to get started. This was the only way to create a single product page in WooCommerce using Breakdance.