52
Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder
Gorgeous websites come with a side of installation anxiety.
GrowingReview burstPoor rating
52/100
Users enjoy the design flexibility but report invasive installation behaviors and unreliable support.
Active installs
~17 million
our estimate · wp.org shows 10M+
Rating
4.5★
7,257 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+16%
Growing
114,633 → 133,288 installs/day
Warnings
- Reviews concentrated in a single month — usually a marketing push or paid wave.
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.50★
- MAJOR31% of reviews in one month (2026-06-04)
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +16% in the last year
114,633/day a year ago→133,288/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayElementor is a widely-used drag-and-drop page builder praised for its ease of use and design flexibility, but it carries a notable reputation for aggressive installation behavior, poor free-tier support, and frustrating UI changes between updates.
What people like
- +Drag-and-drop interface is easy to use, especially for non-coders×2
- +Large variety of pre-built templates and design options×2
- +Well-suited for small to medium, design-focused sites where rapid development matters
Common complaints
- −Plugin automatically installed and activated a theme without user consent, breaking a live site
- −Free technical support is inadequate — tickets closed without resolution even when the bug was confirmed to be Elementor's fault
- −UI changes between updates are disorienting and make existing workflows harder to follow
- −Edits made in the editor do not always appear on the published page
- −Interface described as unnecessarily complex and counter-intuitive
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.50★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 27%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 31% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2026-02-042026-04-052026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 7,257 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-04★★★★★Solid, Not Perfectsophie851-shot
- 2026-06-03★★★★★Powerful, With a Catchsidney301-shot
- 2026-06-01★★★★★Solid But PriceyClifford
- 2026-06-01★★★★★Absolute Rubbishstephen54
- 2026-05-29★★★★★Supporto tecnico inesistente: ticket chiusi senza soluzionerobertodimaio
- 2026-05-29★★★★★Elementor Is Great for Small to Medium Sites, but Gutenberg Offers Better Perfortanyazadonsky
- 2026-05-28★★★★★We use Elementor every daymarinelray1-shot
- 2026-05-25★★★★★Elementor 4. Not for me :(nortonc1-shot
- 2026-05-25★★★★★No Dev? No Problemnoelbrito
- 2026-05-23★★★★★Sembra semplice anche per non programmatorifaunomuschio1-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Elementor Website Builder
Top Builders plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
144,101
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
112,557
Prior 7-day baseline
126,247
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,408,544
Mean release-day peak (30d)
163,259
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+28.0%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
31%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.37
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
43%
5★ share in analyzed sample
27%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.51 → 3.50★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered