[01] Layout Optimization Best Practice

In this lesson, we'll learn the most efficient ways to create your pages layout with Elementor.
Watch the full Website Performance Optimization course here: elemn.to/optim...
This lesson will teach you how to:
✓ Reduce the number of elements on a page
✓ Test your website's pages speed
✓ Improve your page accessibility and rankings
✓ And much more!!
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[@iwbowden]

Arrrgh! Where were you two or three years ago?! This is simply one of the most helpful Elementor instructional videos I've ever watched - and I've watched a lot! Like any complicated and infinitely-configurable product, Elementor has been lacking a series of "best practices" videos such as this one, showing us the optimal way to build pages made to load more quickly. I've viewed dozens of tutorials by other Elementor users who've demonstrated a number of techniques which I've adopted and are actually all very bad habits. Please keep these coming! The more you demonstrate how to get more out of your product the more educated and informed - and loyal - your customers will be.

[@Elementor]

Hey Ian thank you for your feedback! Have you watched all 5 parts of this series? What did you think? kzbin.info/aero/PLZyp9H25CboFg7tA0J3ksRf7gjOsrW1Ot

[@unclesocial186]

@@Elementor Please don't stop at 5 parts! Best practice for every single Elementor Widget would be great, perhaps best practice for nagivation layouts and common pages like Contact would be good too?

[@vnikyt]

Exactly. I now have so many old websites to optimize because I was building in the dark

[@heathercunningham9514]

Thank you! This is possibly one of the most useful tutorials on Elementor ever! And should be the first video watched after installing Elementor. I've got some work to do!

[@foxharold1053]

i guess Im kinda randomly asking but does anybody know of a good place to watch new series online ?

[@cyrussamir724]

@Fox Harold lately I have been using FlixZone. You can find it by googling =)

[@riazbudree2481]

Heather I could not agree more. I’m guilty of column and inner section use. This has been most useful.

[@emmaoakley690]

@@riazbudree2481 And me! I actually asked myself this question the other day and then thought nothing more of it. I feel very seen with this tutorial! Haha.

[@frankstone]

I wanted to THANK YOU for this tutorial. I'm new to WordPress, however I do manage 6 websites. Coming over from Adobe Dreamweaver has been the right move. Over the past year, I've watched several different KZbin tutorials that have helped in my transition. This is the first one I've seen that specifically looks at "layout" optimization techniques. Your presentation was just what I needed.

[@casperpost2557]

Wow. No optimalization plugin can beat this. Absolutely great tutorial. Going to be more aware about this in my upcoming projects. Thanks!

[@vx-petia]

This video cleared up so much for me. I tried it out and was able to move 3 sections (1 mobile only) and 12 columns all into one! From 2.5+ seconds to 680ms. Thank you so much!

[@vx-petia]

But it actually lowered my google page speed and gtmetrix mobile by 50%!

[@tomtom7712]

Hello - Thanks for this video. The lighthouse test is for desktop version, but this is often not the problem. Please show an example of the optimization of a "mobile" version.

[@LogologicsNl]

I agree, very useful video, but mobile is the real pain, would love more of that!

[@brianb225]

If only I had seen this before rebuilding a 200-page website. Great information!

[@thegarden5798]

almost the same here lol

[@Ateens97]

Please update Template Elementor Libary with optimize layout. So that beginer can easy insert template then have more speed. Another reason, it can educate how User use elementor. More and more web made with elementor loading fast.

[@dustindauncey]

@@TimOlukayodeAjayi I think you mean you “couldn’t agree more”, not “less”. 😜

[@eduardopereira-fr5nw]

You finally nailed it!!! Image that I was so frustrated with Elementor regarding the speeding performance that I was ready to switch to Kadence Blocks. this video is a game changer for us!!!! Love Elementor.

[@keywikiwi]

This is hands down the best elementor page layout video ive watched so far. Well done

[@randymurray934]

Been building websites for 20 years.. This one small video convinced be to start using elementor. Cheers

[@_HMCB_]

Just amazing how much cruft you cleaned up by using the single column. I learned so much. Thanks 🙏

[@Justtellmetheanswer6910]

Brilliant. Very well explained. Great speed. Not to fast or too slow. Nice clear commentary. Keep them coming please Elementor.

[@Elementor]

Thanks for the feedback Just in time!

[@andonisr]

Excellent guide on such a useful topic. It's always frustrating trying to reduce page load times and requests. You've shown us some excellent tips - which I'd never thought of implementing. Now I know what to do for each one of my websites!! Thank you so much Ash!! Please do more in the future as Elementor evolves so we can be updated on best practises!

[@frontweb9984]

Thanks a lot. I have been using Elementor for 3 years, but I learned many new things from this tutorial :)

[@Elementor]

Wow thank you! I'm happy you found it informative 😊

[@frontweb9984]

I didn't know that defining global fonts and global colors improves performance. After your video, I did it on a website, and the loading time improved around 2 seconds. Thanks a lot

[@nzwebtech1915]

This full of excellent advice - nice work! Changing multi-columns to a combo of better choice widgets and using size/position more effectively is going to keep me busy for a while...

[@0xfrans659]

This was the most profitable 20 minutes of this week ! Thank you Ash and all the team for this kind of tutorial. So much values and good advices to be even better ! Can wait for news videos, i'm addicted to hahaha

[@Elementor]

Wow François I'm happy you found it valuable! Have you seen the whole Optimization playlist? kzbin.info/aero/PLZyp9H25CboFg7tA0J3ksRf7gjOsrW1Ot

[@tara0029]

Watched this just before starting to make my website... couldn't be more thankful! Such a helpful video!!

[@designsosimple2269]

This has to be one of the most helpful and useful videos you guys have created. Absolutely brilliant, thank you.

[@Elementor]

I'm glad you found it helpful DesignSoSimple 😊

[@robertturner1550]

Best Elementor video I have ever seen. This is freaking amazing!!!

[@mrfgm]

MY GOSH....I FEEL LIKE I CAN BE A PROFESSIONAL FROM THIS 22 minute tut!!!!

[@kpitonak]

This one here is the most important tutorial on Elementor ever!

[@Elementor]

Great suggestion Random, you can give it directly to the development team here elementor.com/help/send-your-feature-request/ .

[@odedtalmon904]

Great video! The part about the image carousel is incorrect in my opinion, it loads an extra js that you don't really need, you can just use image widget with auto position and custom width like you did in the beginning of your video

[@jesusenmanuelbarreto844]

Great Tuto! Only one thing so how do you suppose to invert widgets now? Because when I invert columns it works perfectly but now without columns it does not invert widgets! Any suggestions for it?

[@jaxrachel]

Agreed! I was trying to figure that out too

[@jesusenmanuelbarreto844]

@@jaxrachel ye I know... It's a great value this Tuto but to me it was not completed

[@stevenkiridis]

Hi there, thank you for your comment. Widgets like Call to Action offer change of the layout on responsive mode, but you could still use a second column if you find a limitation. Just try to keep the use of widgets, columns and inner sections to a minimum. Hope this helps

[@jesusenmanuelbarreto844]

@@stevenkiridis thanks for answering. As I thought you just confirm. Appreciate it. 🙌

[@JulaWeg]

Very good, clear tutorial. I wonder how your website will look on phones or tablets. I thought that sections are designed to make the website accessible on any size of equipment. Let me know

[@spydergs07]

This is hands down the best Elementor optimization video I've seen. Thank you!

[@kazeemquadri01]

Thank you so much. I have a lot of layout changes to do

[@Elementor]

Your welcome Kazzem 😊. I'm happy we were able to help you build a better website 😎.

[@katy.boykin]

This was very helpful. If this is the standard practice, why aren't the templates built this way?

[@loganhoneycutt5398]

This is so important and needs to be watched by every Elementor user.

[@SmithyProductions]

How do you know exactly the number to put in for width? What's the best way to find out how much space a widget is taking? Thank you!

[@tribowp]

Savion, the complete space of the line is 100%, so you can divide the columns according to your needs. As he had 4 widgets, he placed each one to occupy 25% of the space. If there were 3, you could put 33% for each widget. Hope this helps. Sorry my English.

[@rebekahspahn2638]

Wow ... What an incredible learning resource--THANK YOU! This one is definitely being saved for future reference!

[@riazbudree2481]

I’m guilty of column and inner section use. This has been most useful. Nice pacing, great examples and well explained. I appreciate this. Thank you.

[@linconyudi3388]

Mind-blowing! 🤯 Why nobody teaches that?! Thanks a lot! 💙

[@Elementor]

Wow what compliment Lincon 🤩!!!

[@cristiansfetcu6493]

Very usefull for beginners and for advanced web creators. I'll see all video. Thank you.

[@Elementor]

Thank you Cristian, I'm happy to hear that advanced web creators liked it as well 😊

[@EricaDyson]

Excellent. Just what we need. More like this please.

[@Elementor]

Thanks Erica! Have you seen the whole series? kzbin.info/aero/PLZyp9H25CboFg7tA0J3ksRf7gjOsrW1Ot

[@DarrenStarr]

This is amazing. Just hwen I thought I had Elementor nailed and now you raise the game again. Thank you! 🙏🙌👍 Back to learning it is!

[@Elementor]

That's what I aim for! Thanks Darren 🤩.

[@mulisaurus]

FINALLY!!! An actual tutorial that is helpful. This needs to the 101 video once you start with Elementor. Thank you for the presentation English man.

[@Elementor]

Hey Muli, I showed this comment to Ash ( the English man 😉) I'm glad it you found it helpful!

[@americascuisine]

If elementor really wanted to help improve our PSI scores, they would include an option to remove the 99% unused CSS and JS that gets thrown into our pages. I noticed in this video they didn't show this pages coverage report... I wonder why

[@andrei_olariu]

Probably is a little harder to do right now, let's hope that it will be better in next versions

[@UdithaMelanMahindarathna]

The most important tutorail for elementor designers . Thank you ❤

[@thepurpleufo]

Ummmm...like...,.wowwww...this is great stuff...thank you.

[@Elementor]

I see we left you speechless😆 I'm happy you liked it!

[@rkardos4220]

Well that was simple and smart. Thank you

[@RealWorthStocks]

This video is just great: really clear and actionable insights as to how to make a much simpler layout with Elementor. I keep coming back to it when I am building new pages: thanks for the awesome content!

[@taichigoodness1798]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Lesson learned, before browsing dozens of videos, just go to the source and get right to it!

[@DenisMcCaul]

If under Advanced > Positioning > Width > Custom you can set a widgets width % to position widgets beside each other and optimise for width on Desktop, Tablet, Mobile, rather than stacked, why would you need to use inline auto. (Wondering what would be a use case for using Inline Auto instead of Custom)

[@stevenkiridis]

Hi Denis, I gave this answer to your previous comment but I am repeating it in case more users have this question. The inline (auto) option will be similar to display:inline. This means that a widget takes automatically its actual width. Setting the width to custom is like deciding manually what the width of a widget is, whether it's less or more than its actual width. Hope this helps 👍

[@violetozer7558]

hey, tnx for the tutorial, very helpful!! one problem... when i try to make the widgets mobile responsive its not looks good on mobile!! there is no many options. how to make it mobile responsive? (for example the call to action widget, its hard to adjust to mobile)

[@drewgo224]

The Call To Action image seems to have a weakness compared to using an image widget. There doesn't seem to be any way to have the image in a Call to Action actively resize the image as the screen size changes like it does in an Image widget. No matter what I do to the spacing and sizing and such there will always be some cropping of the image at some image size. Any way around this? Also it would be nice to have multiple buttons! Great tutorial and I definitely learned a lot!

[@rodlivz]

+1

[@aledianin]

It is a pity you haven't shown all the sections on the mobile version..I was curios to see how this would go...

[@JulaWeg]

I may try to do one section as described, and see what it does on the phone

[@aledianin]

@@JulaWeg I did and the hero section is crap...

[@JulaWeg]

@@aledianin Thanks, I feel better. Yesterday I gave up redoing my website. Is what it is. I need to talk to Elementor Techs. Have nicely set up Global setting but any time I need to add a section I have to copy the previous one and redo it.

[@markr.]

Hi, thanks so much for this it's been very informative and helped a lot. I understand the overriding message to simplify where possible and minimize containers but the section with the icon boxes would not work on mobile as they'd be too small. It's the columns that enable elements to cascade under each other unless I'm missing something here. Please let me know if I'm wrong as this would be helpful also. Thanks again.

[@irinanoorman8685]

I have done all steps like adviced. But the loading time increased from 1,75 sec to 2,23 sec. The number of requests increased from 77 to 95. Lighthouse Performance decreased from 33 to 24. So in all points it was disadvantagous. Is it possible that a complex widget like the "Call To Action" loads slower than four simple widgets like "Title", "Text", "Picture" and "Button"?

[@kaygeen4548]

Yeah, I'm here. My performance was worse!

[@bySterling]

I had no idea the image box and call to action widgets were so flexible, awesome!

[@frits1463]

Did Adam see this? 😂. Thank you for this. So helpfull!

[@vinvin1909]

Excellent video, and I've already subscribed to your informative channel though I've only got one complaint. The part where you've used the "call to action" widget, you should've mentioned that this option or feature is only for Elementor Pro. That being said, I did learn a lot from this video. Thanks

[@Elementor]

Thank you for your feedback Vin Vin!

[@mario.carvajal]

20:26 You are using "DESKTOP" to measure speed. Any reason not to use "MOBILE"?

[@rajavanya]

ohhhh my god! this should be the first thing shown to every elementor creator! I've gone years without knowing these. feels wasted. I can see from comments below that I'm not the only one.

[@nubenegra809]

Beautiful man!!! already optimizing my website with this tips!!! Thanks a lot!

[@Elementor]

I'm glad it was useful Nubenegra

[@nubenegra809]

@@Elementor no, thank you man!

[@derluftikuss3202]

What about mobile first? The desktop results are ALWAYS Better than the mobile results at lighthouse.

[@mario.carvajal]

Exactly!!!

[@rukonahmedeimon3263]

That's not only great but more than that... I have been using 3rd party plugin since a long for optimisation. That's so cool than any other. Thank you. Keep up the good work

[@bySterling]

Priceless info and so great to know the motion effects (I’m all about these!) don’t affect the load times

[@wgm247]

This has definitely improved my websites

[@Elementor]

Yes!!! That's what I love to hear 🤩!!!

[@jennygao7542]

I am very lucky to cross your video. I am just starting to make my web. This saved me loads of rework! Thank u thank u thank u

[@Mumont]

great! these are some of the most helpful videos for nocode web designers. Even to understand in code form how to structure a website better. With my experience I think it is very useful to always use globally the colours, typography and some sections well optimized. It is a great help to start like this.

[@SupernovaSites]

Loved this video! Thank you so much. I just wish you would have shown a more complicated footer.

[@BestMLMDXN]

Dear Sir, Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial. This will indeed help us in improving our website performance. Sir , please make a detailed video on PODS integration with Elementor and Elementor Pro to extend wordpress - create awesome Custom Post Types, Taxonomies and Custom Setting Pages with Pods and use them with Elementor and Elementor Pro. Please keep uploading such wonderful tutorials. With warm regards, Vivek Kumar

[@nishantpatel5901]

Thank you for making this video. This is the best ever useful video I found for elementor.

[@shaunazar]

Great video! I started using flexbox with the steroids for elementor but your video helps me see how I can achieve same results with absolute position and make page even more light weight.

[@mmb811]

EXCELLENT TUTORIAL, Well presented and clear, concise, and to the point. THANK YOU, and WELL done, you are a major asset to the Elementor team!

[@Elementor]

I couldn't agree more Mike!

[@lykp]

Thank you for the video! Good job! I have a few questions though. Do all the proposed changes result in semantically correct html? Sure merging sections will result in less code and simpler html layout. But doesn't that defeat the purpose of having sections in the first place? Thank you!

[@jpdizzel305]

I have this same question.

[@digiperth1689]

Wow, that's great tutorial.

[@FernandoHStahelin]

The best tutorial i've seen.

[@juliansong2221]

Optimize for GTmetrix and desktop and optimize for Google Page Speed Insights mobile is totally different story… I ready wish Elementor can optimize further for PSI. Looks like most likely it's not going to happen soon…

[@cristianocortonesi8935]

Best video on elementor!!!

[@adhas]

Thank you for this tutorial! Looking forward to more 👍

[@Elementor]

Thanks Aiesha! Have you seen the whole playlist yet? kzbin.info/aero/PLZyp9H25CboFg7tA0J3ksRf7gjOsrW1Ot

[@elmoonezazan3144]

what a great of tutorial! this made me wanna go check all the other videos on this channel to see what other gems you been hiding!

[@Elementor]

Thanks Elmoonez! There is a whole treasure chest of them in this series💎 kzbin.info/aero/PLZyp9H25CboFg7tA0J3ksRf7gjOsrW1Ot

[@woodinlays3627]

What a great video! You have answered so many questions in just one video. Thanks a lot.

[@Elementor]

Thank Wood, that is amazing to hear! I'm sure you'll like the rest of the playlist as well 😉kzbin.info/aero/PLZyp9H25CboFg7tA0J3ksRf7gjOsrW1Ot

[@omtechofficial]

Thanx for such nice tutorial, 🔥🔥 really helping

[@tandlauer]

Amazing video !!! Thanks !

[@ivaniannoli5394]

But how do we know how many pixels we need to reduce in margins to center the text?

[@randymurray934]

I was wondering how he came to that number my self.

[@Eastie_]

This is great. I'd love to see more content like this from Elementor.

[@kevinlefournis6293]

Very useful I'm happy I chosed elementor when I see this kind of video 🙏🏻

[@Elementor]

I love this comment Kevin! Made my day😁. Have you watched the whole playlist yet?

[@ericamiranda3410]

Amazing channel it clarify many topics to work out on my UX strategies assignment 🎉🎉

[@parthosarkar5270]

Very insightful! We would love to see more of similar content from elementor!

[@Elementor]

Thanks Partho! Have you watched the whole playlist yet? kzbin.info/aero/PLZyp9H25CboFg7tA0J3ksRf7gjOsrW1Ot

[@parthosarkar5270]

@@Elementor Watched 2 videos, but will definitely watch all!! Thanks!

[@jimroberts1248]

Is there a content counter that will give me the number of widgets, columns, and sections on a page?

[@lijinbabu8601]

Very useful content ❤️ Elementor

[@Elementor]

Happy you liked it Lijin 🤩!!!

[@triryuzaki7870]

Please make more advanced videos of this kind, very helpful and informative for web developing process. How about Popup, Theme Builder, Blog Post optimization..

[@Elementor]

Hi Tri, thanks for your comments. We do have videos on some of these topics. Here are a few to check out: Responsive 101: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6KpqZiiqtBni5Y Theme Builder Overview: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIjbaYGHopebmqs I'll be sure to pass your suggestions on to the team for future tutorials.

[@odesenvolvedorwebelementor527]

Simplesmente um vídeo perfeito! Muita coisa nova foi aprendida vendo esse vídeo e com certeza salvarei! Começarei a ensinar essas práticas no meu canal.

[@gideonugbeh]

What if a brand want to display many information and its requires many columns and sections, how do you go about it?

[@stevenkiridis]

Hi Gideon, thank you for your comment. You would approach this project in the same way. Simplify the sections that can be simplified using widgets, and keep the use of columns / inner columns and widgets to a minimum. Hope this helps!

[@gideonugbeh]

@@stevenkiridis thanks

[@klaasdevries1947]

Very clearly and very useful! Great work! Thank you very much!

[@leejenn4779]

The tutorial really good. Beginners always make those mistakes. However, would like to point out the network tab testing after the optimization misleading. 20:20 It was loading the asset files from cache that's why showing the Load for 588ms (transferred 8.9kB) 02:17 The original test Load for 2.88s (transferred 5.5MB) Just like other comments, perhaps the mobile lighthouse score can be shown and improved.

[@Elementor]

Hi Lee, thank you for your comments.

[@webitedzjapan]

Wow elementor pro here 👍🏻

[@Elementor]

We aim to wow 😉

[@rusydihakim2883]

Call to Action not good for mobile view. My image will be cropped

[@JulaWeg]

looks good but is almost impossible to redo existing page. i spend all day trying to simplify home page without any success. i’m not sure why but the global settings is not working. i wonder if anybody else had so much problems?

[@fbch7086]

Elementor has a setting that allows you to use either the elementor colors and fonts, or the ones from your theme, that could be the problem?

[@JeremiahAmaukwu]

Thank you sooo much for this,

[@tugumisirizebarnabas211]

Thank you so much for this initiative.

[@vaibhavsingh6668]

This is very informative and i have learned something new today. I like the content of this channel. 😊✌️❤️

[@najam121]

first test on network tab was not using second cache, and after optimzation it was test using cached site.

[@danielmihajlovski]

On the hero section, I notice that you are using a Heading widget and a Text widget separately. As said throughout the video to use as few widgets as possible, is it better to use for ex. an Image Box/Icon Box/Call-to-Action widget and then remove the image/icon/button from the widget? Fewer widgets with an empty placeholder/container.

[@Garreth888]

Could you share what's the advantage of using % for the padding vs using px or em/rem? And when do we use em/rem?

[@gaylehilton2698]

I found lots of good information on this video but it would have been nice to show how you now optomize this layout for tablet and mobile. When I tried to do it with some of the widgets used it was pretty much impossible?

[@LudovicCharlier]

Wow, so much great information in one video. Thank you so much !

[@kathiahn]

Will you redo these videos with containers?