Is drag&drop plugins and themes slowing down wordpress?

  • I have read that the drag&drop plugins and themes use lot of shortcodes when building pages and parsing these shortcodes require running regular expressions which are slow and that is slowing down wordpress. Is that true?

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  • I would say it is true to a certain extend as an empty WordPress or Vanilla site is always faster then one with two large images inside. The speed of website is much more than just shortcodes and drag and drop. There are some content plugins that have proven to be really fast and this is also due to a combination of hosting and caches.
    Try and find out which gives you the best solution to your design requirements and check with the developers your concerns.
    You can always install a free version and run some tests using google page speed test https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/ if it is a major concern. I believe a good website is always a balance between design, user experience and site speed.

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