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Try from another machine. When you open the editor, you are downloading all the libraries that make the editor work and all of those libraries are loaded into your browser’s memory and it’s your browser doing all the hard work, it’s not running off your web server or in “the cloud” when adjusting the editing control values or even the rendering happening in the preview for that matter.

I can say that I’ve experienced this first hand on client machines that are old or have low resources or just way too many things running at once. But, on my development machine I never experience any lag, ever and I’m an early adopter of this plugin and literally use it every day, all day long.

So technically it’s not really fair to blame this on Elementor and I hope this info helps explain how you can get better performance.

i.e. keep open tabs minimal, don’t have a ton of apps running on your machine while editing or look into upgrades that can improve your experience. Best of luck!

I’ve already tried the editor on 3 different machines, even disabled all plugins but elementary, my main computer has 16gb and an i5 processor, it’s blazingly fast so I know it isn’t the computers I run on.. I can edit ultra HD video on my setup with no lag… The post itself is pretty long, with lots of full width photos, the sidebar is the only part that lags, everything else works fine. So I’m thinking it’s the editor itself..

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by jetlaggedinparadise.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by jetlaggedinparadise.

Hmm, ok. Another thought, the ajax calls could be the lag and be a result of server side load/memory/throttling issues but most of the style/typography/spacing changes is css which is controlled via js that your browser renders on the spot, of which server side is not involved except when saving or querying. (do you see errors in the browser console? Does the lag only happen when switching between elements but ok among it’s own tabs/settings?)

Maybe it’s a browser plugin or another tab that is resource heavy that you use on all of your machines? I don’t know, I’m throwing any idea that pops into my head at it now.

My laptop is similar spec and I never experience lag (Elementor Sidebar) even when developing over the net off a shared server. But I also focus on shrinking every kb out of my pages; and with load times to consider, I try to keep my pages as short and to the point as possible, which also allows me the time to focus in on the little refinements design-wise.

But I’m no critic, to each there own, just saying ultimately it may just come down to the fact that you’re loading a ton of stuff.

I think it is the single fact that the page is huge! – jetlaggedinparadise.com/usa-road-trip/ is the post.. If you view it on desktop you can see just how big it is, with lots of full screen photos taking up the entire page. I thought about dividing the page up into smaller ones because I know it will take forever for the page to load, on slower connections anyways, but then I don’t like multi page posts.. So i have decided just to go with it… Thanks for all the help though!

Yeah it took me about 15-20 seconds before I saw anything. You might consider using a lazy load plugin to only load what is above the fold and cache a portion below it and then as the user scrolls new content is gracefully loaded in.