Found in 2016, Elementor, the leading WordPress website builder platform has announced that it has achieved an important milestone of 5 million installs in the WordPress repository, resulting in a total of 7% of all WordPress websites using their platform now. It is worth noting that only three other plugin developers reached this number: Takayuki Miyoshi, Team Yoast, and Automattic. Top brands that use Elementor include New Yorker, TripAdvisor, Vogue, Crunchbase and GrubHub, etc.
This code-free and drag-n-drop website page building platform achieved the latest one million downloads in just over three months while the first million downloads took two years.
The COVID-19 impact pushed many businesses to go online and it increased a 32% increase in website building demand in the US alone. The company says over 30% of Elementor users are new to WordPress and are using it for the first time.
