Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100.
The spike in interest signals a shift in user behavior, indicating an active search for options which align more closely with user expectations around performance, control, and transparency.
A block editor being built into wordpress was inevitable and long overdue in fact, and they let elementor steal most of them market while they shuffled their feet on the issue