bricks builder vs oxygen builder
technical comparison & review between bricks builder and oxygen builder
Posted by Mohamed Hedeya in WordPress
April 25, 2021 - 3 min read
what is oxygen builder?
Oxygen Builder is a tool that enables you to build entire WordPress websites. It is one of the best tools out their in terms of performance
what is bricks builder?
bricks builder is a WordPress theme that helps you build performant WordPress sites.
why bricks vs oxygen ?!
For a long time, oxygen builder was the best tool to build performant websites. you can build really fast websites with no bloat at all. now bricks builder comes in and provides this amazing tool that you can use to build a very close website in terms of performance to oxygen.
bricks provide a better interface than oxygen, is easier to use for non-coders, and amazing output site in terms of performance.
I'd say it's the only competitor to oxygen right now! even with this very early release. the roadmap is very promising as well. the tool is built on vueJS which is amazing.
real-life test comparison
here I'm gonna build a login page in both tools and test out the results to get a better idea about the differences.
the design i'm gonna build :
design results with minimal customization
Oxygen
Bricks
Google PageSpeed Insights test
| Metric | Oxygen builder | Brick builder |
|---|---|---|
| First Contentful Paint | 2.5s | 2.8s |
| Speed Index | 2.5s | 2.8s |
| Largest Contentful Paint | 2.6s | 2.9s |
| Time to Interactive | 2.5s | 2.9s |
| Total Blocking Time | 0ms | 40ms |
| Cumulative Layout Shift | .26s | 0 |
Oxygen
Bricks
as you can see both results are very close and the differences are very small!
Gtmetrix test
| Metric | Oxygen builder | Brick builder |
|---|---|---|
| Grade | A | A |
| performance Score | 94% | 94% |
| Structre Score | 90% | 92% |
| Largest Contentful Paint | 1.3s | 1.3s |
| Total Blocking Time | 0ms | 0ms |
| Cumulative Layout Shift | 0 | 0 |
W3C validator
| Metric | Oxygen builder | Brick builder |
|---|---|---|
| Errors | 1 | 0 |
| Warnings | 2 | 0 |
Oxygen
Bricks
on a bigger sites oxygen gets a lot of these Warnings and errors!!
final thoughts
if anything to say after these results, bricks builder is a very promising tool with some advantages over the already well knows and well-built oxygen builder. and may even be the better option in the very near future! I'm so excited to see the upcoming updates for the tools!
check out bricks builder prices, they are offering 40% off right now as early-stage, and prices will eventually go up very soon. and here for oxygen prices
oxygen offers some extra elements as a separate plugin called composite elements for an extra cost. most of these elements are already in bricks builder at no extra costs!.