Original research
First-party benchmarks and reports produced from measurements we ran ourselves, published with the scripts that produced them so you can reproduce or dispute the numbers.
Visual editor bundle size benchmark, 2026
We measured the JavaScript weight of twelve visual and rich-text editor libraries under identical conditions. Craft.js is the lightest at 29.2 kB gzip; TinyMCE is the heaviest at 393.9 kB, a 13.5× spread across libraries that are routinely compared with each other.
Updated 2026-09-17
The visual editor library ecosystem in 2026: what our dataset tells us
An analysis of our own dataset: how these products are licensed, how they meter, what they all refuse to do, and the four structural patterns that explain most purchasing regret in this category.
Updated 2026-09-17
State of Visual Builders 2026: survey open, results not yet published
We are collecting data on how development teams choose and live with visual editor libraries. No results are published here yet, because we have not run the survey — this page is the invitation, not the report.
Updated 2026-09-17
Time to first editor: how long eight visual editors take to appear
We built the same minimal editor eight times and measured it: Editor.js reaches a rendered editor in 70 ms and 5 lines of code, React Page takes 1,004 ms and needs a bundler alias to build at all against React 19.
Updated 2026-09-17