avada wp theme

I'm trying to find a wordpress theme for my first website. Have no coding knowledge and was considering Avada or Enfold from ThemeForest.com, but keep reading about how "drag&drop" website builders make the website slow. Can anyone confirm this? Should I o with one of these Premium themes? Any...

A simple question I guess - trying to finding the balance where your plugins are providing your site with more good then bad... How many Wordpress Plugins do you have installed? and have you found the more 'recommended' plugins you have activated to be not necessarily better? I have a fair few...