Online store performance and site speed optimization
So I want to know who has the fastest free or premium them and thought let's make it a collaborative adventure.
I'm looking at Google Pagespeed Insights since it gives me an overall score (I know there are many opinions about this, but at least it is common across all of them). I'm sitting in Denmark when I do the test, so it can have some effect when you are doing the test and you may be testing from another test center. Also, I'm only looking at mobile, because let's face it the majority of users are coming from mobile nowadays
Here are the themes I have tried right now, sorted in what I believe is the fastest: (I hope I can change this later when more is coming)
What are your favorite themes?
I see this was posted November 2020, it's now 2022. Do you have an update please?
I updated speed score (Feb 7)
89 Plak Theme
89 Dawn (new)
88 Boostheme
87 Air Theme One
78 Debut theme
74 Shoptimized
69 Shella
57 Booster theme
54 Turbo Theme
50 Ella
46 Brooklyn
37 Flex theme
34 Prestige
29 Debutify
11 Fastor
Dear MPI_themes,
I am interested in your number 3 (Boostheme) from this list.
But which Boostheme did you test:
They have: Belora, Shop.mall, Vodoma and others.
Which of these did you get the result 88 with?
Thank you!
Hi VortexVR,
It is boostertheme dot com, but I can't find the demo store now.
Be care full, ask them for demo, and test the speed, before purchase.
Best regards
Feels unfair to make the comparison to a site that's loaded up with third party apps. How much of a difference would it make to load the app with Klaviyo, Loox etc?
True.
When you test store speed you should consider many factors store configuration, apps, content.
To compare theme performance you should test them in the same conditions.
For example. The same Shella theme shows different results.
1) Demo store with lots of features enabled. The demo purpose to show case as many theme features as possible. The mobile speed score of home page is 69 (shella-demo.myshopify.com )
2) Simple store configuration. The demo purpose to showcase the clean and minimal theme configuration, that is closer to the real store. The mobile speed score of home page is 91 (shella-fashion.myshopify.com )
The first fastest Shopify theme is Plak
Read more about the top fastest shopify themes
https://leilakacem.medium.com/the-fastest-shopify-themes-2021-3eb891b307d7
Dear Kprimdal,
Regarding number 10, which Boostheme is that? They have a couple that are apparently very fast:
Beloria and Shopmall seem to have a lot of features are are apparently fast.
I am comparing them with Booster, Debutify and Shoptimized, because I need some of the features. Debut and the other Shopify themes are just to simple for me.
As updated in 2023, we tested 5 themes on the theme store with Google Page Speed insights, here is the result:
1. Blum - 98 on desktop - 81 on mobile
2. Prestige - 88 on desktop - 56 on mobile
3. Motion - 93 on desktop - 64 on mobile
4. Focal - 97 on desktop - 70 on mobile
5. Dawn - 97 on desktop - 72 on mobile
I come from the team who develop Blum from the priority to page speed and mobile experience of shoppers. So I want to recommend anyone who looks for a theme that loads fast to try our theme. Any feedback is welcomed.
Here is the detailed article when we review the themes https://saleshunterthemes.com/pages/fastest-shopify-themes
Blum theme - Made for fashion brand with high page speed and stunning mobile design.
@kprimdal Page speed scores depends on the elements on the page ex: slider, images, or other apps which requires JS files.
It has nothing in page 4 products pictures there if you put same 4 products in others themes and test you will get similar scores. Hope you get it.
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The theme speed rating based on the Shopify data - https://twitter.com/MariPet9/status/1725500480506233291
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