Online store performance and site speed optimization
Hello team, my store www.pleasureisminenz is running quite slow and I can’t figure out why. Can anyone make any suggestions that will fix this problem. PLEASE & THANK YOU
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Hello @Mel36,
This is Gina from flareAI app.
I noticed your store can't be reached. Hope you are working on it.
By following the below steps, you can significantly speed up your Shopify store:
1. Image compression is important and a necessity for faster loading web pages. Make sure your images are of good quality and do not add too many images on a single page. You can try some tool like TinyJPG
2. Minimize HTTP requests: Every time a page loads, it makes multiple requests for various elements such as images, scripts, and stylesheets. Minimizing these requests can help reduce the time it takes for a page to load.
3. Minimize broken links and redirects - Avoid unnecessary Redirects and fix broken links
4. Using slideshow, which are high-quality images combined with transitions, take time to load when the user clicks the link to the homepage. So instead you can use a single high-quality hero image.
5. Always choose a theme that is responsive, fast, and takes minimal time to load the page
If you choose a theme with numerous sliders, fancy animations, advanced navigation systems, etc., will affect your page speed. If your theme is loading slow, consider disabling the theme features you don't need.
6. Don't add too many images on a page
Adding too many images on a page can be frustrating. It can significantly slow the load time of your website. Also, it can overwhelm visitors, which will ultimately result in a poor user experience, a high bounce rate, and a high probability of lower rankings in relative search results.
7. Use Lazyload wherever required to reduce initial load time
8. Remove all unwanted Shopify Apps which you are not using
You should disable app features you don't use, or you can remove the app if you don't need it. If you are removing an app make sure to remove code that was added as part of the app install process.
9. Remove third-party JS scripts which you are no longer using
10. Replace GIFs with static images
11. You can run the Shopify Theme Inspector for Chrome to identify the lines of code that are slowing down pages in your online store.
12. Minify CSS and Javascript: Minification removes unnecessary characters, such as whitespace and comments, from your code, reducing the size of the files and improving the loading speed.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Gina
Hi, how are you
I understand that you are looking to improve the speed of your website, which is an excellent idea.
I recommend that you integrate an app which takes care of it automatically
The only thing you have to do is go to the administrator panel of your store and in the applications section add an application that is dedicated to it and is the best for you.
If this seems like an appropriate answer to you, please mark it as an answer.
thank you
Hello @Mel36 ,
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There are several reasons why your website might be running slow. Here are some potential causes and solutions:
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@Mel36 .
Contact to Shopify support team. They will guide you.
This is an accepted solution.
Hello @Mel36,
This is Gina from flareAI app.
I noticed your store can't be reached. Hope you are working on it.
By following the below steps, you can significantly speed up your Shopify store:
1. Image compression is important and a necessity for faster loading web pages. Make sure your images are of good quality and do not add too many images on a single page. You can try some tool like TinyJPG
2. Minimize HTTP requests: Every time a page loads, it makes multiple requests for various elements such as images, scripts, and stylesheets. Minimizing these requests can help reduce the time it takes for a page to load.
3. Minimize broken links and redirects - Avoid unnecessary Redirects and fix broken links
4. Using slideshow, which are high-quality images combined with transitions, take time to load when the user clicks the link to the homepage. So instead you can use a single high-quality hero image.
5. Always choose a theme that is responsive, fast, and takes minimal time to load the page
If you choose a theme with numerous sliders, fancy animations, advanced navigation systems, etc., will affect your page speed. If your theme is loading slow, consider disabling the theme features you don't need.
6. Don't add too many images on a page
Adding too many images on a page can be frustrating. It can significantly slow the load time of your website. Also, it can overwhelm visitors, which will ultimately result in a poor user experience, a high bounce rate, and a high probability of lower rankings in relative search results.
7. Use Lazyload wherever required to reduce initial load time
8. Remove all unwanted Shopify Apps which you are not using
You should disable app features you don't use, or you can remove the app if you don't need it. If you are removing an app make sure to remove code that was added as part of the app install process.
9. Remove third-party JS scripts which you are no longer using
10. Replace GIFs with static images
11. You can run the Shopify Theme Inspector for Chrome to identify the lines of code that are slowing down pages in your online store.
12. Minify CSS and Javascript: Minification removes unnecessary characters, such as whitespace and comments, from your code, reducing the size of the files and improving the loading speed.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Gina
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