How can I increase my site speed from 15 on Shopify?

[ryuk900]

Shopify showing site speed 15 how can increase that and also if any suggestion for design change do let me know any latest app that helps in sales 

[Blair]

Hi @ryuk900,

Thank you for reaching out to the Community! I'm happy to provide some assistance with improving the shops speed score, to ensure this gets resolved. 

To gather a bit more information, are you able to share what theme you're currently using? Typically, there are 4 main reasons customers will experience slow loading times including: 

• Too many apps trying to load at one time: The more apps that are running at once, the longer the loading times will be. Determine if you really need all those apps and If you're not using them at all, then you should remove them. I know you mentioned you've recently added some new features, are these with the help of apps? 
• Theme customizations: When you edit or customize themes, file sizes can increase and affect your store speed. If you have a heavily customized theme, this may be something to take into consideration. 
•  Image sizes: The larger the image size and the more videos and slideshows you display, the longer it will take to load. We also have a great blog article with 10 Must Know Image Optimization Tips. 
• The end-user/customer browser, device, and internet connection: This is something you won't have control over of course, but it is good to keep in mind. 

Additionally, I recommend checking out our Improving Your Online Speed Score document as it touches on a few more tips and suggestions. If you are using a Free Shopify Theme, we may be able to investigate further to provide basic performance improvements. You can learn more about the support available, in our Support For Themes document. 

You may also consider hiring a Shopify Expert. They are trusted third-party agencies and freelancers that work to help improve your business! To learn more, you can check out our Expert Marketplace. 

Please let me know if there's anything else I can assist with. 

[flareAI]

Hello @ryuk900,

This is flareAI - Generating Sales from Google Search, on Autopilot. Helping Shopify merchants in generating $5+ million in sales from Google Search.

If my suggestions helps you, please Like and Accept solution to let me know.

I would like to give you some suggestions regarding increasing the speed of your store.

Follow the below tips that will help you decrease the load on your web pages.

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.
2. Reduce the HTTP requests. For example: Combine & inline your CSS scripts
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. Use a theme which is optimized for performance means a theme which is responsive, fast, and takes minimal time to load the page.
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. You can run the Shopify Theme Inspector for Chrome to identify the lines of code that are slowing down pages in your online store.
10. Themes contain CSS, JS, HTML which can increase and affect your store speed. So disable theme features you don't use.
11. Use a System font which is a font that is already installed on most computers. For example: Segoe UI, Times New Roman. If you use a font that does not yet exist on your customer's computer, then the font has to be downloaded before your text can be displayed. This impacts the time that your store takes to load.
12. Use minified CSS and JS files

If your website takes longer than 3 seconds to load, 40% of your traffic will be lost. Apart from speeding up your store, for getting better conversions, make sure your store products are Found on Google. When your customers search on Google, your product can be found only if your page is indexed. Note that once a URL gets indexed, customers will start finding your store through organic searches, you will start getting order conversions for virtually zero cost. Making it sustainable business growth. flareAI helps to get your new products found on Google. flareAI works every day for you. Get sales from Google and 20+ world's largest free sales channels, Single click start!

I hope my suggestion will help you.

Gina
flareAI

[INA_MSWEB]

Hi @ryuk900 !

I hope you are doing good and welcome to the Shopify Community!

I am Mehak from MS Web Designer (Top Rated Shopify Certified Experts and eCommerce Consultant from Singapore).

Here are some proven steps that will improve your website speed dramatically for both mobile and desktop.

• Select a light Weight Shopify Theme
• Remove all Unwanted Shopify App ( That you have installed but not using)
• Minify Javascript, CSS 
• Reduce the Large Image Size
• Eliminating the halting problem in Javascript
• Apply Lazy loading per section wherever required
• Replace Gifs with the Static Images
• Resize Products images using Shopify App ( for Bulk )
• Check Page Speed by Google page Insight and GTmetrix.

By fixing these issues, your website speed score can improve
If you want a Free complete Website Optimisation Audit Report ( All the Actionable steps for your store ), let me know !

Please feel free to connect with me regarding any query.

Thanks & Regards
Mehak 

[ExpertRookie]

Hi @ryuk900 

Could you share your store URL so we can check the speed report  and let you know the issue along with the solution?

[OneCommerce]

Here are some proven steps that will improve your website speed dramatically for both mobile and desktop.

Select a light Weight Shopify Theme
Remove all Unwanted Shopify App ( That you have installed but not using)
Minify Javascript, CSS
Reduce the Large Image Size
Eliminating the halting problem in Javascript
Apply Lazy loading per section wherever required
Replace Gifs with the Static Images
Resize Products images using Shopify App ( for Bulk )
Check Page Speed by Google page Insight and GTmetrix.
You can check more optimized apps from Shopify library for more information