Hamburger menu and search bar not working on mobile. Please help.

Topic summary

Primary Issue:
The hamburger menu and search functionality fail to work on mobile devices, preventing customers from accessing navigation menus.

Root Cause Identified:
The problem stemmed from third-party apps causing severe page load delays. JavaScript required for the hamburger menu was being delayed until after page load completion.

Troubleshooting Steps:

  • Initial suspicion pointed to popup apps interfering with menu functionality
  • Google PageSpeed analysis revealed massive slowdowns
  • TipTop - TikTok shippable app code was removed (didn’t resolve issue)
  • Solution: Removing Scorpio Lab tracking code from theme.liquid file fixed the problem

Resolution:
Deleting the problematic Scorpio Lab code line restored hamburger menu functionality and significantly improved page load speed.

Additional Cases:
Two other users reported similar hamburger menu issues:

  • One case showed no problems upon external testing, suggesting localized or intermittent issues
  • Another case (Talkigapp) remains unresolved with menu not displaying pages on click

Key Takeaway:
Third-party app scripts and tracking codes can severely impact mobile navigation performance. Systematic app removal and code cleanup may be necessary.

Summarized with AI on November 5. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

My main page isn’t allowing customers to click on drop down menu from mobile.

It’s not loading at all. Please help me.

www.soapnn.com

Hey!

The problem is coming from the popups you have on your page. After the popups appear you can use the menu correctly. If those popups are apps you have installed, maybe they need to go, there’s apps that you can use to show a popup without breaking your site!

hope this helps.

cheers,

Lee

Upon further inspection i think the problem might be the upPromote thing you have installed, seems to really slow everything down.

Hi,

Thank you so much. So I uninstalled the upPromote app and a few other apps. It’s still not working at the moment. Any other recommendations?

Hey,

sorry that didnt solve the issue. I can still see that the page is taking a very long time to load. What is happening is the javascript that is used to display the menu when you click the hamburger icon is being delayed until after the page load.

what other apps have you installed?

if you visit this link (google pagespeed) you can see your page is being massively slowed down:

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-soapnn-com/8st3vuk79a?form_factor=mobile

have you made edits to the code yourself?

Hi, no I haven’t done anything to the code. Shopify admin originally said it was the TipTop - TikTok shippable app. So they deleted the code for that in theme.liquid which didn’t fix the issue.

These are the only apps I have now.

could be this scorpio lab thing, seems to take 20s to load. try getting rid of that.
Screenshot 2023-07-13 232710.png

Hmmm, that’s not displaying as an app. Let me figure out how to delete that.

if you are familiar with how to code, you can go in and delete this line - it’s probably in your theme.liquid file near the bottom


i havent been able to find out what the scopio lab is, their website is weird and very slow too.

Omg I think this fixed it!! The drop down menu is working from mobile now.

And the page is loading so much quicker.

Awesome! Glad I was able to help! Good luck with your store!

Im having the same problem but i dont think its app related. could you please do a quick check for me? ive been searching for hours.

www.oasiscoral.com.au. hamburger menu not opening until clicked multiple times and sub menus look blank

thanks

Hi there, @Danmuges !

I was able to visit your site and use the hamburger menu with no issue from my location.

If you do have any apps or code edits that are in place for your menus or homepage, that is where I would recommend you start troubleshooting to see what might be causing this issue on your end.

Dear Don,

I am having the same issue with my mobile version. The hamburger menu dont show any of pages when you click on it.

Could you please check: Toypal.ai

Thanks