Hi everyone! I hope someone can shed some light on this… We experienced some bad scores on PageSpeed etc and I contacted a Shopify “expert” on Fiverr with great ratings. The overall performance went up big time. But still the Core Web Vitals for long term statistics showed bad CLS, though every pa…

This code by itself is not enough to judge 100%, but looking at the files used in this code snippet it’s very highly possible. If you provide the storefront password, it’d be easier to be sure. Is alpha3861.myshopify.com your address?

No, our adress is bok.hstrom.se and our myshopify.com-address isn’t alpha3861. The site is live and hasn’t a storefront password. So you are welcome to check it out at https://bok.hstrom.se . Looking forward hearing from you. With kind regards, Johan.

The problem is that your theme loads JS code from other shops – here is your snippet formatted – it uses files from 3 shops and they are not controlled by you. critical-resources.js and globo1.js are already unavailable. ... Here is the de-obfuscated content of pre-loader.js: document.open();…

Several things I do not like about this modification: Code is not in your store, not under your control. Can disappear or be replaced by something harmful? Code is inserted in a hidden place – bet they didn’t tell you where the code is (and it’s inside the ‘meta-tags’ snippet – not the place one w…

Hi, thanks for your effort explaining this to me! What is your recommendation - should I just remove this line of code entirely from the snippets/meta-tags.liquid? You seem to be right in regards to the Google penalty - since the “optimization” my Search Console show me that the impressions and cl…

Desktop is even better with original theme, but on mobile original theme loses because “Total blocking time” is better on modified because a lot of JS code is not run until user interaction. And this is also a reason for “Cumulative Layout Shift” as many elements are added by JS (like chat icon) and…

Thanks! Ok, I have now removed the code in meta-tags.liquid and instead inserted your line of code before the footer in theme.liquid, correct? In the live site it now looks like this: [johstrom_0-1715860025725.png] Good? Right now I have 67 in Performance rating on Pagespeed for an individual p…

No, sorry, I meant “remove this line as well, but it’s separate from the others, you need to find it”. Since it’s left without its mates, it’s now raining with JS errors in the console

Ok! I found it in footer.liquid: I have now removed it. Does it look good from your point of view? I really appreciate you helping me out with this! With kind regards, Johan.

Pretty much. If I were working on optimization, I’d implement main image preload – will help with both LCP and FCP and then look into TTFB which is Ok on your pagespeed reports, but not that great in my browser and TTFB is basically the basis of everything else.

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Thank you, Tim!

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