How can I improve my website performance and security?

Shopify Discussion
1

Hi,

I ran an audit on my website www.ziziflair.com using https://website.grader.com/. There are areas of concern that need to be addressed wrt to performance of the website and security. Can anyone please help me on how to resolve these -

PERFORMANCE

CURRENT

RECOMMENDATION

Page requests

61

< 30

Combine files to minimize the number of HTTP requests your site makes.

Page speed

11.8Sec

< 5.3Sec

Speed up your site by lightening up your site pages, compressing images and video where possible.

Minified JavaScript

No

Yes

Use a minifier tool or contact your web host to ensure your JavaScript is minified.

Minified CSS

No

Yes

Use a minifier tool or contact your web host to ensure your CSS is minified.

SEO

CURRENT

RECOMMENDATION

Descriptive Link Text

No

Yes

Use descriptive link text that tells visitors what they’ll see if they click the link.

MOBILE

CURRENT

RECOMMENDATION

Tap Targets

No

Yes

Tap targets (e.g., links and buttons) should be at least 8px apart from each other, and at least 48px wide and 48px tall so they are clickable for mobile users.

SECURITY

CURRENT

RECOMMENDATION

Secure JavaScript libraries

No

Yes

Remove the JavaScript library or update it with a security patch.
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i can assist you in doing it
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Hi @Ziziflair

I ran your site through our Shopify Analyzer. It’s a free tool we built for the Shopify community. You can view your full report at https://analyze.speedboostr.com/result/fwobu4lnyj.

Also, running a speed test on webpagetest.org, it looks like your website is loading in about 3.4 seconds (fully loaded in ~5.4 seconds). These are pretty good load times.

It looks like you could benefit from minifying some of your local files, removing some hidden images, and improving your lazy loading.

Minifying Files

  • This will allow your files to execute faster by removing any unnecessary content throughout the code + compressing the entire file. You can check out the file minification section of our optimization guide for more info on how to do this.

Lazy Loading

If you’d like help with any optimizations, please feel free to reach out to us at speedboostr.com/contact. If you’d prefer to handle this in-house, I recommend taking a look at our full Shopify optimization guide: How To Optimize A Shopify Site: Complete Guide To Faster Load Speed.