My store has a very low speed score of 26 which means it’s running slower than other shopify stores and I’m wondering why that it and what i can do to address it. I am wondering what i can do to increase this score?
This is PostPurchaseSurvey.com- free Post Purchase Surveys. For a quick win on side speed, make sure that all your images are compressed and optimized. Whenever we upload a photo on our website, we’ll do what’s called “lossless compression” in order to reduce the file size without losing image quality. This is really helpful for SEO efforts and for speeding up your website.
This is the tool we use for JPEG images and we use this one for PNG files. Try running those 15 images through the image compression linked and it should work for you
When it comes to site speed, please note that there are several factors impacting your online store speed, some of which you can control, others you cannot.
Factors you can’t control- Your customer’s device, network, and location
Shopify infrastructure
Content delivery network (CDN)
Local browser cache
Server-side page cache
The assets inside the content_for_header Liquid tag
Factors you can control- Unnecessary Apps
When you add apps to change the functionality or appearance of your online store, they add code into the theme so they can run. Some code can be removed or reordered to improve your online store’s performance. If you’re not using an app, then you can remove it.
Themes
Themes are made up of Liquid, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code. When you edit or customize themes, file sizes can increase and affect your store speed.
Complex or inefficient Liquid code
You can edit almost all of the Liquid that is used to render your store. There are efficient and inefficient ways of writing Liquid code. Doing complex operations repeatedly can increase your Liquid render time, which impacts your overall store speed.
Images and videos
High-resolution images usually require large files and therefore slow down page loading times.
Fonts
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.
I suggest you try AVADA SEO Suite which has great features that can help you with improving site speed such as Image Optimization, Speed Up, Lazy Loading and Minification (removes unnecessary information from the source code**)**.
You can also refer to this Shopify post about Improving Speed.
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Speed is critical for a good customer experience & to get more conversions. It also helps with Google Ranking. If you look at it from the Shopify dashboard you’d want a score at least over 50.Some tips to increase speed without getting into code include:
Reducing image size (you can use tinypng.com before uploading)
not using Page Builders (like Shogun)
Deleting unnecessary apps
To make it crazy fast we do need to get into code: to defer and async JS and CSS, remove old app code, minify files, setup lazy loading and more. We offer seven days delivery and unlimited revisions. Clients routinely see 2x to 3x store increase.Please contact us at info@madebylanzi.com to request this service
Hi JoV, Check the opportunities section of Page Speed Insights too. If thankyoubag is the website in question then it shows defer/lazy load images as the number Uno issue.
As any issue, this issue can also be solved by custom coding, Plus Shopify apps that offer this feature also exists.
I am Alex From MS Web Designer (Top Rated Shopify Certified Experts and eCommerce Consultant from Singapore ) I helped 1000+ Shopify Store owners to Optimize their website loading speed for both mobile and desktop and increase their conversion rate.
I will love to help you with some experts feedback here
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How many Apps you are using?
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