Hello,
I am developing my online business with a bunch of cool features and products on my website. I have Crush Pics running in the background that compresses image file sizes to help with load speed and performance and I have Page Speed Optimizer running to increase the second-page load speed of whatever you click through background loading. I am struggling on improving my home page speed. Please help - thank you!!
Website: selvence.com
What does the report say about your home page?
On first glance I don’t see that something like those image optimisations apps are going to do much - if anything - for you. It seems that you’re loading all the pictures at once so you’re dumping over 8MB of data on the user at once. What lazy loading or other optimisation has been done in your theme to date? It’s ok if none as I’m just prodding to get some extra context.
Lazy loading, and even choosing to remove some things would be the logical first step. That report will start to run your through some high level basics of things to look at. We can run over it here as needed.
Gotcha. That debugger bit of code probably won’t be helping so let’s get rid of that as a first step. At least you’ll be able to run some reports! I don’t see many places where you have JavaScript that could enable the debugger, but the chatra app might be doing it. It’s a guess however so don’t take that as being the final word.
It certainly does have some performance issues so there’s work to be done in your theme overall. Great start, but plenty to do!
Hi @Selvence
I ran your homepage through our free Shopify Analyzer tool. You can view the detailed report at https://analyze.speedboostr.com/result/fx824wuasb.
It looks like you could really benefit from lazy loading and reducing oversized images. Lazy loading will really help performance by only loading images when they come into a user’s view instead of trying to load all images at once. Beyond that, you could minify your files so that they execute faster.
We have a full optimization guide if you’d like to perform these on your own: Shopify Optimization Guide. Feel free to reach out to our team at speedboostr.com/contact if you’d like help with any of your optimizations!
Ok, I found the issue - it was one of my apps (now deleted). Now I can run some speed tests on the website.
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Any other suggestions?
No. For now, see how those changes go and the impact to the design and customer experience. You don’t want to go full on crazy and try to change every single thing at once. You could - but there’s value in incremental changes so you can see and understand the impact of each change. When you do everything you never know what made the biggest change and where the most value was.
I would not suggest a theme change at this stage. That’s the nuclear option.
Come back in a week and see if it’s made a marked difference. I’m curious to see!
Your homepage speed issue is likely caused by heavy scripts, large images, and background apps running. Even with Crush Pics and Page Speed Optimizer, you may still have unused code and render-blocking scripts.
To fix this, remove any unused apps or scripts, lazy-load images, and minimize third-party trackers. Also, reduce homepage content where possible. For a clear view of what’s slowing it down, run your site through https://thecarbonfootprint.ai — it will highlight unnecessary scripts and give actionable insights to improve real performance.
