Hi There, Over the years, Shopify has directed us to third-party apps for missing functionality which was always frustrating (relying on someone other than Shopify, extra costs etc). But with Speed Score, we can see that our store is riddled with uninstalled/unused partner app cruft which is killi…

If anyone from Shopify is reading this, maybe support need help getting up to speed with Speed Score. Support said… That a score of 23 is acceptable for an ecommerce store but our previous shop had a google speed score of 79 That code and snippets left by uninstalled apps is normal. Well, maybe o…

So Shopify support told us that every partner has app uninstall instructions and that when an app is uninstalled, it stops loading assets. However, I can verify that neither is true. Secomapp apologised for not having uninstall instructions and after uninstalling their ‘Free Gifts’ app, their JS fi…

Yup, if shopify is going to display a PageSpeed score and give merchants anxiety, they should have a better infrastructure for improving performance. You know what would help improve performance? create a performance score for shopify apps based of all the resources they load and have that placed o…

Love that idea, a speed score for apps and a coding standards star rating for how cleanly an app uninstalls.

This, yes! ALL OF THEM using it, should have a checkbox for loading jquery or not. And also get their very own speed score, from everything related to liquid rendering, all the way up to images, image sizes, gzip and so on. And all apps should have some kind of uninstaller that removes code that g…

Hi my friend, Regarding your concerns about Jquery lib which is still loaded even you remove GemPages, I would like to share something about that. GemPages will only call the Jquery lib if your page doesn’t have the Jquery on your theme. Besides that, GemPages will only affect the pages that are c…

Shopify, please take a page out of Wordpress’ book. Their app (or plugins as they call them) setup is so clean. No code injected all over the place and they can be disabled/enabled (or deleted) with the click of a button. Really useful when there’s an issue or conflict with another app, which inevit…

[REQUEST] Higher partner standards, ring-fenced apps, proper uninstallers

Technical Q&A

AronE September 23, 2020, 9:41pm 3

I couldn’t agree more, this is a huge mess and there is no quick fix for it, we need shopify to take this under control

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[REQUEST] Higher partner standards, ring-fenced apps, proper uninstallers

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