Why did my page speed significantly decrease without any apparent reason?

Technical Q&A
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Hi Dear community,

For some unknown reason I noticed that our page speed decreased from 20 to 5 (from 15th of December on).

I checked the activity log in shopify, but I couldn’t detect any suspicious activity (installation of App e.g).

I do not understand the cause of this. I am aware that third party apps and big sized media can slow it down. But in term of Media, I made sure no file is above 300kb. I assume the cause might be related to a third party app, but i cannot figure out which app this is.

We recently set up a CDN connection (redirection to subdomain in order to enable translation) could this be the reason maybe?

My reference is google lighthouse and shopify. And lighthouse shows especially a slow mobile page.

https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?utm_source=psi&utm_medium=redirect&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.soeder.ch%2F%3F_fd%3D0

Is there a way to figure out, what app or what exactly causes this decrease ?

**Addition: During Xmas time (starting on the 17th of december when it decreased) the Page Speed from Google Lighthouse showed 7 (mobile) and its up to 20 again (still bad). Assumably this was also due to high visitor number maybe, so our mobile storer can not take up with such a high request and therefore performs badly? If this is true, why does it take such a long time to recover ?

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards

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Hi @roundabout ,

I have checked your site in the page speed tool. your website score is very low.

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3rd party apps & codes which take time to load and their size . They decrease the speed.

Need to work on following points

  • Theme Upgrade if there is a scope and upgraded theme available
  • Reduce JS Payload.
  • Use Critical CSS .
  • Reduce Large Image Sizes
  • Compress Images
  • Limit Third Party JavaScript & Shopify Apps
  • Preload Web Fonts.
  • I would suggest limiting to one and using a standard web font.

See where exactly google speed index tools want you to target your code to optimize the site .

First Contentful Paint

  • Eliminate render-blocking resources
  • Reduce server response times (TTFB)
  • Avoid multiple page redirects
  • Preload key requests
  • Avoid enormous network payloads
  • Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy
  • Avoid an excessive DOM size
  • Minimize critical request depth

Time to Interactive TTI :

Time to Interactive (TTI) is one of six metrics tracked in the Performance section of the Lighthouse report. Each metric captures some aspect of page load speed.

Total Blocking Time:- Reduce Unnecessary JavaScript loading, parsing, or execution.

  • Reducing JavaScript payloads with code splitting, removing unused code, or efficiently loading third-party JavaScript.

Speed Index- Minimize main thread work

  • Reduce JavaScript execution time
  • Ensure text remains visible during webfont load

Largest Contentful Paint

LCP is primarily affected by four factors:

  • Slow server response times
  • Resource load times

Cumulative Layout Shift

  • Cumulative Layout Shift measures the movement of visible elements within the viewport

By fixing these issues, your website speed score can definitely improve.

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Hi @roundabout

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.

Here are some proven steps that will improve your website speed dramatically for both mobile and desktop.

  • Select a light Weight Shopify Theme ( OS 2.0 Compatible )
  • Remove all Unwanted Shopify App ( That you have installed, but not using)
  • Minify Javascript, CSS
  • Reduce the Large Image Size
  • Eliminating the halting problem in Javascript
  • Apply Lazy loading per section wherever required
  • Replace Gifs with the Static Images
  • Resize Products images using Shopify App ( for Bulk )
  • Check Page Speed by Google page Insight and GTmetrix.

By fixing these issues, your website speed score can definitely improve
If you want a Free complete Website Optimization Audit Report ( All the Actionable steps for your store ), let me know

If you have any concerns feel free to ask me!

Good Luck!

Regards,
Alex