Why is my website's loading time slowing down in 2024?

Technical Q&A
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So Recently this year 2024 we saw a massive Fully Loading Time Speed Slowdown, From our average of 3 seconds up to 8 seconds [using GTMetrix]. We did our best to fully enhance our website to perform in its peak speed but we still cannot manage to do it.

Upon closer inspection using Waterfall we can see that the monorail-edge is what keeping the site from performing, additionally from what I remembered the page response/cdn took a bit more longer compared last year that’s why I took initiative to use other CDN instead of hosting directly from Shopify.

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I could be wrong here, but this result is showing to all of the Shopify sites I tested.

Let me know if you need more details.
https://thecollective.ph

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Hi @PrixxX
I checked the store in the GT matrix and found below thing that needs to be addressed

  1. Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy

    1. In Shopify, you can’t set a cache policy; instead, you can lazyload the unnecessary 3rd party scripts at the initial page load.

  2. Avoid document.write()

    1. Some of the third-party app scripts use documents.write(), Which can delay page load by tens of seconds

  3. Implement Lazyload for Image

  4. Avoid CSS @import

    1. This will cause delays during the loading of a web page

  5. The country selector is taking more time to load here also

You can follow the above steps to make the store load much faster

If you don’t know about this you can hire a developer.

We also provide Shopify speed optimization services.

You can check more details here