Hello @Astronerd,
This is flareAI: your Fully Automated Free Sales Machine. I hope you're having a good day. We are helping Shopify Merchants grow their store presence in Google and other major sales channels and generate sales of $5 million in sales from Google Search, on autopilot. I truly hope my suggestions will help you with the best solution.
Following tips will help you significantly speed up your Shopify store.
1. Image compression is important and a necessity for faster loading web pages. Make sure your images are of good quality and do not add too many images on a single page. You can try some tool like https://tinyjpg.com/
2. Reduce the HTTP requests. For example: Combine & inline your CSS scripts
3. Minimize broken links and redirects - Avoid unnecessary Redirects and fix broken links
4. Using slideshow, which are high-quality images combined with transitions, take time to load when the user clicks the link to the homepage. So instead you can use a single high-quality hero image.
5. Use a theme which is optimized for performance means a theme which is responsive, fast, and takes minimal time to load the page.
6. Remove all unwanted Shopify Apps which you are not using
You should disable app features you don't use, or you can remove the app if you don't need it. If you are removing an app make sure to remove code that was added as part of the app install process.
7. Replace GIFs with static images
Shopify also accepts .gif images, but these are very low quality. They can be an option if you want dynamic elements on the page, but overall I suggest staying away from GIFs.
8. Themes contain CSS, JS, HTML which can increase and affect your store speed. So disable theme features you don't use.
9. Use minified CSS and JS files
I would suggest you to try flareAI. We created flareAI to grow your store on Google, Bing and other major sales channels. As a partner, flareAI will submit your products to the free sales channels on a daily basis. Once your product is found on the channel, you don't need to do a thing. Customers will keep finding your product day after day. flareAI will help to scale your site sustainably at NO Agency fees, NO Pay-per-click, NO paid marketplaces.
I hope that the above list's tips will help you solve your query.
Gina
flareAI
