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Measuring Website Performance: Time Measurement
In this series we are looking at three methods of measuring your website performance: 1. Sampling your visitors 2. Analysis and recommendation tools 3. Time measurement. All are distinctly different ways of measuring the performance of your website, with advantages...
Measuring Website Performance: Analysis and Recommendation Tools
In this series we are looking at three methods of measuring your website performance: 1. Sampling your visitors 2. Analysis and recommendation tools 3. Time measurement. All are distinctly different ways of measuring the performance of your website, with advantages...
Measuring Website Performance: Sampling Your Visitors
In this series we are looking at three methods of measuring your website performance: 1. Sampling your visitors 2. Analysis and recommendation tools 3. Time measurement. All are distinctly different ways of measuring the performance of your website, with advantages...
How A Web Page Is Loaded – How That Affects How Fast Your Shop Feels
Why do some shops feel fast and others feel slow? Curiously, the pages may look exactly the same but due to the way web pages load one feels fast and the other slow. It's important to understand how a web page is loaded if you're looking to speed it up. You probably...
Shopify Marketing From Scratch
How to get traffic to your Shopify store (with a little help from Plug in Useful) It’s all very well to have an amazing concept for an online store but let’s be honest: if you only build it, they probably won’t come. Once you have a growing audience of shoppers, you...
A Better PageSpeed Report for Shopify
PageSpeed Insights is undeniably the standard tool for measuring the speed of any website. But for both Shopify merchants and speed experts it's frustrating and worse, misleading, as a way to find opportunities to speed up your shop and to implement them. The biggest...
Fastest Shopify Theme – 10 Free & Fast Shopify Themes
One of the very first thoughts that come up when setting up your Shopify store is “which theme should I use?” Of course, you want something beautiful, fitting, and functional for your products - be it dropshipping electronics, selling your handmade pottery, or an...
Shopify SEO – A Beginner’s Guide
You have a Shopify store. You want to grow your business. Not necessarily by spending tons of money on advertising. If there's one thing we can definitely recommend, it's Search Engine Optimization. We can even put a number on that, with research showing 5 times the...
Slow TTFB on Shopify: What Time To First Byte is and how to fix it
Time To First Byte (TTFB) is the time it takes for the Shopify server to start sending a webpage to a browser. Your browser asks the Shopify server 'give me this page', the Shopify server generates that page and then starts sending it. By just measuring the Time To...