Oh hey first did you hear, Speed Boostr is turning 1 year old in October. Nice!
What started as a side project to dive into the depths of performance and optimize Shopify turned into… a growing collective of Shopify developers working to make Shopify sites (and the web in general) faster.
We used to only offer packages like this:
(more…)The “Shopify Best Apps” series showcases our favorite app in its category. We’re always testing to find awesome apps that level up your store.
An A/B test study from Taktical Growth Hacks showed that product pages with customer Instagram photos showed a 24% increase in people reaching checkout.
That’s social proof in action right there. Connect Instagram with your store to gain social proof, add customer product photos, and get your community engaged.
There are a lot of Instagram apps for Shopify, how to choose? Like all of my best app picks, I tested a lot until I found the one that nails it.
The best app for Instagram is (more…)
Need some marketing ideas? How about a new marketing idea every single day?
Check out Marketing School.
It’s a podcast hosted by internet marketing pros Neil Patel and Eric Siu.
They publish a new episode every day and drop knowledge with hacks, strategies, tools, and tactics to increase your traffic and revenue.
These guys are sharp, hardworking, and have a ton of experience.
Marketing is all about experiments. Try enough tactics and you’ll eventually find winning strategies that you can convert to evergreen campaigns.
Enjoy the adventure!
All of our Shopify optimization packages include a core analysis and site wide optimizations that will lower your page weight and improve your load speed.
It’s hard to put an exact monetary ROI on each service package (we’re working on this), but we do know from stats like this that page load speed affects your conversion rate and engagement, so theoretically the faster you can get your site loading, the more traffic, customers, and revenue will flow (and more customers equals more referrals which nets more customers).
We provide multiple options to fit your budget. The higher the package, the deeper analysis and optimizations we’re able to perform.
(more…)CSS (Cascade Styling Sheets) are files that control the style of your website by connecting style properties to html elements.
Like this:
In Shopify, you’ll find CSS files in your theme Assets folder.
CSS are text files. Minification compresses the text by removing extra characters like spaces and comments, and combining common styles.
This makes the file size smaller. When your files are lighter they transfer faster, which helps your site load faster.
You want to compress your files, but you also want them to be readable so you can edit and make updates.
All good Shopify has a technique that compresses your human readable CSS files into minified files on the server.
The “Shopify Best Apps” series showcases our favorite app in its category. We’re always testing to find awesome apps that level up your store.
They improve your conversion rate, SEO, trust factor, and give you quality feedback.
Let’s visualize a few scenarios:
