The Definitive Guide to Google PageSpeed Insights for Shopify (2025 Update)

2025-03-28T12:37:40-06:00March 25th, 2025|Case Studies, Optimization|

Introduction In the fast-paced world of eCommerce, speed is king. A faster site means better user experience, higher conversion rates, and improved SEO. For Shopify store owners, understanding and optimizing your site with Google PageSpeed Insights (PSI) can make a big difference in performance and profitability. But PSI scores can be confusing, especially given Shopify’s unique infrastructure […]
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Case study: Does Raising PSI Score Improve Page Speed?

2022-05-17T11:08:22-06:00April 29th, 2021|Case Studies|

With Shopify’s integration of the Google Lighthouse tool (also used by Google PageSpeed Insights) for their speed score report a lot of store owners are looking to improve their scores but don’t fully understand how it works and what the score means.

In this case study I’m going to dive […]

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Project: Theme Build + Migrating a Site to Shopify + Making it Faster

2021-07-06T13:37:01-06:00February 14th, 2021|Case Studies, Themes|

Project summary

Graphene X creates high quality apparel sustained by materials science.

They came to us because they wanted to migrate their online store from Wix to Shopify.

We set up a Shopify site for them, kept the same design as their existing site, and optimized their theme for performance.

Highlights

  • Matched the […]
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Shopify Partners Caught Stealing and Being Fraudulent

2021-05-11T07:40:08-06:00December 21st, 2020|Case Studies|

Updated March 1, 2021

Would you trust a thief with access to your online store and data?

Would you trust an app that posted fake positive reviews and attacked competitor apps with fake negative reviews?

In a store in the digital world, criminals with access to your store can steal or exploit customer data, delete your themes […]

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Shopify Speed Tool Analysis + How to Make Your Site Faster

2022-02-17T07:05:18-07:00September 30th, 2020|Case Studies, Optimization|

Updated February 16, 2022

Hi I’m Joe from Speed Boostr. We’re a development squad focused on Shopify optimization.

About Speed Boostr:

  • We’ve optimized over 1,000 Shopify sites
  • We built the 1st performance analysis tool specifically for Shopify sites – Shopify Analyzer
  • We’re community driven and share free in-depth guides on our blog on how to […]
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Combining JS / CSS Can Make Your Site Load Slower

2020-08-23T11:18:14-06:00March 23rd, 2020|Case Studies, Optimization|

Updated August 23, 2020

Combining CSS and JS files has historically been a popular method of improving a website’s performance.

By concatenating all of your files into one asset, you minimize the amount of calls that are being made to retrieve these assets from the web server.

In 2020 however, is combining files to reduce request calls […]

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