Card #2336 · Shopify App Store
Slow storefront loading speed and performance issues
Merchants are experiencing slow page load speeds, particularly on mobile, which leads to high user drop-off and poor SEO. Some report significant discrepancies between ad clicks and actual landing page views, indicating that slow performance is wasting paid traffic.
Pain score
0.68/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.61distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency0.98freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.32upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization1.00willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
slow website loading speed leads to bad SEO and users get drop off(which is quite evident)
The slow loading is 100% download weight, not backend. The core issue The homepage is 12.4 MB across 373 requests
The link in ads will not open and was awfully slow.Then I looked up data and it showed landing page views and links clicks metric are at 315 : 1516
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