Bundling performance work into a redesign
Put performance in the redesign as a constraint, not as a workstream. A speed project bolted onto a rebuild gets cut, and a speed project run just before one gets thrown away.
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Specific, opinionated writing on Shopify Plus architecture, migrations and selling internationally, often including the argument for not buying the more expensive option.
Put performance in the redesign as a constraint, not as a workstream. A speed project bolted onto a rebuild gets cut, and a speed project run just before one gets thrown away.
It recovers less than the report claims, it only reaches people who already gave you their address, and it is usually a plaster over a checkout problem you could fix.
Every case study you have read about this measured the wrong number on somebody else’s store. This is what the choice turns on.
Export the catalog, count what is broken, and decide what you are not moving. Every hour spent here is an hour you do not spend debugging a cutover.
A CDP does not fix your customer data. It gives the mess a new address, and charges you per profile for the privilege.
Extensions let you put almost anything into checkout. Almost everything people put there costs more conversion than it earns.
Shopify’s built-in returns do more than most stores realize. Three gaps justify buying a platform, and here is the arithmetic that tells you when.
Dragging tiles works until it does not, and it fails silently. The grid keeps rendering long after anyone stopped maintaining the order.
Product pages chase terms nobody searches. Collections match how people actually look for things, and most stores ship them as a bare grid.
Your 3PL already runs a warehouse management system. Buying a second one rarely fixes the problem you have, which is almost always that nobody agreed who owns the stock number.
You will measure less than you did, and the sensible response is to make the smaller set reliable rather than to buy the precision back. Where the tracking breaks is rarely the banner.
Nobody links to a page that is trying to sell them something. Four formats get cited anyway, and they all share one property: you know something the writer needs.
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A senior Shopify engineer reviews your storefront, theme performance and checkout, then sends a prioritized list of fixes.