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Your Store Is Slow. It's Costing You Orders.

Theme bloat, a stack of apps each loading its own scripts, a slow LCP on the exact mobile traffic you're paying for. You've probably already bought a "faster" theme and a speed-booster app, and the store is still slow. That's the problem I fix.

The Work

What I Actually Do to a Shopify Store

Speed & Core Web Vitals audit

I measure your store's real-world load, LCP, and interaction cost the way Google actually scores it, then show you exactly where the milliseconds (and the revenue) are leaking.

Theme surgery

Bloated Liquid, render-blocking scripts, and unused CSS get cut. Where the theme fights back, I open the hood on a hand-coded front end that only ships the code a page needs.

App rationalization

Every review widget, upsell, and popup app injects its own scripts. I find which apps earn their weight, remove the ones that only tax your load, and stop the app-stack from blocking the render.

Conversion tracking

GA4, GTM, and server-side tagging wired so every sale traces back to the ad, search, or campaign that caused it. You stop guessing which spend actually moves revenue.

My Take: Go Headless When the Numbers Say So

Where speed is measurably costing conversions, I recommend going headless: keep Shopify as the commerce engine and checkout, put a hand-coded Astro front end in front of it, and deploy it to the edge. It removes the ceiling a native theme can't get past. When the economics don't support that yet, I'll optimize your theme honestly and tell you so, no upsell.

Read the full argument: headless Shopify on Astro →
The Evidence

Speed Is Money, With Numbers

+8.4% Retail conversions from a 0.1s speed gain (Google & Deloitte)
+32% Bounce probability as load goes 1s → 3s (Google mobile data)
~67% Of Astro sites pass Core Web Vitals (Search Engine Journal)

That's the payoff on every Shopify build I do: the backend stays Shopify, the front end gets fast, and the tracking proves what the speed recovered. A current Shopify Plus engagement is putting exactly these numbers on the board, and I'll share the before/after here as soon as it's public.

How the Work Gets Measured

Reported Against Pipeline, Not Activity

Everything I run is tracked and reported against the numbers your leadership team already cares about: qualified pipeline, cost per opportunity, closed-won revenue. You get a live dashboard plus a reporting cadence we set up front, so you see what was done, what it moved, and what it cost. And when a channel can't earn its budget, I say so.

Want to know what your theme is costing you?

Running a larger growth engagement? See the Fractional Growth Partner engagement →