Performance
Ecommerce Image Optimization: How Leading Stores Keep Product Pages Fast
Images and video are the heaviest thing on almost every product page, and the single most common reason a store fails its…
Magento vs Shopware: Enterprise Flexibility vs Modern Consistency
“Magento vs Shopware” is usually a question from someone building or replatforming something serious, and they want to know which one wins.…
Shopify vs Magento: Simplicity vs Control
“Shopify vs Magento” is usually typed by someone who wants a winner. Our benchmark scanned 80,000 live stores, 20,000 on each of…
How to Choose an Ecommerce Platform in 2026: The Real Tradeoffs
We scanned 80,000 stores across Shopify, Shopware, Magento, and PrestaShop. The data does not name a best platform. It names a tradeoff,…
Why PrestaShop Stores Load Slowly: The Image Setting Most Miss
PrestaShop slowness gets blamed on hosting and themes. The benchmark points at something smaller and more fixable: the format your product images…
Why Magento 2 Stores Run Slow Out of the Box
Magento has the highest performance ceiling of any platform we measured. The catch is that much of that speed ships switched off.…
Why Your Shopify Store Is Slow, and the App Problem Behind It
Shopify gives you fast infrastructure for free. The apps you install spend it. Here is how that happens, and what an audit…
Ecommerce Platform Benchmark 2026: What 80,000 Stores Taught Us
What 80,000 store audits reveal about ecommerce platforms in 2026, and why the platform you pick matters less than what you do…
The 10 Most Common Ecommerce Problems (Based on 80,000 Stores)
The expensive problems in ecommerce rarely announce themselves. These are the ten that show up most often across thousands of real stores,…
Lazy loading: loading the images a shopper has not scrolled to yet
What it is Lazy loading tells the browser to load an image only when the shopper is about to scroll it into…
Render-blocking JavaScript: the scripts that freeze a page before it shows
What it is When a browser meets a normal script tag while building the page, it stops and waits for that script…
Browser caching: telling returning visitors’ browsers to stop re-downloading
What it is Browser caching is an instruction your server attaches to files like images, CSS, and scripts, telling the browser how…