Can Boost AI Search & Discovery impact your online store speed?
Many different factors affect page load time. When you install apps in your Shopify store, they add code into the theme so they can run. Therefore, your online store speed can be affected to some extent by installing any app. Our app can impact your online store speed lightly and we have been improving our app constantly to keep the query execution time around 40-50 milliseconds, which is ideal.
Improve your online store speed
You can control and address other factors when there’s little doubt that Boost AI Search & Discovery can slow your online store speed.
Shopify Apps
You can disable app features you don't use, or remove the app if you don't need it by removing code added as part of the app install process.
Themes
When you edit or customize themes, file sizes can increase and affect your store speed. You can consult your theme developer about a theme optimized for performance and disable theme features.
Liquid code
You can hire a Shopify expert to help you find inefficient or useless code and run the Shopify Theme Inspector for Chrome to identify the lines of code that are slowing down pages in your online store.
Images and videos
You can review the image optimization guide, pay attention to your media size, and consider using a compression tool before adding them to your website.
Font
You can consider switching to system fonts. A system font is a font that is already installed on most computers and it can significantly help with your online store speed.
Troubleshooting tools
You can run your own Lighthouse report using Google PageSpeed Insights to investigate your online store's speed and view more detailed metrics for pages in your store.