The boring findings from scraping the top 100 e-commerce stores using Shopify

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1. Clothing is king

2. 50% have their Best-Sold product >$50

3. Most load really bad on mobile

Thank you. Saved me a click.

Saved you a click, but the points listed above weren't the interesting bits from the article.

Yeah it's not a long read by any means, and interesting stuff if you're at all interested in ecom

Note that those are top Shopify sites based on Alexa Rank. Not all top Shopify sites will be tracked because those sites’ visitors are not Alexa toolbar users.

Very interesting that most have a pretty bad load time. I guess sales (ads/marketing) triumphs most (everything?)

99% of Shopify stores are loading slow. That's not because Shopify hosting is bad, they are loading slow because of the apps, code left from uninstalled apps or theme tweaks and most probably the themes are slow.

At https://shopyspeed.com we helped +30 stores to increase Google PageSpeed Score from 10/100 up to 90/100.

Liquid (the template language) is slow and extremely limited, and the apis are.. evolving. It's been hard at times to avoid nasty code that loops through everything to load a small chunk of data. At this stage we are starting to mirror Shopify content in addition to using it as a headless source.

Indeed, but you can still achieve good scores on Google Lighthouse. I've been trying Gridsome around 8 months ago with Shopify Storefront API and GraphQL hosted on Netlify. To be honest, the page speed was the same as on Shopify hosting on the theme that I was building back then.

Pricing link in footer of your website doesn’t work on mobile

Thank you very much for help. I just fixed the link.

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