Why you should optimize images? Image optimization is very important for web performance. You need to have optimized images – small, compressed and served in modern formats to have a fast website. It also directly impacts your server/cloud transfer size – if you have bigger images, it generates higher costs. For an eCommerce website, often […]
Building and shaping an ultra-fast online shopping experience that resonates with a diverse audience is the holy grail of eCommerce. Online performance relies on matters of speed and time, and the disintegration of monoliths into a headless architecture is the answer to the online retail landscape’s challenges. Here you can find a cause-and-effect study of […]
Improving the performance of web applications will always be sexy. We want the page to load faster, smoother, and without too many layout shifts (Core Web Vitals, I am looking at you 😉). If you search in Google for terms like vue/nuxt performance you will get a bunch of documentation and articles you can use […]
As one of the most popular programming languages, JavaScript has many frameworks that facilitate implementing a particular group of frequently recurring tasks, but choosing the best one is always doomed to wrap up into endless and pointless discussion. It is not a “true or false” case; but rather “he said, she said”, where everyone has […]
According to a Deloitte study, improving website speed by just 0.1s causes an 8.4% increase in conversions with retail consumers and an average order value of 9.2%. When it comes to customer engagement, it increases by 5.2%. Hence, it won’t be an exaggeration to say that poor performance kills your sales; it will be only […]
Performance optimization is an area of software development that you will most probably meet at some point in your professional career. In this tutorial, I won’t be talking about how you can improve the performance of your Vue.js or Nuxt.js applications – it is explained very well in the tutorial series written by our man […]
Going through the implementation of basic server-side rendering. Building front-end apps is no longer limited to taking care of what is happening only in the browser. We need to dig into the server-side as well if we want to provide reliable software. A couple of years ago, when the single-page apps were born, we moved […]
The “Milliseconds Make Millions” report made it clear: on mobile, the loading time of sites is critical. Deloitte analysis proved that a mere 0.1s change in load time influences every step of the user journey, ultimately increasing conversion rates. Although it is nice to see it on paper, it feels like it is not breaking […]
I’ve got recently a few questions regarding the best caching strategies for Vue Storefront on production. We’ve got the production setup options explained in our docs but the caching part was apparently missed. That’s why I decided to put a few words on this topic. Here we go! SSR Output Cache Vue Storefront supports a very […]
Headless commerce is on the rise; there is no doubt about it. Enterprises, big brands, and multinational eCommerce companies are all seriously looking into the potential of dumping their monoliths in favor of composable systems, or they have made the shift already. But changing the whole architecture is quite an endeavor. You and your team […]
When 2020 took an unexpected turn in a really bad direction, the eCommerce industry was one of the few sectors that not just avoided harm, but actually grew. Driven by that strong and sudden boost, investors rushed to buy shares in Shopify and other eCommerce companies, making them a kind of winner when everything else […]
After raising $1.5 million in the early-stage investment round, Vue Storefront has just closed $17,4 million in Series A funding led by Creandum followed by Earlybird Venture Capital and Paua Ventures. The company will invest the funds to scale up its business and expand its reach to merchants from the SMB sector. The last round […]