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Key Takeaways
Shopify retired its 0 to 100 speed score in January 2024 and replaced it with a web performance dashboard built on real visitor data.
The old score came from Google Lighthouse, a lab simulation. Shopify itself said Lighthouse scoring failed to represent real world experience.
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Choosing a digital marketing agency? Ten UK agencies compared by specialism, from SEO and PPC to social, email and ecommerce, and how to check one before you hire.
Finding the right ecommerce agency is one of the most important decisions an online business makes. The right partner builds systems that compound revenue; the wrong one leaves technical debt that costs more to fix than the original project.
This guide profiles ten UK ecommerce agencies with clear...
Social media now spans very different platforms, each with its own creative style, community habits and ways of measuring performance. A strategy that works on TikTok rarely transfers to LinkedIn, and a luxury brand's social has little in common with a challenger brand's.
This guide profiles ten U...
Pay per click advertising reaches people who are already searching for what you sell, and it produces measurable results from the first week. The question is not whether PPC works. It is whether an agency will manage your budget as carefully as you would, to profit rather than to clicks.
This guid...
Magento, now Adobe Commerce, remains a common platform for mid market and enterprise ecommerce because of its flexibility and depth of customisation. That power comes with complexity: a poorly built Magento store is slow and expensive to maintain, while a well built one can support a large, complica...
Choosing a WordPress agency? Ten UK agencies compared, from enterprise and publishing to SMEs and sustainable design, and what to ask before you hire one.
Key Takeaways
Shopify Markets lets you sell to multiple countries from one store, with localised currency, pricing, language, domains and duties managed from a single admin. Up to 50 markets per store.
Two UK thresholds catch merchants out: VAT registration at £90,000 of taxable turnover acros...
Key Takeaways
Most stores have not made the move. Of the 265 Shopify stores we audited, 196 were still running legacy themes that predate Online Store 2.0.
Online Store 2.0 is the current standard Shopify theme architecture, not a separate product, a paid upgrade or something you switch on.
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Key Takeaways
The most common reason a startup stalls is not product quality. It is unclear positioning in a crowded market.
Fulfilment costs are routinely underestimated. Return rates alone range from about 3% in supplements to 23% in fashion across our client stores.
Most startups buy traf...