Anyone else tweaking their PrestaShop store for better speed and sales this year?

[Mosesreza]

Hi everyone,

Over the past few weeks, I have been trying to make my PrestaShop store a bit faster and more conversion-friendly. And, honestly speaking, some of the minor changes made a huge difference, such as cleaning up heavy modules and compressing images properly.

But I'm curious what's working for others here:

Which modules or tricks helped you boost performance or sales lately?

Are there any good free tools for GA4 or SEO that actually work?

Have you noticed any difference between using lightweight custom setups versus paid all-in-one modules?

Always interesting to hear real experiences from other store owners — sometimes one small tip saves hours of trial and error.

Cheers!

[Daresh]

The procedure that I often use is:

1. turn od debug profiling

2. see wchich modules are in use on various pages of the shop

3. optimize it by adding exceptions in Back Office

It can help a lot, cutting off unused modules by half from the areas that they have nothing to do anyway.

[El Patron]

Just to toot my own horn for a second (because nobody else will, jajajaja)… here are two performance modules I built for in-house clients. They do one thing, and they do it extremely well: they add preloads for .css and .js directly in the page header, which significantly improves above-the-fold rendering.

This isn’t magic or “voodoo” caching… you can Google all day about how preloads work, why they’re recommended by Google and the IETF, and why this method is one of the cleanest, most reliable ways to speed up initial render.  

CSS Pro
https://prestaheroes.com/collections/prestashop-performance-modules-services-speed-up-your-store/products/csspro-eliminate-render-block-css

JavaPro
https://prestaheroes.com/collections/prestashop-performance-modules-services-speed-up-your-store/products/javapro-javascript-performance-manager