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

 

[JPresta.com]

1. Clean your old logs
Many shops accumulate years of logs that were never purged. This leads to extremely slow INSERT operations and can slow down your entire store.

2. If you're on PrestaShop 1.7, upgrade to the latest release (currently 1.7.8.11)
Several performance optimizations were added, and the upgrade path is usually safe — just make sure to test on a copy first.

3. Avoid loading spinners
They may look nice, but in practice they block the browser from rendering the page as quickly as possible. They hurt perceived performance more than anything.

4. If your shop has been running for years, run a full diagnostic
You can check the health of your store with my free Doctor module:
https://jpresta.com/en/prestashop-doctor-diagnostic-repair-clean-optimize

Hope it helped!

 

[El Patron]

since we on the topic of performance I wanted to point out the most overlooked but most bang for the work, tuning mysql.  Here are some blog posts I created in my spare time to raise awareness.  (nvme another day jajajaja)

https://prestaheroes.com/blogs/mysql-optimization

Edited Friday at 04:51 PM by El Patron (see edit history)