danielbuilds

Free Shopify speed testFind out what’s
slowing your
Shopify store.Then I build your
faster lap.

Google’s PageSpeed gives you a score. This shows you what’s behind it, app by app.

Signup-free · 1–2 minutes

  1. S1Weighs your apps
  2. S2Checks code and images
  3. S3Shows what you can fix
99

Tap an app to pack it lighter.

WHAT SLOWS STORES DOWN
Autoplaying HD videose.g. a full-screen 1080p video on the homepage+25s
Oversized imagese.g. a 4000px photo shown 400px wide+6.2s
Main image shows up latee.g. waiting for a slider script to start+2.1s
Files holding up the first screene.g. app styles loaded at the top of the page+1.6s
Tracking, chat and review scriptse.g. ad pixels, chat bubbles, review widgets+1.1s

5,991 stores tested · typical extra time on a phone, median of stores with the problem

Pit wall notes

Notes from real reports. Here’s how to read them.

A video is too heavy for the speed test to even finish downloading2

1Images & videosYou can fix this yourself

On mobile, the page is too busy with your theme and app code to respond

Theme + apps

On a slow mobile connection, the main content waits behind everything else

Theme + apps

Speed tests get a different page than shoppers do

3Inflated scoreTheme

  1. 1Where it comes from

    Every note is tagged theme, app, images & videos or Shopify, and marks the ones you can fix yourself.

  2. 2What PageSpeed misses

    Like a video too big for Google’s test to finish. We flag it anyway.

  3. 3Speed shoppers actually feel

    Some “guaranteed 90+” tricks hand Google’s test a lighter page made just for scoring. If one is running on your store, the report marks the score as inflated, right next to it.

    How “guaranteed 90+” services do it →

Lap times

Two live stores, measured the same way before and after.

Store 1Mobile homepage · median

Main image shows up

15.2 s3.5 s

Page blocked before showing anything

3.2 s0.7 s

The theme’s fade-in effect kept the first image hidden, and a page builder app that had been uninstalled was still loading 90 KB of code before everything else. Both fixed in the theme code, and the page looks the same.

Store 2Median of 6 runs each

PageSpeed, mobile

3260

PageSpeed, desktop

27.554.5

The homepage slideshow stopped jumping while it loads, and three embedded videos now load only when a shopper scrolls to them. The design didn’t change.

PADDOCK PASS2026
Daniel Dong
DanielTHE TUNER

Your race engineer

I’m Daniel. Your store is the car, you’re the driver, and I’m the engineer in the garage.

  • I tune it in the theme code, so the apps you rely on keep running.
  • I time it before and after on the same sheet, so you see exactly what changed.
  • Start with a free check. Want me on it? Ask from your report for a fix plan and a quote.
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