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Ensure sub-second load for your eCommerce site

Ensuring sub-second load times for your eCommerce site is hard work. At Layer0, we've tried to make it a much simpler process, and Layer0 is here to help you achieve this milestone. What we've done here is to create a checklist which you can follow to ensure that your production site is blazingly fast, and you spend the least amount of time accomplishing it.

September 25, 2020

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Optimizing React, Angular or Vue Single-Page Applications for Performance

When developers choose a framework to use in their projects, they tend to focus on traits such as popularity, documentation, talent availability or community. While these considerations are important, we know that in the case of modern frontends, such as eCommerce Single-Page Applications (SPAs), the focus is on the user experience. And website speed is a fundamental element of that.

September 25, 2020

Michal Wlosik

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The Internet Is Faster, but Websites Are Slower

While the internet has gone from dial-up connection to 5g speeds, page loads on mobile have increased. Optimizing for milliseconds can make eCommerce websites millions of dollars. Here’s how and why to deliver sub-second page loads.

July 24, 2020

Lauren Bradley

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How to Get the Fastest Salesforce Commerce Cloud Site Out There

Here are possible ways to get Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC for short) up to speed and run a fast, highly performant website that ranks high in Google’s search results. Instead of spending the precious dollars trying to shave a single second off the load times, you can deliver an instant-loading website with half the effort.

July 22, 2020

Michal Wlosik

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How to Assess If You Are at Risk of Google’s Badge of Shame

Google added the Speed Report to Search Console, a helpful tool to know whether or not you’ll receive the ‘Badge of Shame’ and lose potential buyers.

March 4, 2020

Lauren Bradley

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2020 eCommerce Website Stack Essentials to Drive Business Growth

2020 arrived with new eCommerce website speed standards. To become a sub-second website, a modern frontend is required on top of the right infrastructure.

January 14, 2020

Lauren Bradley

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10 Publishers Seeing SEO Wins and Organic Traffic Growth with Accelerated Mobile Pages

The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Condé Nast are among many publishers who support AMP to improve page loads times and overall website speed. This has increased reader engagement and retention.

January 8, 2020

Lauren Bradley

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Is AMP One of the Best Held Secrets of eCommerce?

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) have gained popularity among publishers, but not among eCommerce websites, though they see more organic traffic and conversions from it. Is AMP an eCommerce secret?

December 31, 2019

Lauren Bradley

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Why You Need to Break the 1-Second Barrier in 2020

For years, Google has been rolling out algorithm updates and tools to facilitate website speed. Sub-second loading eCommerce websites are now mandatory to survive.

December 17, 2019

Lauren Bradley

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You're Using the Wrong Site Speed Metrics and Tools

You could be missing out on critical business growth simply because you are using tools or metrics that were created to measure the speed of legacy websites.

August 15, 2019

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The Recommended Customer Journey for Enterprise eCommerce in 2020

Google's recommendations for a speedy customer journey from search to checkout, as well as the technical complexities involved, and how to solve them.

May 28, 2019

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Mobile Website Speed is the New Competitive Battleground for eCommerce SEO

Mobile site speed is correlated with search ranking & organic traffic, with faster sites rising in the ranks. This is especially true for eCommerce sites.

April 1, 2019

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