WooCommerce Speed Hacks

How Top WooCommerce Stores Stay Fast Under Pressure

Andrew W. Pearson
Startup Stash
Published in
12 min readMay 4, 2024

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Introduction

Speed, as the saying goes, kills, but not always, especially for WooCommerce stores, where slow hosting speeds can be deadly to customer traffic. A lack of speed can also be fatal to the bottom line. In its Online Retail Performance Report, Akamai found, “A 100-millisecond delay in website load time can hurt conversion rates by 7%.” They also found a two-second delay in web page load time increases bounce rates by 103%. Conversely, increasing an “e-commerce…

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Andrew Pearson is the MD of Intelligencia, an AI company based in Asia. Speaker, author, columnist, Pearson writes about IT issues like AI, CI, and analytics.