Before you rebuild anything: in most slow Magento stores the win sits in four things you can address this month.
Every route below starts with the same measurement, so the work is aimed at what your store actually suffers from instead of a generic checklist.
When a Magento store is slow, the reflex is to blame the platform. In practice it rarely is Magento itself, and almost always how the environment underneath it was set up.
The four recurring causes are strikingly simple. The store is not running in production mode, caching is misconfigured or was switched off to work around a bug, indexing has fallen behind, and images were never optimised. Together they account for most of the load time in the stores we are asked to look at.
So we start by measuring instead of building. Only when those four are in order and it is still not fast enough does a heavier intervention come into view, and by then you know exactly what you are paying for.
Each of these starts with the same audit, so the work is always aimed at what your store actually suffers from rather than a generic checklist.
The fastest route to a faster store, without touching how it looks or works.
When the theme itself is the ceiling, moving to Hyvä removes it.
Speed decays. Updates, extensions and catalogue growth all pull it back down.
Fixed phases with a fixed price per phase. No open ending.
Lab and field data per page type, so we compare what real visitors experience against what a test tool reports.
Week 1Where the milliseconds go: server, cache, database, theme or third-party script. You get the findings ranked by impact and effort.
Week 1The fixes that pay off immediately, applied on staging first and verified before they go live.
Week 2The heavier items from the diagnosis, quoted separately so you decide what is worth doing.
Week 3 to 4The same measurements again, side by side with the starting point, plus what to watch from here.
Week 5We do not only tune other people’s Magento stores. We build and maintain them, which is why we recognise the patterns quickly.
Store for packaging materials, tiered pricing per product, Mollie payments, PostNL delivery options through MyParcel, hosting, ongoing maintenance
Store for a Belgian pharmacy, Medipim integration for product data and images, over 40,000 products, automatic categorisation, variant selector per product, Dutch and French
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The questions merchants ask us most.
The audit is a fixed price of €950 and is credited against the work if you go ahead. What the work itself costs depends on what comes out: a store with years of deferred maintenance is more work than a healthy one. You get a quote per item, so you can decide what is worth doing.
Almost never. In most cases the win sits in the environment and the settings, not in the platform. Anyone who starts by replacing is charging you for a rebuild that does not touch the actual problem.
That depends entirely on where your store starts. Stores with years of deferred maintenance usually have a lot of ground to make up without any rebuild; stores where the basics are already sound are working on the last seconds, which is more expensive work for less gain. We tell you which of the two you are in after the audit, with numbers, rather than promising a figure beforehand.
Sometimes. Hyvä is now open source and free under the OSL and AFL licences, which removed the barrier that used to make merchants hesitate, and it does ship a much lighter frontend than the default theme. But if your store is slow because of server configuration or a heavy extension, a new theme will not save you. Measure first.
Yes, and that is what we steer on. A store that feels fine on a fast connection can sit far outside the thresholds on an average phone. We look at what real visitors experience in field data, not at a single test score.
Yes. We work remotely with merchants across Europe and beyond, in English, with a fixed contact person. Access to your staging environment and repository is all we need to get started.
Performance is one part of it. We also build, host and market Magento stores, so the work does not stop at the last millisecond.
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