Beauty & Skincare

Rebuilding site speed in 4 months — without rebuilding the site.

A fast-growing plant-based hair wellness brand losing conversions to slow load times caused by how the theme had been built.

ShopifyPerformance auditTheme architecture

4 months

To significant speed gains

Higher

Conversion rate

Higher

Average order value

The challenge

Slow pages lose buyers who never see the product.

Vegamour’s site was experiencing slow load times caused by inefficient development practices and unoptimized theme architecture — problems that had accumulated rather than arrived all at once.

Those load times were hurting user experience and conversion, and limiting the brand’s ability to scale paid traffic profitably. The constraint was that bottlenecks had to be found and fixed without rebuilding the entire site.

Vegamour plant-based hair wellness bottles

What we did

Audit, then rebuild the architecture underneath.

Standard optimization first, then the deeper work in how the theme itself was structured.

Blueprint illustration of a tall layer stack compressed into fewer layers beside a timer arc

The results

Significant speed improvement inside four months.

With conversion and order value both moving as a result.

The takeaway

Most speed work stops at compressing images. The gains here came from changing how the theme was built, not what it loaded.

Built with

The stack.

ShopifySpeed Optimization ToolsLiquidHTML/CSS/JavaScriptCROPerformance Optimization

Services used on this project

Speed Optimization

Shopify CRO

Shopify Plus Development

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