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This chapter explains theme performance—why it’s important, how to measure it, and how to improve it. You’ll be learning about techniques that you can use to both reduce initial load times and improve the perceived responsiveness of a Shopify storefront.

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    Their report, delivered at the 2009 Velocity conference, can be found at http://velocityconf.com/velocity2009/public/schedule/detail/8523 .

  2. 2.

    http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/05/09/how-fast-are-we-going-now/

  3. 3.

    https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/using-webpagetest/metrics/speed-index

  4. 4.

    https://github.com/tkadlec/grunt-perfbudget

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Ballard, G. (2017). Performance. In: The Definitive Guide to Shopify Themes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2641-4_10

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