When to Use a Shopify App, Build Custom, or Stay Native
A Shopify decision guide for choosing between native features, third-party apps, and custom development based on cost, control, speed, performance, and maintenance.
Shopify Dude
Optimize
Shopify answers, setup guides, troubleshooting checklists, release explainers, and common setup misunderstandings.
How Many Shopify Apps Is Too Many?
A Shopify app stack guide for deciding when an app is worth installing, when native Shopify is enough, and when app overlap creates cost, performance, and maintenance problems.
Shopify SEO Migration: What Can Hurt Your Traffic?
A Shopify SEO migration guide for protecting organic traffic with URL planning, redirects, collection structure, metadata, internal links, and post-launch monitoring.
How to Audit Your Shopify App Stack
A practical checklist for auditing Shopify apps, reducing bloat, lowering cost, improving speed, and deciding which apps should stay.
Why Is Your Shopify Store Slow?
A practical Shopify speed guide for diagnosing slow stores, app bloat, heavy themes, image issues, third-party code, and performance tradeoffs.