Black Friday website readiness checklist
An interactive Black Friday and Cyber Monday readiness checklist for ecommerce — load testing, code freeze, monitoring, promotions and war room.
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Black Friday load testing: how to make sure your store stays online
How to load test an ecommerce store before Black Friday: realistic scenarios, target numbers, tools, what to fix and how to run a peak-day war room.
Read guide →How to improve LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)
What LCP measures, the four parts of LCP time, and proven fixes for hero images, fonts, server response and render-blocking resources.
Read guide →Is Cloudflare worth it? 9 benefits for ecommerce and business websites
Faster pages, DDoS protection, a WAF, bot management and lower hosting costs — the real benefits of Cloudflare and when it’s worth paying for Pro or Business.
Read guide →INP explained: how to make your site feel instant
Interaction to Next Paint replaced FID as a Core Web Vital. What INP measures and how to fix slow clicks, taps and typing.
Read guide →How to reduce CLS in Google PageSpeed Insights (with fixes that work)
A practical guide to Cumulative Layout Shift: what causes it, how to find the elements shifting, and proven fixes for images, fonts, banners and ecommerce pages.
Read guide →Removing unnecessary CSS from Magento pages
Extensions often load stylesheets on every page. Audit layout XML and front-end assets to remove render-blocking CSS that isn’t needed.
Read guide →Load third-party scripts only where they’re needed
Payment SDKs, chat widgets, review tools and marketing tags are often loaded on every page. Restrict them to where they’re used to cut requests and speed pages up.
Read guide →Duplicate JavaScript initialisation and event handlers in Magento
Carousels and widgets that initialise repeatedly attach duplicate event handlers, waste CPU and cause odd behaviour. How to detect and guard against it.
Read guide →What should a website maintenance plan include?
What a good website maintenance plan covers — updates, security, backups, monitoring, fixes and reporting — and how to compare providers.
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