With the new major version Shopware 6.6, we introduced asyncronous Javascript loading, allowing dynamic imports. In comparison to the former method of merging all used JS code to one big all.js file, we can now deliver on demand the necessary JS code where it is needed.
Read the discussions and the documentation for more details.
We were intrigued to know which impact this change had to our storefront performance. Hence, we checked the differences between Shopware 6.5 and Shopware 6.6 with Google Lighthouse lithuania telegram screening and want to share the results with you in this post.
Without any doubt, the performance (page speed) of a website has an enormous impact on the ranking in search engines (see Core Web Vitals). That's why we are consistantly working on this topic to offer you the best SEO experience.
Setup
For our testing environment, we used the following setup:
Shopware SaaS Platform
Including Demo Data
Shopware Beyond Plan including all commercial features as are: cms-extensions, customized-products, pay-pal, subscription, checkout-sweetener, text-translator, employee-management, quick-order, advanced-search, captcha, quote-management, a-i-search, spatial-cms-element, order-approval.