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You can set up a Shopify store in the blink of an eye… literally. All that you have to do is pick a theme, add your products, connect a payment method, and soon your store looks ready for customers.

The quick setup is exciting, but it can also be incredibly easy to miss what goes on behind the scenes. Once orders start, you handle real money, personal data, taxes, returns, and shipping. A slow storefront costs you on top of that, since shoppers leave pages that stall before the first product loads. Shopify stores carry their own speed problems, from app bloat to heavy themes, and those get harder to untangle after launch.

If you have a WordPress site with many pages, sooner or later, you'll face the issue of getting lost in your content. Some posts will gain traffic and traction, but others will remain almost invisible. Is it because the content is bad?

Choosing a web performance optimization agency sounds simple until every proposal starts promising the same thing.

“Better PageSpeed scores.”

“Faster loading.”

Brotli and GZip are two of the most popular compression algorithms for the web, and their browser support is exceptionally good. But we have a new player in town: ZSTD or Zstandard, which is developed by Facebook. Compression is only one part of optimization, so also watch out for broader web performance mistakes.

ZStandard adoption has increased significantly since 2024 when Cloudflare added support for the same. Now it is also available on Cloudflare's free plan and can be enabled using this compression rule. But is Zstandard worth using over Brotli and GZip? Let us find it out today!

Cloudflare introduced Argo in 2017 as an add-on premium service for Cloudflare users. Argo uses smart routing in real time to avoid network congestion. It dynamically finds the most optimal routes through the Cloudflare network and reduces the response times of your website. If you are still comparing CDN options, start with our best CDN provider benchmarks.