Avada SEO & Image Optimizer , 5,381 reviews

Absolutely TERRIBLE!! DO NOT USE - You have been warned!
Lets start, once I'd done all the "basic steps" they tell you to they managed to slow my store down! (Opposite of speed it up!) They have lots of advertising and talk themselves up plenty by putting reviews everywhere. (I'm caused to wonder why they got those!) None of the features actually helped my site. I dropped from a 47 score to a 17 score while using these guys.
Someone else mentioned the requests to the site made and I've come across the same issue, they are sending so many requests that it slows everything down.
My advice - If you know what to do, do it yourself, otherwise use a different app!

The following will be my honest experience with the app and my review of the features and benefits provided. I have used this app daily for the past 4 weeks. My understanding was the app would provide SEO optimization and increase the response and speed of my site loading. Throughout my 4 weeks of using this app, and learning the web development aspects as I went, I have come to realize that all of the services and benefits the app proclaims to provide, it does not. Or, if it does, it does not do so to a satisfactory enough level to warrant taking up any space within my website or even the list of apps that my website utilizes. I have found a significantly larger impact on both SEO optimization and speed increase by taking a hands-on approach and learning the intricacies of both categories myself.
Now, I understand that is a huge undertaking, that is the reason I initially installed this app. However, it has done nothing but prove to be a disappointment in comparison to the benefits advertised. Therefore, wanting to be transparent in my review, it is my review of this app and my suggestion to anyone who reads this review not to install this app as it does not provide what it promises. I hope I am able to save you some time. Furthermore, I just finished reaching out to the support team concerning the commonly utilized feature of “lazy loading” for my website. Specifically referring to images “below the fold.”I had just started this journey 4 months ago and was able to deduce what “below the fold” means when used in this reference. It was alarming to me that the support personnel was unfamiliar not only with the term but also with their features in relation to this term. He is going to have his technical support team reach out to me via email. So, in short; their app does not do what they claim and their support team is unable to provide support.

I regretfully installed the Avada SEO Shopify app with the hope of boosting my store's performance. However, my experience with this app has been nothing short of frustrating and disappointing.Before installing the Avada app, my store had a commendable speed score of 75. However, the moment I added this app to my website, I noticed a significant drop in speed, which was truly disheartening. My store's speed plummeted to 60, rendering it slower than ever before.I reached out to the Avada support team immediately, and they assured me that my issue would be resolved within 48 hours. Unfortunately, those 48 hours came and went, and my problem remained unsolved. My store's speed did not improve, and I felt like I was stuck in limbo.To make matters worse, when I contacted the support team again after the initial 48-hour period, they told me it would take an additional three days to resolve the issue. This was incredibly frustrating, as my business was suffering due to the slowdown in website performance caused by this app.Ultimately, I decided to uninstall the Avada SEO app, as it not only failed to deliver on its promises but also caused harm to my store's speed and user experience. I am genuinely surprised that this app has received high ratings, as my experience with it was far from positive.In conclusion, I strongly advise against using the Avada SEO app. It proved to be a waste of time and had a detrimental impact on my store's performance. I hope others can learn from my experience and avoid the frustrations that I had to endure.

We are installing / testing / uninstalling several popular SEO apps, one at once, to decide at end which one adopt. This app is not bad, is fast and easy to use. Best of all is that many features are in the free plan yet. But we do NOT love apps that leave garbage when uninstalled, and Avada is one of these (even more garbage than other SEO apps). Not only, it signaled a 404 on a our page that exists in the realty.

Complete scammers. Everything is set up in such a way that after choosing the 14-day trial period, you thought that all the features of the pro version were still unavailable to you. So you switched to the pro version right away. The very first function I tested, which is adding alt tags to images, doesn't work correctly. Despite clear settings indicating not to overwrite the current text, it still overwrites it. The support team is not helpful at all and says it's supposed to be that way. After just 3 minutes of using it, I asked for a refund. We'll see.

Be aware and stay away!
We installed this app and tried automatic improvement for page speed as well as some other automatic functions. The next day our SEO ranking dropped with over 2000 positions down, cathatstrophical for us and after contact with Avada they claim that this is not something that has to do with the changes the app did.
We did no other changes and our SEO score is still at this bad level even after trying to invert the changes made.

I wish we would have stayed far away from this app.

To be honest, at first I was skeptical about the program and thought and that it is going to be like other apps out there claiming to boost site speed. It didn't disappoint the support team was hungry for a review and did everything they could to speed up the site within hours. After the review was published, the speed crashed to 29 worse than what I started with 49. I've told them about the issue and they still didn't figure it out after 24 hours. My experience has been horrible. *Note this an updated review.

IT MESSED UP ALL OF MY FIRST IMAGE OF MY PRODUCTS! CUSTOMERS CAN'T SEE ALL THE IMAGES, ALL THE PRODUCTS BECAME UNAVAILABLE TO ALL MARKETPLACES!!! ESPECIALLY GOOGLE!!! I WILL SUE THIS COMPANY IF THEY CAN'T FIX THE ISSUES!! PLEASE HELP ME REPORT THIS COMPANY TO SHOPIFY!!!!!

Tried out the app and decided that it is not for me. Uninstalled the app and deleted some code based on the guide provided. However, there are still remaining files and code in the theme.liquid file that I have to restore the old code before the installation to clean them up.

Emily is a very bad support person. Told her i had an issue, got told to ignore it. Told her the issues weren't there on another theme and can i not fix the issue, her response was what issue??
Told her i would remove avada SEO as Yoast support, supports. Got told sorry to hear that??
Asked to speak to a manager, got told we are all in a meeting....very bad support. I will be removing this app and going over to Yoast