Buddha Mega Menu & Navigation

I have been using the Buddha Mega Menu for a while. I recently had an issue with the menu. I reached out to them, and they helped sort out the matter most effectively. i have been happy with the clear and clean functioning of the the menu on my online store.

By far, this is one of the best apps we have ever installed on our Shopify store. It is easy and very effective.
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We love the little animated train at the end signaling save or update actions. It is so cute.

We had an issue with the integration to our shopify theme. The team at Budda worked dilligently to resolve the issue and the menu now works great on all mobile devices again!

Presque 8 ans d'utilisation mais de nombreux impacts sur le LCP causés par cette application et de problèmes de performance critiques détectés par PageSpeed Insights. J'utilise Buddha Mega Menu sur ma boutique Shopify et j'apprécie beaucoup cette application. Cependant, après analyse avec PageSpeed Insights, j'ai identifié plusieurs problèmes de performance critiques liés à l'application qui impactent sévèrement mes scores et l'expérience utilisateur.

Problèmes constatés (Mobile et Desktop) :

Chaîne de requêtes critiques excessive (1479ms de latence)

Buddha Mega Menu se trouve dans le chemin critique de rendu
Bloque l'affichage de la page pendant 1,5 seconde
Crée une cascade de chargements : theme.css → scripts → buddha-megamenu → fontawesome
Font Awesome chargé de manière bloquante (1720ms, 15,96 KiB)

Se charge systématiquement même si peu d'icônes sont utilisées
Ajoute 1,7 seconde supplémentaire au chemin critique
JavaScript ancien non optimisé (7 KiB de polyfills)

Utilise du code obsolète pour navigateurs modernes
Charge des polyfills inutiles pour 95% des utilisateurs actuels
JavaScript inutilisé (7 KiB sur la page)

Code chargé mais jamais exécuté
Contribue aux 71 KiB totaux de JS inutilisé sur ma page
Impact global mesuré :

Retard du LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) de 270ms
Temps de blocage total augmenté de 160ms
Latence de chemin critique : 3516ms au total

Serait-ce possible d'apporter ce correctif à l'application ???

Chargement asynchrone/différé : Permettre de charger l'app après le rendu initial de la page
Optimisation Font Awesome : Charger uniquement les icônes utilisées ou permettre de désactiver Font Awesome si non nécessaire
Suppression des polyfills : Utiliser du JavaScript moderne (ES6+) sans transpilation excessive
Code splitting : Ne charger que le code nécessaire pour chaque page
Ces optimisations sont essentielles pour maintenir de bonnes performances web, critiques pour le SEO et les conversions.

EDIT - From 4 stars to 5 stars. After submitting my below review, the team was great in reaching out and working through solutions and ultimately helped me in getting the mega menu to act and look exactly how I wanted it to. THANK YOU to the team!

Great app. Easy to use, great user interface, and adds the right type of menu to the right type of theme for our purposes.

If I could control the font size, font weight, and width of the submenu to maintain a single line of categories as opposed to stacking within the mega menu on desktop, I would give this app 5 stars.

I've been using Buddha for a couple of years now, and I really love the app. I don't use the mega menu, as I'm not a fan of mega menus, with a shop that has over 6,000 items in it, but the way you can make custom menus really is perfect for me.

Great app!
Super easy to set up and customize. The menu looks clean and professional, and it perfectly fits the style of my bookstore. Highly recommend for anyone who wants a clear and flexible navigation.

I love the Mega Menu look on my site and I appreciate the excellent tech support when we need it.

I’ve been using this app for years and I absolutely love it. It’s super practical and has helped me a lot. When I changed my theme and couldn’t figure it out, I emailed them right away. They responded immediately, took care of the issue, and solved my problem. That’s why I’m giving it 5 stars. Honestly, I think everyone should use this app!

Gave it a 5/5 due to always receiving great help from support in fixing any outstanding issues.

In terms of functionality, the app is quite robust and great for quickly creating mega-menus.

Seems better suited for smaller stores (less collections OR more similar collections) than it would be for diverse marketplace-type stores with lots of varying collections.

Could be improved in terms of design and CRO elements, but overall very effective given the pricing and support.