Booster: Page Speed Optimizer

Hi there,

James here from Booster Apps, I'm sorry for your experience so far using the app. As mentioned in our app screenshots and description, our app preloads links – so when a customer moves their mouse cursor over a link, we tell the browser to pre-load that page. When someone clicks that link, the page has already loaded. This results in a faster browsing experience for your customers. Some merchants have seen up to 3x real world performance boost. Since most of the speed score apps test on first page load, the machines wont pick up the speed change.

Image heavy stores do benefit from this app, you're correct, but since the app preloads html as well, it will work on stores that don't have many images too.

I'd love for you to give it another shot - or if you'd like to chat about the technical details of our app happy to chat at james@boosterapps.com.

I read through your conversation with Pat from our team, and in rare cases there's a hiccup on install – this is an easy fix on our end and something we're happy to take a closer look into.

We've reached out over email to help make things right!

Cheers,
James

Hi there, thanks for the review. You are absolutely correct, the app will not show any increase or decrease in GTmetrix or any other tool.

From our FAQ on the dashboard of the app:
https://share.getcloudapp.com/NQugzdW0

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Important Notice:
This app will not increase or decrease any pageload speed metrics such as Pingdom or Gmetrix. The app preloads links, which only works from the second page view. These apps DO NOT account for second page load times in their results.
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The app utilizes open source software (https://github.com/instantpage/instant.page) to preload links on your theme, thus speeding up loading times after the first page load.

As mentioned throughout the app, some themes already include this open source code by default. As a result, these themes wouldn't see any increase in speed because the code is already present.

Cheers
Stuart

Hi there, thanks for the review. Unfortunately page speed apps such as pingdom or gtmetrix will not show any improvements when the app is installed. This is due to the fact that these apps measure page speed on first page load.. this app only starts working after first page load as we are preloading links on the page.. 😔
Cheers, Stuart

Hi there,

Sorry to hear that you're experiencing this issue. I'm afraid this completely unrelated to the app :( Our app places a single line of javascript code to speed up your next page load - we do not have any access to editing or updating your images.

Cheers
Stuart

Hi there,

Pat here from Booster Apps Tier 2 Support. I just saw your review and wanted to reach out to apologize for the trouble you had with our app. 😔

For clarification - the app automatically speeds up your store's load times by adding one simple script tag to your theme called booster-page-speed-optimizer.js. Page Speed Optimizer is made and designed to help boost the speed of your site in terms of clicks by pre-loading links.

You can also check our FAQs for more information about the app.

Though our app is free, it is by no means at all an app that we neglect, and we take issues such as the one you're experiencing very seriously and would love to get to the bottom of what caused the issue that broke your automatic discounts.

Would it be okay for us to collaborate with you to resolve the issue? I'll be happy to send over a collaborator's request and look further at what went wrong.

Happy to offer you any help you need here so we can turn your experience with the app around for you.

So sorry again for the hassle here. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Pat

Thank you so much for using our app! 🙌 We're so excited to be part of your business growth and success! If you need anything at all, just let us know. All the best, Kevin