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A storefront rebuilt for speed and scale

We rebuilt RetailHub's storefront from the ground up for speed and conversion — faster pages, a smoother checkout, and a search experience that actually finds what shoppers want.

RetailHub — A storefront rebuilt for speed and scale
Client
RetailHub
Timeline
14 weeks
Our role
Frontend, commerce, performance
Platforms
Web, Mobile web, PWA

Overview

A fast-growing store on a slow foundation

RetailHub's traffic was climbing but its conversion rate wasn't. Heavy pages, a clunky checkout, and weak search meant shoppers bounced before they bought — especially on mobile.

Highlights

  • Headless storefront rebuilt for Core Web Vitals
  • A streamlined, fewer-step checkout tuned for mobile
  • Semantic search and merchandising over a large catalog
  • Live inventory and pricing surfaced everywhere it matters

Impact

+28%

Conversion rate

0.9s

Largest Contentful Paint

-35%

Cart abandonment

50k

SKUs, searchable instantly

01

The challenge

At this scale, every hundred milliseconds and every extra checkout step costs real revenue. The rebuild had to be dramatically faster and easier without losing the catalog depth shoppers relied on.

02

Our approach

We moved to a headless, edge-rendered storefront, rebuilt checkout around fewer steps and saved details, and layered semantic search plus merchandising over the full catalog.

03

The outcome

RetailHub's pages load in under a second, checkout abandons far less often, and conversion is up double digits — the same traffic now turns into meaningfully more completed carts.

What we built

The pieces that made it work

Headless storefront

Edge-rendered pages that hit top Core Web Vitals scores.

Fast checkout

Fewer steps, saved details, and mobile-first flows.

Semantic search

Shoppers find the right product even with fuzzy queries.

Live inventory

Real stock and pricing shown across the whole store.

Merchandising

Rules and ranking that put the right items first.

Analytics

Funnel insight that shows exactly where carts are won and lost.

Under the hood

Next.jsShopifyTypeScriptAlgoliaTailwindVercelGraphQL
Same traffic, a lot more revenue. The speed alone paid for the whole project in the first quarter.
Julian Meyers, Director of E-commerce· RetailHub

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