Must-Have Checks for Every Shopify Store

Running a Shopify store comes with challenges like meeting sales goals, ensuring accessibility, and tracking user data. While Shopify is a great platform, extra monitoring tools can help keep your store running smoothly. Problems like slow loading, checkout issues, or outages can hurt sales, making reliable performance essential.

PerfX tech helps monitor Shopify stores by offering various checks and instant issue alerts. Uptime checks ensure your store stays accessible to customers. Here are five key checks from PerfX that enhance store availability.  

Transaction checks simulate a customer's journey

From adding items to the cart to checkout—to ensure everything works smoothly. If any step fails, an alert notifies the store owner. This proactive monitoring helps catch issues like checkout errors, payment failures, or cart glitches before they affect real customers.

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Tracks how well a webpage performs for visitors. It analyzes content loading times, helping identify slow elements like large images or scripts. A small code snippet on the store’s pages gathers real-time performance data, highlighting key metrics like page speed and responsiveness to improve user experience.

Page Speed Checks 

Provide easy-to-read reports with key performance insights. They analyze webpage responsiveness, pinpoint inefficiencies, and suggest improvements. A slow or unresponsive store can turn away customers, leading to lost sales, making speed optimization essential.  

HTTPS Checks 

are a simple but crucial way to keep your Shopify store online. They regularly ping your store’s URL—anywhere from every minute to every hour—to confirm availability. If downtime occurs, instant alerts notify you through your chosen contact method. These checks also track response time trends, helping identify and resolve potential performance issues.

Cloud Status Checks 

Track the availability of key third-party services that support Shopify and other web applications. While monitoring your store’s uptime is essential, backend services like Cloudflare can also experience outages that impact performance. These checks provide real-time status updates on major dependencies, consolidating alerts and reports in one interface for easy tracking.