How fast is the Narrative Shopify theme?

Theme By Shopify

Is the Narrative theme right for your shop? One of the biggest conversion killers is slow site speed. We've audited Narrative from Shopify and 83 other themes to see which ones are the fastest. Each stat is the average of the theme's homepage, collections page and product page.

Ranking

#7

Narrative ranked #7 for speed among the 83 Shopify themes that we've audited.

Initial Theme Features
Optimization Status
Minified CSS
Minified JS
Lazyloaded Images
Efficient CSS (Less Unused CSS)
Less Render Blocking Resources

Theme edits by apps or developers may not have these optimizations.

Speed Index

3551ms

Speed Index is the average time at which visible parts of the page are displayed. The lower the score, the better.

Time to First Byte

149ms

Time to First Byte is the amount of time it takes for the server to respond. Themes can lower this by reducing the amount of work the server needs to render it.

First Contentful Paint

1674ms

First Contentful Paint is the amount of time it takes from opening a page to when the browser renders the first piece of content.

First Meaningful Paint

3068ms

First Meaningful Paint is the amount of time it takes for the primary above-the-fold content to load. This is when the user feels like the most important content is visible.

Time to Interactive

4752ms

Time to Interactive is the total amount of time it takes for the page to have useful content and respond to user interactions quickly.