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By Dustin Schau on May 10th, 2021

Catch up on the latest announcements, straight from the Gatsby team. Product updates, community updates, upcoming events, and more!

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By Sam Bhagwat on May 5th, 2021

We’re excited to announce two releases that make building a custom, headless e-commerce experience with Gatsby easier than ever. First, an upgraded, faster and more scalable Gatsby/Shopify integration. Second, the new Gatsby Shopify Starter, a proof-of-concept in a box, with 10k products and 30k variants to help you get to proof-of-concept in minutes, rather than days.

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By Sam Bhagwat on May 5th, 2021

When men's jewelry brand Jaxxon relaunched from monolithic Shopify to Shopify + Gatsby, they doubled conversion rates and dropped bounce rates from 40% to 12% -- while increasing team agility.

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By Sam Bhagwat on April 29th, 2021

Moneygeek's mission is to build financial literacy tools so people don't feel like they are making decisions in the dark. Going with Gatsby and Gatsby Concierge helped Moneygeek maximize page performance and prepare for the June 2021 Google search ranking update.

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By Kyle Gill on April 28th, 2021

Of the many ways you can measure performance on the web, be it initial page load time, runtime efficiency of a web app, or server response times, one of the most well-known is the Lighthouse score. We improved the scores we were receiving on the Gatsby homepage by 22.8 points. Here's how we did it.

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By Garrett Dimon on April 16th, 2021

Third-party JS are often “death by a thousand cuts” for site performance. When building the StriVectin site, Elevar employed a number of creative solutions to mitigate this impact and still get solid performance.

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By Paul Scanlon on April 15th, 2021

Gatsby sites are optimized to be smaller, sleeker and faster. When built and deployed in Gatsby Cloud they also use fewer data center resources, thanks to Incremental Builds. This efficiency is not just good for developers — it's also good for the environment!

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By Garrett Dimon on April 14th, 2021

With some creative engineering and carefully considered tradeoffs, Elevar figured out how to implement rich e-commerce functionality like search, wish lists, and account management on Strivectin's Gatsby + Shopify site.

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