Gatsby Gazette | May 2021 Edition
Catch up on the latest announcements, straight from the Gatsby team. Product updates, community updates, upcoming events, and more!

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Catch up on the latest announcements, straight from the Gatsby team. Product updates, community updates, upcoming events, and more!
We’re excited to announce a new Gatsby/Shopify starter, and an upgraded integration that make building a custom, headless e-commerce experience with Gatsby easier than ever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.