Reading the Slow Query Log: When the Database Is the Brake
Slow shops rarely have a visible problem, they have an expensive one. How the slow query log, measured execution plans and matching indexes reveal where the compute time actually goes.
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Peak Season: Load Testing and an Emergency Plan for Your Shop
Peak season is in the calendar, yet hardly anyone knows their shop's capacity ceiling. This guide shows how to derive a load profile from last year's data, run a staged load test against a production-like copy, define target value, warning threshold and emergency stop, and build an emergency plan with rehearsed relief valves - including an operating calendar from July to January.
PHP 8.5 in Your Shop: Tuning OPcache and JIT Right
In PHP 8.5 OPcache is built in. This guide shows which OPcache values save response time in a shop, when JIT tracing helps on CPU-bound routes and hurts on I/O-bound ones - including migration from PHP 8.4.
Reduce Third-Party Scripts: Win Back Shop Speed
Chat, ads and tracking load more JavaScript than your own shop code at the median. How to find, defer, replace and remove third-party scripts without losing features - and win back load time.
Shopware Message Queue: Workers in Production
Late order mails, a stale search index, an outdated sitemap: how to move the Shopware message queue into production with CLI workers, separate queues and alerting.
Shopware Cache Rework: Caching for Logged-In Customers
The storefront HTTP cache now works with login and a filled cart. How the sw-cache-hash works, what changes in invalidation and how to prepare extensions safely.
On-Device AI in the Browser: Private Shop Features
WebGPU is active in all major browsers in 2026. Small language models now run directly in the browser - for private shop assistants, semantic search and text snippets, offline and without API costs. We sort out the chances, limits and hybrid approaches.
View Transitions API: Seamless Page Changes for Shops
Cross-document view transitions are available in all major browsers and give classic shops app-like changes - framework-free. Learn to implement @view-transition, morphed product images and speculation rules.
Speculation Rules API: Instant Page Loads for Shops
Prerendering via the Speculation Rules API makes product and checkout pages appear near-instantly. Ray-Ban doubled its mobile conversion this way (web.dev).