Number 9 Fashion review for Hextom: Upsell Sales Boost

June 22, 2020

*** Warning will add significant page speed penalties *** I've had to re rate my review, The app works well - however it has been over a year now since I first raised with the developer their substandard backend architecture. They serve their scripts out of a US based AWS S3 Bucket. Which apart from not being AWS best practice and is needlessly costing them extra to operate - it causes massive performance problems for sites outside of the US. In APAC I have a 1.5 second page delay added to =EVERY-= page. The worst part is, is that switching to a CDN (Cloudfront) as all great apps use and is essential in ecommerce is a 10 min job for them being already on AWS. The simply need to setup the CDN (5 mins) and change one line of code in their app.. Also as an AWS employee I've provided them the simple information needed to do this. They don't respond, either because it is too hard for them to bother or the speed of your website (and their cost base too!) is of no concern to them. Very dissapeointng. Shopify really needs to mandate that ALL apps use a CDN. It is basic web scale architecture.