Answers about hydrogen
Questions and answers from the Croct community about hydrogen.
Do logged-in shoppers stay in the same variant across devices on Hydrogen?
lots of our shoppers browse on mobile and then buy later on desktop. We run an experiment on the product page and I do not want someone to see variant A on…
Best way to get typed slot content in a TypeScript Hydrogen project?
Our Hydrogen storefront is strict TypeScript, no implicit any, and I would like slot content to be typed end to end rather than casting the fetch result to…
Coming off Optimizely on our headless storefront, does Croct avoid the render-blocking snippet?
our Hydrogen storefront has been running Optimizely and the snippet is a real cost. It loads synchronously on the critical path, and even with no experiment…
Ad blockers seem to drop Croct requests from some shoppers, how do I fix that?
I see a gap between how many shoppers are on the storefront and how many events actually land in Croct. My guess is browser blockers are eating some of the…
Can I bump the traffic allocation partway through a Hydrogen experiment?
I started an experiment on a product page on our Hydrogen storefront at a conservative traffic share because I wanted to limit exposure early. It is behaving…
Every Shopify CRO app we evaluate assumes Liquid, what actually works on Hydrogen?
Evaluation notes from the last two weeks, summarized. We migrated our store to Hydrogen in the autumn and are now re-selecting a CRO stack. App A: injects…
Server-side A/B test on Hydrogen that survives the edge cache and doesn't flicker
We run a merch store on Hydrogen and I own the fullstack side. Trying to get a hero test live and so far I have burned a week. What I tried: A client-side…
Wiring the Croct request context into my Hydrogen loaders, is this a lot of plumbing?
standing up a fresh Hydrogen storefront on React Router 7 and adding Croct to it. my assumption going in was that I would have to construct a Croct instance…
How can server-side personalization coexist with Oxygen's edge cache?
We just moved our fashion store to Hydrogen on Oxygen and I am planning the personalization setup. With our previous experimentation tool we had to pick…
How does slot content localization work with Shopify Markets on Hydrogen?
We run a Hydrogen store with Shopify Markets serving three locales: tr, en, and de. The locale is in the URL prefix and our loaders already know it. My…
Keeping Oxygen's full-page cache while personalizing one hero section, is that possible?
Homepage on Hydrogen, served from Oxygen's full-page cache with CacheLong, hit rate is excellent and TTFB is around 40ms. Now the brief says personalize the…
Is there any marketer-facing way to run experiments on Hydrogen or is it all code?
As a growth PM I want to launch and stop experiments on our Hydrogen storefront without opening an engineering ticket, but today every test is a branch, a…