Answers about hydrogen
Questions and answers from the Croct community about hydrogen.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
What happens to my Hydrogen page if a Croct fetch fails or times out?
Before I ship personalization to production I want to be certain about one failure mode. If a content request is slow or fails outright, I need the storefront…
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…
Will content resolution hold up during Black Friday traffic, and what if it times out?
Preparing a Hydrogen store for Black Friday. Last year a client-side testing script fell over under load and blanked our hero for a chunk of the morning. Not…
Does the Hydrogen SDK respect Shopify's Customer Privacy API before tracking?
I am auditing a Hydrogen store before we enable Croct tracking and I need a formal confirmation of the consent behavior. We operate in Germany, so the bar is:…