Answers about hydrogen
Questions and answers from the Croct community about hydrogen.
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…
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…
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…
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:…
Intelligems only partially supports our Hydrogen storefront, what are people using?
Our store went headless on Hydrogen last quarter. We had been running Intelligems on the Liquid store, but after the migration we found their headless support…
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…
Counting purchases as the conversion goal for a Hydrogen experiment
Setting up our first experiment on a Hydrogen store. Current state: Product views and cart events show up in the dashboard automaticallyThe experiment editor…