Checkout Just Got 41% Faster, Just in Time for the Holidays

Another step forward in speed.

Back in January, we announced a faster transition from cart to checkout, cutting friction at  exactly the moment your customers are most ready to buy. After that accomplishment, we didn’t rest on our laurels, we kept working on improving it even more.

Today, we’re happy to share that the checkout just got even faster. Again.

Moving from cart to checkout is now up to 41% quicker than it was back in January.

How we got here

Our team optimized JavaScript bundling, parallelized API calls, and fine-tuned our caching strategy to shave off as much load time as possible.

To measure the impact, we tracked Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), which is the metric that reflects how quickly the main content of a page becomes visible to a shopper. In our internal testing, checkout's LCP decreased from 2.7 seconds in December 2025 to just 1 second in July 2026. That’s a 63% gain in under one year.

This isn’t a one-off win. It builds directly on the faster cart-to-checkout transition we shipped in January, compounding the gains from that update.

Why this matters

• Faster load — your customers see and can act on checkout content almost immediately

• Less room for drop-off — every second of delay at checkout is a second where shoppers can reconsider or abandon

• Zero configuration required — this improvement is automatically rolled out to all stores on our native Optimized One-Page Checkout, including stores on B2B Edition

• Timed for holiday — this update ships ahead of the Holiday Sales period, positioning merchants in the best state possible to have the fastest checkout right when conversion matters most

The final word

Speed compounds. Every improvement we make to checkout chips away at the friction between your customers and a completed sale. With this update, checkout is faster than it's ever been — helping shoppers glide toward purchase, and helping you capture more of that conversion opportunity.