My store’s homepage feels sluggish and I can see the bounce rate creeping up. I need a Shopify specialist to dig in and noticeably improve loading speed without hurting design, functionality, or SEO. Priority • Homepage performance. Product pages and checkout are fine for now, but any global tweaks that help everything load faster are welcome. Current setup • A few third-party apps are installed. Most are marketing or review widgets; I suspect one or two of them—and unoptimized imagery—are slowing things down. What I need from you 1. Benchmark the current homepage speed (Google PageSpeed Insights or Shopify Analyzer). 2. Identify bottlenecks: theme code bloat, render-blocking assets, oversized images, unused app scripts, etc. 3. Optimise: minify CSS/JS, defer non-critical scripts, compress/convert images, implement lazy loading, streamline app scripts, and tune Liquid code. 4. Provide a short report summarising changes and the new speed score, plus any recommendations for further gains. Please keep all visual elements and tracking intact. If an app must be removed or replaced, give me options before acting. Deliverable: a visibly faster homepage and a side-by-side speed comparison screenshot or report showing the improvement.