Shopify Performance Tuning

Overview

Optimize Shopify API performance through GraphQL query cost reduction, bulk operations for large data exports, response caching, and Storefront API for high-traffic public-facing queries.

Prerequisites

• Understanding of Shopify's calculated query cost system
• Access to the Shopify-GraphQL-Cost-Debug: 1 header for cost analysis
• Redis or in-memory cache available (optional)

Instructions

Step 1: Analyze Query Cost

# Debug query cost with special header
curl -X POST "https://$STORE/admin/api/2024-10/graphql.json" \