Delivering a Sub-Second Headless PWA on Magento to Boost Mobile Conversion by 45% for a D2C Fashion Retailer
Industry D2C Fashion & Apparel
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$10B+ Client Revenues
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12+ Successful Years
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1000+ IT Ninjas
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5000+ Projects
"The speed of our new headless PWA is simply breathtaking. Developers.dev delivered a site that feels instantaneous. Our mobile conversion rate has skyrocketed, and the feedback from our customers has been incredible. They are true experts in modern eCommerce architecture."
Jessica Minh, Founder & CEO
A trendy, fast-growing fashion brand with a strong social media presence and an annual revenue of $15M. Their existing monolithic Magento 2 store was slow, especially on mobile, which accounted for over 70% of their traffic. The poor mobile experience was leading to high bounce rates and abandoned carts, directly impacting their revenue and hindering their growth potential. They needed a cutting-edge solution to provide an app-like experience on the web.
The client's slow, unresponsive mobile site was creating a poor user experience, leading to a high bounce rate (over 60% on mobile) and a low mobile conversion rate (0.8%). This performance bottleneck was preventing them from capitalizing on their strong brand and marketing efforts.
The primary goal was to achieve sub-second page load times to drastically improve the mobile user experience.
The brand required a highly visual, interactive, and dynamic frontend with features like lookbooks, quick-adds, and seamless navigation.
Required building a robust GraphQL API layer to connect the Magento backend with a modern React-based frontend.
The migration to a new frontend architecture needed to be executed flawlessly to preserve and enhance existing search engine rankings.
We proposed and implemented a headless commerce architecture, decoupling the Magento backend from a custom-built React frontend, delivered as a Progressive Web App (PWA).
We used Magento as the powerful backend for commerce operations while building a lightning-fast frontend using React and PWA Studio.
We extended Magento's native GraphQL coverage to create a comprehensive API that efficiently served all data required by the frontend.
We implemented service workers for offline browsing capabilities, caching strategies for instant loading, and an "add to home screen" feature for app-like accessibility.
We used server-side rendering (SSR) to ensure the JavaScript-based site was perfectly crawlable by search engines, along with a meticulous SEO migration plan.
Assembled a specialized POD with expertise in Magento, React, GraphQL, and PWA development.
Designed a component-based UI library in React for consistency and reusability.
Leveraged modern frontend build tools for code splitting and optimization.
Set up a scalable, containerized hosting environment on AWS for both the backend and frontend applications.
Conducted extensive A/B testing on the new user flows before launch.
Executed a staged rollout to monitor performance and user feedback in real-time.
The fast, intuitive experience dramatically reduced friction in the buying process.
Pages now load in under one second, significantly improving user engagement.
Visitors stayed longer and explored more products due to the improved performance.
Improved Core Web Vitals and a better user experience led to higher rankings in Google.
By embracing a headless PWA strategy, the fashion brand transformed its biggest weakness-mobile experience-into its greatest strength. The solution delivered by Developers.dev not only solved their immediate performance issues but also provided a flexible, future-proof platform for continued innovation and growth in the competitive D2C market.