ShoeCarnival.com

Shoe Carnival, one of the nation’s largest family footwear retailers, offers a broad assortment of dress, casual, and athletic brand name footwear for men, women, and children.

With 80% of the retailer’s traffic coming from mobile and a proprietary front end that was both slow and challenging to develop, Shoe Carnival was looking for a proper solution.

Project Goals

My Participation

Results

“On Layer0, we have better speed and conversions. From a developer’s standpoint, we have far more flexibility and no restrictions.”

Tyler Drone, Sr. Manager of Digital Development - Shoe Carnival

ShoeCarnival.com PLP to PDP transition
Improve PLP to PDP transition from 6 sec. to 0.5 sec.

We released with 3 months delay the project and achieved:

Speed

  • 320ms median page loads (LCP)
  • 92% reduction in browsing transitions dropping from 6 seconds to 500ms
  • 70.5% increase in first load speeds dropping from 3.4 seconds to 1 second
  • 67% increase in first-load speeds in total
  • 95%+ cache hit rate for dynamic content at the edge

Traffic

  • 32%+ average organic traffic growth
  • Outperforms 98% of websites and outranks Amazon, Zappos, Nordstrom Sales

Sales

  • 10B+ in revenue flows through Layer0 a year
  • 48% lift in organic conversion rate
  • 40% lift in overall revenue with a sub-second website