Performance Audit: Finding Hidden Cache Misses on Pet Store Product Pages (2026)

Performance Audit: Finding Hidden Cache Misses on Pet Store Product Pages (2026)

Hook: Page speed directly impacts conversions. This walkthrough shows how to find cache misses that kill load times and what to change to improve perceived performance on product pages.

Why edge caching matters for product pages

Rich media — demos, high-resolution images, and video — can kill speed if not cached properly at the edge. Modern approaches to serving media and personalization are summarized in guides on future-proofing media pages (Future‑Proofing Your Media Pages).

Audit steps

1. Run a synthetic crawl of key product pages and identify cache-control headers.
2. Inspect media CDN cache hit rates and misconfigured surrogates.
3. Check personalization middleware for unnecessary origin trips.
4. Measure time-to-interactive and first-contentful-paint on mobile connections.

Fixes that matter

• Add consistent cache-control headers and set long TTLs for static media.
• Use CDN image transforms at edge to avoid origin resizing delays.
• Move personalization to client-side or edge middleware where possible to reduce origin requests.

Checkout latency and fraud protection

Checkout recovery needs low-latency flows and robust fraud controls; CashPlus's payments playbook outlines how to balance security with speed to prevent cart abandonment during checkout peaks (Edge Fraud & Future‑Proof Payments).

Final checklist

• Measure and fix cache header inconsistencies.
• Serve demos and videos from edge-enabled CDNs.
• Reduce origin personalization calls during peak load.

Bottom line: Even small edge optimizations produce measurable lift in conversion for pet product pages. Regularly run audits to keep media fast and checkout friction low.