Static assets are now loaded not from one location as they were before, but from many geographically distributed servers on our content delivery network (CDN).

What changed:

1. Improved website load times, especially for locations remote from the USA

2. Improved website security and stability

3. Improved widget load time

4. Website size has decreased due to compression and other optimizations

5. Improved reuse of cached assets that makes the next websites built with SpreadSimple load faster if a user opened at least one other SpreadSimple website recently

6. Dashboard opening and operating times have significantly accelerated

Does this mean that all sites will now receive an “A” performance grade?

The geographically distributed assets are very important, but it's not the only thing affecting the website performance. Your site's loading speed will still be highly dependent on images, their size and quantity, the number of third-party services you load, combinations of included options, and many other factors.

Still, this update is very important and we'll keep optimizing the website speed.

Performance Update report:

We already received our users' feedback confirming the speed increase.

And we measured performance metrics from various locations using GTMetrix to see the changes ourselves. The results showed a 40-90% performance increase, depending on the website and server location.

You can find some of these numbers here

Increase your store conversions by allowing your customers to place orders on WhatsApp.

You may have seen some paid products dedicated to this feature. We have this add-on, available for all your pro websites, which works even more powerful in conjunction with other SpeadSimple features.

Using this add-on you will allow your customers to start the instant conversation with you right upon order placement.

You will receive the order detail in the first message. You can compose the custom message template in any language. Just use special tags like {{client.name}} and {{cartItemsText}}, these tags to be replaced with actual values from the order data.

2 small improvements for a better email notification experience:

1. now you can write a response to the client in one click because the customer email address is automatically set in the replay field
2. it is now possible to specify a unique order number in the subject line of the letter, which will prevent the grouping of different orders notifications

Multiple badges in every sense: you can select several columns and inside each column, you can enter several badges separated by commas. Each mapped column will have its own badge color. 

 

We were often asked if it was possible to somehow highlight one of the elements: a promotional product, or a featured ad. Now yes, and we made it even more powerful because you can bind arbitrary CSS classes to a specific row of an element and set custom styles for them.

To use this feature, you don't need to set up additional column mapping, just add a column and name it '.class' (with a dot at the beginning).

For starters, you can use the built-in 'sv-is-highlighted' class name to highlight the featured element.