Shopify gives you no server, no cache settings and no TTL control — the storefront cache does what it wants, per edge location. The one lever you do have: making sure every location has served your pages recently. That's warming.
Shopify's CDN caches storefront pages close to visitors — but only after someone nearby has already taken the slow first hit.
On Shopify you can't set cache headers, can't configure TTLs, can't install server software. Theme optimization and app diets help — but the edge cache itself is out of reach. Warming works entirely from the outside: it's just well-behaved GET traffic.
Your store feels fast to you because your nearest edge is warm from your own visits. The customer in another country hits a cold location and waits for the full round trip — on exactly the first impression that decides a bounce.
Bestsellers stay warm from organic traffic. The other 90% of your catalog — the pages people land on from Google, ads and email — get evicted between visits and load origin-slow at the worst possible moment.
Every store publishes /sitemap.xml with nested product, collection and
page sitemaps — we resolve the whole index automatically and re-read it before every
run, so new products are warmed as soon as they're published.
Each request enters the CDN where your customers are and warms that edge location — rate-limited and identifiable, so it looks like what it is: a polite visitor who reads every page and buys nothing.
We read the cache status headers on every response and report hit ratio per edge location and per URL — so "the store is fast now" is a measurement, not a feeling.
Warming is ordinary, rate-limited GET traffic to your public storefront — the same requests any visitor or search engine crawler makes, with an honest, documented user agent. We pace requests conservatively precisely so shared platforms see us as the polite crawler we are.
No, and nothing can: checkout, cart and account pages are personalized and uncacheable by design. Warming targets what the CDN actually caches — product, collection, content and landing pages, which is where organic and paid traffic lands.
Yes. Oxygen runs on a global edge network with the same per-location caching dynamics; if your storefront publishes a sitemap and serves cacheable pages, we warm it the same way — and the per-location report shows you exactly which routes are cacheable at all.
Shopify's dashboard analytics are JavaScript-based and never see warming requests — no sessions, no fake conversions. Server-log-based tools can filter the documented WarmupRocks user agent with one rule.
Free for 7 days, plans from $15/month. No app install, no theme changes.