Troubleshooting: Performance considerations for the Aurora starter store

The Aurora starter store contains default behaviors that might affect storefront performance. Changing the default behaviors might improve your storefront performance when working with Aurora starter store pages.

Consider the following default storefront behaviors and their performance considerations when working with Aurora starter store pages:

Logging on to the storefront: My Account page is displayed by default

The Aurora starter store redirects to the My Account page by default after logging on to the storefront.

You might improve storefront performance after logging on if you change this behavior to:

Redirect to a store page that performs better than the My Account page, such as returning the customer to their previous page, or
Update the My Account page to contain fewer Ajax calls, or use a non-Ajax My Account page.

Starting in Feature Pack 8, when a shopper signs in, the store redirects to the home page, which is fully cached.

Checking out: Shipping and Billing page displays all order items by default

The Aurora starter store displays all order item details by default when checking out on the Shipping and Billing page.

You might improve storefront performance during checkout if you hide order item details in the shipping and billing page. When a shopping cart size typically contains many items, use the store page to display order item details on demand. For example, customers can explicitly request details by clicking a plus sign beside the order items to show more detailed information.

Starting in Feature Pack 8, you can enable the Show and hide order items store function for check-out pages. The order items are initially hidden but the shopper can expand and collapse a twistie to show and hide the items on the page. This store function affects the Shipping and Billing Method, Order Summary, and Order Confirmation pages. For more information, see Aurora starter store functions (Feature Pack 7 and later).