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The case for adding a headless CMS to your ecommerce stack

Is your Shopify or BigCommerce storefront getting slower and harder to manage? This article breaks down what’s actually dragging down page speed (and revenue). Then it walks you through how to improve performance with a lightweight content layer while your ecommerce platform keeps running store operations.

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