CE Phoenix Cart Forum

Hi everyone, first of all, thanks to @burt for setting up this section — great idea

I’ve been “around” the osCommerce ecosystem for quite a while… built my first store back in 2008. Let’s just say I’ve seen a few evolutions along the way

My current store runs on Phoenix v1.0.7.6.

URL: https://www.soon-line.com

Niche: Technical surf & skateboard equipment
Stage: Live production

The site is currently French only.

I’d really appreciate constructive feedback on:

• First impression / homepage clarity

• Navigation & category structure

• Product page usability

• Checkout flow

• Mobile experience

• Any friction points you notice

If anyone spots a feature they like and wants to know how it was implemented, I’m more than happy to share details.

Thanks in advance — happy to return the favour!
Alix

Hi Alix32
I opened the shop in Lighthouse and noticed that the rating is mutch too low; it could be significantly improved. It would be a shame not to do anything about it, as I understand that Google pays close attention to speed and errors. Unfortunately... Perhaps it would help if you converted all photos (really all of them!) to webp (I use:
for f in *.png; do cwebp -q 90 ‘$f’ -o ‘${f%.png}.webp’; done
for f in *.jpg; do cwebp -q 90 ‘$f’ -o ‘${f%.jpg}.webp’; done

This works for an entire directory (do this locally!!! not online!! Upload the photos again later and adjust the links.) This has earned me a lot of points. (94/99)

Still, it's a wonderful shop!
Regards, Martin (martindavinci)

Alix, I really like the overall look of the site. Well done.

I notice a minor problem in links in the very top; mon compte | mon pannier

These open on "hover", but then trying to click something in the opened menu, unhovers (and then the menu disappears). I had to click the links to keep the menu open to make the menu usable.

The other horizontal, on hover, works great - no problems.

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I wonder if there is anything you think could be uprated on your site?

martindavinci wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2026 6:48 pm Hi Alix32
I opened the shop in Lighthouse and noticed that the rating is mutch too low; it could be significantly improved. It would be a shame not to do anything about it, as I understand that Google pays close attention to speed and errors. Unfortunately... Perhaps it would help if you converted all photos (really all of them!) to webp (I use:
for f in *.png; do cwebp -q 90 ‘$f’ -o ‘${f%.png}.webp’; done
for f in *.jpg; do cwebp -q 90 ‘$f’ -o ‘${f%.jpg}.webp’; done

This works for an entire directory (do this locally!!! not online!! Upload the photos again later and adjust the links.) This has earned me a lot of points. (94/99)

Still, it's a wonderful shop!
Regards, Martin (martindavinci)

Hi @martindavinci ,

Thank you very much for taking the time to review the shop and for the suggestions – I really appreciate it!

Following your comment, I spent some time going through the site and optimizing performance. Quite a few things have been improved since then:

Homepage banners and many images are now served as WebP
Added lazy loading, srcset and sizes where relevant
Reduced unused JavaScript and removed some legacy scripts
Improved LCP image loading (priority hints, eager loading where appropriate)
Limited third-party scripts so they only load where actually needed
Fixed some caching headers that were preventing browser caching

After these changes the Lighthouse scores are now roughly:

Mobile: around the mid-80s and desktop: around the mid-90s

So there’s definitely been progress thanks to your suggestion to look at performance more closely.

You’re absolutely right that image optimization (including WebP) can make a big difference. I’m continuing to convert images progressively where it makes sense.

Thanks again for the feedback – and for the kind words about the shop!

@burt thanks so much for your feedback and for spotting that issue too! I checked and there's some spacing which is causing this. I'll take a good look

Best regards,
Alix

Would you be open to me putting this on the showcase ?
https://phoenixcart.org/showcase.php

If that's OK, I'd just need a little bit of text I could add (like the others have). TY

burt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2026 2:45 pm Would you be open to me putting this on the showcase ?
https://phoenixcart.org/showcase.php

If that's OK, I'd just need a little bit of text I could add (like the others have). TY

Hi @burt ,
Yes of course, I'd be honoured!
I'll pm you so we can fine tune if necessary

Thanks again.

burt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2026 2:45 pm Would you be open to me putting this on the showcase ?
https://phoenixcart.org/showcase.php

If that's OK, I'd just need a little bit of text I could add (like the others have). TY

@burt Gary I proud to be considered for the new showcase

I just wish other users would submit there stores