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Dynasort Search vs Algolia, Searchanise, Boost, and the rest

Shopify Search & Discovery

Dynasort Search vs Algolia, Searchanise, Boost, and the rest

August 26, 2026 / August 31, 2026 by Wade

Since we launched Dynasort Search on Monday, the most common question has been some version of “how is this different from Algolia?” or Searchanise, or Boost, or whichever search app a merchant already knows. Fair question. Here is a direct answer, built from each vendor’s own listing, pricing page, or documentation. How to use this […]

What 30 days of storefront searches say about default search order

Analytics Search & Discovery

What 30 days of storefront searches say about default search order

August 26, 2026 / August 24, 2026 by Wade

On Monday we launched Dynasort Search and made a claim: default search ordering treats your highest-intent shoppers worse than any other page on your store. A claim like that deserves data, so today we are opening the books. Two datasets. First, the fleet: every storefront search that flowed through stores on the Dynasort platform over […]

Visitors who use site search convert at a multiple of browsers: measure your own multiple, then treat the search box as a VIP lane.

Conversion Rate Optimization Search & Discovery

Visitors who use site search convert at a multiple of browsers: measure your own multiple, then treat the search box as a VIP lane.

August 26, 2026 / August 24, 2026 by Wade

← All 100 tips · Tip 5 of 100 · 96 days to Cyber Monday Site search users convert at a multiple of your browsing visitors, on almost every store we have ever looked at. The exact multiple varies, which is why the first half of this tip is: go measure yours. The second half […]

LCP is usually your hero image: fix that one asset before buying any speed app.

Conversion Rate Optimization Speed & Mobile

LCP is usually your hero image: fix that one asset before buying any speed app.

August 25, 2026 / August 22, 2026 by Wade

← All 100 tips · Tip 4 of 100 · 97 days to Cyber Monday Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures how long your biggest visible element takes to appear, and on most Shopify stores that element is the hero image. Which means most stores do not have a “site speed problem.” They have a one-image […]

How Dynasort Search works: re-ranking, not replacing

Feature Releases Search & Discovery

How Dynasort Search works: re-ranking, not replacing

August 25, 2026 / August 24, 2026 by Wade

Yesterday we announced Dynasort Search. Today we are opening the hood, because the architecture is the whole story. Dynasort Search is not a second search engine bolted onto your store. It is a re-ranking layer that sits on top of the search engine Shopify already runs for you. Every search is really two jobs When […]

Merchandising Automation vs Hiring a Merchandiser

August 24, 2026 / August 31, 2026 by Wade

Automation and a human merchandiser solve different problems, so it is not a true either-or. Automation handles the repetitive layer: re-sorting collections as sales, stock, and new arrivals change, every hour if needed. A merchandiser sets strategy: which products to push, how the brand should feel, what to test. Most Shopify stores need the strategy […]

Introducing Dynasort Search

News Feature Releases Search & Discovery

Introducing Dynasort Search

August 24, 2026 / August 24, 2026 by Wade

Today we are turning on the biggest thing we have ever shipped. Dynasort Search is out of soft launch and available to every store, on every plan, starting now. The short version: the same recipes that already rank your collections can now rank your search results and your predictive search dropdown. Shopify keeps deciding which […]

Your first product image does most of the selling: test lifestyle vs product-on-white.

Conversion Rate Optimization Product Pages

Your first product image does most of the selling: test lifestyle vs product-on-white.

August 24, 2026 / August 22, 2026 by Wade

← All 100 tips · Tip 3 of 100 · 98 days to Cyber Monday Your first product image does more selling than your product description, your reviews widget, and your carefully-worded shipping policy combined. It is the photo on the collection grid, the photo in Google Shopping, the photo in the shared link. Most […]

Sort order is your silent top salesman: default and “manual” chaos ordering costs real money on every collection page.

Collections & Merchandising Conversion Rate Optimization

Sort order is your silent top salesman: default and “manual” chaos ordering costs real money on every collection page.

August 23, 2026 / August 22, 2026 by Wade

← All 100 tips · Tip 2 of 100 · 99 days to Cyber Monday Shopify collection sort order decides what most of your shoppers see, and most stores have never made a deliberate decision about it. The collection page is your shelf space. The top of it is eye level. And on a shocking […]

Can You Re-Rank Shopify’s Predictive Search Dropdown?

August 22, 2026 by Wade

Yes. The predictive search dropdown, the suggestions that appear while a shopper types, can be re-ranked the same way as the full results page. With Dynasort, an app embed re-orders the dropdown using your active search recipe, so its few visible slots go to in-stock products your data says are worth suggesting. Why the Dropdown […]