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How fast are the biggest Czech online stores: measuring 85 shops
We measured the home pages of 85 of the biggest Czech online stores. For real people they mostly load quickly, but two thirds miss Google's limit for response to a click. And AI crawlers often see only part of the content.
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What's worth automating in a business - and what's better left alone
Almost everything can be automated. But only work that repeats, has a clear input and output, and today takes hours every week pays off. A simple test that tells you before you pay for anything.
Automation
Why our automation only suggests at first
Shadow mode, approval on your phone and autonomy switched on step by step. Why we don't let AI act on behalf of the company from day one - and why that ends up being the faster route.
Automation
AI phone assistant for restaurants and tradespeople: what it can do and what it can't yet
A missed call is often a lost job for a restaurant or a tradesperson. An AI assistant that picks up the phone can handle a surprising amount today - but not everything. An honest overview before you commit to anything.
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Why website speed matters more for conversion than design
Core Web Vitals aren't a technical detail for developers. It's a metric Google relies on when ranking a page - and one that directly affects whether a customer completes an order.
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Pessimistic row locking: how an online store with one-of-a-kind items handles a race condition
A second-hand online store sells items that exist only once. Two customers must not buy the same item at the same time - the solution isn't in application logic but in the database.
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The N+1 problem in an online store admin: one query instead of a thousand
An order overview that slows down as the online store grows usually doesn't suffer from bad page design - it suffers from the wrong number of database queries.