Shopware 6 Audit: Know what is slowing, or limiting your Shopware store

We assess your Shopware platform across performance, system architecture, security, and operational risk.
These areas are closely connected. A slow store may be caused by code, infrastructure, integrations, database issues, caching, or deployment processes. By looking at the whole system, we identify the real causes, not just visible symptoms.

Synthetic tests alone do not show the full picture. A store can score well in a lab and still feel slow to real customers.
We combine controlled testing, real-user experience data, and application-level measurements. This shows how your store performs on actual devices, networks, browsers, and shopping journeys, including checkout.

The audit is carried out by named senior engineers with hands-on Shopware and eCommerce experience.
No junior handover. No subcontracted analysis. The engineer who performs the measurement writes the related report section, so every finding is practical, specific, and accountable.

You receive a clear action plan, not a generic issue list.
Recommendations are mapped on an impact-effort matrix, so you can quickly see what to fix first, what to plan next, and which changes may not be worth the cost. Your internal team, current partner, or Kiwee can act on the report without lock-in.

Tomasz Gajewski
CTO, 22+ years in eCommerce

Tomasz defines Kiwee’s audit methodology and personally signs off every report.
You get recommendations reviewed through the lens of technical risk, delivery reality, and long-term business value.

Get a clear executive view of what is slowing the store down, what creates risk, and what should be fixed first.
The summary translates technical findings into business impact: conversion risk, operational exposure, scalability limits, maintainability issues, security concerns, and investment priorities.
It is written for fast decision-making and can be shared directly with your CEO, board, or management team.

You see how your mobile performance, Largest Contentful Paint, Speed Index, and Core Web Vitals compare to the market, where you are falling behind, and what a realistic short-term performance target should be.

We analyse the key pages that shape revenue: homepage, category pages, product pages, search results, cart, and checkout, across mobile and desktop.
Using Core Web Vitals, real-user data where available, and Lighthouse reports, we identify where users experience delays, layout shifts, rendering issues, or third-party script problems.
You see which pages need attention first, what is causing friction, and how to improve the buying journey.

We use APM tools such as New Relic, Tideways, or Datadog where suitable to trace where response time is spent inside the application.
This reveals backend bottlenecks that frontend tests cannot show, including slow database queries, expensive plugins, inefficient custom code, slow API calls, checkout delays, cache misses, and background processes.
You see what is really slowing the store down and which issues will have the biggest impact when fixed.

We assess whether your hosting setup can handle the real workload of your Shopware store.
The review covers server response times, cache layers, PHP-FPM behavior, database and search services, queues, scheduled tasks, CDN setup, and infrastructure limits.
Where useful, we also create a separate comparison environment to measure TTFB and give you objective data for discussions with your hosting provider or infrastructure team.

We review how your Shopware platform is structured, including plugins, apps, themes, custom extensions, integrations, deployment flow, environments, and key dependencies.
The report shows where architecture is slowing performance, increasing maintenance cost, delaying development, or making future changes riskier than they should be.

We assess how plugins, custom code, themes, and integrations affect the stability, performance, and maintainability of your Shopware store.
The review covers ERP, PIM, CRM, payment, shipping, search, middleware, and other connected systems.
It highlights conflicts, duplicated responsibilities, fragile dependencies, outdated extensions, hidden performance costs, and areas that make the platform harder to maintain or scale.

We review the risks most likely to affect your Shopware store’s reliability, maintainability, and security.
This includes Shopware and plugin update status, configuration risks, permissions, visible exposed services, HTTPS and security headers, detectable dependency risks, secrets handling, backup and recovery practices, logging, monitoring, and deployment hygiene.
This is not a penetration test. It is a practical technical risk review focused on issues that can lead to downtime, incidents, costly maintenance, or avoidable security exposure.

Each finding is rated by severity and mapped on an impact-effort matrix, so your team can quickly see what needs attention first.
We also add risk and dependency context for technical and operational findings. This helps separate urgent fixes from long-term improvements and makes the highest-value work visible at a glance.

We close the audit with a 90-minute walkthrough for engineering and executive stakeholders.
Your team gets a clear explanation of the findings, the reasoning behind the priorities, and an open discussion on how to turn recommendations into implementation.