Quick speed test of checkout experience

I’ve been testing the new 1.0.21 beta of FluentCart, setting up some checkouts and running a few quick comparisons.

One interesting thing I noticed:

• Old Checkout:

  • No database queries on load (since it handles all checkout logic externally, via API. That's pretty normal 🙈).
  • Load time: 0.23s – 0.29s (optimized).

• FluentCart Checkout:

  • Executes 26+ database queries just to render (some, duplicated)
  • Load time: 0.85s – 0.90s (also optimized).

That means the checkout page is currently loading about 0.6s slower on average - roughly 3× the time.

I completely understand that FluentCart is still early and checkout logic is naturally heavier. I’m just sharing this observation in case some of those queries could eventually be cached, deferred, or streamlined 🙈

Overall, the product is looking really solid already, and the tax module... Congrats to the team!

This is just a small detail that could bring a big improvement to performance at such a critical stage of the funnel. 🚀

Here I attach some of those queries.

cc: Shahjahan Jewel

Pease note: this is just a quick test on my side using a Fluent-only stack, with a site optimized at a medium level (nothing fancy, just basic settings). Many other factors can influence checkout speed (server setup, caching layers, theme, third-party plugins, etc.), so this should be seen as a simple personal benchmark, not a definitive conclusion. In any case, both setups load under 1 second, which is already a great result.