Hyvä Checkout vs full Hyvä theme — which should I do first?

Q: Hyvä Checkout vs full Hyvä theme — which should I do first?

Depends on where the bleeding is. Two patterns I see:Storefront slow, checkout OK → full Hyvä first. If PLP/PDP Lighthouse is 70% mobile → Hyvä Checkout first. Captures ~50% of the perf wins for ~25% of the migration cost. Lower risk, faster ROI. Then plan a full Hyvä migration in a later phase.For heavily customised Luma stores where a full migration is genuinely $30k+, Hyvä Checkout alone is often the right answer for the first 12 months. The two aren’t mutually exclusive — they stack.

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Depends on where the bleeding is. Two patterns I see:

Storefront slow, checkout OK → full Hyvä first. If PLP/PDP Lighthouse is < 50 and bounce rate is high, fix the entry pages first. Hyvä Checkout is a smaller win on top.
Storefront OK-ish, checkout abandonment > 70% mobile → Hyvä Checkout first. Captures ~50% of the perf wins for ~25% of the migration cost. Lower risk, faster ROI. Then plan a full Hyvä migration in a later phase.

For heavily customised Luma stores where a full migration is genuinely $30k+, Hyvä Checkout alone is often the right answer for the first 12 months. The two aren’t mutually exclusive — they stack.