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Rakuten Advertising vs ShopMy: which slows a Shopify store more?

Rakuten Advertising and ShopMy usually land in the same band. Neither is clearly lighter on the typical store.

Both are affiliate and influencer apps. We measured Rakuten Advertising on 49 Shopify ecommerce stores and ShopMy on 120.

Affiliate and influencer tracking

Side by side

AppTypical processing timeStores measured
Rakuten Advertising Light (under 100 ms) 49
ShopMy Light (under 100 ms) 120

Rakuten Advertising was light on 92% of the stores it was measured on. ShopMy was light on 100% of the stores it was measured on.

On stores that run both

11 of the stores we checked load both. ShopMy took less processing time than Rakuten Advertising on 8 of them.

Each band is an app's typical processing time across the stores it was measured on. Those stores differ from app to app. That makes the result on stores that run both the fairer test. Apps found on fewer than 20 stores aren't listed yet. The list grows as more stores are checked.

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