Hi,
Does anyone have any ideas on how to reduce these kilobytes marked in red?
If I have saved unused assets in the image pool, are these also transferred in the background?
Thanks for your tips.
Best regards
Toby
Here is my site Read-Only: LINK
(how to share your site Read-Only link)
Webflow ecommerce activated?
Hi,
no, nothing. we have removed everything unnecessary. Third-party code, unnecessary classes, web fonts replaced by system fonts, etc. We no longer need or use a consent tool.
We had Commerce installed, but we have completely removed the store and everything else.
damn annoying.
@Toby - Webflow e-commerce leaves a large chunk of JS behind. You can’t remove that without going to a backup before your enabled it or starting a rebuild.
Hm. That really can’t be true, can it?
That would mean that I would have to rebuild the entire site. Is it not possible to transfer the entire site to a new project and then simply reconnect the domain?
I’ll write to Webflow support. That would be a real bummer.
Thank you and best regards
Toby
@Toby - It’s a serious issue that I’ve been consistently highlighting. I didn’t give a casual response. I’ve warned many in the forums about the potential pitfalls of enabling commerce, stressing that it should only be done if it’s a continuous necessity for your project.
If you transfer a project, you get its current state. If commerce was enabled, it will be on the transferred site.
The only way to remove it is to restore your project to a point before you enable it on your OP.
Search the forums, and you will see.
You could always self-host and replace the JS or reverse proxy and do the same. It’s complicated, but it’s a potential option.
Hi Jeff,
Yes, I have seen that part JS. Basically I’m technically out of it, hosting it myself. And Webflow is basically good, but not in this case. Especially if you sell your users “clean code”.
I have written to the support team. Below is the answer to my question about whether and how to remove the residual code from e-commerce and whether Webflow could do this manually. It is sobering:
Feedback 1 Webflow Support:
Hi Toby,
This is Matthew with Webflow Customer Support. Thank you for contacting us about removing ecommerce functionality from your site. I’m happy to help!
At this time, fully removing Ecommerce functionality from a Webflow site that has it already enabled is not possible, even from our end.
If you need to have a site without the Ecommerce code, you could use cross-site copy and paste as well as the export and import feature of Webflow CMS to migrate your work to a new site without Ecommerce enabled.
I understand that you would prefer to completely delete the Ecommerce pages from your existing site and apologize for any inconvenience that comes with this current technical limitation.
Let us know if you have any further questions. We’re happy to help!
My Feedback:
Hello,
phew. Webflow is so innovative and works so hard on the features and improvements… Then they tell the users out there that Webflow leaves very clean code, who then pass that on to websites and their customers.
Sorry guys, but we also extend that we work very cleanly. You sell the e-commerce system, offer it for sale for good money and then don’t manage to remove it completely from an existing site? I would have thought that was one of the basic plans before even thinking about selling such a system.
We are now measured by our customers in terms of clean work. These customers also look at the code on our site. That’s why we’ve spent the last few weeks clearing and cleaning it up as much as possible and are now doing very well with the Google Core Web Vitals. And when I see that the unused Webflow JavaScript from e-commerce alone calls up over 200 KB and is noted in the page speed, I am really disappointed and also angry.
And now we’re supposed to copy paste this page, which is currently clean, into a new one in the hope that all the custom codes that have been created on the pages and in the backend will still work? That everything is really copied 1:1? And that it will still work as usual? And then all the CMS links etc.?
No thanks.
Final Feedback 2 Webflow Support:
Hi Toby,
Thank you for sharing your feedback and expressing the frustration that comes with this current technical limitation.
We understand that the current workarounds regarding removing ecommerce features are not ideal. Our team is aware of this limitation and the pain points that come with it. While I wish that I could provide a timeframe as to if or when it might be possible to fully remove ecommerce, we don’t yet have any concrete plans that we can share about this.
I understand this isn’t the news that you were hoping for and hope that we’ll have a better solution to offer for these types of cases in the future.
Thanks again for your patience and understanding as Webflow grows to become a better tool with features that suit our users’ needs.
Kind regards…
End Support
Thank you Jeff for your frank words and your knowledge here. This is not a satisfactory solution on the part of Webflow, especially because it not only annoys customers, but also ends up deceiving them. As harsh as that sounds. But unfortunately, clean code looks different.
Here the Link to the Wishlist ;-)
Thanks for sharing your communications with support. This should be informative and helpful for others to consider before enabling e-commerce on a project.
Kudos for also taking the time to create a wishlist item. However, I don’t believe Webflow is actively using it these days, which is disappointing.
@Toby - If you want to “fix” that project, that is something I can do for you. If that is something you would like to discuss, please reach out to me.
