Fastest Theme Speeds On BigCommerce – Stencil VS Blueprint

Which produces faster BigCommerce themes…Stencil or Blueprint?

We’re happy to announce that BigCommerce’s themes just got a lot speedier! This exciting news comes on the back of their release of a new framework for 2017 – Stencil. For years – since their inception actually – they have offered Blueprint as the sole framework to develop on. Now with this release, we compare the speed between Blueprint & Stencil by pitting two of their lightest themes against each other in a GTMetrix shootout.

Check out our infographic below for some of the details on this duel and what made Stencil come out on top

Learn more about how we develop on Stencil and see some examples of sites we’ve worked on here.

Interested in upgrading your theme from Blueprint to Stencil? Contact us about BigCommerce Upgrades.