Enable RUM on Your Shopify Store
Overview
Understanding how customers interact with your web pages is crucial to the success of your online store.
This guide walks through how you can set up Real User Monitoring on your Shopify-powered store.
Setup
Log into your Shopify administration panel.
Under Sales channels, click Online Store.
This opens up a new menu, click on Themes.
Click the Edit code button for your current theme.
Under the Layout directory, find the main file of your theme theme.liquid. Click the file to edit it.
Initialize the Browser RUM SDK by adding the SDK code snippet inside the <head> tag. For more information about which installation method to choose, see the RUM Browser Monitoring documentation.
Click the Save button to save your changes.
The updated looks like the following in the Shopify UI:
See more information regarding theme code’s editing in Shopify’s documentation.
Start exploring
Once you’ve initialized the Browser RUM SDK, you can start using Real User Monitoring with your Shopify store.
For example, you can:
- Get valuable insights about your customers’ behavior by
making data-driven decisions to improve your store
- Increase conversion by watching browser recordings enriched sessions with Session Replay
- Generate metrics from newly captured sessions
Further Reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:
