Shopify cookie count and the Core Web Vitals
Cookies set during a cold visit: how many and their total size.
23.8% of Shopify sites use 3 to 5 cookies cookie count, and 98% of those sites have a good LCP, against 97% of all Shopify sites.
LCP pass rate
Sites with 3 to 5 cookies cookie count have a good LCP most often: 98%, against 97% of all Shopify sites. Sites with 6 or more cookies cookies have it least often, at 96%.
Cookie count usage
6 or more cookies is the most used: 58.6% of Shopify sites. 3 to 5 cookies is 23.8% of Shopify sites.
The four LCP phases
Across the four LCP sub-parts in Chrome's field data, the largest gap between 3 to 5 cookies and 6 or more cookies sits in element render delay: 276 ms median for 3 to 5 cookies against 322 ms for 6 or more cookies. Overall median field LCP is 1.2s for 3 to 5 cookies (TTFB 300 ms, load delay 616 ms, load duration 156 ms, render delay 276 ms) versus 1.4s for 6 or more cookies.
Cookie count per framework
On jQuery, 67% of sites use 6 or more cookies cookie count, and 95% of jQuery sites have a good LCP, against 97% of all sites. On Vue, 65% of sites use 6 or more cookies, and 97% of Vue sites have a good LCP.
Vue 933 sites6+ cookies 65%3 to 5 cookies 21%1 to 2 cookies 14%97%
jQuery 3,153 sites6+ cookies 67%3 to 5 cookies 21%1 to 2 cookies 11%95%Cookie count or the framework
Does the framework explain the cookie count difference?
On jQuery, 98% of sites with 3 to 5 cookies cookie count have a good LCP, against 94% of jQuery sites with 6 or more cookies. Within jQuery, sites with 3 to 5 cookies and 6 or more cookies have a good LCP about equally often. On Vue, 99% of sites with 3 to 5 cookies cookie count have a good LCP, against 96% of Vue sites with 6 or more cookies. Within Vue, sites with 3 to 5 cookies and 6 or more cookies have a good LCP about equally often.
By Arjen Karel · 8,246 crawled Shopify sites (3,818 with desktop Chrome field data, October 2026). How we measured.