# How to Do an In-depth Liquid Render Analysis with Theme Inspector

DevFeed: [How to Do an In-depth Liquid Render Analysis with Theme Inspector](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-do-an-in-depth-liquid-render-analysis-with-theme-inspector-1446.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/in-depth-liquid-render-analysis-shopify-theme-inspector-chrome-extension>)

Author: Helen Lin

Published: 2020-10-20T17:45:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debug.md>), [Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/extension.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>)

Tags: [analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analysis.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chrome.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debug.md>), [extension](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extension.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to use Shopify Theme Inspector for Chrome to analyze Liquid rendering performance with flame graphs. It shows how to interpret execution time, identify inefficient code patterns, and compare clean pagination code with a heavier loop that accesses product attributes.

## Source excerpt

Shopify's Online Store provides greater flexibility to build themes representing the brand of a merchant's online store. However, like with any programming language, one often writes code without being aware of all the performance impact it creates. Whether it be performance impact on Shopify's servers or observable performance impact on the browser, ultimately, it's the customers that experience the slowness.