--- title: "Free Ecommerce Tools: Speed Test, Trust Badges, QR and PDF" description: "Free ecommerce tools for Shopify, WooCommerce and every store: a speed test that names slow apps, trust badges, QR codes, 39 PDF tools and setup guides." url: "https://carthacker.com/" image: "https://carthacker.com/wp-content/themes/carthacker-core/assets/og/home.jpg?v=1792808376" publisher: "CartHacker (carthacker.com)" language: "en" --- For Shopify, WooCommerce and every store # Free ecommerce tools that help your store sell more Find the apps that slow your store, add trust badges under Add to cart and follow **step-by-step guides for Shopify and WooCommerce**. [Test my store](https://carthacker.com/store-speed-test/) [Store setup guides](https://carthacker.com/category/setup/) [By **Adrian Wadowski**, building online stores since 1998](https://carthacker.com/author/adrian/) Shopify, WooCommerce Free CartHacker tools ## Free speed test and trust badges for Shopify and WooCommerce stores Find the apps that slow your store down, by name and in milliseconds, then answer shopper doubts with trust badges under Add to cart. **Both start free, with no card.** Store Speed Test ### Which app is slowing your store down? Paste any page and get its three Core Web Vitals, **the apps costing time, like Klaviyo or Judge.me**, and the Shopify or WooCommerce fix. - 1 free test a day, no sign-up - 5 a day on a free account - Google's Lighthouse engine Trust Seals & Badges ### Do shoppers hesitate at Add to cart? Show the promises that settle doubts, from free shipping to a money-back guarantee, **right under the Add to cart button**. One line in your theme, or the free WordPress plugin. - 8 badges in 2 styles, free - Premium: 50 badges, 30 languages - View counts from the first shopper [Build my trust badges](https://carthacker.com/trust-badges/#builder) Design them without signing up. Also free [39 PDF Tools](https://carthacker.com/pdf-tools/) Convert, merge and sign in your browser. **Your files stay on your device.** - [JPG to PDF](https://carthacker.com/pdf-tools/jpg-to-pdf/) - [Merge PDF](https://carthacker.com/pdf-tools/merge-pdf/) - [PDF to Word](https://carthacker.com/pdf-tools/pdf-to-word/) - [Word to PDF](https://carthacker.com/pdf-tools/word-to-pdf/) - [Sign PDF](https://carthacker.com/pdf-tools/sign-pdf/) [QR Code Generator](https://carthacker.com/qr-code-generator/) Change the link after printing and count the scans. **5 tracked codes on a free account**, static codes unlimited. - Logo and colors - SVG for print - WiFi and business cards Foundation ## [Store Setup & Platforms](https://carthacker.com/category/setup/) Platform picks, migrations and launch checklists that put your store on solid ground - from Shopify and WooCommerce fundamentals to server architecture built to scale. [View all](https://carthacker.com/category/setup/) ### [Shopify Fees: Where the Other $350 a Month Goes](https://carthacker.com/setup/shopify-fees/) On a $29 Shopify plan, a store selling $10,000 a month pays $379, because the card fees come out of the payouts and never… Sep 8, 2026, 7 min read ### [WooCommerce Hosting: Why the Expensive Hosts Aren't the Fast Ones](https://carthacker.com/setup/woocommerce-hosting/) In Google's own data, pricey managed hosts such as Kinsta and Flywheel answer phones in time less often than cheap shared hosting, because WooCommerce… Sep 1, 2026, 12 min read ### [Shopify vs WooCommerce: Close on Cost, Far Apart on Speed](https://carthacker.com/setup/shopify-vs-woocommerce/) For a store that sells, Shopify and WooCommerce cost about the same, but 81.9% of Shopify stores answer phones in time against 12.7% of… Aug 20, 2026, 9 min read Revenue ## [Growth & Sales](https://carthacker.com/category/growth/) Conversion optimization, pricing tactics and checkout psychology backed by real data - built to turn the traffic you already have into paid orders. [View all](https://carthacker.com/category/growth/) ### [Ecommerce Conversion Rate: What's Good, and How One Store Got to 1.9%](https://carthacker.com/growth/ecommerce-conversion-rate/) The median Shopify store converts 1.4% of its sessions, and a niche store selling camel milk powder climbed from under 0.25% to about 1.9%… Sep 29, 2026, 7 min read ### [Average Order Value: Why One Store's Sales Doubled While Its AOV Stood Still](https://carthacker.com/growth/average-order-value/) One store kept its average order at EUR 125.58 while its monthly sales more than doubled, and a free shipping threshold in the wrong… Sep 24, 2026, 8 min read ### [Trust Badges: I Tried to Find Where the 42% Came From](https://carthacker.com/growth/trust-badges/) The 42% lift every badge app quotes has no surviving method, but a randomized study found that a seal raised purchases, and three days… Aug 25, 2026, 15 min read Visibility ## [SEO & Marketing](https://carthacker.com/category/marketing/) Technical SEO, product feeds and content strategies engineered for visibility - rank, get clicked and outlast every algorithm shift. [View all](https://carthacker.com/category/marketing/) ### [Shopify SEO: Why Google Showed One Store Less and Sent the Same Clicks](https://carthacker.com/marketing/shopify-seo/) One Shopify store lost about 40% of its Google impressions and kept its clicks, which shows what Shopify does for SEO on its own… Oct 1, 2026, 9 min read ### [The Three Automated Emails Every Store Needs, and Reviews Nobody Paid For](https://carthacker.com/marketing/ecommerce-email-flows/) Automated emails were 2% of the sends and 30% of the email revenue across 150,000 Omnisend stores, and one store gets its reviews with… Sep 22, 2026, 8 min read ### [Google Merchant Center: How a Short Stock-Out Got a Store Blocked, Twice](https://carthacker.com/marketing/google-merchant-center/) Twice a short stock-out that the feed didn't report got a store's Merchant Center account blocked, and Google Ads with it, and both times… Sep 15, 2026, 10 min read Engineering ## [Code & Customization](https://carthacker.com/category/customization/) Copy-paste snippets, theme surgery and performance tuning for owners who are not afraid of the code editor - every line is production-tested. [View all](https://carthacker.com/category/customization/) ### [After the Rank Math and UpdraftCentral Breaches, I'd Replace Both With Two Files](https://carthacker.com/customization/replace-rank-math-updraftplus/) Both attacks came through a channel a plugin keeps open to someone else's server, and for SEO tags and backups a 230-line mu-plugin and… Oct 23, 2026, 25 min read ### [Patched PHP2Shell? Every Server I Checked Still Had This Turned On](https://carthacker.com/customization/php2shell-cve-2026-115560/) Every server I had patched for PHP2Shell still had session upload progress on, the one setting PHP's new CVE-2026-115560 advisory asks you to turn… Oct 23, 2026, 14 min read ### [Patching PHP2Shell on 8 Servers: What php -v Won't Tell You](https://carthacker.com/customization/php2shell-cve-2026-109618/) The PHP2Shell fix is in, but php -v won't show it on Ubuntu. How I checked, patched and restarted eight servers, and the reboot… Oct 22, 2026, 13 min read Strategy ## [Trends & Strategy](https://carthacker.com/category/trends/) Market analysis, platform roadmaps and strategic plays for the next quarter, not the last one - decide with data and move before the crowd. [View all](https://carthacker.com/category/trends/) ### [Is Dropshipping Worth It? The $39.90 Order That Costs $71 in Ads](https://carthacker.com/trends/is-dropshipping-worth-it/) A $39.90 dropshipping order leaves $15.45 before advertising and costs $71.43 to win with ads at a typical click price, so the store that… Oct 2, 2026, 10 min read ### [How Fast Are Online Stores? Speed Data by Platform](https://carthacker.com/trends/ecommerce-speed-statistics/) Real-visitor Core Web Vitals for 1.58 million stores on 48 platforms show how much a platform decides about speed, and why the busiest Shopify… Sep 10, 2026, 19 min read Who runs CartHacker ## [Adrian Wadowski](https://carthacker.com/author/adrian/) Founder and lead e-commerce engineer Adrian has written code and built online stores since 1998, from the server to the checkout. **Every CartHacker guide and tool comes out of that work**: measured on real stores, with the data shown. [Read the full dossier](https://carthacker.com/author/adrian/) --- Source: [Free Ecommerce Tools: Speed Test, Trust Badges, QR and PDF](https://carthacker.com/), CartHacker.