Symmetry Shopify Theme Review

Symmetry is a modern and minimal Shopify theme that comes with plenty of features to help you create a successful online store. It is also a fairly popular paid theme on the Shopify Theme Store.

Price of Symmetry theme

The price of Symmetry is $ 320, this is a pretty high price in the top 2 in the list of themes listed for sale on Shopify Theme Store with that price, it will give you value for money. To be able to sell on Shopify Theme Store, you need to pass the strict requirements of Shopify, so you can be absolutely sure of the quality of Symmetry.

Theme template

The Symmetry theme for Shopify comes in four main styles: Beatnik, Chantilly, Duke, and Salt Yard. Each style has its own unique look and feel, so you can choose the one that best suits your brand.

• Beatnik: The Beatnik style is clean and simple, with a focus on your product images. The layout is easy to navigate, and the color scheme is neutral, so it won’t distract from your products.

• Chantilly: The Chantilly style is sleek and stylish, with a minimalistic design. The style has a color scheme that is easy on the eye, making your browsing a pleasant experience.

• Duke: The Duke style is daring and fearless, with a dramatic design. It tries to highlight your products in an unexpected way, which easily captures your customers’ attention.

• Salt Yard: The Salt Yard style is warm and inviting, with a creative way of presenting the products and facilitating the website navigation.

⇨ Depending on the orientation of your store, there are the most suitable theme styles for you to choose from.

How is the theme Symmetry’s performance?

– According to the experience on the demo site, the speed of the Symmetry theme is fast, fully loaded and less slow, the pages load smoothly, fully and quickly when going to the next page. This is a major factor affecting SEO rankings if you want your website to rank high.

– Website can be slowed down due to the Shopify app, image size, complex way you edit theme code and many other factors, so with this score Symmetry theme is speed friendly.

– Measure page speed with the Indexed Page Speed Test tool: 

• Speed Score on the desktop is 92
• Speed Score on mobile is 49

⇨ Symmetry site performance is average and needs to improve.

– Some stores use Symmetry theme, you can go into the experience and check the store speed with the tool Pagespeed 

• WALLENCYCLOPEDIA Store: wallencyclopedia.com
• Roark Store: roarkrevival.com
• Women In Mind Store: womeninmind.co
• Make My Lemonade Store: makemylemonade.com

Marketing support

SEO

– URL optimization:

• The URL is short, clear but still makes sense, easy to read and easy for the reader to remember (EX:https://themes.shopify.com/themes/symmetry/styles/chantilly/preview)

⇨ Clear and reliable when clicking on the link

– Title optimization:

• The title is short and summarizes the content of the article
• Do not abuse keywords, titles: titles are not repeated between pages

– Optimizing heading 1:

• Every page of Symmetry demo site has a unique H1.
• H1 tag matches the title of the article.
• H1 tag is short and easy to understand right with the content of the article.

– Optimizing sub-heading (h2,h3,..): 

Located in the body of the article.

• According to each page of Symmetry, the layout is clearly divided and the H2, H3 help support the main title of the whole page.
• Short, not too long.

– Optimize meta description: 

• Symmetry’s meta tag content: short, concise, showing the page content, helps attract customers.

– Optimize images for SEO

• The images on the Symmetry page all have captions for the images inserted in the page.
• In the articles, there are images for each section such as blog page, product page, etc.

– Optimize internal links:

• Links from pages are related to each other and redirect to the right page.
• Keywords related to the content of the page.

– Optimize external links: 

• As important as internal links, there are links to other pages that help create connections with your store from many different places

– Mobile optimization and fast loading:

• Experience when using the mobile good interface without overlapping challenging to see.
• The download speed is fast and relatively stable with few errors

– Social optimization: 

• There are social buttons on the page to help the store easily call for interactions and purchases such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

– Optimizing readability:

• Line length: paragraphs are broken down and it’s easy for the reader to follow the progress.
• Alignment: margin spacing creates separation by section.

⇨ SEO of Symmetry is good and stale, support you a lot in increasing search rankings on Google 

Symmetry always pays attention to customer feedback and comments: giving customers trust and interest in them, peace of mind when shopping.

ADS

The interface is easy to see and clear: new users will not be confused by the information. Help attract customers from the moment they enter the homepage, after a period of experience with the website, customers are interested in the content of the page with the product pages.

Message on the same page: easy to see and highlight the store’s programs

⇨ Simple website and highlight products for sale.

⇨ Draw the store’s attention to your customers and capture their interest.

Marketing support

• Customizable popup banners easily: advertise your store’s brand easily by highlighting it and the store’s upcoming programs.
• Newsletter: customers want to receive the latest information from the store and the products they are interested in.

⇨ Relatively full support for marketing plugins but will need to install additional plugins such as chat and call because the theme does not provide them.

What features can you find on Symmetry Shopify Theme?

• If you are looking to add a bit of class and sophistication to your Shopify store, then the Symmetry Theme is definitely worth your consideration. This theme comes with features that will help give your store a professional and polished look, including responsive design, multi-language support, and plenty of customization options.
• One of the key features of the Symmetry theme is its responsive design. Your store will look great on all devices, from desktop to mobile. Your customers can browse your products and make purchases no matter where they are.
• In addition, Symmetry also has features that use ajax to optimize user actions when searching, it will pop up products with names related to the keyword being entered and quick view for details and more. Quickly add products to the cart right at the category page without going to the product detail page.
• Another great feature of the Symmetry theme is its support for multiple currencies. This is perfect if you are targeting customers from different countries or if you have a multilingual team. With this theme, users can easily convert between different currencies that match their local currency with just a few clicks.
• Finally, the Symmetry theme comes with plenty of customization options. You can change the colors, fonts, and layout of your store to match your brand. With so many options available, you’re sure to find the perfect theme for your business.

What are people say about the Symmetry theme?

– Positive user reviews up to 91% of the total 516 reviews can see the value that the theme brings to customer satisfaction. However, there are still negative reviews like when using the theme for their store, which makes the store’s performance much worse.

How is our experience with this theme?

Pros:

• Document install theme is quite detailed, installing the theme is also quite easy, because the theme is released by the Shopify theme store, so install it directly on the store without having to do many steps.
• The latest release version is Version 5.7.1 released on August 29, 2022, the updated versions are quite frequent, so the theme is updated quite quickly.
• There are currency converters from many different countries.
• Support of the Theme is quite fast and timely, thoroughly solving problems related to the Theme.

Cons:

• Symmetry theme doesn’t have many built-in features to support things like marketing: live chat, and live call, so you will need to install some apps yourself, to add more functionality for your store.
• The price is quite high.

Who should use the Symmetry theme?

This theme is quite good in terms of visuals, marketing, customization support but still limited in price. At $320, it can be said to be quite overwhelming for small and medium businesses or sellers. Just getting started with Shopify. Symmetry in our opinion will best suit large businesses that are willing to pay and want to build their stores as completely as possible.