Product discovery is the heart of the eCommerce funnel. When a customer lands on a Magento 2 store, the path from initial search to product identification must be instant, intuitive, and visually compelling. The challenge for developers is achieving this high-impact UX without introducing the performance-killing bloat that the Hyvä theme was designed to eliminate.

This technical guide explores the synergy between two crucial qoliber extensions—Fast Search and Product Labels Pro and how their combined, lightweight architecture transforms magento discovery into a high-speed, high-conversion experience, all while preserving excellent Core Web Vitals (CWV).

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Table of Contents

• 1. Breaking the Speed Barrier: The Fast Search Imperative
• 2. Visual Urgency: The Power of Product Labels
• 3. The Discovery Synergy: Search + Labels
• 4. Maintaining Hyvä Performance Integrity

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1. Breaking the Speed Barrier: The Fast Search Imperative

The default Magento search is a friction point, requiring full page reloads and lacking the relevance necessary for modern shopping. In contrast, Fast Search delivers instant, as-you-type results, a non-negotiable feature for top-tier UX.

Key Fast Search Benefits for Discovery:

• Instant Results: Search suggestions and results appear instantly, eliminating latency and reducing the chances of abandonment at the search stage.
• Typo-Tolerance: Leveraging ElasticSuite integration to ensure relevant products are displayed even if the user misspells the query, improving the success rate of the initial search action.

By shortening the time-to-result, Fast Search ensures the first step of magento discovery is swift and positive. You can find technical details on the Fast Search extension page.

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2. Visual Urgency: The Power of Product Labels

Once the user navigates to the Product Listing Page (PLP) or views the instant search overlay, the next step is to guide their decision. This is where high-impact search labels come into play. Labels visually communicate urgency, value, or status ("New," "Sale," "Low Stock") without requiring the user to read fine print.

Key Product Labels Pro Benefits for Conversion:

• Visual Highlighting: Draws the eye immediately to promotional or scarce items, prioritizing what the user sees.
• Rule-Based Automation: Labels are dynamically applied based on complex inventory, price, or sales rules, ensuring accuracy without manual updates.

Crucially, the qoliber Product Labels Pro module achieves this without the common performance cost of Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), which plagues traditional magento product visuals.

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3. The Discovery Synergy: Search + Labels

The combined effect of Fast Search and Product Labels Pro creates a seamless, high-velocity discovery funnel.

• Search Overlay: Labels are rendered directly onto product images within the instant search dropdown, immediately showing "Sale" items or "New" arrivals right at the moment of search, accelerating the click-through decision.
• Category Pages: The instant loading speed provided by Hyvä is complemented by the CLS-zero labels on PLPs, providing both speed and visual stability for the shopping environment.

This integration is essential for modern Magento stores, ensuring that functional speed and visual merchandising work in perfect harmony. Find details on the CLS-safe rendering of this module on the Product Labels Pro extension page.

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4. Maintaining Hyvä Performance Integrity

For developers, the greatest advantage lies in the shared performance philosophy of these qoliber extensions. Both Fast Search and Product Labels Pro are engineered to be lightweight magento extensions, protecting the minimal resource consumption of the Hyvä frontend.

By choosing modules that optimize server-side processing and minimize client-side JavaScript, agencies can deliver a best-in-class UX experience that maintains high CWV scores across every stage of magento discovery.

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Conclusion

Optimizing product discovery in Magento 2 requires a dual focus: speed and strategic visual communication. The qoliber combination of Fast Search and Product Labels Pro provides developers with the necessary tools to eliminate friction and instantly highlight value, transforming the store into a high-performance conversion engine. This synergy is non-negotiable for success in the Hyvä ecosystem.

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Article updated January, 2026