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16 articles in CRO
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Shopify Orders Don't Match Meta or GA4? Which Number Is Right
For Shopify owners whose Meta, GA4 and Shopify order counts disagree: why each tool counts differently, and a 30-minute check to reconcile them.
Why Am I Not Getting Sales on Shopify? Check These in Order
For owners of small or newer Shopify stores with visitors and no orders: find the step that leaks, then fix traffic, product page, checkout or setup.
4 Shopify CRO Experiments to Run Before a Redesign
Four focused Shopify CRO tests for product pages and carts, with a hypothesis, metric and guardrail for each one.
Shopify Sessions Suddenly Dropped? What Changed in Analytics in September 2026
Shopify changed session measurement and bot filtering in September 2026. Check whether the report changed before treating it as lost traffic.
Your Support Inbox Is a CRO Backlog
The questions customers keep asking are a ranked list of what your product and policy pages fail to say. Here is how to pull that list out of 90 days of conversations, group it by the decision it blocks, and turn it into page edits that cut tickets and abandonment at the same time.
Did Shopify Checkout Conversion Drop? Check the Funnel Definition Before Fixing Checkout
How to tell a real Shopify checkout problem from a changed funnel definition, open versus closed reporting, bot traffic, direct checkout paths, and measurement drift after a migration.