Increase Revenue with Conversion Rate Optimization Website Audit

Layer 5:Tech Fundamentals  

We start by looking at the bones of your site – assessing your site for items like loading speed, if you have errors in your code, and if technical SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has been correctly implemented.  

These core aspects of your site are frequently overlooked but can have an enormous impact on your bottom line. Improvements here will affect 100% of your traffic and that can mean big revenue gains when implemented with the highest quality.  

Page Audits

Your home page is first broken down and measured in three main categories: first is performance, second is adherence to best practices and third is SEO

. Our page audits also include a detailed breakdown of all the pages in your checkout path, viewed on desktop, mobile and through networks.  

Areas we look at in this section include cart abandonment challenges including: 

1. 1. • Pricing issues in cart – the price (sticker shock) 
      • Forced processes during the checkout process, sign up to email or create an account. 
      • Delivery options were limited, not fast enough.  
      • The return policy was unknown or just not agreeable.  
      • Preferred method of payment not available 

HTML (hypertext markup language) & CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Standard  

During this section we comb through a wide landscape of devices, browsers, operating systems, and networks, based off guidelines set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). When we review, we account for other impactful factors like WYSIWIG editors, and third-party scripts. 

List includes an 8-point check that runs through:  

1. 1. 1. Page description length 
      2. Meta Descriptions  
      3. Image Alt Text  
      4. Duplicate Content  
      5. Canonical URLS  
      6. Structured DATA 
      7. Server Response Codes  
      8. Internal Links 

Layer 4: Site Accessibility 

Your eCommerce site’s accessibility is the next aspect of your site that our experts review – can everyone get to and use your site? 

We assess your site against WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.1... A, AA, and AAA accessibility standards. Making your site accessible is more than just best practice. Not meeting these standards can open to tremendous risk of lawsuits and unhappy customers. 

In this section, we review overarching issues that include:

1. 1. 1. 1. Image elements 
         2. Iframe and Fram elements 
         3. Image elements and their alt attributes 
         4. Buttons and interactive items on the pages 
         5. Form controls 
         6. Label elements
         7. Images that flash or change automatically.
         8. Link text and screen text to reader connections
         9. Area – Labelled by attribute references.

Layer 3: Low-Friction Checkout 

Shoppers who have made it as far as your checkout are among your most committed and gains here can have large bottom-line impact.  

We assess items like user flow, use of form fields, microcopy, a contextual support. Your checkout is also reviewed for additional opportunities to lower the friction for your customers in the checkout funnel. 

We include the following check points.

1. 1. 1. Related Upsells  
      2. Unrelated Upsells  
      3. User Experience – Clear path forward (review of CTA’s) 
      4. Payment types 
      5. Payment options on mobile  
      6. Saved customer data (Addresses) 
      7. International Shipping  
      8. Multiple shipping options 
      9. Saved Customer Payments 
      10. Guest checkout settings 

Layer 2: Product Discovery  

Optimization of your Product Discovery is key to helping visitors become buyers. Your products need to be presented in the best light possible - merchandised with strong images and rich descriptions. They need to be easy to find, grouped intuitively, and searchable.  

In this section we dig into categories, facets and search settings, homing in on the following check points. 

Category Listing Pages:

1. 1. 1. Standard Category and Subcategory settings  
      2. Apparel category 
      3. Collections 
      4. Facets (examples) 
      5. Materials  
      6. Prices range 
      7. Color 
      8. Size  
      9. Brand  

Search Pages:

1. 1. 1. Search Filters 
      2. Product tags 
      3. Search Thesaurus reviewed  
      4. Spelling variants  
      5. Search Page product presentation  
      6. Related search links 
      7. Custom redirects  

Product Detail Pages:

1. 1. 1. Out of stock handling  
      2. Alerts 
      3. Cross sells 
      4. Back in stock handling 
      5. Alerts  
      6. Cross- sells. 
      7. Alternative product cross sells & upsells. 
      8. Community QA (Quality Assurance)  
      9. Reviews 

Layer 1: Next-Level Optimization  

At the last stage of the audit, Virid covers the more nuanced items in optimization. These are typically unique options, often specific to the needs of your customers. Your users experience is assessment for improvement opportunities in area as diverse as effective application neuromarketing principles, full lifecycle management and customer expectation alignment.  

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