Free store audit
The audit is the always-free side of SOptim. It runs in about 60 seconds and produces a downloadable PDF you can send to your team or a contractor.
What it checks
Storefront speed
- LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) — should be under 2.5s
- CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) — should be under 0.1
- INP (Interaction to Next Paint) — should be under 200ms
We pull Core Web Vitals from CrUX (Chrome User Experience Report) where available, and run a synthetic Lighthouse pass on your home + product detail + cart pages.
App costs
We don't have access to your Shopify billing API (that scope isn't merchant-installable), but we do detect installed apps via theme tags and inferred billing patterns. The audit surfaces:
- Apps you've installed but haven't used in 30+ days (based on whether their script tags fire)
- Apps with overlapping features (e.g., two review apps, three popup apps)
- Apps with known cheaper alternatives in the App Store
Median merchant savings: $50–$200/month within 30 days of acting on the recommendations.
Bot risk
A 30-day traffic-shape analysis: what fraction of your sessions look bot-like, how that compares to similar shops, top suspicious ASNs hitting your store, and an estimate of revenue lost to fake checkouts. This is the audit's hook into recommending Bot Shield.
Audit URL is locked
You can only audit your own Shopify storefront. We pull the shop's myshopify_domain from the OAuth handshake and validate it server-side on every audit request. This prevents competitive-intelligence misuse.
How often can I run it?
Unlimited. On every plan, including Free. The audit costs us almost nothing to run because we cache the Lighthouse + CrUX results for 24h per storefront.
Where's the PDF?
Generated in your browser as a downloadable file. We do not email it (avoids one more PII channel).
Available on
All plans, including Free.