Snapshot CRO

// behavioral analytics + a/b testing for Shopify. one app, one workflow, zero session recordings of people typing their address.

Most CRO stacks are three subscriptions duct-taped together: an analytics tool that tells you something is wrong, a heatmap tool that shows you where it might be wrong, and a testing tool that lets you guess at a fix. Snapshot CRO does the whole loop in one place: diagnose problem pages → uncover roadblocks and friction → a/b test solutions. Each step feeds the next, so your tests come from evidence instead of vibes.

tl;dr

// what this page explains, so you know what you're getting into:

step 0: filter the fake traffic

Before any diagnosis, every session gets scored: real, zombie, or bot. Bots are datacenter and automation traffic. Zombies are "sessions" that load one page, touch nothing, and leave — technically human-shaped, analytically useless. Your platform analytics counts all of them as visitors, which is one reason your conversion rate looks worse than it is and your tests never reach significance.

session scoring — last 30 daysn=12,847
classsessionsshare
real8,41265.5%████████████████████
zombie2,90522.6%████████████████████
bot1,53011.9%████████████████████

→ 34.5% of "traffic" excluded from analysis. you're welcome.

^ recreation of the app's session scoring view, sample data.

1. diagnose problem pages

The Store Audit ranks every page by traffic, conversion, and revenue, then flags the mismatches — pages that get plenty of visitors and quietly do nothing with them. That delta between "should convert" and "does convert" is your leak. You don't need to audit 200 pages; you need to audit the three that are bleeding.

store audit — pages by leakreal sessions only
pagesessionscvrrevenueleak
/products/trail-runner-v23,2040.8%$4,110-$9,340
/collections/sale2,1181.1%$3,890-$5,120
/products/daily-trainer1,8673.4%$11,240
/collections/new1,4112.9%$7,205

→ leak = expected revenue at store-median cvr minus actual. two pages, $14.5k/mo on the table.

^ recreation of the store audit view, sample data.

2. uncover roadblocks and friction

Take a Page Snapshot of a flagged page and the app audits what actually happens on it: clicks by zone, exit paths, scroll depth, and what people type into search when the page fails them. No pixel-blob heatmap you squint at like a horoscope — counted interactions per zone, ranked.

page snapshot — /products/trail-runner-v2n=1,000 real sessions
zoneclicks/sessionsignal
size selector4.7████████████rage territory
image gallery2.1████████████normal
size chart link1.8████████████opens pdf. on mobile. in 2026.
add to cart0.3███████████the point of the page

top exit path: size chart pdf → gone (41%)

top on-site search from this page: "trail runner sizing" (188×)

→ hypothesis writes itself: sizing info is the roadblock. put it on the page.

^ recreation of the page snapshot view, sample data.

3. a/b test solutions

Now test the fix — in the same app, against the same scored traffic. Results are Bayesian: instead of a p-value you explain to no one, you get the probability that the variant beats control, plus revenue per session so a "winner" that sells more $12 socks and fewer $140 shoes gets caught. Snapshot-based testing means low-traffic stores get honest answers in weeks, not quarters.

a/b test — inline size chart vs. pdf linkday 18 of 21
variantsessionscvrrev/sessionp(beat control)
A — control (pdf link)1,5060.9%$1.28
B — inline size chart1,4942.2%$3.0497.4%

→ ship B. close the loop. open the next leak from step 1.

^ recreation of the a/b test results view, sample data.

pricing

install

It's on the Shopify App Store. Installs via web pixel, uninstalls cleanly, and the data practices are documented in plain language in the privacy policy below.

→ install snapshot cro on shopify

→ read the privacy policy