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How Does the Audit Find Revenue I Am Currently LosingUpdated 7 days ago

The audit finds revenue currently being lost by treating the buyer journey as a funnel with a leak at each stage — identifying where the most buyers exit before converting, so plugging those leaks produces the largest revenue increase from traffic already arriving.

How the audit identifies each category of lost revenue:

Traffic that arrived and left the homepage without entering the store — a heatmap showing clicks concentrated only in the hero section with nothing engaged below it indicates buyers are not finding a clear path forward. Fixing the homepage directs more of the existing traffic into the store.

Traffic that viewed a product but did not add to cart — scroll depth and session recordings together identify why. Was the add to cart button not visible? Was a trust signal missing? Was the description failing to address the objection stopping the buyer?

Traffic that added to cart but did not complete checkout:

  • Cart abandonment data shows at what step buyers are leaving
  • Session recordings of checkout sessions identify whether a technical error, confusing field or unexpected cost is stopping completion
  • Each percentage point of checkout completion recovered represents significant additional revenue

Traffic lost to slow page speed — visitors who left before the page finished loading would have converted had the page loaded faster. Speed improvements recover this traffic from the day they are implemented.

Every leak found and fixed in the audit is revenue recovered from traffic the store is already paying to acquire.

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