Store Check

Store Check is a free health check for any Shopify store. Paste the store's address and in about half a minute you get a score out of 100 and a short list of what to fix, most important first. You don't need an account, and you can check any store, not only your own.

Run a check

Go to pasilobus.com/tools/store-check, type the store's address (for example yourstore.com) and click Check my store. The page shows each step while it runs. When it's done you get a result page with its own link, so you can share it or come back to it later.

What we check

The check loads your home page, a product page, a collection page and a few files Google reads, much like a shopper or a search engine would. It looks at four areas:

• Speed - Google's mobile speed test, loading times from real visits when Google has them, how fast your store answers, and the scripts on your home page
• Search - page titles and descriptions, headings, image descriptions, product details for Google, robots.txt and your sitemap
• Selling basics - sold-out products without a way to get notified, reviews, a free shipping message, and search
• Trust - store policies, contact details, broken links in your menu and footer, and how pages work on phones

The What we saw panel also lists your theme and the apps that load on these pages. It's there for information and doesn't change the score.

How the score works

Each area scores the points it earned out of the points possible. A warning counts half, and anything we couldn't check doesn't count either way. Your overall score is the average of the areas.

If Google's speed test didn't run, Speed shows Basic check only and is left out of the overall score, because response time and script counts alone can't tell whether a store feels fast.

What we checked at the bottom of the result lists every check that passed, anything we couldn't check and why, and every page and file we loaded.

Fixing what we found

Each problem says why it matters and how to fix it yourself, usually with the place to change it in your Shopify admin. Where one of our apps does exactly that job, it's suggested with its price. If you'd rather have it done for you, Store Care members can ask our team to fix it.

Get the full report by email

Right under the score, type your email and click Email me the full report. It's free, and the score itself never needs an email. The report arrives in a few minutes with:

• Your score and the problems worth fixing first, with how to fix each
• A phone screenshot of your home page from Google's speed test, with boxes around the parts Google measured as a problem (only when the speed test ran)
• Notes from Pasilo, our assistant, on what to fix first and why, written only from what the check measured

The email links to a web version of the report you can open again later.

Tick Also check this store every Monday if you'd like the weekly check too. Nothing starts until you click Start the weekly check in the report email, and after that we email you only when the score drops or a new problem appears.

We use your email only for the report and, if you confirm it, the weekly check. To stop, click Unsubscribe at the bottom of the email: no more reports go to that address, and weekly checks started from a report stop emailing you.

Check a store every week

Click Monitor weekly, free on a result and sign in with your email (we send you a code, there's no password). We check the store again every Monday and email you only when the score drops by 3 points or more, or a new problem appears. Quiet weeks send nothing.

Your monitored stores are under Store checks in your Pasilobus account, with each store's latest score, how it changed, and its past checks. From there you can Check again now or Stop monitoring a store. You can monitor up to 10 stores.

Stores on Store Care are checked every Monday automatically, and the result is included in your Monday Store Care summary.

To stop the emails without signing in, use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any Store Check email.

Stores we can't check

• Stores that aren't on Shopify, or Shopify stores with a custom-built storefront, get "doesn't look like a Shopify store"
• Addresses that point to private or internal networks are refused
• Password-protected stores can only be checked once they're open to visitors

To keep the check fair to the stores being checked, each visitor can run a limited number of checks per hour and per day.