Suta teardown: an Indian handloom saree brand on Shopify

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Suta sells handloom sarees and works with weavers across India, so the store carries a large, photography-heavy catalog with a strong craft story. I ran the audit, below. Useful if you sell a wide range of handmade or artisan goods and need it to stay shoppable.

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Store report for suta.in

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Site audit

93/100
high9 of 10 sampled internal links are broken (4xx/5xx): /, /collections/saree, /collections/bestseller-sarees…

Why Broken internal links dead-end shoppers and waste Google's crawl budget, chipping away at trust and indexing.

Fix Fix or redirect broken internal links — set up 301 redirects under Settings → Navigation / URL redirects, and check menu links after theme edits.

mediumMeta description is 216 chars (aim 120–160)

Why The meta description is the sales pitch under your search result. A good one lifts click-through even when your ranking doesn't change.

Fix Write a 120–160 char meta description; on Shopify, edit it under the page's Search engine listing.

medium21 external scripts (on the heavy side)

Why Heavy pages load slower, and slower pages rank lower and convert worse. Speed is money on a storefront.

Fix Audit and remove apps you don't use — each adds scripts. Combine or defer non-critical ones.

mediumHTML document is 2145 KB (large)

Why Heavy pages load slower, and slower pages rank lower and convert worse. Speed is money on a storefront.

Fix Trim the homepage: fewer sections, lazy-load below the fold, and remove unused app embeds.

mediumFew modern image formats (WebP/AVIF) — larger downloads

Why Oversized, eagerly-loaded images are usually the biggest drag on Core Web Vitals, which Google uses for ranking.

Fix Serve WebP/AVIF — Shopify's CDN can, so re-upload large images or use an image-optimizer app.

lowWeak/absent cache-control on the document

Why Minor performance hygiene. Small individual impact, but it adds up on a heavy page.

Fix Set sensible cache headers on static assets; on Shopify this is handled by the CDN for theme assets.

AI shopping readiness

Point this at a product page for a full AI-shopping check.

Merchant Center risk

Needs a product page with product schema to assess risk.

Checkout and tracking

64/100
highLegacy: legacy Google Analytics / gtag injected inline

Why Inline Google Analytics in the theme/checkout is the legacy tracking path. After the August 28, 2025 lockdown it stops passing purchase data reliably, so GA4 logs conversions as unattributed sessions.

Fix Connect the Google & YouTube app so GA4 tracking runs through Shopify's supported integration, then remove the inline gtag/analytics snippet.

mediumLegacy: Google Tag Manager container in the page

Why A GTM container that fed checkout tracking is exactly what the Additional Scripts lockdown broke. Purchase events routed through it can silently stop attributing revenue.

Fix Rebuild any checkout/purchase tags as a Custom Pixel via Settings > Customer events (Web Pixel API), or use the official channel apps. Don't rely on a GTM container for checkout events.

Check in your admin

  • Settings > Checkout shows an "Upgrade" button. That means you're still on the legacy checkout. Unmigrated stores auto-revert to a default checkout by August 26, 2026 (August 13, 2026 for Plus).
  • Any live Shopify Scripts (discounts, shipping, payment). Shopify Scripts stopped running on June 30, 2026. Rebuild that logic as Shopify Functions or your custom discount/shipping/bundle rules silently stopped working.
  • The Additional Scripts field still has code in it. That field was locked August 28, 2025. Anything there no longer runs at checkout, so move it to Custom Pixels or official apps.
  • Thank-you / order-status page customizations. Legacy order-status page edits don't carry over. Rebuild them as checkout UI extensions or post-purchase blocks.
  • checkout.liquid customizations in your theme. checkout.liquid is deprecated and being removed. Move branding to the Checkout Editor and logic to UI extensions + Functions.
  • Place a low-value test order after any tracking or checkout change. This is the one thing this checker can't do for you. We only see the storefront HTML, not what your ad platforms received. After any pixel, consent-banner, theme, or checkout change, buy something cheap and confirm the exact order value AND currency landed in GA4 and each ad platform. A pixel debugger showing an event firing does not prove the value and currency arrived correctly.

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