Troopod x Puracy

Optimisation 01: Performance and Conversion Impact

A summary of the technical performance work delivered, and the resulting impact on site conversion, validated two independent ways.
Goal achieved

Site performance improved substantially across every template

Lighthouse audit, mobile emulation, 113 URLs, before the live theme and after the optimized theme.
Performance Score
31.460.6
+93%
Speed Index
19.0s8.5s
-55%
See the breakdown by page type
Page typePerformance, beforePerformance, afterSpeed Index, beforeSpeed Index, after
Home30.052.017.2s9.5s
Product30.560.619.8s9.1s
Collection31.357.519.2s8.8s
Blog33.159.919.4s8.2s

Audited June 12, 2026, Lighthouse 13.3.0, Moto G Power emulation with 4x CPU slowdown and slow 4G, matching Google's standard mobile testing conditions.

Conversion impact

Optimisation 01: No Optimization → Optimisation 01, 28 days each side

May 22 - Jun 18 → Jun 19 - Jul 16, 2026
1.51%2.07%
+37%
Same dates, last year: 2.46% → 1.81% (-26%)
Revenue
$83,062$103,828
+25%
Orders, with essentially flat traffic
1,5952,186
+37%

Sessions across these two windows were nearly identical (105,629 vs. 105,604), so the increase in orders and revenue is not explained by a change in traffic volume.

Validation

Two independent methods, each testing the result differently

1

Channel-level year-over-year comparison

  • Across 8 individual channels, last year's total: 1.75% → 1.24% (-29%)
  • This year, the same channels, same dates: 1.65% → 2.83% (+72%)
  • 6 of 8 individual channels reversed from a decline last year to an increase this year

Confirms the site-wide result holds at the individual channel level, not just in aggregate.

View the 8-channel breakdown
ChannelRate change, 2026Rate change, 2025Improved
Paid Social, mobile+334%-21.8%Yes
Organic Search, mobile+4%-8.8%Yes
Direct, desktop+51%-31.4%Yes
Organic Search, desktopFlat-15.8%Partial
Direct, mobile+55%-39.1%Yes
Unassigned, mobile+99%-29.4%Yes
Paid Search, mobile+9%+44.6%No, improved more last year
Paid Search, desktop+34%-12.1%Yes

Paid Search, mobile is the one exception: it improved last year as well, by a larger margin, so this method cannot attribute that specific channel's improvement to the optimization.

2

Interrupted time series analysis

5 of 7 channels show a statistically confirmed increase exactly at the June 19 launch date, beyond any pre-existing trend, and a 6th shows a confirmed decrease, disclosed in the table below. Two of the five (Direct-mobile, Paid Search-desktop) have held up under every version of this test run to date.

Designed specifically to rule out "this was already trending in that direction." Most channels pass it.

6% 0% Conversion Rate (%) 1.26% 2.07% 3.01% 3.64% Jun 19 Jul 30 Aug 11
Trend before launch What the trend alone would predict Actual, after Jun 19 (Optimisation 01) After Jul 30 (Optimisation 02), too early to confirm

Combined across all 7 tested channels, weekly-averaged conversion rate, Jan - Aug 2026.

View all 7 channels tested
ChannelBaseline CVRActual change at launchConfirmed
Organic Search, mobile2.73%-29.4%Yes, negative
Organic Search, desktop2.74%-11.8%No
Direct, mobile4.87%+27.8%Yes
Paid Search, mobile7.92%+28.1%Yes
Paid Search, desktop9.12%+56.0%Yes
Unassigned, mobile4.13%+63.1%Yes
Paid Social, mobile0.79%+88.3%Yes

"Actual change" is the relative percentage shift at each channel's own baseline conversion rate right before the launch, not a raw point difference. Based on 223 continuous days of 2026 data with no gaps. "Confirmed" indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05), not simply that the number moved.

Final conclusion

Optimisation 01 delivered a measurable conversion improvement: rate up 37%, revenue up 25%, orders up 37% on essentially flat traffic, ruling out volume as the cause.

It holds up under scrutiny: the same dates last year moved the opposite way, 6 of 8 channels reversed direction, and a trend-adjusted statistical test confirms an increase in 5 of 7 channels.