A free Claude Code skill that runs 80+ checks across performance, accessibility, conversion, third-party app overhead, classic search, and AI-search visibility. Or have me run it for you — ₹4,999 audit, 3 days, branded PDF + Loom walkthrough.
Score
87/100
Grade
B
Built for themes on
Why this exists now
A theme audit in 2026 cannot stop at Lighthouse and meta tags. Buyers research products in three different surfaces, each with its own retrieval logic. This skill audits all three.
Google · Bing · DuckDuckGo
Classic crawl & index search. Still the largest traffic source for most stores. Wins or loses on titles, meta, canonicals, schema, hreflang, Core Web Vitals.
ChatGPT · Claude · Perplexity · Gemini
Answer Engine Optimization. The user never sees a results page. If your product page is not quotable, you are invisible at the moment of decision.
PropertyValueAI Overviews · Copilot · LLM shopping
Generative Engine Optimization. AI-powered surfaces either cite your store, or it doesn't exist to the buyer. Citation depends on schema, crawlability for AI bots, and trust signals.
sameAsLayer 0 Before any of the three search layers can rank you, your store has to load. App overhead is where most stores lose this round.
See app checks →What it checks
Render-blocking scripts, lazy loading, image dimensions, LCP preload, oversized CSS, N+1 queries inside collection loops.
Skip-to-content link, focus trap on cart drawer, ARIA labels on icon buttons, decorative vs informational alt text, keyboard reachability.
Most Shopify stores die from app bloat, not theme bloat. Detects 20+ apps in compiled HTML/JS and scores each by load strategy, bundle weight, and above-fold impact.
APP-C · APP-H · APP-M · APP-L
Zero-results state, password page brand, trust elements in footer, breadcrumbs.
M-class · −2 each
Title, meta, canonical, sitemap, multiple H1s, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, hreflang.
S-C · S-H · S-M
FAQPage, HowTo, Speakable, Article + author, factual openings, PropertyValue specs.
AEO-C · AEO-H · AEO-M
Robots.txt for AI crawlers, llms.txt overview, Organization schema with social profiles, BreadcrumbList, shipping & returns in Product schema, image URLs & alt for multimodal models.
GEO-C · GEO-H · GEO-M · GEO-L
Every JSON-LD schema your store should emit, confirmed or flagged.
Done for you
The skill is free and will always be free. If you'd rather have the audit done for you and the fixes shipped, here are the four ways to work together.
Know exactly what's broken on your theme.
Know what's broken and exactly what to fix first.
Top 10 fixes shipped to a branch, ready to deploy.
Your theme never falls behind again.
Most audits come from Indian D2C, SaaS, and Shopify Plus merchants. Pricing in INR. International? Toggle to USD above.
What you walk away with
Every paid audit ships with the same deliverable structure. Share it with stakeholders without having to explain.
Bloom Theme · sample
Shopify Theme Audit Report
Score
69/100
Grade
C
━━ Critical (4) ━━
C6 · Images missing height (CLS)
S-C2 · Meta description missing
AEO-C1 · FAQ has no schema
R-C1 · robots.txt blocks OAI-SearchBot
━━ High (5) · Medium (8) · Low (3) ━━
+ 9 things this theme does well
Share it with stakeholders without having to explain what's in it. The grade and ranked findings do the talking.
Your dev opens the file, drops the fix in, ships. No back-and-forth, no Slack debates, no "what did they mean by that?"
Every issue gets an effort estimate and a ranked priority. You know what to fix this week, this quarter, and what to leave.
Proof
The first 3–5 paid audits get a discount in exchange for a quote and a shareable scorecard. Real proof, posted as it lands — never faked.
Founder name
Brand · Score uplift
"Quote from a real merchant after they shipped the fixes — posted here as soon as the first paid audit closes."
Slot open · book Tier 1 to claimFounder name
Brand · Score uplift
"Quote from a real merchant after they shipped the fixes — posted here as soon as the first paid audit closes."
Slot openFounder name
Brand · Score uplift
"Quote from a real merchant after they shipped the fixes — posted here as soon as the first paid audit closes."
Slot openMini case study · coming
[Brand] · before / after
Outcome line, posted when the first full Fix Sprint ships.
Before
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After
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Sample output
v2.1 returns a single 0–100 score with split-mode option. v3 Premium returns a three-sub-score composite. Both shown below, lifted from real audits.
bloom-theme · audit.md · v2.1
v2.1 · FreeTheme: Bloom (Dawn-based, Online Store 2.0)Mode: Full auditTechnical & CRO Score: 69/100, Grade: CSEO / AEO / GEO Score: 58/100, Grade: D ━━ Critical · Technical (1) ━━C6: Images missing height attribute (CLS) sections/header.liquid:192,237 sections/bloom-hero.liquid:18,44 ━━ Critical · SEO / AEO / GEO (3) ━━S-C2: Meta description missing on collection pages layout/theme.liquid:34AEO-C1: FAQ accordion present, no FAQPage schema sections/faq.liquid:1-80R-C1: robots.txt blocks OAI-SearchBot + Claude-SearchBot templates/robots.txt.liquid:12-18 ━━ High Priority (5) ━━H3: No preload hint for LCP hero imageH4: base.css at 81KB loaded on every pageS-H1: Header logo wrapped in <h1>AEO-H1: Product specs buried in proseGEO-H1: Organization schema missing sameAs ━━ Third-Party App Overhead (4) ━━APP-C1: Klaviyo onsite.js loads sync in <head> (+420ms FCP) rendered-html:head:38APP-C2: Gorgias chat above-fold on mobile (+1.2s LCP) snippets/gorgias-chat.liquid:4APP-H1: Judge.me widget container has no reserved height (CLS) sections/main-product.liquid:218APP-M1: Hotjar recording 100% of sessions in production layout/theme.liquid:91 ━━ What This Theme Does Well (9) ━━ ✓ All JS uses defer, zero render-blocking ✓ Skip-to-content link present ✓ Online Store 2.0 throughout ✓ Product structured_data filter used ✓ Cart drawer trapFocus implemented ✓ Hreflang for all five Markets locales ✓ Canonical handles ?variant= correctly ✓ dateModified on article schema ✓ CSS custom properties for brand colors ━━ Estimated Impact After Fixes ━━ Lighthouse Performance: +8 to +15 LCP: -400 to -800ms CLS: substantial reduction AEO citations: FAQ + factual summaries are highest leverage GEO visibility: Retrieval-crawler access + Org schema unlock brand disambiguation
bloom-theme · audit-v3.md · composite
v3 PREMIUMTheme: Bloom (Dawn-based, Online Store 2.0, Plus)Mode: v3 Premium · Composite audit ━━ Composite Sub-Scores ━━ Theme Health 78/100 (perf · a11y · CRO · apps · SEO/AEO/GEO) Plus Architecture 54/100 (checkout ext · Functions · Markets · B2B) Agent Readiness 31/100 (JSON-LD · policies · cart · llms.txt) Business Economics 61/100 *partial (CVR & AOV pasted, HAR pending) ──────────────────────────────────────────── COMPOSITE 57/100 → Grade F ━━ Critical · Plus Architecture (2) ━━PA-C1: No checkout UI extensions; using deprecated checkout.liquid checkout.liquid:1PA-C2: Markets enabled but currency selector missing on PDP sections/main-product.liquid ━━ Critical · Agent Readiness (3) ━━AR-C1: Price & availability rendered via JS, not in JSON-LDAR-C2: Shipping/returns page is JS-modal, no server URLAR-C3: llms.txt missing ━━ Business Economics · ROI Roadmap (top 5) ━━ 1. Defer Klaviyo onsite.js → est. +0.3% CVR ≈ $4,200/mo 2. Gate Gorgias on intent → est. -0.9s LCP ≈ $3,800/mo 3. Add Product JSON-LD vars → AI agent reach unlocked 4. Reserve Judge.me height → CLS -0.06 → +0.1% CVR 5. Compress base.css → -54KB/page · -180ms FCP Every line above is computed from your pasted field data.Never fabricated. See methodology in business-economics.md.
By the numbers
Every check the skill runs comes from production theme work for 32+ brands. Three published example reports — C, F, and A grades — show the full range. No fluff, no abstract advice, every finding ships with a working fix.
80+
Total checks
Across performance, accessibility, CRO, apps, SEO, AEO, and GEO.
35+
SEO + AEO + GEO checks
A dedicated checklist for classic search, ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity citation, and Google AI Overviews.
9
Markdown files
Eight drop into your theme root, plus a CHANGELOG. No build step. No subscription.
3
Audit modes
Full, Split-score (Technical/CRO vs SEO/AEO/GEO), and Quick-Wins ranked by impact ÷ effort.
Performance
13 checks
Accessibility
5 checks
Apps
21 checks
CRO
4 checks
SEO
18 checks
AEO
10 checks
GEO
9 checks
Install
Clone or download from GitHub.
git clone https://github.com/
Eight markdown files at the theme root.
your-shopify-theme/ ├── CLAUDE.md ├── audit-checklist.md ├── seo-aeo-geo-checklist.md ├── apps-audit.md ├── before-after.md ├── liquid-patterns.md ├── deprecated-apis.md └── scoring.md
Open the project. Ask for an audit.
Audit this Shopify theme using the audit skill. Cover performance, app overhead, accessibility, conversion, SEO, AEO, and GEO.
Other prompts
Quick-Wins · pre-BFCM
Run the audit skill in quick-wins mode. I have one hour before BFCM.
App overhead only
Audit only third-party app overhead using apps-audit.md.
Search audit only
Run an SEO, AEO, and GEO audit. Use split-score mode.
Single area
Audit only the product page for AEO, FAQ + factual summaries + spec structure.
Live store via MCP
Connect via the Shopify MCP. Audit what you see. Note skipped source-level checks.
Use cases
Catch regressions before going live. Run every check, fix what matters, ship clean.
Produce a credible, sourced audit deliverable in minutes, not days.
Audit migrated themes against modern Shopify expectations. No deprecated APIs.
Find LCP, CLS, and render-blocking issues before peak traffic destroys conversion.
Confirm the store can be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and AI Overviews.
Verify Product, FAQ, Breadcrumb, Organization, Article, HowTo schemas across the catalog.
Each provider runs three crawlers. Confirm retrieval (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot), user-fetch (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User) and training (GPTBot, ClaudeBot) each match the merchant's intent.
Point Claude at one section file for a tight, focused audit. Ship the fix the same hour.
Detects 20+ Shopify apps in your compiled HTML, ranks each by LCP cost, and tells you which ones to defer, gate, or uninstall.
Re-rank every finding by impact ÷ effort. Star-rated table at the top. A 5-minute High beats a half-day Critical, so you fix the right thing first.
Skip Claude Code entirely. Book a paid audit, get a branded PDF in 3 days, hand it to your dev. See tiers →
Quick answers
After you submit the intake form, you'll receive a Razorpay payment link by email. UPI, cards, netbanking, and international cards are all supported. Work begins as soon as payment is confirmed.
If the audit doesn't surface 10 specific, actionable findings in your theme, you get a full refund — no questions asked.
Yes. The Audit + Fix Sprint tier (₹74,999) includes the top 10 fixes shipped to a branch, with one round of revisions. For larger projects, talk to EcomLifters.
Same audit plus an additional Plus-specific section covering checkout extensions, B2B catalog, scripts, and Plus-only Liquid objects. Pricing is unchanged.
Yes. A sample PDF report is embedded above. Download it, share it with stakeholders, and decide if the deliverable is worth it before you book.
Yes. The skill is designed to run against local theme files. The Shopify MCP is optional, useful for live-store reads (shop info, products, analytics), but every source-level check works offline.
Audit in two passes. First layout/ + sections/, then snippets/ + templates/. Claude will add findings to the previous report instead of starting over.
Yes, and the report will note when it detects a Theme Store base. Any issues found are likely from merchant customizations, not the original theme author. Scoring stays the same.
For most stores, yes, a meaningful share of product-research traffic is now shifting to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. The fixes themselves (FAQ schema, factual openings, Organization schema, AI-crawler access) are low-risk and frequently improve classic SEO too.
Yes. v2.1 is MIT licensed. Use it, modify it, sell audits with it. Attribution appreciated but not required. v3 Premium is a paid, per-merchant license — contact for terms.
Lighthouse measures symptoms. This skill reads your Liquid and tells you the cause, the exact file, line, and the fix. It also covers CRO, schema, accessibility, and AI-search visibility, which Lighthouse does not.
Yes. The apps-audit checklist greps the rendered HTML and JS for 20+ known app signatures — Klaviyo, Judge.me, Loox, Yotpo, Rebuy, Gorgias, Tidio, Smile.io, Recharge, Privy, Nosto, Hotjar, Microsoft Clarity, and more. Each detected app is scored by load strategy (sync vs deferred), bundle weight, and above-fold impact, then ranked alongside the theme findings so you see which apps are actually costing you LCP versus earning their weight.
Theme files alone get you ~90% of the audit. For the app overhead checks, the skill is most accurate when it can also read rendered HTML (paste a curl of your homepage and PDP, or connect via the Shopify MCP). Without that, it still flags hard-coded app snippets in your sections and snippets, plus theme app extensions in extensions/.
Quick-Wins mode re-ranks every finding by impact ÷ effort instead of raw severity, and leads the report with a star-rated table of the top 10 highest-ROI fixes before the standard Critical → High → Medium → Low breakdown. Use it when you are time-boxed, pre-BFCM, an agency on a fixed-scope sprint, or a few hours from a launch. Trigger it with phrases like "what should I fix first", "biggest bang for buck", or just "run in quick-wins mode".
Shopify developer, founder of EcomLifters and ClearAudit, and the open-source author of this audit skill. 5+ years shipping custom themes and apps for 32+ brands across India and Canada. Every paid audit on this page is run by me personally — same hands, same eye, same checks as the free skill, just packaged into a deliverable.
Two ways to ship a better theme. Pick one.
Run it yourself with the free Claude Code skill, or have me run it for you in 3 days from ₹4,999.