What's new.

2026-06-19 — Clearer results wording, with no change to your score

Two small wording fixes on your Full AI Audit: the headline now presents your potential score as a target to climb toward — not a guaranteed result of the listed fixes — and the benchmark line labels its average honestly (“all-store avg” when the comparison spans every type of store, “category avg” when it’s specific to yours).

2026-06-18 — Clearer, more accurate Full AI Audit wording

A few wording fixes across your results, with no change to your score: the executive summary now states your Reviews score on the same scale as the rest of the page, the structured-data signal reads as what we check for rather than implying you already have it, and review counts read naturally (“1 review”, not “1 reviews”). We also stopped the summary from calling crawlability “solid” in the same breath as flagging blocked AI crawlers.

2026-06-18 — Your Full AI Audit now starts automatically right after payment

After you pay, the page now moves straight to a “Confirming your payment” screen and then to your audit on its own — no manual refresh. Previously, if your browser came back from checkout a moment before our systems finished recording the payment, you could land back on the free page; that’s fixed.

2026-06-12 — Faster Full AI Audit result pages for large stores

Large Full AI Audit pages now load the title and description CSV downloads only when you ask for them, instead of carrying the whole export inside the page. Your visible results stay the same, but big audits should open faster and still give you the same downloadable files.

2026-06-11 — More honest scores when we can’t reach your live store

If the address you enter redirects to a different storefront we can’t fully read, we now tell you that plainly instead of showing a misleading score.

2026-06-11 — The Share menu closes with Esc or a click away

The Share menu on your results now closes with the Esc key or by clicking outside it — smoother to use, especially when you’re navigating with a keyboard. And on the Full AI Audit action plan, you can now check items off with Enter as well as Space or a click.

2026-06-11 — Easier to read, and friendlier to keyboards and screen readers

Your audit pages just got more accessible: clearer text contrast that’s easier to read, visible focus outlines so you always know where you are when navigating by keyboard, and proper labels throughout so screen readers describe each control correctly. The mobile menu and the action-plan checklist now work cleanly with the keyboard too.

2026-06-11 — Query Deep Dive is easier to scan on big audits

The Query Deep Dive in your Full AI Audit now groups every buyer question by outcome — Hits, Partials, and Misses — and opens to your wins first. Instead of one long list, you see at a glance where you show up and where you don’t, then expand a group to dig in. On audits with lots of questions the list scrolls neatly inside its panel, and on phones the question cards now sit fully on screen with the next one peeking, so swiping through is smoother.

2026-06-11 — A cleaner Brand Knowledge section in your Full AI Audit

The Brand Knowledge section of your Full AI Audit — what each AI assistant knows about your store — now reads top-to-bottom as one clean list instead of side-by-side columns. Each model’s answer, what’s unclear, and the fact-check corrections sit together with no wasted space, so it’s faster to scan and easier to act on. Each AI’s answer is shown in full, and the “what’s unclear” notes expand only when you want them.

2026-06-08 — Better support for screen readers

StoreAudit now works better with assistive technology. Scan progress, copy buttons, and status updates are announced aloud to screen-reader users, and progress bars report how far along your scan is — so following an audit no longer depends on seeing the screen.

2026-06-08 — Sharing your results works smoothly on mobile

The Share menu on your results page now opens fully on screen on phones — no more cut-off panel — and the Rescan and Share buttons are visually polished to match.

2026-06-08 — A cleaner, sharper audit results page

Your audit results page just got a cleaner, faster redesign — same audit, same score, sharper presentation. Free results and Full AI Audit results now share the refreshed layout, so everything’s easier to read and act on at a glance.

2026-06-08 — More accurate scores for headless storefronts

Stores built on Hydrogen or a custom frontend (whose product URLs don’t follow Shopify’s default pattern) are now scored on their real product pages, so page-level categories reflect what an AI agent actually sees.

2026-06-08 — Fresher data, and a dashboard sorted by when you actually scanned

Your Full AI Audit now re-scans fresh data when your last scan is more than a day old, so an upgrade is always scored against your store as it is today — not as it was when you first ran a free scan. And your dashboard now sorts by when each scan actually ran, so your most recent results are always at the top.

2026-06-06 — Cleaner Full AI Audit markers

Full AI Audit-only sections now use a smaller coral spark marker instead of a repeated text badge, so paid results are easier to scan without losing the cue for what was added after purchase. The buyer-query deep dive also has a cleaner left rail, with the background and divider carrying all the way to the bottom of the section.

2026-06-05 — StoreAudit now publishes its own /llms.txt and /agents.md

We practice the AI-readiness basics we check your store for. AI shopping agents and crawlers can now discover StoreAudit’s content through the same machine-readable manifests we recommend for your store.

2026-06-01 — Large audits show accurate progress (and run faster)

While a Full AI Audit runs on a big catalog, the progress page now reflects what’s actually happening — it won’t falsely warn that your audit “appears to have stalled” while it’s hard at work. We also sped up the heaviest part of large audits (evaluating every product), with no change to depth or scoring.

2026-06-01 — Headless storefronts now get a full score

If your Shopify store runs a custom “headless” front end, StoreAudit now audits it on the same 100-point rubric as any other store — finding your products through your sitemap and scoring your catalog and pages just like a standard theme. If your product pages render entirely with JavaScript (so AI shopping agents, which don’t run JavaScript, can’t read them), we’ll still score everything we can from your Shopify catalog and clearly flag on your results that AI agents couldn’t read those pages — along with how to fix it.

2026-05-30 — We can now audit more headless Shopify stores

Some Shopify stores run a custom “headless” storefront, and until now we couldn’t score them. Now, when your headless store exposes enough public catalog and policy data, StoreAudit can audit it just like a standard Shopify store — same score, same recommendations. If we genuinely can’t find a usable public source, we’ll tell you that plainly instead of failing with a vague error. And if you paid for a Full AI Audit we couldn’t complete, we refund you automatically — no email, no waiting.

2026-05-30 — Smoother sign-in

We fixed a glitch where a valid login code from your email could occasionally be turned away as “invalid or expired” — even when you typed it correctly. Signing in should now just work the first time.

2026-05-29 — Full AI Audit now scales to large catalogs

Got a big store? The Full AI Audit now covers catalogs up to 10,000 products. Larger catalogs get proportionally more — more AI-written description rewrites for your weakest products, more buyer-style shopping queries simulated against your store, and deeper page-level analysis across your product types. Pricing scales with catalog size and is shown at checkout, and audits over 5,000 products are delivered to your inbox when they’re ready.

2026-05-29 — Full AI Audits are dramatically faster

If you’ve launched a Full AI Audit on a store with thousands of products, that long wait is mostly gone. Audits that used to take over an hour now finish in minutes — same depth, same scoring, we just look at many pages at once instead of one at a time. And if your store sits behind Cloudflare or another security layer that filters bot traffic, your scan should now reliably get through where it sometimes failed before.

2026-05-29 — You can close the tab during your Full AI Audit

Big catalogs take time. Your Full AI Audit now runs in the background — close the tab, run other scans, do other work. We’ll email you the moment your results are ready. Smaller catalogs still finish while you wait, same as before.

2026-05-28 — Tidier audit results layout

Your audit results pages no longer show an empty “Where you score, by signal” header on results where the per-signal cards already cover everything below. The same signals still appear in their dedicated cards further down the page — we just stopped repeating the eyebrow with nothing in it.

2026-05-28 — Revisiting your invite link now takes you straight to your dashboard

If you’ve already claimed your invite and click the same link again from your email, you’ll now land on your dashboard instead of seeing a “this invite has already been claimed” error. Same when an invite link you have an account against has expired — you’ll get a clear path to log in. Small fix, big difference if you’ve ever wondered “wait, did I already use this?”

2026-05-27 — Clearer message when your store uses a headless setup

If your store uses a custom storefront on the Shopify Storefront API (a “headless” setup like Nuxt, Next.js, or a bespoke build), your scan now tells you that directly instead of failing with a generic “couldn’t access your product catalog” retry message. Headless setups aren’t supported yet — but at least now you’ll know that’s the reason, not a temporary glitch.

2026-05-26 — Cleaner free results page

We tightened the spacing right before the “Want us to build the fixes” Full AI Audit section on your free results page — what used to look like an empty band between the page content and the upsell now flows smoothly. Same content, cleaner read.

2026-05-25 — AI crawlability, at a glance

Your audit now shows AI crawlability in a dedicated card on your results page — a clear per-signal read on whether AI shopping agents are allowed to read your store, whether your sitemap is in place, whether your store publishes an agent-discovery file, and whether anything is accidentally hiding your pages from search. Issues that need attention surface directly in your action plan with specific guidance. Your overall score is unchanged — same points as before.

2026-05-25 — Structured data, at a glance

Your audit now shows structured data in a dedicated card on your results page — a clear per-signal read on the behind-the-scenes markup AI agents rely on: product schema, organization details, breadcrumbs, FAQ markup, return-policy schema, and social-share tags across your sampled pages. Issues that need attention surface directly in your action plan with specific guidance. Your overall score is unchanged — same points as before.

2026-05-24 — Image quality breakdown (Full AI Audit)

Your Full AI Audit now includes a dedicated Image Quality card showing two signals AI agents use to rank your products: how many of your products have 3+ images, and how well your product images are described with alt text. Both signals are scored separately so you can see exactly where to focus.

2026-05-24 — Title and description quality, at a glance

Your audit now shows product title and description quality in dedicated cards on your results page. For titles you can see at a glance how many include a clear product type, fall within a readable length, and carry your brand name — with examples of the actual product titles that need work. For descriptions you get the same per-signal breakdown across spec content, minimum length, and richer context like care instructions or compatibility notes. Issues that need attention surface directly in your action plan with specific guidance. Your overall score is unchanged — same points as before.

2026-05-24 — SEO and accessibility signals, at a glance

Your audit now shows SEO and accessibility findings in dedicated cards on your results page — a clear per-signal read on meta descriptions, canonical URLs, image alt text, heading structure, and more across your sampled pages. Issues that need attention surface directly in your action plan with specific guidance. Your overall score is unchanged — same points as before.

2026-05-25 — Clearer results when a store can’t be audited

Some URLs are real stores, but not auditable by StoreAudit right now — for example password-protected stores, headless Shopify storefronts that do not expose a product catalog, unavailable domains, broken TLS setups, or pages that are not Shopify stores. Those cases now land on a calm “we can’t audit this yet” page instead of a red failure, with the reason shown clearly and an option to run the scan again after the store is fixed or opened up.

We also made Shopify detection more careful. The scanner now looks for multiple positive Shopify signals before deciding a page is not Shopify, and temporary network hiccups stay retryable instead of being mistaken for permanent problems.

If an included Full AI Audit rescan reaches one of these unauditable storefront states before the audit can run, your rescan credit stays available.

2026-05-23 — Fewer scans fail on temporary hiccups

If your store’s product catalog is briefly unreachable while we’re counting products, your scan now waits a moment and retries automatically instead of failing on the first stumble — and a retry already underway survives a server restart. When a scan does fail, the reason shown is now specific and accurate (for example, “bot protection is blocking automated scans”) rather than a blank or generic message.

2026-05-22 — Full AI Audit resumes finish more reliably

If a Full AI Audit was interrupted after the AI summary and product evaluations were already saved, it could still remain on the in-progress screen because one final score field was missing. The resume flow now repairs that missing field from the saved action plan, so the audit can open normally without asking you to repurchase or waiting on duplicate AI work.

2026-05-22 — More reliable agents.md drafts in Full AI Audit

Your Full AI Audit now handles existing agent-discovery files more carefully. If your store already has an /agents.md or older /llms.txt file, we preserve that context and improve it instead of treating it like a missing file. Drafts also carry through detected policy links and cleaner product tags, so the copy-paste file we generate is more specific to your store.

2026-05-22 — Product categorization, at a glance

Your audit now shows product categorization — product type, meaningful tags, and vendor/brand — in a dedicated card on your results page, with a clear read on how complete each signal is across your sampled products. We also refined how categorization gaps (missing product types, thin tags, blank vendors) flow into your action plan, so you catch them sooner. Your overall score is unchanged — same points as before.

2026-05-22 — Very large catalogs now scan instead of failing

If your store has a very large catalog — tens of thousands of products or more — your scan no longer stalls and fails at the “counting products” step. We now recognize a large catalog quickly and show an approximate count (e.g. “~228,949 products”) rather than timing out trying to tally every item. Stores above our self-serve size still route to Contact Sales as before — they just get there reliably now. We also reworded the “couldn’t read your catalog” message so it no longer guesses that your store is slow.

2026-05-21 — Variant & option findings surface earlier

Your audit now shows variant and option structure — meaningful options, SKU coverage, and descriptive option names — in a dedicated card on your results page, with a clear read on how each looks across your sampled products. We also refined how variant issues like missing SKUs and generic option names (“Option1”) flow into your action plan, so you catch them sooner. Your overall score is unchanged — same points as before. ## 2026-05-21 — Clearer recovery when a scan is interrupted

When a scan is interrupted by a server restart, the audit page now explains exactly that and invites you to run it again — no more generic “Reason not captured” failure.

If a Full AI Audit ever appears to stall, you’ll see a “Resume your audit” button after about 20 minutes. One click picks up where things left off — no need to repurchase, no lost progress.

2026-05-21 — Sharper Full AI Audit recommendations

Your action plan is smarter about what to flag. When we can see the answer to a question already published on your store’s policy pages, we suppress the matching recommendation so you’re not asked to fix something you’ve already addressed. We’re using pattern matching to detect this, so the occasional well-buried answer can still slip through — but the most common kind of false alarm is gone.

2026-05-21 — Store policies, at a glance

Your audit now shows each of the four standard Shopify policies — Terms of Service, Refund, Shipping, and Privacy — in a dedicated card on your results page. Each row tells you at a glance whether AI agents can find that policy, links straight through to the page on your store (when it’s there), and explains what’s missing or what went wrong so you can fix it in Shopify admin in minutes. This rolls into the same overall score you’ve always had — no point changes.

2026-05-21 — Updates for Shopify’s agents.md change

Shopify changed how AI agents discover information about your store: the file they read is now called /agents.md (it used to be /llms.txt), and merchants edit it through the theme code editor — the older URL Redirects workaround no longer works on Liquid theme stores. Your Full AI Audit’s recommendations, the setup guide, and the action plan items in your paid scans have all been updated to match. If you have an existing paid Full AI Audit, we’ve refreshed your results to point at the new mechanism — no rescan needed.

2026-05-20 — Alt-text scoring is fairer to WCAG-compliant themes

Your alt-text score now ignores decorative theme images (headers, mega-menu thumbnails, footer logos) that are intentionally marked as decorative — the same way Google’s Lighthouse and other accessibility scanners do. If your product images have alt text, you’ll see that reflected in your score, even if your theme leaves background decorations with empty alt. Existing scans keep their original score; the new methodology applies to scans run from today forward.

2026-05-20 — Scan progress shows the work from the very first second

Your scan no longer starts with a blank “Preparing your scan” pause. The moment you submit a store URL, you land on the full progress page — your store name in the headline (“Auditing yourstore.com”), the live elapsed timer ticking from zero, and the first step (“Finding your store”) visibly running. Counting products, reading product pages, asking AI, scoring — every step is in plain sight, ticking off as it completes. No page reload mid-scan, no jump from one screen to another. You can watch the audit happen.

2026-05-20 — Full AI Audit: clearer recommendations

Your Full AI Audit now tells you exactly why a product description wasn’t auto-rewritten — for example, when the original is too short to expand without inventing details. And recommendations from across every scoring category now surface alongside the main action plan, so nothing important is hidden inside a single sub-section.

2026-05-19 — Scans now complete cleanly on stores with special characters in product URLs

If your store has product URLs containing special characters (™, é, ü, and the like), your scan would sometimes finish with an orange “Some checks couldn’t complete” warning — and retrying didn’t help, because the same character would trip the scanner each time. That’s fixed. Scans now handle non-ASCII characters in product URLs the same way browsers do, so the warning no longer appears for that reason.

2026-05-19 — A short pause instead of repeated scan failures

If a store’s site keeps briefly failing to respond to our scanner, StoreAudit now pauses new scans for a few minutes and tells you exactly when to try again — instead of letting you re-submit into the same failure over and over. The store is almost always reachable again by the time the pause lifts.

2026-05-17 — Clearer handling when Shopify blocks a scan

When Shopify temporarily blocks our automated detector, StoreAudit now tells you the store is unavailable or rate-limiting requests instead of incorrectly saying the URL is not a Shopify store. Valid Shopify URLs can occasionally return a short-lived block from Shopify’s edge, and the scan failure message now reflects that.

2026-05-16 — Reviews & Trust Signals on the free audit

Your free audit now includes the full Reviews & Trust Signals breakdown — the on-page review schema AI shoppers read (rating, count, recency, review text) scored right alongside everything else, no payment required. Off-site reputation (Trustpilot, Google, Sitejabber, Judge.me) is shown in place, clearly marked as part of the Full AI Audit, and it never counts against your free score — so you can see exactly what’s covered and what the upgrade adds, with no guessing. The section now sits next to AI Brand Knowledge, and the results page has a cleaner, more even rhythm top to bottom.

2026-05-16 — Reviews & Trust Signals section is now self-explanatory

The new Reviews & Trust Signals section no longer leaves you guessing. Every row now tells you, in plain language, what we checked, why AI shoppers care about it, the exact proof we found on your store, and — when something needs fixing — what to do about it, with a direct link into the matching setup guide. No more vague labels like “review recency” or “off-site review signal” with no explanation.

Off-site reputation detection is also more accurate. If your brand has a public rating on Trustpilot, Sitejabber, or a Judge.me profile, we now pick it up reliably instead of occasionally missing a rating that’s plainly there. And we no longer mark you down for a review app we simply couldn’t fingerprint from the page — that signal is now informational only, so a confident-but-wrong “no review app” can’t drag your score.

2026-05-15 — Reviews & Trust Signals now part of your score

Reviews now count toward your AI-readiness score. We check for: - Review schema (aggregateRating, Review JSON-LD) on your product pages - Review apps installed (Judge.me, Yotpo, Loox, Okendo, Stamped, Reviews.io) - For Full AI Audits: brand reviews on Trustpilot, Google, and Sitejabber

Why it matters: Shopify’s AI shopping dashboard explicitly weights reviews as a top-tier visibility signal — alongside catalogue quality, product descriptions, images, FAQs, and policies. Until now we measured all of those except reviews. We do now.

Existing scans keep their original score (we don’t move the goalposts retroactively). Run a fresh scan to see your reviews score.

2026-05-13 — Industry benchmark shows up in more places

Your vs. Industry comparison in the Full AI Audit summary now appears whenever we have enough peer data for your industry — including niche product categories where the broader audit corpus hadn’t yet crossed our older threshold. If your industry has at least 20 classified peers in our directory, you’ll see how your score stacks up.

2026-05-13 — Cleaner Full AI Audit summary

Your Full AI Audit results page is now easier to read at a glance. The “AI Familiarity” card — which of Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini already know your brand — sits at the top of the executive summary alongside Biggest Gap and the industry benchmark, so you can take in all three headline findings side-by-side instead of hunting through the page.

Score deltas on re-scans are also clearer. A zero-change re-scan now says exactly that, and a higher or lower re-scan score shows the change as a green or red pill so the direction is unmistakable.

2026-05-13 — Clearer privacy disclosure for agent endpoint checks

Our privacy policy now describes the public Shopify agent endpoint checks we run on your store during a Full AI Audit.

2026-05-10 — Executive summary stays accurate when your industry changes

If your store’s industry classification changes after your Full AI Audit completes, the executive summary at the top of your results page now stays consistent with the rest of the page. Previously, the summary text could keep referring to your old industry even after reclassification, while the benchmark card and breadcrumb already showed the new one. Both surfaces now match.

2026-05-11 — Clearer privacy, support, and purchase terms

We refreshed the Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Refund Policy, and Support page so they describe StoreAudit as it works today: passwordless accounts, saved dashboards, analytics, Full AI Audit deliverables, included follow-up rescans, Scan Passes, and the current refund promise.

2026-05-10 — More accurate Shopping shelf scores + clickable evidence links

Shopping shelf scoring is now more accurate. Previously, when a seller’s Shopping results showed your brand name but linked to a Google Shopping URL, your score was counted as a miss. We now match sellers by name, so if your store appears in the Shopping results, it’s counted as a hit — even when the link goes through Google’s shopping hub.

Search evidence rows in the Query Deep Dive are now clickable. Each organic result and Shopping seller links out to the live page so you can verify the results yourself.

2026-05-10 — Rescans now reliably complete

If you used a rescan credit to re-run your Full AI Audit, the audit could get stuck partway through — showing progress but never delivering your results. This is fixed. Rescans now complete fully, including the AI summary, action plan, and all paid deliverables.

2026-05-09 — See where buyers and AI find you

The Full AI Audit’s Query Deep Dive now tests every buyer-style question across three layers: AI answers, organic search, and Shopping results. You’ll see where you outrank competitors, where they outrank you, and which competitor domains keep showing up — all in the same drawer next to the AI verdict.

New summary cards at the top of the section give you a quick read on AI visibility, search visibility, Shopping shelf presence, and competitor pressure. Click any query to see the live evidence behind each verdict.

2026-05-08 — Smarter llms.txt install instructions

When we recommend an llms.txt file, we now point you at Shopify’s theme code editor first. If Shopify has exposed direct editing for your store, you can edit llms.txt.liquid in place. If you don’t see it yet, our existing upload-and-redirect steps still work — just framed as the fallback rather than the only path.

May 2026 — StoreAudit launches

StoreAudit is now live. Paste your Shopify store URL and find out how ready your store is for AI shopping assistants like ChatGPT, Google Shopping, and Perplexity.

Your free scan scores your store across 10 categories — from crawlability and product data quality to structured markup and brand visibility — and shows you exactly what to fix first.

Upgrade to a Full AI Audit for a deeper look: AI-generated recommendations tailored to your store, rewritten titles and descriptions for your top products, and a shareable PDF report.