Slice of the Pie MarketingSlice of the Pie× The Caramel Tree
The audit · Jun 17 to Sep 15, 2026 · pulled live from Shopify

14,389 sessions. 373 orders. Here is where the rest went.

Everything below comes from your Shopify analytics and order data on September 15, plus a live load test of the product page. No estimates unless labelled.

2.30%Conversion rate
46%Checkout completion
$71.56AOV
$12.62Shipping charged per order
The funnel

Two thirds of carts never become orders.

Cart to checkout is healthy. Checkout to paid is the leak.

Sessions
14,389
Added to cart
961 · 6.7%
Reached checkout
715 · 74% of carts
Paid
331 · 46% of checkouts
DeviceSessionsATCCheckout doneCVR
Mobile10,552 (73%)7.5%46.5%2.49%
Desktop3,428 (24%)4.3%45.5%1.75%
Tablet3916.4%44%2.05%
Money, 90 days
Gross sales$28,081
Discounts$1,391 (5.0%)
Net sales$26,311
Shipping charged$4,707 (17.9% of net)
Total sales$31,178
Returning customer rate24%

Desktop converting 30% worse than mobile is the tell. The desktop product page buries the buy box; mobile stacks it closer to the top by accident.

The July repricing

Fewer orders, bigger orders, less revenue so far.

The 4-packs went from $49.99 plus $12 to $40 shipping to $99.99 shipped around July 20. Summer is the off season so this is not a clean read. Q4 is where it gets tested.

Week ofOrdersSalesAOV
Jun 1539$2,675$50
Jun 2237$3,168$68
Jul 1348$4,058$64
Jul 20 (repriced)14$1,257$84
Aug 1023$2,231$94
Aug 2427$2,221$85
Sep 728$2,752$95

Weekly AOV moved from about $55 to about $85. Orders per week fell from 35 to 48 down to 14 to 28. Weekly revenue is down roughly 30% against June. The plan holds the $99.99 anchor and goes after volume with the pack ladder and the caramel side of the store.

Products

One bundle is 44% of the store.

Top sellersGrossOrders
Pick Your Perfect 4$12,448169
Pecan Turtle 4-Pack$3,54951
Toasted Almond 4-Pack$1,70026
Toffee 4-Pack$1,35018
PYP4 Pouch Bundle$1,15323
Signature Pouch$98545
Landing pageSessionsCVR
/collections/caramel-apple-packs5,1522.47%
Homepage3,8572.26%
The Caramel Collection807.5%
Toasted Almond apple1824.4%
eGift card2030.49%
Bulk 5lb caramels920%
Contact page1090%

All apple 4-packs together are 76% of gross. The Extra Caramel Bag attaches to 9% of orders, and it is a dropdown under four other dropdowns. The eGift card is the third most visited product page and sold once.

Traffic

Social sends the people. Search converts them.

SourceSessionsShareCVR
Social5,32537%2.42%
Direct4,93734%1.94%
Search3,38624%3.07%
Email630.4%3.17%

Klaviyo is installed. FB-EMAIL welcome codes show up on about one in four recent orders. Email as a traffic source is effectively off.

Load

The server is fine. The page is heavy.

Measured in Chrome on the product page, September 15. Google's field data API was over quota that day, so these are lab numbers on a fast connection; expect mobile LCP in the 3 to 4 second range on real 4G.

77msTime to first byte
4.9sFull page load
266Requests, 90 of them scripts
4.2MBTransferred

20 third party hosts on one page: Klaviyo (5), Clarity (3), Loox, GTM, Meta, Google Ads, Merchant Center, Shop. Layout shift was 0. The fixes are a script diet and lazy loading the FAQ image stack, not a theme change.

Top 3 friction points

What is actually costing orders.

1

Shipping shock on everything that is not a 4-pack

The $75 free ship threshold covers the $99.99 apple packs and nothing else. Pouch orders pay $6.72 to $12.73 on $12 to $48 subtotals. A single pouch is 57% shipping. The pouch bundle is $27 short of the threshold and the page never says so. Half of checkouts die at the shipping step.

Evidence: 373 orders, $4,707 shipping charged. Recent orders #6467 ($11.99 + $6.84 ship), #6486 ($11.99 + $12.73), #6506 ($47.96 + $6.72).
2

The buy box is buried under the description

On desktop the add to cart form sits about 2,300px down, under the description, apple care copy and seven flavor accordions, then asks for four required dropdowns. Desktop ATC is 4.3% against 7.5% on mobile.

Evidence: measured form offset 2,317px at 1440 wide, 5 selects, 4 required. Loox stars sit at 452px; the button is five screens lower.
3

Dead end pages eating 3% of traffic

eGift card, Bulk 5lb and Contact took 404 sessions between them and produced one order. In a gifting quarter the gift card page should be the easiest sale on the site.

Evidence: 203 / 92 / 109 sessions, 1 / 0 / 0 orders.

See the Q4 game plan →

Slice of the Pie Marketing · Salem, Oregon · (503) 539-7059Prepared for The Caramel Tree · September 2026 · Data pulled live from Shopify on Sep 15