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Ecommerce Benchmark · Free Shopify audit by Omniconvert
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How the Ecommerce Benchmark score works

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Ecommerce Benchmark scores Shopify stores across six areas (Ads & creative, Positioning, Reviews, AI visibility, AI checkout and Conversion basics), benchmarked against real competitors in your category and country. Every area is scored 0 to 100 from public store data, so the result reflects where you actually stand, not a generic checklist.

Most audit tools score one thing: just SEO, just CRO, just ads. This one scores six areas in parallel and benchmarks each against real competitor stores in your category and country.

Two of them, AI visibility and AI checkout, are unique to this benchmark: most tools do not measure whether AI systems can find, recommend or buy from your store at all.

Criteria across six areas
80+
Categories / countries covered
1 / 1
Five of six areas score in about a minute
~60s

The six areas

What each area measures, and where its data comes from.

  • Ads & creative

    What it measures: How your ad creative and product presentation perform against your category, pulled from what is actually running right now.

    Data source: The Meta Ad Library and Google Ads Transparency Center. Public and currently live, not self-reported.

  • Positioning

    What it measures: How your positioning, pricing signals and messaging compare directly to the specific competitors in your category and country, not a generic industry average.

    Data source: The same public signals used across the other areas, compared head to head against real competitors in your category and country.

  • Reviews

    What it measures: The strength and depth of your social proof (review volume, recency, rating trends and user-generated content) relative to competitors in your category.

    Data source: Your on-site reviews plus public third-party platforms, including Trustpilot and Google Reviews.

  • AI visibility

    Unique to us

    What it measures: How discoverable and citable your store is to AI assistants: structured data, crawlability, and whether AI search surfaces you when someone asks for recommendations in your category.

    Data source: Your site’s HTML and structured data, plus live web searches run through Gemini with Google Search grounding.

  • AI checkout

    Unique to us

    What it measures: Whether AI shopping agents (ChatGPT, Claude, Stripe-network agents) could browse, evaluate and buy on a customer’s behalf: structured product data, agent-accessible checkout and machine-readable store information.

    Data source: Your homepage HTML and structured data.

  • Conversion basics

    What it measures: Conversion fundamentals across the funnel: homepage, product, cart and checkout best practices, plus tracking and analytics hygiene. Page speed and accessibility need the full CRO Benchmark scan and are not scored in the free audit.

    Data source: Omniconvert’s CRO Benchmark dataset, the same research behind crobenchmark.com, covering 7,000+ e-commerce sites across 19 industries.

What this benchmark does not do

  • It does not replace a full technical CRO audit. CROBenchmark and dedicated conversion tools go deeper on execution-level testing.
  • It does not measure backend performance: server response times, inventory accuracy or fulfillment speed.
  • It only works on public Shopify storefronts. Non-Shopify stores, unreachable domains and password-protected stores are detected and surfaced, never scored with bad data.
  • It only uses public data: ad libraries, public reviews, your homepage HTML and structured data. It never touches your Shopify admin or customer data.

Questions

What is Ecommerce Benchmark and what does it audit?

A live audit for any public Shopify store. It scores six areas from 0 to 100 (Ads & creative, Positioning, Reviews, AI visibility, AI checkout and Conversion basics), each benchmarked against real competitors in your category and country.

How is the score calculated?

Each of the 80+ criteria is checked against your store’s public data and compared to competitor stores in your category and country. The six area scores combine into one 0 to 100 score and a category rank.

How often are scores updated?

There is no fixed refresh schedule. A store’s score reflects its most recent audit, and anyone can re-run the audit on a domain at any time to get a fresh score.

Is this the same data as CROBenchmark?

Partly. Conversion basics draws on Omniconvert’s CRO Benchmark dataset (7,000+ e-commerce sites across 19 industries), the research behind crobenchmark.com. The other five areas, including AI visibility and AI checkout, use data sources CROBenchmark does not cover.

Who built this benchmark?

Omniconvert, a 13-year eCommerce optimization company with 70,000+ experiments across 2,500+ brands.

The store, category and country counts are read from the public leaderboard. The store count is floored to the hundred below, so it stays true between refreshes. Who builds the audit, and the research behind the Conversion basics score, is on the about page.