Logbook

How the review was made, what it could not see, and how to check every figure on this site.

Method

Every figure comes from public pages read at about one request a second, saved unchanged with a checksum, and turned into results by code with written rules and thresholds. Nothing is typed by hand.

The old WordPress site was read with plain requests. The Shopify store was read in a normal browser session on the reviewer's own computer, first as a shopper in the United States and then in France, because the store refuses server requests.

Each site's robots.txt was read first, and anything it disallows was skipped. Text on the pages was treated as data, never as instruction.

Limits

Public pages only. No login, account, cart, checkout or form, and no request to the customizer's service.
Product-page checks used a fixed sample: every eighth product in the store's own order.
Two markets only, the United States and France.
Not observed: the Shopify admin, stock quantities, orders, checkout, Search Console, GA4 data or page-speed scores.
Rows marked inference are readings of a pattern; every other row is a direct observation.

Dated observations

13 October 2026

Value	Baseline, 13 October	This snapshot
Old-site URLs	632 sitemap entries, 631 distinct, 307 under /shop	632 sitemap entries, 631 distinct, 307 under /shop
Old-site products	306: 266 variable and 40 simple, all in stock	306: 266 variable and 40 simple, all in stock
Store products and variants	310 and 4,805	309 and 4,795
Products that can be bought	US 254, France 99	US 307, France 309
Market classes	Both 69, US only 185, France only 30, neither 26	Both 307, US only 0, France only 2, neither 0
New products that cannot be bought	26 of the 27 created on or after 21 July	0 of the 27 created on or after 21 July
Best-sellers row	14 products; sold out: US 0, France 10	14 products; sold out: US 0, France 0
Product types	variable 182, simple 29, blank 73, real 26	variable 181, simple 29, blank 73, real 26
Tags and SKUs	264 products untagged; 664 variants without a SKU	263 products untagged; 664 variants without a SKU
Collections	64, with 3 empty and none described	64, with 3 empty and none described
Crosswalk	273 exact, 10 hyphenation, 21 to review, 2 with no counterpart, 6 store-only	273 exact, 10 hyphenation, 21 to review, 1 with no counterpart, 5 store-only
Sample of 39 products	0 of 124 alt texts, 0 of 601 barcodes, 11 descriptions cut mid-sentence	39 sampled: 0 of 130 alt texts, 0 of 571 barcodes, 10 descriptions cut mid-sentence
Results	6 pass, 8 watch, 20 fail	11 pass, 7 watch, 16 fail

Pricing values appear on the trial card as counts only.

Sources

opened 13 October 2026

Liquid Yacht Wear pages

www.liquidyachtwear.com and 46 more pages on that host: Old-site stack, tags, links and page content: the 21 pages, 13 posts, 2 blog categories, 6 products and 5 archives read
robots.txt, sitemap_index.xml and its ten child sitemaps: The old URL inventory
WooCommerce Store API: products, categories, brands and tags: The old products, their types and stock flags
/wp-json/ index: Plugin namespaces: WooCommerce, Yoast, Redirection, PixelYourSite
shop.liquidyachtwear.com, as a US shopper and as a shopper in France: Banner, best-sellers row, tags, theme, apps
products.json, collections.json and sitemap.xml on the store: Catalog, availability, collections and URL counts in both markets
Every eighth product page and its .js endpoint: Customizer markup, page basics, structured data, alt text
/pages/customization and /collections/polos: The customization page checks
The customizer script files served from Shopify's CDN: Architecture and the absence of analytics calls
dns.google lookups for the apex, www and shop: Nameservers and record targets

Platform documentation

Shopify Help: URL redirects: No redirects from paths beginning /apps, /application, /cart, /carts, /orders, /services or /shop; redirects fire only from broken URLs; CSV import
Shopify changelog: products can no longer be sold outside configured shipping zones: Stock counts only at locations that deliver to the customer's zone
Shopify Help: Using CSV files: Updates need only URL handle and Title; omitted columns keep their values
Shopify Help: Set up Google Analytics 4: GA4 connects through the Google & YouTube channel; an existing property can be used
Shopify.dev: Optimize storefront SEO: The seo.hidden metafield
Shopify.dev: Web pixels, emitting data: Shopify.analytics.publish from a theme; pixels read event.customData
Shopify Help: Custom pixels: Custom pixels run in a sandbox and are the merchant's responsibility
Shopify.dev: GitHub integration for themes: How a theme connects to a branch
Cloudflare: Pages redirects: _redirects syntax and limits; the default status is 302
Cloudflare: Pages custom domains: A subdomain needs only a CNAME; an apex needs the zone on Cloudflare
Cloudflare: Shopify provider guide: Proxied CNAME to shops.myshopify.com; do not enable Always Use HTTPS
Cloudflare: URL forwarding: Bulk Redirects on the Free plan
Cloudflare: workers.dev: Production Workers belong on a route or custom domain
Google Search Central: Site moves with URL changes: URL mapping, permanent redirects for at least a year, no mass redirect to the home page
Search Console Help: Change of Address tool: Works at domain level; eligibility for this move is a check, not a step

AI use

Claude, an AI model by Anthropic, drafted code and copy under the reviewer's direction. Every entry below says what changed and how it was checked.

Date	Task	What AI produced	Verified by
2026-10-13	Repository scaffold	Workspaces, config, result and snapshot schemas, request pacer, robots reader, Worker skeleton	Install and unit tests on the Mac
2026-10-13	The 34 checks	Each check as a pure function with the spec's thresholds; a fixture rebuilding every baseline count	34 status tests against `baseline.json`; display wording tests
2026-10-13	Capture and derive	Old-site capture, Chrome store capture, raw-to-snapshot readers	Live old-site capture matched the baseline; store capture rehearsed against a fake store
2026-10-13	Crosswalk and kit A	Matching rules, mapping table, three guards, generators, verifier, Worker, runbook	Unit tests, Worker tests in workerd, verifier tests against stubs
2026-10-13	Kit B	Event script, custom pixel, login-link fix, mock customizer, plan and docs	Nine tests: one event per action, allowed parameters only, results untouched, no-op without hooks, size, four link cases
2026-10-13	Kit C	Generators for the ten files, type map, hand-typing proposals	Count guards at generation; dev-store import pending H1
2026-10-13	Privacy	`check:private` with five checks	Positive and negative tests; clean run on site, tracked files and history
2026-10-13	Report site	Five pages and a 404 in the trial-log direction, three scripts	Seven viewports, axe on every page, keyboard and no-JS checks, no-typed-numbers test
2026-10-13	GraphQL for kit C	Product lookup and `metafieldsSet` mutation	Validated against the Admin GraphQL schema; not run on any store

Capture history

Snapshot	Started	Hosts	Requests
2026-10-13	2026-10-13 21:46 UTC	old site and store	190
2026-10-13-baseline	2026-10-13 15:04 UTC	old site and store	see evidence pack

How to reproduce

npm ci
npm run capture -- --host legacy
npm run capture -- --host store --market US,FR
npm run trial -- --compare baseline
npm run kits && npm run site:build

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