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Shopify quietly changed how it counts a session this week, and if your conversion rate looks different starting September 21, this is why.
The rollout runs September 21 to 23. Three things changed under the hood. Sessions used to end automatically at midnight UTC, so a shopper browsing late at night got counted as two sessions. Now a session only ends after 30 minutes of inactivity, so that same visit counts as one. Second, a shopper who lands straight on checkout from a cart link, with no pageview at all, now counts as a session where before it didn't. Third, identified bot traffic is filtered out of session reports by default.
None of this means your store actually changed. Sessions, conversion rate, add to cart rate, checkout rate and bounce rate can all move in either direction depending on which of the three effects dominates for your traffic mix. Less bot noise pushes conversion rate up, more counted no pageview sessions pushes it down.
Five minute check before you react to a number. Pull your orders and sales for the same period. If those are flat but conversion rate jumped or dropped this week, it is the measurement change, not your store. Compare like for like only after September 23, once the rollout has finished on your account.
Ecom Swift LLC
This is a massive heads-up on the Shopify metrics rollout! The bot filtering is going to clean up a lot of baseline noise, but the direct-to-checkout link changes will definitely shift funnel stats.
I’m a front-end dev specializing in store layouts and conversion fixes here on...
Good catch on the direct-to-checkout link specifically, that one is easy to miss since it does not show up as a traffic spike, just a session that used to be invisible. Worth flagging on any store running email or SMS campaigns with buy-now links, since those skip the pageview...
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Turns out the bundle app had snapshotted the product's variants back when it only had one size live. Sizes and colors added later never flow through automatically, since the bundle keeps its own copy of what it saw at build time.
The fix was a re-sync: open the bundle, re-attach the product, and it pulls in the current variant list. Nothing else about it, design, pricing tiers, copy, needed to change.
We build and run our own bundle app for this reason (Sleek Bundles Upsell), but this isn't specific to it. Any bundle, quantity-break, or variant picker app that snapshots a product on setup can go stale the same way.
Five-minute check: if you've added a size, color, or variant to a product since you first built a bundle or quantity discount on it, open that bundle and confirm every current option actually shows. A stale bundle doesn't throw an error, it just quietly limits what people can order.
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