Web Design · Shopify (Plus) · Conversion Rate Optimisation

Your website isn't a project. It's your highest-converting asset.

Most agencies hand you a site, get it signed off, and let it decay while your traffic spend climbs. We don't. As a Shopify Partner and AI-first agency, we design and build your store to convert — then run design, build and experimentation as one continuous loop: A/B testing, UX research, speed and AI personalisation that lift conversion rate, AOV and revenue per session, month after month. Measured on revenue, never on how pretty it looks.

  • Shopify Partner · build + experimentation
  • +8.4% conversions per 0.1s of speed
  • CVR · AOV · RPS > a pretty site
Trusted by ambitious brands
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The reframe

A pretty site is the easiest thing to fool yourself with.

A website that looks great can still leak revenue on every visit. Google, Meta, Amazon, email and SEO all dump traffic onto the same destination — so your conversion rate is the single multiplier on every pound of media you spend. Most brands optimise the ads and leave the site, the one shared multiplier, untouched.

1.4→4.7%the gap between an average Shopify store and the top decile — roughly a 3x revenue difference on identical traffic.
+50%revenue from moving an average store from ~1.4% to ~2.1% CVR — with zero extra media spend.
~7%of conversions lost for every extra second of load time — speed is a conversion feature, not a nicety.

Paid traffic is rented. Your conversion rate is the asset you own — and it compounds across every channel at once.

RiseUp web & CRO by the numbers

  • CVR · AOV · RPSwhat we report — revenue per session, not how the site looks
  • +8.4%conversion uplift from a 0.1s speed improvement — Deloitte, 30M sessions, 37 brands
  • ~1 in 8experiments that produce a real, significant win — so we run a disciplined, high-velocity program
  • ~1.7xconversion from AI-personalised experiences vs static — a tested lever inside the loop
Built for ecommerce, DTC & considered-purchase brands (roughly £1M+ online) with enough traffic to test — where a fraction of a point of CVR is a large revenue swing
Why RiseUp

Award-standard design AND experimentation rigour — rare in one team.

Most brands stitch together a design studio, a Shopify dev shop and a separate CRO tool. The handoffs are where conversion dies.

Design and CRO under one roof

The people who design and build your site are the people optimising it, accountable to the same revenue number. No relay, no finger-pointing between a pretty-build vendor and a CRO tool.

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Senior strategists, real statistics

A named senior owns your programme. We pre-calculate sample sizes, run to 95% significance and never call a winner early — early stopping is the biggest source of fake CRO wins.

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We report the CFO's scoreboard

CVR, AOV, revenue per session and total revenue — with the experiment win-rate and confidence shown honestly. A dashboard, not a how-pretty-it-looks update.

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What we do

Design, build and optimise — one team, one P&L.

From the Shopify build to the experiment loop and the AI personalisation on top — eight capabilities run as one conversion engine.

01

Shopify (Plus) design & build

High-converting Shopify and Shopify Plus storefronts as your commerce engine — we extend the native checkout via Checkout Extensibility and Functions, plus B2B and multi-market where the revenue case is real.

02

Web design

Custom, on-brand design made against conversion goals, not aesthetics alone — clear hierarchy, friction-free navigation and one dominant CTA per template.

03

Front-end build & performance

Hand-built front-end engineered for speed and Core Web Vitals (LCP ≤2.5s, INP ≤200ms, CLS ≤0.1). A 0.1s gain lifted retail conversions 8.4% (Deloitte). Speed is a conversion feature.

04

CRO & experimentation

A continuous, hypothesis-driven A/B and multivariate program run with statistical rigour — 95% significance, 80% power, no early stopping. The edge is validated decisions per quarter, not vanity test counts.

05

UX research

Heatmaps, session replay, surveys and user testing that generate and validate hypotheses — heatmaps answer “where”, replay answers “why”. The smart spend for lower-traffic pages too.

06

Landing pages

Standalone, single-goal pages for paid and campaign traffic — tight ad-to-page message match, minimal nav and social proof by the CTA. Built to pair with your other RiseUp media lines.

07

AI integration & personalisation

AI as a tested conversion lever — 1:1 personalisation, AI product recommendations and conversational commerce. AI-personalised experiences convert ~1.7x vs static, validated through the same experiment loop.

08

Analytics & tracking

A revenue scoreboard, not a vanity dashboard — server-side/GA4 tracking you can trust: CVR, AOV, revenue per session and total revenue, with experiment win-rate and confidence shown honestly.

How it compounds

We don't redesign on a hunch. We prove it.

Every change is a hypothesis, run as a real experiment against the live site — to 95% significance, with the sample size set before we start and no calling a winner early. Losers are cheap learning; winners ship and compound. Only about one in eight tests wins, which is exactly why a disciplined, high-velocity program beats a one-off redesign.

95% significanceNo early stoppingWinners compound
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How the loop works

Design, build and experiment — as one loop.

Ship, test, learn, compound. The work doesn't end at launch — that's the point.

  1. 01 · Diagnose

    Research & audit

    Analytics, session replay, heatmaps and user testing find where revenue actually leaks. We set the CVR/AOV/RPS baseline and surface quick wins — speed, broken funnels, friction.

    AI-assisted
  2. 02 · Build

    Conversion-led build

    Design and engineer the Shopify (Plus) store for speed and a single dominant CTA per template — Core Web Vitals from the first line, not bought back later.

    AI-accelerated
  3. 03 · Experiment

    A/B & multivariate testing

    Prioritised hypotheses, run to 95% significance, no early stopping. Winners ship; losers are cheap learning.

    AI hypotheses
  4. 04 · Compound

    Personalise & iterate

    AI personalisation and per-segment journeys, validated by the same tests — then the loop repeats and the asset appreciates quarter over quarter.

    AI personalisation
The number that matters

A screenshot can't tell you what your site costs you.

A site you love the look of can still convert at half what it should — and you'd never know from a screenshot. The only honest question is what it does to the business. We measure in four layers.

  1. Layer 01

    Conversion rate (CVR)

    The share of visitors who act — the multiplier on every channel at once.

  2. Layer 02

    Average order value (AOV)

    What each converting visitor is worth — lifted by merchandising, bundling and pricing presentation.

  3. Layer 03

    Revenue per session (RPS)

    CVR × AOV in one number — the truest read on whether the experience is earning.

  4. The score

    Total revenue & win-rate

    Revenue traced back to changes, with experiment win-rate and confidence shown honestly — the scoreboard a CFO recognises.

Certified where it counts

A Shopify Partner, inside a full-service team.

So the site, the media driving traffic to it and the data measuring it all pull in the same direction — one team, one P&L, one source of truth.

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Free, no obligation

Get a free CRO & site audit.

We'll review your site's conversion rate, speed, funnel and analytics, show you exactly where revenue is leaking, and quantify the upside — what a conversion-led build and experiment loop could be worth. No obligation.

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  • A named senior strategist, not a junior
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Questions, answered

Web & CRO questions, answered.

What's the difference between a website agency and a conversion-asset partner?

A website agency delivers a project: it's designed, signed off, launched, and then it slowly decays while your traffic spend keeps climbing. We treat your site as a growth asset and run it on a continuous design → build → experiment loop, so its conversion rate, average order value and revenue per session keep climbing long after launch. The build is engineered to convert from day one; the experimentation program then compounds those gains month after month. You're not buying a snapshot that ages — you're buying an asset that appreciates.

Are you a Shopify Plus agency, and do you only work on Shopify?

We're a Shopify Partner and we specialise in Shopify and Shopify Plus — it's where most growth ecommerce brands should be, and its checkout converts better than almost anything you could custom-build. We build new stores, replatform brands onto Shopify Plus, and optimise existing ones, extending the native checkout through Checkout Extensibility and Shopify Functions rather than replacing it (the only supported path on Plus since August 2025). We also build headless (Hydrogen/Next.js) where there's a real revenue case for it. If you're not on Shopify yet, we'll give you a straight answer on whether replatforming will actually move your numbers.

How much can conversion rate optimisation realistically lift our revenue?

The honest answer is that it depends on your starting point, traffic volume and AOV — but the leverage is enormous because conversion rate multiplies every channel at once. The average Shopify store converts around 1.4% while the top decile clears 4.7%, so the gap between average and great is roughly a 3x revenue difference on identical traffic. Moving from, say, 1.4% to 2.1% is about +50% revenue with no extra media spend. We won't promise a specific number before we've seen your data — but for most brands already buying traffic, the site is the highest-ROI lever they're not pulling.

Isn't CRO just “change the button colour”? We've tried it and it did nothing.

Button-colour tests are exactly why most CRO disappoints — they're tiny, they rarely reach significance, and they ignore the real friction. Serious CRO is research-led: session replay, analytics, heatmaps and user testing to find where revenue is actually leaking, then meaningful experiments on layout, merchandising, pricing presentation, the product page and the checkout flow. Only about one in eight tests wins even when done well, so the value is a disciplined, high-velocity program where the winners compound — not a one-off tweak you tried once and abandoned.

Why does site speed matter so much for conversion?

Because speed is a conversion feature, not a technical detail. Every additional second of load time costs roughly 7% of conversions, and Deloitte's study of 30 million sessions found that a 0.1-second speed improvement lifted retail conversions 8.4% and average order value 9.2%; 53% of mobile visitors abandon a page that takes over three seconds. Speed also feeds Core Web Vitals, which affects SEO and AI-search visibility. We engineer Shopify and Shopify Plus builds for Core Web Vitals and mobile-first performance from the first line of code, so you're not buying back speed with expensive fixes later.

How do you actually use AI in web and CRO — beyond the buzzword?

Four concrete ways. We use AI to generate and prioritise test hypotheses faster, so we run more experiments with a higher hit rate. We use it to personalise merchandising and on-site journeys per customer segment — AI-personalised experiences convert around 1.7x versus static, and shoppers who engage AI chat convert roughly four times more often. We use it to mine session and analytics data for revenue leaks a human review would miss. And we build your store to be ready for agentic commerce, where AI shopping agents transact on a customer's behalf. We're an AI-first agency, so this is built into the loop — but every AI-driven change still has to win a real, measured test before it ships.

Do we have enough traffic for CRO to be worth it?

It's the right question, because experimentation needs volume to be valid — testing on too little traffic just produces noise you'll mistake for signal. As a rough guide, brands doing meaningful revenue (around £1M+ online) usually have enough traffic to run statistically sound A/B tests. If you're below that, the smarter spend is a focused, conversion-led build plus the quick wins from a diagnostic — speed, broken funnels, obvious friction — rather than a full testing program, and we can lean on UX research for design-led wins. We'll tell you honestly which camp you're in and where your money works hardest right now.

How do you report results, and what are we actually measured on?

On the metrics that move the business: conversion rate, average order value, revenue per session and total revenue — plus the experiment win-rate and confidence levels, shown honestly. You won't get a dashboard of vanity metrics or a “look how pretty it is” update; you'll get the scoreboard a CFO would recognise, with every change traced back to its revenue impact. And because we hold ourselves to statistical significance — pre-calculating sample sizes, running to 95% confidence and never calling a winner early — we'd rather tell you a test was inconclusive than bank a number that evaporates next month.

Make your site your highest-converting asset.

Book a free, senior-led CRO & site audit — we'll show you where revenue is leaking and what a conversion-led build and experiment loop could be worth. We'd love to partner with you and your team. No obligation.

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