I need people to check my website ASAP before TV appearance!

tacofries

Hi Everyone,

To cut a long story short, I will be on tv tomorrow.

Can people please check my website and let me know if everything looks good to you?

I am mainly worried about the responsiveness and load speed. If any text doesn't look like it is layed out properly or pictures or videos are lined up oddly then please let me.

If you could post what device you are using that would be a great help e.g. Iphone 6s, e.g. Desktop 15inch screen.

Website: https://ShowerGem.com


Thanks!

P.s. I know there the removal video is missing

vicadd

Scrolling down the page, by swiping up phone, you get to video and then picture of white tiled bathroom. When trying to swipe past that image a magnifying feature kicks in and cannot scroll any more. Have to make sure not to touch that picture in order to move page.
On Android Samsung S9.
Page looks good apart from that.
Good luck tomorrow

tacofries

I know the exact issue. I am debating whether to remove the zoom on it or not... Slightly unsure what to do.

Thank you

Trojan

From a website performance/stress perspsective normally I'd recommend you create a static entry html page (index.html) very lightweight with a "Welcome to ABC viewers." with a nice photo and "special discount coupon code for viewers" email subscription box. On the side have a big call to action to enter the main site as well. That would be enough to satisfy the mildly curious and keep the rest of the site up.

You're on shopify, they should be fine to deal with heavy traffic from a performance standpoint. You could contact support to let them know there might be a traffic spike. This guide from them is worth a look: https://www.shopify.ie/blog/bfcm-checklist

Trojan

tacofries wrote: »

I know the exact issue. I am debating whether to remove the zoom on it or not... Slightly unsure what to do.

Thank you

Remove the zoom 100%.

spurious

Looks fine in Chrome, Firefox and Opera on a PC.
Small gripe - have to use back button to get back to the main site from 'Terms of service' and the policy pages. Not the end of the world.

I actually saw one of them in a friend's bathroom and am thinking of buying a few.

Axwell

Congrats on the tv slot - great to see things progressing.
Site speed is fine - loads in 2s which is below the 3s in which the majority of people leave a website for loading too slow.

As mentioned above I would consider removing the zoom - its the same on desktop when you are moving the mouse around and can be a bit of a distraction when you are scrolling or moving that it jumps up at you. A click to zoom option would be better than hover if possible - if not remove for now.

Best of luck!

tacofries

spurious wrote: »

I actually saw one of them in a friend's bathroom and am thinking of buying a few.

Thank you for going to the bother of checking the different browsers.

That has made my evening!! I have only been selling since October and it feels so good to hear that people are randomly spotting The ShowerGem in other peoples houses. Even on nights out, I bump into complete strangers who have told me that their friends or family have bought a ShowerGem. Crazy to think...

I recommend that you buy them tonight if you are as orders placed tomorrow may potentially be delayed depending on demand.

obriendj

Nice site! Looks well on Samsung.

Would change the scrolling type text, maybe have it flash up, but not a fan of the font. Seems dated so doesn't go with the rest of the site

Just my opinion

Overal the speed is decent.

Jeff2

I'd remove the zoom. The zoom also does not match up moving left to right.
It start fine at the left but as you move right the image you see is further than where the mouse is.

If you get me, like mouse moves x+10 and image moves x+20.

On 13" laptop and Android phone.

Ruraldweller56

Sony Xperia xz3 looks good to me

Phileas Frog

Your website will go down the minute you appear on TV

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The Reviews section lack credibility, as no source/name/identity is shown under the actual 'testimonial'.

tacofries

I have been told by Shopify that the website can handle 500k hits a minute so will be interesting to see!

BabysCoffee

Nice product! Good luck with the TV appearance

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Jeff2 wrote: »

I'd remove the zoom. The zoom also does not match up moving left to right.
It start fine at the left but as you move right the image you see is further than where the mouse is.

If you get me, like mouse moves x+10 and image moves x+20.

On 13" laptop and Android phone.

Same issue here, laptop running Firefox.

zoe 3619

vicadd wrote: »

Scrolling down the page, by swiping up phone, you get to video and then picture of white tiled bathroom. When trying to swipe past that image a magnifying feature kicks in and cannot scroll any more. Have to make sure not to touch that picture in order to move page.
On Android Samsung S9.
Page looks good apart from that.
Good luck tomorrow

Totally this.If I was thinking of buying,I'd have got to here and given up.Best of luck.

Black_Knight

Yup. Same as others. Remove the zoom. I kept stumbling over it and it was ruining the flow of the site (on laptop).

It also doesn't work perfectly. What's supposed to be zoomed, and what is zoomed are 2 different things. They don't line up (See image). Chrome on a Macbook air

august12

Would agree with other posters here, the zoom in area detracts from the page I think, better to remove it completely, everything else on page is opening perfectly for me on a Xiaomi Redmi 2 using mi browser.

jimmii

vicadd wrote: »

Scrolling down the page, by swiping up phone, you get to video and then picture of white tiled bathroom. When trying to swipe past that image a magnifying feature kicks in and cannot scroll any more. Have to make sure not to touch that picture in order to move page.
On Android Samsung S9.
Page looks good apart from that.
Good luck tomorrow

Weird I tried to recreate that and it wasn't happening using chrome on an S9!

AgriLad

Everything looks really well on IPad Air 2.

jimmii

tacofries wrote: »

I have been told by Shopify that the website can handle 500k hits a minute so will be interesting to see!

Now there's a challenge! I'd imagine when people go on Shark Tank their website will always go down then! We're probably safe enough on this side.

Site looks good to me. As mentioned above I wasn't able to recreate the zooming issue, using the same device as a previous poster, so if you're made some changes that's worked. Good luck tomorrow!

Southdubin6

Mate very impressive. iPhone XS Max

Well done m. User friendly.

Black_Knight

Also a console error regarding the zoom library you're using:

Uncaught TypeError: `new Drift` requires a DOM element as its first argument.

Mr.Crinklewood

Seem yo be a few dead links...check here...


https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/website-dead-link-checker.asp

Jeff2

jimmii wrote: »

Weird I tried to recreate that and it wasn't happening using chrome on an S9!

If you swipe up slow and the image is at the bottom of the page then it goes to zoom which stops the page moving up unless you move above the image to swipe up.

jimmii

Jeff2 wrote: »

If you swipe up slow and the image is at the bottom of the page then it goes to zoom which stops the page moving up unless you move above the image to swipe up.

Ah yeah I see what you mean. Agree definitely no need for that.

jimmii

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Seem yo be a few dead links...check here...


https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/website-dead-link-checker.asp

I hadn't seen that tool before that's really handy! Amazed how few links there are on the site above ran mine through that and it hit the 2k cap :eek:

Taco the links that it flags look like an old contact page that's been deleted and a blog post or something that's been removed but being linked back somewhere else still too. Probably just a small bit of house keeping to tidy up!

FluffyTowel

Looks really good. Same issue with scrolling past that zoom-able picture, on an SGS7. Would definitely remove that feature for now.

Would also remove the flashing cursor line after the scrolling text. It's a bit distracting.

Looks great though. Best of luck!

Ronan|Raven

The zoom is too disconcerting to be honest. Tested on 19" LCD and 14" LCD.

The idea itself looks good to be honest. I wish you all the best with it.

Duffryman

+1 to all the suggestions to get rid of the zoom function completely. To me, there are two issues:

1 - On desktop, the bit being shown in zoom mode pops up over some of your key marketing text. Example is even when I followed your link first and my cursor happened to fall to the pic at the top left of your home page. Right-hand bit of my screen was filled with a zoomed-in portion of that pic, so I couldn't see your intro text of 'The ShowerGem shower caddy is the place to store all of your shower essentials. Attach it to your tiles using our easy-use, transparent glue that has been designed for wet shower environments, so no more screws, suction cups or drilling. ' Worse from your point of view, I couldn't see one of your 'buy now' buttons either, which is where you really want people to go!

2 - On the lower down pic with the zoom functionality, you gain nothing from people being able to zoom in on the taps, decorations, shower controls, wooden table with the candle on it, etc. And again, the zoom pop-up is obscuring some of your key text.

I'd also second what somebody else says about your testimonials. Are they from your Facebook page or somewhere similar? Put the usernames with them and also say where they're from.

Overall though, site looks pretty good. Might even buy myself. Just curious - did you build the site yourself or give it out to an agency to do?

So glad I stumbled onto this thread! I'm definitely buying a shower gem! It's exactly what I need. The tiles in my ensuite are crazy expensive and no way was I drilling into them so been trying to find an alternative! Yay!

As for the site.. looks good to me other than the zoom issue.... And one tiny thing.. it says him & hers. But I'm pretty sure it should be his & hers.

Good luck tomorrow!

AndrewJRenko

You have poor colour contrast between text colour and background on some sections, particularly the grey text on the light grey background. Change it to black text, and/or lighten the background shading.

The FAQ approach is a bit dated, and a bit of a design cop-out. You should really have all this information in the appropriate place on the website, instead of pulling it all out separately in an FAQ.

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/07/25/faqs-why-we-dont-have-them/

spurious

tacofries wrote: »

I recommend that you buy them tonight if you are as orders placed tomorrow may potentially be delayed depending on demand.

Order in. Thanks for the heads up. Good luck tomorrow.

Hardtochoose

The FAQ link on How to permanently remove the showergem links back to the installation video. No sign of a removal video.

Gloomtastic!

Sleep ok last night tacofries?

Just to say congrats on your progress so far and break a leg on the telly!!!

This place can really prove it’s worth when genuine posters ask for help and then action the advice given. Love it!!!

lollpop

Looks good on an S9 edge.

Only feedback I'd have is that I think you need sone sort of "about us" page. I like the look of the product but I've never heard of you. You need some blurb about your story with some personal information. Basically something that says who you are.

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Looks good on Xiaomi note 5.

A discount code for boards.ie users would be a nice gesture!!

StupidLikeAFox

Hardtochoose wrote: »

The FAQ link on How to permanently remove the showergem links back to the installation video. No sign of a removal video.

I would get that sorted. It would be by far the main reason I wouldn't buy - I would be afraid that I would be left with this permanent thing on wall if I decided to change my mind down the line

supersonic21

Great product, best of luck with it

lucky john

Best of luck on the Late Late. It's the kind of product everyone tuning in will have an interest in. Your couriers will need a bigger van next week.

Jeff2

lucky john wrote: »

Best of luck on the Late Late. It's the kind of product everyone tuning in will have an interest in. Your couriers will need a bigger van next week.

Think you could be right about late late show.
Dermot Bannon is on it and I just cought part of the promo for it saying entrepreneurs.

Feets

Great presentation and good branding which some others didn't have. Well done! Best of luck with more sales.

mugsymugsy

Just seen you. Congrats think it went very well. Good exposure for you. Best of luck with the extra orders

Mac Taylor

Well done on the tv, hope it goes well for you.

Nunu

Looks like a really good no frills product and nice name for it too. Well done.

Just a question on the glue. Presume it would also work just as well on a plastic wall like in a mobile home shower or does it have to go on tiles exclusively?

mugsymugsy

https://twitter.com/RTELateLateShow/status/1091472713464438785?s=19

Nice one tacofries

tacofries

Will do a proper post in a few days. Traffic was less than I thought but conversion rate was huge.

What do people think the traffic was and I'll post the answer in a few days!

jimmii

I would guess around 100k in the hour after you were first on screen? Viewing figures for the late late are normally in the 500k-600k range right?

Guessing there's a lot of packing up due on Monday morning lol!

Gloomtastic!

I’d go for a 1% link rate so 5000-odd, converting 10% of them so 500 sales. Not a bad days work.

Do I win a free set of Showergems?

Jeff2

I like what you added to the top of the site.

As seen on the Late Late Show.