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Shoppers referred from AI assistants convert 42% better than other traffic, bounce 27% less, and spend more time on site. That number comes from Adobe research in a sponsored Retail Dive piece, so read it as a vendor's best case. These shoppers arrive having already described their problem to ChatGPT or Gemini, narrowed their options, and clicked through mostly ready to buy. That's the best lead you're going to get. And most Shopify stores are fumbling it at the five-yard line.
The breakage points are predictable. Page speed kills the first wave: 53% of mobile users bail on a site that takes more than three seconds to load, per Google. Every additional second of load time costs roughly 17% in conversions, per PayPal data in the same Retail Dive piece. Then on-site search kills the second wave…
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