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Media and Image Weight

Images make up most of a Shopify page’s bytes and are usually its slowest part. Horavo inspects every image and video reference on the crawled pages, then fetches the actual files to catch what the HTML alone can’t show.

What Horavo checks

Evaluate every loaded image and video to catch broken files, oversized assets, incorrect lazy loading, and missing alt text.

  • Above-the-fold images that are lazy-loaded, including an unprioritised hero
  • Below-the-fold images loaded eagerly
  • Images served without srcset
  • Missing width and height attributes, the classic cause of layout shift
  • Alt text quality, not just presence. Filenames as alt text get flagged
  • Images hosted off the Shopify CDN, with no resizing parameters
  • Images served far larger than the size they display at
  • Autoplay video with heavy preload settings
  • Broken image references
  • og:image present and correctly sized for link previews
A finding, as the board shows it

Named, rated, and ready to hand off.

Every Images & media finding carries the page it was found on and a rating for impact and difficulty, so the same issue reads the same on every run and can be fixed, verified and closed.

Hero image ships 2400px wide for a 640px slot
Mediafound in audit #12
High impactEasy

Sample data.

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