Teardown · Stali · 6 November 2026
A very good coffee page that hides its price and its 532 reviews below the first screen, and a home page whose main image took 21 seconds to load on a phone
ST. ALi sells coffee online the way it should be sold: Subscribe & Save sits right next to the one-time price ($71.10 against $79.00), the cart drawer offers the subscription again, and the product page has a real brew recipe, origins and a strength scale. The problems are in what the first screen shows and what gets in the way. On a phone, the Orthodox page opens with the bag, the name and the size buttons, but no price and no rating. The 4.92-star, 532-review proof sits far down the page and opens with a single four-star review. The home page's main image took 21.1 seconds to appear in Google's mobile test. And the checkout ticks "Email me with news and offers" for the shopper. We reviewed stali.com.au as a first-time visitor on an iPhone-sized screen and a laptop on 6 November 2026, using Orthodox House Espresso Blend (1kg, whole bean) as the test product.
Automatic checks by area
From the same checks as our free quick score. The fixes below include problems these checks can't see.
- Speed
- 50
- Product page
- –
- Trust and checkout
- 100
- Search basics
- 100
What's already working
- Subscribe & Save is a clear second option right under the one-time price, showing the saving as a crossed-out $79.00 next to $71.10, and the cart drawer offers it again with one tap.
- The product page answers a coffee buyer's real questions: origin (50% Colombia, 50% Brazil), process, a strength scale, and a brew recipe with dose, yield and time.
- Social proof is in the announcement area on every page: "Excellent 4.92 | 100,000+ Customers".
- Pickup at Port Melbourne, Afterpay ($19.75 x 4) and the loyalty points for this product (79) are all shown near Add to Cart.
- The cart page offers Shop Pay, PayPal and Google Pay next to the checkout button.
Fix these, in this order
01Product page · 1–2 hours
Show the price and star rating directly under the product name
On a phone, the first screen of the Orthodox page shows the bag, the name and the size and grind buttons, but no price, no rating and no Add to Cart. The price only appears a scroll later, inside the One-time and Subscribe boxes. The 532-review, five-star rating is further down again, past the description and specifications. Price and proof are the two things a first-time buyer checks first, and here neither is on screen.
In the product template, add a line under the title with the review stars and count (most review apps provide a "star rating badge" block) and the price for the selected size. Keep the One-time and Subscribe boxes as they are. Make the price line update when the size changes.02Speed · Half a day
Get the home page's first image on screen in under 3 seconds
In Google's mobile test, the largest element on the home page, the Gift Shop hero image, took 21.1 seconds to appear on a mid-range phone. Scripts only blocked the page for 160ms, so the problem is the image itself and how it loads, not apps. Google's real-user data rates the site fast overall, so most visitors are on quick connections, but anyone on a slower phone or patchy mobile data stares at a blank or half-loaded first screen.
Check the first hero slide's file size and serve a phone-width WebP version (under about 200KB) on mobile. Make sure the first slide isn't lazy-loaded, and give it high fetch priority. If the slider loads all its slides at once, load slides 2 and 3 after the page.03Trust and checkout · 10 minutes
Untick "Email me with news and offers" in checkout
The marketing checkbox under the email field was already ticked when we reached checkout. Shoppers who notice feel signed up without asking, which is a small knock to trust at the moment you ask for their card. Australia's spam regulator, ACMA, says a pre-ticked box isn't a reliable way to get express consent, so those sign-ups may not be safe to email anyway.
In Shopify admin, go to Settings → Checkout → Marketing options, and turn off the setting that pre-selects the email sign-up. Pay-off for the list: give the box a reason to tick it (see the rewrite below), and keep the loyalty and subscription sign-ups as the main ways to grow it.04Trust and checkout · 1–2 hours
Tell shoppers how far they are from free shipping in the cart drawer
After adding a 1kg bag ($79.00), the cart drawer shows the subtotal and Secure Checkout, but nothing says the shopper is $40 short of free shipping over $119, even though the announcement bar promises it on every page. The cart page doesn't say it either: shipping is "calculated at checkout". A shopper who finds a shipping fee there may drop off, and one who knew about the gap might have added a second bag.
Turn on the free-shipping progress bar in the cart drawer app (most have one) or the theme. Point the "You may also like" row at products that close a typical gap, and consider a "2 bags" quick add, since a second 1kg bag clears $119 on its own.05Product page · 20 minutes
Use one set of tasting notes for Orthodox
The page describes Orthodox's flavour three ways: "chocolate, caramel butterscotch and apple" in the introduction, "Apple jam, fudge, chocolate" in Specifications, and "Chocolate · Caramel · Apple" in Tasting Notes. Coffee buyers read tasting notes closely, especially when choosing between blends, and three different lists make all of them look less exact.
Pick one list (the Tasting Notes version is the clearest) and use it in all three places. If the specifications come from a product metafield, update the metafield so every size and grind shows the same notes.06Product page · 1 hour
Open the reviews with the overall rating, not a single four-star review
The reviews block shows "532 Reviews" in small type, then leads with one four-star review whose whole text is "GOOD TASTE EXPERIENCE". For a blend averaging five stars across 532 reviews, the first review a shopper reads is weaker than the average and says nothing about the coffee.
In the reviews widget settings, show the rating summary first (average, count, star breakdown), then sort by most helpful or most recent with text. Display two or three reviews that mention taste, milk drinks or the subscription, like the ones already on the home page.07Trust and checkout · 30 minutes
Stop the loyalty tooltip and chat button covering the page
A black "LOG IN OR JOIN LOYALTY" tooltip sat over the top right of the header on the home, product and cart pages throughout our visit, covering part of the page and the hero image. The chat button covered the "Grind" label and the Whole Bean option on the product page, and the Country field in checkout. Each covers something a shopper needs, on a small screen with little room to spare.
Show the loyalty tooltip once per visitor and let it close on its own after a few seconds or on the first scroll. In the chat app (it looks like Gorgias), raise the button's bottom offset on mobile, and hide it on checkout or move it so it doesn't sit over form fields.
Copy to paste in
Under the product name
NowORTHODOX HOUSE ESPRESSO BLEND
ORTHODOX HOUSE ESPRESSO BLEND ★★★★★ 532 reviews · $79.00 for 1kg, or $71.10 on subscription
Cart drawer, above the subtotal (under $119)
NowSubtotal $79.00
You're $40 from free shipping. Add a second bag and we'll ship the lot free.
Specifications, tasting notes
NowNOTES: APPLE JAM, FUDGE, CHOCOLATE
NOTES: CHOCOLATE, CARAMEL, RED APPLE
Checkout marketing checkbox (unticked)
NowEmail me with news and offers
Email me about new blends and member-only offers
Start with the checkbox: it takes ten minutes and removes a real risk. Then put the price and rating under the product name, because that's the change most likely to move first-time buyers. The home page image is the biggest piece of work, and it matters most for visitors from ads and social on mobile data. This is an independent review of ST. ALi's public online store. We have no connection to ST. ALi and haven't seen its analytics, so the likely impact of each fix is our judgement from common patterns, not a measured result.