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Type: Component Test · Where It Runs: Homepage · Setup Time: ~10 min
Test whether adding collection circle navigation to your homepage increases engagement and revenue by making it easier for shoppers to discover and browse your collections.
Video Walkthrough
Why This Works
When shoppers land on your homepage, they need a clear path to the products they care about. Most stores rely on the navigation menu or hero banners to get people to collections, but both require effort. The nav menu is tucked behind a hamburger icon on mobile, and banners only highlight one or two collections at a time.
Collection circles solve this by putting your top collections front and center as tappable, visual shortcuts. One glance and the shopper can see everything you offer and jump straight to what interests them. Less friction to browse means more products seen, which means more chances to convert.
This works especially well on mobile, where navigating through a menu feels clunky. Collection circles are faster and more intuitive than opening a menu, scanning a list, and tapping a category. They reduce the number of steps between "I just landed here" and "I'm looking at products I want to buy."
Best For
Stores with multiple distinct collections (e.g. categories, product lines, seasonal drops)
Stores where homepage is a top landing page
Mobile-heavy traffic stores
Any store that wants to improve collection discoverability from the homepage
How to Set It Up
In your Elevate dashboard, click Page Experiment
Give your experiment a name and add a description of your hypothesis
Set your primary metric to Revenue per Visitor
Select Homepage as the target
For the variation, click Add Custom Component. You'll see several options: collection circles, collection badges, product circles, or product badges. Collection circles is a strong starting point and has worked well for many stores
Select your default homepage template to duplicate, then click Duplicate
Click Edit in Shopify to open the duplicated template in the theme editor
You'll see the collection circles component already added. Click on it to customize. Elevate styles it based on your store's design (stroke colors, layout), but you can adjust everything on the left panel: stroke thickness, image size, which collections are included, and the display order
Rearrange or remove collections as needed. Feature your strongest collections first. If a collection isn't relevant for the homepage, just deselect it
Hit Save in the theme editor and go back to Elevate
Preview the variation and control on both desktop and mobile
Leave traffic split at 50/50. No need to isolate traffic or set audience targeting
Click Create Experiment to put it in preview state, do a final QA check, then Launch
What to Look For
Primary metric: Revenue per visitor. You want to know if easier navigation is actually leading to more purchases, not just more browsing.
Also watch: Segment your results by mobile vs desktop. This component tends to perform especially well on mobile because it replaces the friction of navigating through a hamburger menu. Desktop impact may be smaller since the nav menu is already visible. Seeing the split will help you decide whether to roll it out across both or just mobile.
Timeline: 1-2 weeks for most stores. Homepages typically get strong traffic volume, so you should reach significance quickly.
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