Spur found a broken Best Sellers link sending shoppers to a 404 page
What this run
has verified.
Spur's Exploratory agent went through every link in the header navigation one by one, clicking each and checking where it landed. The Best Sellers link returned a 404.
Link integrity
Every header navigation link resolving to a valid, live page.
Navigation reliability
Shoppers landing where the nav promises to take them.
Session continuity
A header click that starts a shopping session, not ends one.
Crawl health
Key site links returning correctly, not dead ends.
Compare
The customer's live site,
captured by
Spur
during the run.
Before
After
What this
one catch saved.
3hrs
Dev time saved
Shipped, someone has to notice it (usually from a customer complaint), file a ticket, track down whether it's a bad URL, a deleted page, or a redirect that got missed, then verify the fix.
$400K+
Lost potential revenue
Best Sellers is where high-intent browsers go. Every session that hit this link during the window was interrupted before it even started.
2hrs
Manual QA time
Catching this manually means clicking through every nav link across the site and checking it resolves correctly, the kind of check that's quick in isolation but easy to skip when you're focused on the checkout flow.
The actual test
in
Broken link
A single-step navigation audit across the header links. Spur hovered and clicked through every item in the nav, flagging anything that didn't land on a valid page. One link failed, the one most likely to catch a browsing customer at the top of their session.
Hover over every link on the header and navigate to the individual pages clicking on the links. Perform this step until all the links are navigated to. Flag and discrepancies as warnings and do not fail the test.
Nav link sending to a 404 page
Site Merchandising
Site Merchandising
Checkout Interactions
Accessibility
Payment
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