Harvv Research

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Behavioral-data audits of real customer sites. Full methodology, full data, full charts, full fix lists. No marketing case studies dressed up as research.

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We buy traffic for Harvv and publish the whole funnel as it happens: spend, click-through rate, what visitors did on the page, and how many signed up. Measured against published B2B SaaS benchmarks, including the numbers that make us look bad. Raw data downloadable as CSV.

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SEO / AIJun 16, 2026·9 min

Traditional Industry in the AI Age: We Audited 6 of America's Biggest Suppliers

McMaster-Carr, Uline, Fastenal and more, measured on phone and desktop. They own their categories on Google, but half ship zero structured data, the one thing AI answer engines read. Real data, ranked, with the fix list.

6suppliers
3/6no schema
0.63smedian LCP
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BenchmarkJun 16, 2026·8 min

We Benchmarked the Websites of 6 of America's Largest Oil Refiners

Valero, Phillips 66, HF Sinclair, PBF Energy, Par Pacific and Delek, head to head on speed, mobile usability, SEO and AI-readiness. Every number pulled from a live audit on phone and desktop.

6refiners
4/6no schema
0.61smedian LCP
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BehavioralJuly 10, 2026·6 min

Add-to-Cart Hesitation: Desktop Shoppers Pause 16× Longer Than Mobile

The milliseconds between a cursor landing on Add to Cart and the click. Desktop shoppers hover about 480ms before committing; mobile taps in under 30ms. The first hover-duration benchmark, split by device, from real behavioral data.

480msdesktop
<30msmobile
16×gap
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ConversionMay 19, 2026·14 min

The Friction Tax: What 55M Events Reveal About Shopify Conversion

A behavioral audit of 296,093 Shopify shopping sessions and 55 million events. Seven findings on what's quietly costing stores conversions, with a prioritized fix list. Spoiler: it's the apps, not the design.

296Ksessions
55.2Mevents
4stores
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LovableMay 27, 2026·12 min

The Lovable Friction Tax: 4 Production Failures Costing 8 Million Builders

Lovable hit $200M ARR and 8 million users in twelve months. Every Lovable app inherits four documented production failures the platform cannot fix from inside. Verified evidence: CVE-2025-48757, Wiz Research, the February 2026 EdTech breach, and the April 2026 platform incident.

8Musers
4failure modes
12+primary sources
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Lovable spokeMay 27, 2026·9 min

We audited 330 live Lovable apps. 98.5% have a high-severity defect.

We pulled every *.lovable.app subdomain from the Internet Archive's index, kept the 330 that still resolve, and ran each through our free landing-page audit. Full dataset, methodology, and one-prompt fix.

330apps audited
98.2%missing H1
6.1%have analytics
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VibecodeMay 19, 2026·8 min

85 Vibecoded Sites, 0 Meta Pixels: What AI Ships

We ran 85 production sites built with Lovable, v0, Replit, Bolt, and Cursor through our free audit. Zero had a Meta Pixel. 76 percent had no tracking at all. 66 percent had no H1. The bugs are systematic and named.

85sites
397findings
5tools
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Individual behavioral audits of real sites, each measured live on phone and desktop. Every number comes from the Harvv pixel.

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