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CRO
Litehouse makes premium outdoor solar lighting — festoon string lights, lanterns, fairy lights and wall lights built to survive weather and keep working. Founded in 2020 by Kevan and Michael Van der Velde, it sells to homeowners upgrading gardens and patios, and to hospitality venues that need atmosphere outdoors.

Litehouse

Founded by
Kevan Van der Velde
The challenge

What Was Holding Them Back.

What Was Holding Them Back

Challenge
01

Popup Blocked Buyers

An auto-triggered email modal interrupted every visitor arriving on the PDP.
Challenge
02

6.3% Forced Interaction

6,295 dismissal taps per 100,000 views — friction with zero purchase value.
Challenge
03

Mobile Paid Most

Small close buttons and mis-taps hit mobile paid traffic hardest.
THE approach

How We Diagnosed It.

This was one change, not four — so what follows is how we found it rather than what we built. Tap and attention data pointed at the popup, and we tested removing it rather than redesigning it.

01
Tap Heatmap Forensics

Clarity tap data exposed 6,295 dismissals per 100k views — pure friction, no value.

02
Attention Window Mapping

Scroll and attention data showed the popup firing inside the highest-value window.

03
Isolated One Variable

Nothing else changed. No copy, no layout, no offer — so the result meant one thing.

04
Tested Subtraction First

Instead of redesigning the popup, we removed it entirely to measure its true cost.

the work

What We Shipped.

Over 90 days we redesigned and rebuilt the highest-impact surfaces across the site.

No items found.
the results

What Moved.

+$36,721

Additional monthly revenue
From one deletion, at 93.1% statistical confidence.

+9.80%

Conversion rate
On the brand's best-selling product page.

+7.46%

Revenue per user
Same traffic, same offer, less interruption.
"We had assumed the popup was earning its place collecting emails. It turned out to be costing us more than it was collecting."
Kevan Van der Velde
Co-Founder

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