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CRT-017Cart · momentumLow

Image thumbnail shown for each cart item

Image thumbnail shown for each cart item.

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Free · no card · runs all rules at once · judged on 36 stores · updated
3%of the audited stores we could judge fail this rule
32 pass3 partial1 failPublished audits · September 2026
Stores judged
36
of 40 published audits
Score weight
0.4pts
of the 100-point score
Page share
20%
of the score is the cart

What earns each verdict

Same outcomes on every UXFix rule · how verdicts work
✓ Pass32

Every line item has a product image.

~ Partial3

Some items missing images.

✕ Fail1

Cart is text-only.

not assessable is recorded when the rule applied but the store could not be judged on it (bot protection, a region lock, a step we could not reach), and not applicable when the store has nothing for the rule to judge. Those stores are left out of every number on this page, never guessed. Why we do that
Why it matters

Some (or all) cart line items are shown as text only, without a product thumbnail image.

Cart is a moment of doubt: shoppers second-guess what they picked. A thumbnail confirms they picked the right thing. Text-only rows create hesitation and increase the odds of removing the item to check.

That sentence is the one a failing store sees in its own UXFix report.How rules are weighted and scored
36 audited stores, one dot each
1 fail
PassPartialFail

Every published UXFix audit this rule could be judged on, as of 23 Sep 2026. A count of real stores, not a simulation of yours.

How we test it

Scripted walk, fresh signed-out browser · the full walk
  1. 1Fresh browserSigned out, cookies cleared, desktop and mobile viewports, the store's live theme.
  2. 2Open a productA real, in-stock product page, found the way a shopper finds one.
  3. 3Add to cartDefault variant, quantity one, then the cart page itself.
  4. 4Judge this ruleAgainst the standard above, on what a shopper can see.
  5. 5Record the verdictPass, partial or fail, saved with the screenshot it was judged on.
What the agent looks for
Image thumbnail shown for each cart item.
Confidence
The rulebook rates this check’s confidence High. When the agent is not sure, the rule is recorded as not assessable rather than guessed.
Not judged
4 of 40 published audits: the rule did not apply or could not be judged. Dropped, never guessed.

The numbers behind the rule

Published UXFix audits · more statistics
Published audits failing this rule
No pictures here yet: none of the audits above saved a marked area for this rule.
Where this rule sits among 103 UX rules
Most-failed rank
#72
Score weight rank
#96
Fail rate
3%

Score weight: a fail costs 0.4 pts of of the 100-point score; a partial costs half that. Most-failed rank is among the 79 rules with enough published audits to report a rate.

The fix

The same steps a failing store sees in its report

A pass means: Every line item has a product image.

Severity
Low
Score gain
+0.4pts
Page
Cart

Score gain is roughly what a fail-to-pass change adds; rules that could not be judged are left out, which can move it a little. Re-run a free audit after the change ships to confirm the verdict moved.

Checklist for the pass
0 of 3

Tick each step as you ship it. The audit judges the live store, so re-run it once all of them are done.

Every store that fails this rule

The 1 audited stores that fail Image thumbnail shown for each cart item, with each store's published score and the day it was audited.
#StoreScoreAuditedPublished audit
1Keenfootwearkeenfootwear.com56Open audit

What our auditors say about this rule

A line of text is not a product. The picture is how the shopper checks they picked the right thing.
Omar Dabbas, Co-founder, UXFix

Written by the person who audits this rule, and reviewed every quarter.

Keep going

All rules
RuleCRT-001
Cart shows full cost breakdown: items, shipping estimate, tax estimateCart · Critical
RuleCRT-002
Shipping estimator (ZIP/country) available in cartCart · High
RuleCRT-003
Tax shown or clearly labeled as calculated at checkoutCart · High
RuleCRT-005
Delivery estimate for each item visible in cartCart · Medium
RuleCRT-006
Discount/promo application shows explicit line item, not silent adjustmentCart · Medium
RuleCRT-007
Line items editable in place (qty, variant, remove) without page reloadCart · High
RuleCRT-010
Primary checkout CTA visually dominant on the pageCart · High
RuleCRT-011
Express wallet options (Apple/Google/Shop Pay) present in cartCart · High
Cite this

«1 of 36 online stores audited by UXFix fail the rule "Image thumbnail shown for each cart item" (CRT-017) as of September 2026. UXFix, uxfix.ai/audits/rules/cart-item-thumbnails»

Rule record · JSON
Dataset
{
  "id": "CRT-017",
  "name": "Image thumbnail shown for each cart item",
  "area": "cart",
  "severity": "low",
  "weight": 0.435,
  "published_audits": {
    "judged": 36,
    "pass": 32,
    "partial": 3,
    "fail": 1
  },
  "updated": "2026-09-23"
}
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