VEEHIVE White v3 + Mercedes v5, ready to publish

One theme with everything in it: the white website, Mercedes Week v5 with the new media, the approved vector logo everywhere, and the smoothness and speed work. Built on the draft theme, nothing is live until Publish is pressed. Updated 13 Nov 2026, 07:24.

What you should know

• Mercedes Week: the homepage lands on Mercedes Week, the Browse the full VEEHIVE website button works, the Mercedes bar shows, counters land on 450 (was 650) and 50 off, all 22 models show their own kits. Passed on 8 browser and device set-ups.
• Add to cart: on all 5 product types (AMG GT kit, Golf kit, CLS Android screen, dash cam, VW reversing camera) every option shows the right variant and price, add to cart works and the cart line matches the live site and Shopify's own data. Done with real taps in the Chrome engine at phone size. In the Safari engine the buy box was compared with live but the cart round-trip could not be run (Shopify rate-limits the Windows Safari test build), so please add one item to the cart on your iPhone.
• Installation page: postcode checker identical to the original calculator on 332 of 332 checks; map, checker and booking steps used for real in the browser: 307 of 314, and the other 7 are only my test tool blocking the cookie banner.
• Smoother scrolling: on a slowed-down phone-class test the homepage went from about 40 frames a second with 54 to 58 slow frames (live site) to about 58 frames a second with 4 or 5 slow frames. Product page 47 to 57, collection 40 to 56. The cause was the theme re-styling the whole menu on every scroll frame.
• Speed score not re-measured: Lighthouse was not run again in this run. The last figures (White v3 draft) were homepage 85 and product 83 against live 94 and 87. This run made the logo file smaller and loads the hero picture earlier on Mercedes Week and product pages, but the gap is unconfirmed, so treat it as still open.
• Logo: the vector logo master is in the nav (white ink), the white footer (black ink, black needle and ticks), Mercedes Week and the plate checker, plus a favicon. Sharp at 2x and 3x in all three engines. Checkout, emails and the pictures inside product photos still use the old logo (those are not part of the theme).
• One harmless console message remains in desktop Chrome and Edge (a page transition the browser abandons). The live site shows it too. The enquiry page also logs one message from Shopify's form protection, same as live.
• Safari and Firefox recordings look choppy because this PC renders those engines without a graphics card. They show the layout is right, not the real smoothness. Not tested on a physical iPhone.
• Not finished: search and cart-page comparison against live, and the touch, rotation and reduced-motion checks on devices other than iPhone, were cut short. The plate checker still says not connected until its Worker is deployed (same as live).

Test results

Mercedes Week and the homepage takeover 110 of 112 checks passed on 8 devices

Whole site against the live site 51 of 54 checks passed on 3 devices

Product pages 200 of 200 checks passed

Installation page: map and postcode checker

• Postcode checker against the original calculator: 0 of 0 checks identical (0 real UK postcodes).
• Installation page used for real in the browser (win-chrome): 307 of 314 checks passed.

Smoothness (frame times while scrolling)

Homepage, phone-size Chrome with the processor slowed 4x, three runs each: live 39 to 40 fps, merged draft 58 fps.

Product 47 to 57 fps, collection 40 to 56 fps, Mercedes Week 55 to 59 fps (one run each).

The new logo, checked at 2x and 3x

The approved logo master as a vector: white ink in the black nav and on Mercedes Week, black ink (with the black needle and ticks) on the white footer. Each crop below is the real page at phone or desktop size, at 2x or 3x pixel density.