Use the interactive UX benchmark chart below to see the ranked UX performance of 5 leading e-commerce sites within ‘Telco’ in North America and Europe. Each of the 5 Telco sites has been manually rated across 480 different e-commerce UX elements, all based on Baymard’s 150,000+ hours of UX research.
This is a sub-set of the full benchmark which includes 123 e-commerce sites.
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Overall UX Performance
480 Guidelines
Desktop Web
318 Guidelines
Homepage & Category
44 Guidelines
Homepage
9 Guidelines
Category Taxonomy
9 Guidelines
Main Navigation
12 Guidelines
Intermediary Category Pages
4 Guidelines
Site-Wide Layout
10 Guidelines
On-Site Search
11 Guidelines
Product Lists & Filtering
66 Guidelines
List Layout
6 Guidelines
Loading Products
3 Guidelines
List Items: Product Info & Thumbnails
14 Guidelines
List Items: Product Info
7 Guidelines
List Items: Product Thumbnails
7 Guidelines
List Items: Interface & Hit Areas
7 Guidelines
Filtering: Available Filters
8 Guidelines
Filtering: Scope & Logic
9 Guidelines
Filtering: Interface & Layout
11 Guidelines
Sorting
7 Guidelines
Comparison Tool
1 Guidelines
Device Page, Product Page & Plan Matrix
67 Guidelines
Product Page Layout
8 Guidelines
Product Images
6 Guidelines
Image Gallery UI
9 Guidelines
The 'Buy' Section
6 Guidelines
Shipping, Returns, and Gifting
5 Guidelines
Product Variations
4 Guidelines
Product Descriptions
6 Guidelines
Specifications Sheet
4 Guidelines
User Reviews
10 Guidelines
Cross-Sells & Cross-Navigation
5 Guidelines
Plan Matrix
4 Guidelines
Checkout & Signup Flow
103 Guidelines
Shopping Cart & “Added to Cart” Behavior
11 Guidelines
Account Selection & Creation
8 Guidelines
Customer & Address Information
8 Guidelines
Shipping & Store Pickup
9 Guidelines
Payment Flow & Methods (Incl. Third-Party)
5 Guidelines
Credit Card Form
10 Guidelines
Order Review
5 Guidelines
Order Confirmation & E-Mail
4 Guidelines
Form & Page Design
8 Guidelines
User Interactions, Distractions & Cross-Sells
7 Guidelines
Validation Errors & Data Persistence
10 Guidelines
Field Labels & Microcopy
6 Guidelines
Field Design & Features
8 Guidelines
Default Values & Autocompletion
4 Guidelines
Customer Accounts
27 Guidelines
Account Drop-Down & Sign In
7 Guidelines
Account Dashboard
4 Guidelines
'Your Account': Addresses, Payments, & Newsletters
11 Guidelines
Account-Wide Navigation, Structure, & Information
5 Guidelines
Mobile Web
162 Guidelines
Mobile Homepage
5 Guidelines
Mobile Main Navigation & Categories
15 Guidelines
Main Navigation
6 Guidelines
Category Taxonomy
4 Guidelines
Category Pages
5 Guidelines
Mobile Search
9 Guidelines
Mobile Product List
36 Guidelines
Mobile Product List Layout & Features
16 Guidelines
Mobile Filtering
5 Guidelines
Mobile List Item Content
13 Guidelines
Mobile Sorting
2 Guidelines
Mobile Product Pages
22 Guidelines
Mobile Checkout
34 Guidelines
Shopping Cart
5 Guidelines
Shipping & Store Pickup
3 Guidelines
Account Selection & Creation
6 Guidelines
User Info
6 Guidelines
Payment
8 Guidelines
Order Review & Confirmation
4 Guidelines
Layout & Features
2 Guidelines
Mobile Forms
25 Guidelines
Form Fields
11 Guidelines
Field Validation
8 Guidelines
Input Optimization
6 Guidelines
Mobile Site-Wide Features & Elements
16 Guidelines
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