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Cart recovery in 2026: fixing the sequences that cost you sales

Cart recovery in 2026: fixing the sequences that cost you sales

by Ramon Helwegen | Aug 7, 2026 | Conversion

Cart recovery still fails most merchants because fixed sequences cannot read shopper intentAround 70% of shopping carts are abandoned before purchase, a figure that has stubbornly refused to budge despite three decades of ecommerce. The real problem is not that...
Cart recovery in 2026: fixing the sequences that cost you sales

Websites optimaliseren voor mens én AI-agent tegelijk

by Ramon Helwegen | Jul 24, 2026 | Conversion

Twee totaal verschillende bezoekers, één checkout die het voor beiden moet doenEr is een stille verschuiving gaande in hoe webshops bezocht worden. Naast de menselijke bezoeker die visueel scant en op gevoel beslist, kruipen steeds vaker AI-agents over je...
Cart recovery in 2026: fixing the sequences that cost you sales

Mobile UX on most webshops is still mediocre, Baymard finds

by Ramon Helwegen | Jul 17, 2026 | Conversion

Mobile checkout and UX mediocrity is the industry norm, not the exceptionBaymard Institute’s latest mobile e-commerce benchmark delivers an uncomfortable verdict: not a single one of the 138 leading US and European sites studied achieves a “good”...
Baymard’s 14 years of checkout usability research unpacked

Baymard’s 14 years of checkout usability research unpacked

by Ramon Helwegen | Jul 15, 2026 | Online checkout

What 14 years of checkout usability data tells merchants about abandonmentA 70.19% cart abandonment rate is not a rounding error. It is the current global average tracked by Baymard Institute across 14 years of large-scale checkout usability research, and it...
Baymard’s 14 years of checkout usability research unpacked

The EAA is enforceable: what your checkout must fix now

by Ramon Helwegen | Jul 10, 2026 | Online checkout

The EAA deadline has passed and your checkout funnel is in scopeSince 28 June 2025, the European Accessibility Act is enforceable law across every EU member state. If you have been treating this as a future compliance task, that future has arrived. The regulation is...
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