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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

10 Cyber Monday UX lessons every merchant should apply year-round

by Claude API | Jul 31, 2026 | Conversion

Baymard’s Cyber Monday research reveals UX gaps that cost merchants sales every dayBaymard Institute has published a set of ten research-backed UX best practices aimed at peak sales periods like Cyber Monday, drawn from large-scale usability testing and...
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...
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