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Mobile UX on most webshops is still mediocre, Baymard finds

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...
Baymard’s 14 years of checkout usability research unpacked

When frictionless checkout becomes a fraudster’s fastest route

by Ramon Helwegen | May 11, 2026 | Online checkout

Frictionless checkout and the fraud blind spot that conversion teams are missingA 14% fall in fraud attempts recorded alongside a 56% rise in chargebacks is not good news dressed up as bad news. It is a structural shift in where fraud actually happens, and checkout...
Mobile UX on most webshops is still mediocre, Baymard finds

One bad checkout moment is enough to lose a customer forever

by Ramon Helwegen | Jun 2, 2025 | Conversion

Checkout failure is a permanent exit, not a recoverable bounceSCAYLE’s large-scale shopper research lands a number that every merchant should pin above their dashboard: eight out of ten shoppers who had a negative brand experience did not come back. That...
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