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Websites optimaliseren voor mens én AI-agent tegelijk

Websites optimaliseren voor mens én AI-agent tegelijk

by Ramon Helwegen | Sep 9, 2026 | Conversion

Twee bezoekers, één pagina, en de payment mix is voor de tweede onzichtbaar Er komt een tweede soort bezoeker op je webshop. Naast de mens die scant, kijkt en op gevoel beslist, halen AI-agents je pagina’s op om modellen als ChatGPT, Gemini en Claude te voeden...
Baymard 2026: drie verschuivingen die je checkout raken

Baymard 2026: drie verschuivingen die je checkout raken

by Ramon Helwegen | Sep 9, 2026 | Conversion

Retourneren daalt al drie jaar, en dat verandert wat je in de checkout moet beloven Baymard Institute publiceerde zijn Quantitative UX Insights 2026, gebaseerd op een enquête onder 1.083 Amerikaanse online shoppers. Het meeste gedrag ligt jaar op jaar behoorlijk vast....
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

A recovery email cannot repair what the checkout broke, so start with the step the shopper left on Roughly seven in ten online carts never become an order. Baymard Institute puts the documented average at 70.22%, calculated across 50 studies. A common answer to that...
Peak sales expose the checkout problems you carry all year

Peak sales expose the checkout problems you carry all year

by Ramon Helwegen | Jul 31, 2026 | Conversion

Peak traffic does not create checkout problems, it multiplies the ones already there Baymard Institute’s list of ten UX practices for Cyber Monday, written by research lead Edward Scott and last updated in September 2025, reads like a sales-season checklist....
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

Most checkout losses are decisions the webshop made, not shoppers changing their minds Roughly seven in ten online carts never become an order. Baymard Institute puts the documented average at 70.22%, calculated across 50 studies, and has tracked the rate for fourteen...
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  • The best reason to create an account is the order the shopper just paid forStop asking for account creation before the confirmation page
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  • A card form works when every field looks like the card in the shopper's handA card form should look like the card in the shopper’s hand
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  • A year of payment upgrades means little to a shopper who meets the same checkoutThe checkout gap: retailers change their payments, shoppers judge what they see
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  • Payment routing is judged in the payment step, where the shopper only sees whether it workedPayment routing is judged in the payment step
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  • Shoppers rank checkout first, and the fix that matters most is never asking for the same details twiceNever ask a shopper for the same details twice
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Independent commentary on what moves conversion at the checkout. Editorial direction by Ramon Helwegen, payments specialist and founder of EcomStream. Editorially independent. No ads. No sponsored content.

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