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Baymard’s 2026 data: what’s shifting in shopper habits and checkout expectations

Baymard’s 2026 data: what’s shifting in shopper habits and checkout expectations

by Ramon Helwegen | Aug 7, 2026 | Conversion

Three shifts in shopper behaviour that should prompt a checkout and funnel reviewBaymard Institute has published its 2026 Quantitative UX Insights, drawing on a survey of 1,083 US online shoppers. The report covers the full ecommerce journey from product discovery to...
Websites optimaliseren voor mens én AI-agent tegelijk

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...
Kruidvat’s headless rebuild keeps conversion at the core

Kruidvat’s headless rebuild keeps conversion at the core

by Ramon Helwegen | Jul 10, 2026 | Conversion

Kruidvat’s redesign shows how to modernise without sacrificing conversionWhen one of the Benelux’s largest drugstore chains rebuilds its webshop from scratch, other merchants should pay close attention. Kruidvat has launched a fundamentally new site built...
One bad checkout moment is enough to lose a customer forever

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...
Stop asking for account creation before the confirmation page

Stop asking for account creation before the confirmation page

by Ramon Helwegen | Mar 25, 2025 | Online checkout

Sequencing is the silent conversion killer hiding in your post-checkout flowMost merchants pour their optimisation energy into the steps before the order button and then treat everything after it as administrative tidying. That is a costly blind spot. The confirmation...
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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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