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Educational Reading & Books: New UX Benchmark with 2,900+ Performance Scores and 1,900+ Best Practice Examples

Anders Nielsen

Content Creator

Published Jul 22, 2025

At Baymard, we’ve just released a new UX benchmark of 7 ”Educational Reading & Books” sites.

This follows from our large-scale user testing and adds to our existing ecommerce UX benchmark.

7 Educational Reading & Books UX Case Studies

The 7 sites have been manually assessed across 430 research-based UX parameters relevant to Educational Reading & Books, resulting in 2,900+ weighted UX performance scores and 1,900+ best practice examples from ecommerce sites selling educational reading and books.

The 7 in-depth Educational Reading & Books UX case studies are:

Educational Reading & Books UX Performance

The 7 educational reading and book sites’ 2,900+ UX performance scores are summarized in the interactive scatterplot below — showing you how they perform collectively and individually:

 

A publicly available overview of the research and benchmark can be found on our Educational Reading & Books research overview page.

Getting access: all 2,900+ UX performance scores, 1,900+ best practice examples, and the UX insights from researching the Educational Reading & Books industry are available immediately and in full within Baymard. (If you already have access through an account, open the Educational Reading & Books study.)

If you want to know how your educational reading or books desktop site, mobile site, or app performs and compares, then learn more about getting Baymard to conduct an Educational Reading & Books UX audit of your site or app.

Anders Nielsen

Content Creator

Published Jul 22, 2025

Anders is the content creator and editor at Baymard, creating both Premium and marketing content since 2022. He conducts the final edits and publishes Baymard's articles.

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