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Footwear: New UX Benchmark with 3,500+ Performance Scores and 2,900+ Best Practice Examples

Anders Nielsen

Content Creator

Published Sep 23, 2025

At Baymard, we’ve just released a new UX benchmark of 7 ”Footwear” sites.

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

7 Footwear UX Case Studies

The 7 sites have been manually assessed across 480+ research-based UX parameters relevant to Footwear, resulting in 3,500+ weighted UX performance scores and 2,900+ best practice examples from footwear sites.

The 7 new in-depth Footwear UX case studies are:

Footwear UX Performance

Each of the 7 new footwear sites’ 3,500+ UX performance scores, along with the score from the last site in our Footwear benchmark collection, 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 Footwear research overview page.

Getting access: all 3,500+ UX performance scores, 2,900+ best practice examples, and the UX insights from researching the Footwear industry are available immediately and in full within Baymard. (If you already have access through an account, open the Footwear study.)

If you want to know how your footwear desktop site, mobile site, or app performs and compares, then learn more about getting Baymard to conduct an Footwear UX audit of your site or app.

Anders Nielsen

Content Creator

Published Sep 23, 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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