Industry UX Research
A large-scale research study on how to optimize the online User Experience specifically for Vitamins & Supplements websites.
At Baymard Institute, we have a whole User Experience research topic devoted specifically to Vitamins & Supplements websites.
Through our 150,000+ hours of large-scale UX research, we’ve identified 450+ in-depth User Experience guidelines that are particularly important to Vitamins & Supplements websites.
This research study of Vitamins & Supplements e-commerce websites uncovers what users expect and how they behave online as they explore, browse, evaluate, and purchase vitamin and supplement products.
The research study focused on a total of 13 sites that distribute vitamin and supplement products to the US — with almost all test sites operating worldwide:
11 multibrand vitamins and supplements sites: eVitamins, GNC, iHerb, Lucky Vitamin, PipingRock, Pure Formulas, Puritan’s Pride, Swanson Vitamins, Vitacost, Vitamin Shoppe, and Vitamin World.
2 single-brand, or white-label, sites: Nature Made and Nature’s Sunshine.
Baymard’s Vitamins & Supplements UX research is based on more than 230 qualitative participant/site usability test sessions following the “Think Aloud” protocol. During testing, the participants encountered 1,000+ medium-to-severe usability issues on the Vitamins & Supplements websites while searching for, comparing, and purchasing vitamin and supplement products.
This page provides you with a brief overview of Baymard’s Vitamins & Supplements UX research. Full access to all of our Vitamins & Supplements UX research is available as part of Baymard Premium.
We’ve conducted a UX benchmark assessing 7 Vitamins & Supplements websites across 500+ research-based UX parameters relevant to Vitamins & Supplements websites. You can view the sites’ UX performance in the graph above, which summarizes 3,500+ weighted UX performance scores.
You can expand each theme and topic in the graph above for an in-depth view of the ‘current state’ of Vitamins & Supplements website UX performances. (scroll down to access the in-depth case studies for each of the sites)
This is a subset of the full benchmark which includes 250 e-commerce sites.
Explore UX Benchmark
You can explore our in-depth UX case studies of the below Vitamins & Supplements websites. In total, these contain 3,500+ UX performance scores and 2,500+ best practice examples from Vitamins & Supplements websites.
FREE RESEARCH CONTENT
We’ve released a small subset of the 450+ Premium UX research findings for Vitamins & Supplements sites for free in these articles:
Vitamins & Supplements Sites: New UX Benchmark with 3,500+ Performance Scores and 2,500+ Best Practice Examples
Always Provide a “Supplement Facts Label” Image in the Main Image Gallery of Vitamins & Supplements Sites
3 High-Level Takeaways from 1,800+ Hours Testing Vitamins & Supplements Sites
PAID RESEARCH CONTENT
With Baymard Premium, you get access to 450+ UX guidelines relevant to improving Vitamins & Supplements websites, along with 3,500+ UX performance scores and 2,500+ best practice examples from Vitamins & Supplements sites. On top of this, you also get access to 175,000+ best practice examples and 275,000+ UX performance scores from other industries - sometimes the best designs and ideas come by looking outside your own industry.
IN-DEPTH REVIEW OF YOUR SITE’S UX PERFORMANCE
If you don’t want to read all of the research findings, but “just want the results”, then have Baymard’s team of researchers audit your Vitamins & Supplements website.
The audit provides you with a detailed external UX performance analysis of your site’s UX performance across 500+ Vitamins & Supplements e-commerce UX elements, as well as a detailed UX performance comparison against leading Vitamins & Supplements websites, along with other ‘State of the Art’ implementations outside of your industry.
The UX audit also provides you with 40 prioritized suggestions for UX improvements, with best-practice implementation examples.
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This UX research on tours and experience websites is part of Baymard Institute’s full 150,000+ hours of large-scale research catalog, which is based on:
Baymard’s research methodology is described in detail here.