Benchmarks

Amazon UX Case Study

This is a case study of Amazon’s e-commerce user experience (UX) performance. It’s based on an exhaustive performance review of 1017 design elements. 250 other sites have also been benchmarked for a complete picture of the e-commerce UX landscape.

Amazon’s overall e-commerce UX performance is decent. Amazon has decent performances across the board with neither any great nor any broken performances.

First benchmarked in April 2012, and reviewed 31 times since then, most recently in January 2024.


Performance44.0Decent

URLamazon.com


UX Award Winner (see all):

Mass Merchants (app)Top 1%

Product Page (app)Top 1%


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Overall UX Performance

1040 Guidelines · Performance:

Desktop Web

347 Guidelines · Performance:

Mobile Web

344 Guidelines · Performance:

Mobile App

349 Guidelines · Performance:

138 Major E-Commerce Sites
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