This is a case study of Best Buy’s e-commerce user experience (UX) performance. It’s based on an exhaustive performance review of 1175 design elements. 213 other sites have also been benchmarked for a complete picture of the e-commerce UX landscape.
Best Buy’s overall e-commerce UX performance is decent. Notably, their UX is hampered by poor Homepage & Category and Customer Accounts, although this is allieviated somewhat by perfect Order Tracking & Returns and On-Site Search.
First benchmarked in April 7, 2012, and reviewed 28 times since then, most recently April 18, 2023.
Overall UX Performance
1196 Guidelines · Performance:
Desktop Web
458 Guidelines · Performance:
Homepage & Category
31 Guidelines · Performance:
On-Site Search
46 Guidelines · Performance:
Product Lists & Filtering
85 Guidelines · Performance:
Product Page
101 Guidelines · Performance:
Cart & Checkout
118 Guidelines · Performance:
Customer Accounts
38 Guidelines · Performance:
Site-Wide Features
12 Guidelines · Performance:
Order Tracking & Returns
27 Guidelines · Performance:
Mobile Web
374 Guidelines · Performance:
Mobile App
364 Guidelines · Performance:
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33 pages of Best Buy’s e-commerce site, marked up with 384 best practice examples:
23 pages of Best Buy’s e-commerce site, marked up with 304 best practice examples:
24 pages of Best Buy’s e-commerce site, marked up with 275 best practice examples:
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