This is a case study of Fastenal’s e-commerce user experience (UX) performance. It’s based on an exhaustive performance review of 482 design elements. 213 other sites have also been benchmarked for a complete picture of the e-commerce UX landscape.
Fastenal’s overall e-commerce UX performance is broken. This is mainly due to broken Product Page, Cart & Checkout, and On-Site Search performances.
Overall UX Performance
482 Guidelines · Performance:
Desktop Web
279 Guidelines · Performance:
Homepage & Category
37 Guidelines · Performance:
On-Site Search
32 Guidelines · Performance:
Product Lists & Filtering
44 Guidelines · Performance:
Product Page
37 Guidelines · Performance:
Cart & Checkout
107 Guidelines · Performance:
Customer Accounts
22 Guidelines · Performance:
Mobile Web
203 Guidelines · Performance:
To learn how we calculate our performance scores and read up on our evaluation criteria and scoring algorithm head over to our Methodology page.
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