This is a case study of Much Better Adventures’ e-commerce user experience (UX) performance. It’s based on an exhaustive performance review of 170 design elements. 250 other sites have also been benchmarked for a complete picture of the e-commerce UX landscape.
Much Better Adventures’ overall e-commerce UX performance is decent. On a positive note, Much Better Adventures has perfect Tour Lists & Filtering and good Mobile Tour Lists & Filtering. This is, however, curtailed by broken Site-Wide Features and poor Mobile Site-Wide Features performances.
First benchmarked in August 2023.
Desktop Web
174 Guidelines · Performance:
Homepage & Category Navigation
16 Guidelines · Performance:
Tour Lists & Filtering
28 Guidelines · Performance:
On-Site Search
11 Guidelines · Performance:
Tour Details Page
42 Guidelines · Performance:
"Booking" Checkout Process
63 Guidelines · Performance:
Site-Wide Features
14 Guidelines · Performance:
Mobile Web
170 Guidelines · Performance:
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13 pages of Much Better Adventures’ e-commerce site, marked up with 120 best practice examples:
14 pages of Much Better Adventures’ e-commerce site, marked up with 124 best practice examples:
Every week, we publish a new article on how to build “state of the art” e-commerce experiences — here’s 5 popular ones:
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Format the “Expiration Date” Fields Exactly the Same as the Physical Credit Card (72% Don’t)
PDP UX: Core Product Content Is Overlooked in ‘Horizontal Tabs’ Layouts (Yet 28% of Sites Have This Layout)
Form Field Usability: Avoid Extensive Multicolumn Layouts (16% Make This Form Usability Mistake)
Form Usability: Getting ‘Address Line 2’ Right
See all 406 articles in the full public archive.