Benchmarks

Purple Carrot’s E-Commerce UX

This is a case study of Purple Carrot’s e-commerce user experience (UX) performance. It’s based on an exhaustive performance review of 228 design elements. 243 other sites have also been benchmarked for a complete picture of the e-commerce UX landscape.

Purple Carrot’s overall e-commerce UX performance is mediocre. This is mainly due to poor Site-Wide Design & Interaction, Recipe Lists & Pages, and Mobile Recipe Lists & Pages performances. That said, their site performs well within Mobile Homepage & Main Navigation.

First benchmarked in September 2022.


Performance24.1Mediocre

URLpurplecarrot.com


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Mediocre
Decent
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Desktop Web

228 Guidelines · Performance:

Homepage & Main Navigation

16 Guidelines · Performance:

Meal Kit Plans & Quizzes

18 Guidelines · Performance:

Recipe Lists & Pages

43 Guidelines · Performance:

Accounts & Self-Services

34 Guidelines · Performance:

Cart & Checkout

102 Guidelines · Performance:

Site-Wide Design & Interaction

15 Guidelines · Performance:

Mobile Web

177 Guidelines · Performance:

133 Major E-Commerce Sites
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Purple Carrot’s Mobile Web E-Commerce Design

8 pages of Purple Carrot’s e-commerce site, marked up with 125 best practice examples: