This is a case study of Zalando’s e-commerce user experience (UX) performance. It’s based on an exhaustive performance review of 601 design elements. 250 other sites have also been benchmarked for a complete picture of the e-commerce UX landscape.
Zalando’s overall e-commerce UX performance is decent. Zalando has decent performances across the board with neither any great nor any broken performances.
First benchmarked in September 2016, and reviewed 20 times since then, most recently in July 2024.
Overall UX Performance
601 Guidelines · Performance:
Desktop Web
300 Guidelines · Performance:
Mobile Web
301 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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29 pages of Zalando’s e-commerce site, marked up with 243 best practice examples:
29 pages of Zalando’s e-commerce site, marked up with 250 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:
Drop-Down Usability: When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Use Them
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 403 articles in the full public archive.