Benchmarks

39 ‘Direct To Consumer’ Sites Ranked by User Experience Performance

Use the interactive UX benchmark chart below to see the ranked UX performance of 39 leading Direct To Consumer e-commerce sites in the US and Europe – covering both larger DTC brands and smaller niche DTC players. Each of the 39 Direct To Consumer sites has been manually rated across 485 different e-commerce UX elements, all based on Baymard’s 150,000+ hours of UX research.

This is a sub-set of the full benchmark which includes 251 e-commerce sites.

Case Studies

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Benchmark UX Performances
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Overall UX Performance

485 Guidelines

Desktop Web

294 Guidelines

Homepage & Category

38 Guidelines

Product Lists & Filtering

48 Guidelines

Product Page

64 Guidelines

Cart & Checkout

110 Guidelines

Customer Accounts

34 Guidelines

Mobile Web

191 Guidelines

39 ‘Direct To Consumer’ Sites
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‘Direct To Consumer’ Case Studies

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Direct to Consumer Research

At Baymard Institute we have a whole research topic devoted to online shopping UX and usability, specifically for online Direct to Consumer sites.

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