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8 ‘Health & Beauty’ E-commerce Sites Ranked by User Performance
Use the interactive UX benchmark chart below to see the ranked UX performance of 8 e-commerce sites within ‘Health & Beauty’ in the US and Europe. Each of the Health & Beauty sites has been manually rated across 500+ different e-commerce UX elements, all based on Baymard’s 71,000+ hours of UX research.
Case Studies
If you’d like to see an in-depth review for each of the Health & Beauty benchmarked sites you can click on the colored dots in the chart or go to the case studies section further down the page.
Benchmark UX Performances
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Overall UX Performance
690 Guidelines
Desktop Web
484 Guidelines
Homepage & Category
59 Guidelines
Homepage
15 Guidelines
Category Taxonomy
13 Guidelines
Main Navigation
16 Guidelines
Intermediary Category Pages
6 Guidelines
Site-Wide Layout
9 Guidelines
On-Site Search
47 Guidelines
Search Query Types
9 Guidelines
Search Form & Logic
10 Guidelines
Search Autocomplete
8 Guidelines
Results Logic & Guidance
8 Guidelines
Results Layout & Filtering
12 Guidelines
Product Lists & Filtering
87 Guidelines
Product Lists: Layout & Loading
14 Guidelines
List Layout
8 Guidelines
Loading Products
6 Guidelines
List Items: Product Info & Thumbnails
18 Guidelines
List Items: Product Info
9 Guidelines
List Items: Product Thumbnails
9 Guidelines
List Items: Interface & Hit Areas
12 Guidelines
Filtering: Available Filters
11 Guidelines
Filtering: Scope & Logic
11 Guidelines
Filtering: Interface & Layout
11 Guidelines
Sorting
10 Guidelines
Product Page
96 Guidelines
Product Page Layout
11 Guidelines
Product Images
11 Guidelines
Image Gallery UI
12 Guidelines
Price, Purchase & Delivery
16 Guidelines
The 'Buy' Section
9 Guidelines
Shipping, Returns, and Gifting
7 Guidelines
Product Variations
9 Guidelines
Product Descriptions & Spec Sheet
15 Guidelines
Product Descriptions
10 Guidelines
Specifications Sheet
5 Guidelines
User Reviews
13 Guidelines
Cross-Sells & Cross-Navigation
9 Guidelines
Cart & Checkout
130 Guidelines
Shopping Cart & "Added to Cart" Behavior
10 Guidelines
Account Selection & Creation
9 Guidelines
Customer & Address Information
12 Guidelines
Gifting Flow & Features
5 Guidelines
Shipping & Store Pickup
11 Guidelines
Payment Flow & Methods (Incl. Third-Party)
8 Guidelines
Credit Card Form
10 Guidelines
Order Review & Confirmation
9 Guidelines
Order Review
5 Guidelines
Order Confirmation & E-Mail
4 Guidelines
Layout & Flow
23 Guidelines
Form & Page Design
10 Guidelines
User Interactions & Distractions
9 Guidelines
Cross-Sells
4 Guidelines
Validation Errors & Data Persistence
10 Guidelines
Form Fields
23 Guidelines
Field Labels & Microcopy
7 Guidelines
Field Design & Features
8 Guidelines
Default Values & Autocompletion
8 Guidelines
Customer Accounts
40 Guidelines
Account Drop-Down
7 Guidelines
Account Dashboard
6 Guidelines
Account Sign In
6 Guidelines
'Your Account': Addresses, Payments, & Newsletters
13 Guidelines
Account-Wide Navigation, Structure, & Information
8 Guidelines
Order Tracking & Returns
25 Guidelines
Place Order & Order Cancellation
5 Guidelines
Order Tracking
9 Guidelines
Order Returns
11 Guidelines
Mobile Web
206 Guidelines
Mobile Homepage
8 Guidelines
Mobile Main Navigation & Categories
21 Guidelines
Mobile Main Navigation
6 Guidelines
Mobile Category Taxonomy
10 Guidelines
Mobile Category Pages
5 Guidelines
Mobile On-Site Search
24 Guidelines
Mobile Autocomplete
7 Guidelines
Mobile Query Types
8 Guidelines
Mobile Search Design & Logic
9 Guidelines
Mobile Product List
48 Guidelines
Mobile Product List Layout & Features
18 Guidelines
Mobile Filtering
12 Guidelines
Mobile List Item Content
18 Guidelines
Mobile Product Pages
13 Guidelines
Mobile Product Page Layout
5 Guidelines
Mobile User Reviews
8 Guidelines
Mobile Checkout
47 Guidelines
Mobile Layout & Features
2 Guidelines
Mobile Shopping Cart
4 Guidelines
Mobile Account Selection & Creation
7 Guidelines
Mobile User Info
7 Guidelines
Mobile Shipping & Store Pickup
6 Guidelines
Mobile Payment
12 Guidelines
Mobile Order Review & Confirmation
9 Guidelines
Mobile Forms
26 Guidelines
Mobile Form Fields
10 Guidelines
Mobile Field Validation
8 Guidelines
Mobile Input Optimization
8 Guidelines
Mobile Site-Wide Features & Elements
19 Guidelines
Note: from August 2021 the sites Ulta, CVS, VitaminShoppe, VitaminWorld, and Shop-Apotheke (DE), will also be available in our benchmark.
Benchmark Case Studies
Deep dive into the 8 sites displayed in the chart above.
Chanel
Performance: 49.2
Pay special attention to:
Product Lists
On-Site Search
CVS
Performance: 37.3
Pay special attention to:
Product Lists & Filtering
On-Site Search
Walgreens
Performance: 34.1
Pay special attention to:
Product Page
On-Site Search
Ulta Beauty
Performance: 32.3
Pay special attention to:
Cart & Checkout
On-Site Search
Sephora
Performance: 30.6
Pay special attention to:
On-Site Search
Mobile Web
Vitamin World
Performance: 30.1
Pay special attention to:
Product Lists & Filtering
On-Site Search
The Vitamin Shoppe
Performance: 26.7
Pay special attention to:
Cart & Checkout
Customer Accounts
Shop Apotheke
Performance: 24.4
Pay special attention to:
Customer Accounts
Cart & Checkout
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Health & Beauty Research
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