Use the interactive UX benchmark chart below to see the ranked UX performance of 10 leading ‘Travel accommodations’ websites in the US and Europe - including both Online Travel Agencies (Booking.com, Expedia, Trip.com), Hotel Chains (Hyatt, Best Western, Shangri-La), Boutique Hotels (Prince Akatoki London, and EsmeHotel.com), and whole property vacation rentals (Airbnb, Kid & Coe). Each of the 10 Travel accommodations sites has been manually rated across 416 different e-commerce UX elements, all based on Baymard’s 130,000 hours of UX research.
This is a sub-set of the full benchmark which includes 214 e-commerce sites.
Click the colored dots to view in-depth case studies for each benchmarked site, or scroll down to see all case studies. You can also view the case study examples organized by type of page.
Desktop Web
230 Guidelines
Homepage & Main Navigation
21 Guidelines
Travel "Booking" Search
53 Guidelines
Property & Room Detail Pages
50 Guidelines
"Booking" Checkout Process
87 Guidelines
Accounts & Self-Service
19 Guidelines
Mobile Web
186 Guidelines
Mobile Homepage & Main Navigation
10 Guidelines
Mobile Travel "Booking" Search
44 Guidelines
Mobile Property & Room Detail Pages
48 Guidelines
Mobile "Booking" Checkout Process
61 Guidelines
Mobile Site-Wide Design & Interaction
23 Guidelines
Deep dive into the performance and page designs of the 10 case studies.
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At Baymard Institute we have a whole research topic devoted to online shopping UX and usability, specifically for online Travel & Accommodations sites.
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