10 ‘Travel Accommodations’ Sites Ranked by User Experience Performance
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 390 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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Desktop Web
193 Guidelines
Homepage & Main Navigation
9 Guidelines
Travel "Booking" Search
46 Guidelines
Property & Room Detail Pages
45 Guidelines
"Booking" Checkout Process
61 Guidelines
Customer Accounts
18 Guidelines
Site-Wide Features & Design
14 Guidelines
Mobile Web
197 Guidelines
Mobile Homepage & Main Navigation
9 Guidelines
Mobile Travel "Booking" Search
44 Guidelines
Mobile Property & Room Detail Pages
42 Guidelines
Mobile "Booking" Checkout Process
66 Guidelines
Mobile Customer Accounts
14 Guidelines
Mobile Site-Wide Features & Design
22 Guidelines
‘Travel Accommodations’ Case Studies
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