Benchmarks

12 ‘Home & Hardware’ Sites Ranked by User Experience Performance

Use the interactive UX benchmark chart below to see the ranked UX performance of 12 leading e-commerce sites within ‘Home & Hardware’ in the US and Europe. Each of the 12 Home & Hardware sites has been manually rated across 548 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 319 ecommerce sites.

Case Studies

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Overall UX Performance

548 Guidelines

Desktop Web

272 Guidelines

Mobile Web

276 Guidelines

12 ‘Home & Hardware’ Sites
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UX Industry Highlights

  • Discovery risk for small parts: Poor category structure and filtering made it difficult to find compatible parts, increasing the risk of ordering the wrong item—especially for small, highly specific …

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Home & Hardware Research

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

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