The Current State of Homepage and Category Navigation UX (12 Common Pitfalls)

Baymard Premium’s latest Homepage & Category Navigation e-commerce UX benchmark contains the following: The average top-grossing US and European site is “poor” The average site runs into significant issues, with a massive 88% performing “mediocrely”, ‘poorly’, or worse — by far the weakest of the subareas.

The Current State of Homepage and Category Navigation UX (12 Common Pitfalls)

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