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The survey of US online shoppers use data from 360,000 visitors to 160 websites, looking at task completion and satisfaction rates. Here are a few highlights from the survey: Purpose of visit <ul> <li>While 38.6% arrive at an e-commerce site for research, 21.9% are there to 'shop', and just 76.9% manage to complete this task. </li> <li>More worrying for etailers is that, while 17.2% arrive at a site with the intention of making a purchase, the completion rate is just 61.5%. </li> <li>13.9% arrive looking for customer service support, but 21.5% are unable to find what they are looking for. </li> </ul> Barriers to purchase <ul> <li>Of the shoppers who arrived at a site with the intention of making a purchase, the reasons given for failure to complete this task were: </li> <li>Unable to find what I wanted (34%), price issues (13%), navigation and usability (13%), shipping policies (9%). </li> <li>Other reasons given included lack of product variety and product information. </li> </ul> Path to website <ul> <li>39.7% arrived at a website by typing in the URL, 27.1% via a search engine, 9.4% through an email link, 7.9% from a bookmark, and 7% from another site. </li> </ul> From these figures it seems that, while the vast majority of website visitors manage to perform tasks such as product research, the task completion rate drops off the nearer they get to to actually making a purchase. While there are some things that retailers cannot control, they need to make navigation as easy as possible so that customers who arrive with the intention to buy are not deterred by poor usability. This includes making products easy to find, providing easily accessible price and delivery information, and avoiding any <a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/3138-why-you-shouldn-t-make-users-register-before-buying">unnecessary friction in the checkout process. </a>

The survey of US online shoppers use data from 360,000 visitors to 160 websites, looking at task completion and satisfaction rates. Here are a few highlights from the survey: Purpose of visit <ul> <li>While 38.6% arrive at an e-commerce site for research, 21.9% are there to 'shop', and just 76.9% manage to complete this task. </li> <li>More worrying for etailers is that, while 17.2% arrive at a site with the intention of making a purchase, the completion rate is just 61.5%. </li> <li>13.9% arrive looking for customer service support, but 21.5% are unable to find what they are looking for. </li> </ul> Barriers to purchase <ul> <li>Of the shoppers who arrived at a site with the intention of making a purchase, the reasons given for failure to complete this task were: </li> <li>Unable to find what I wanted (34%), price issues (13%), navigation and usability (13%), shipping policies (9%). </li> <li>Other reasons given included lack of product variety and product information. </li> </ul> Path to website <ul> <li>39.7% arrived at a website by typing in the URL, 27.1% via a search engine, 9.4% through an email link, 7.9% from a bookmark, and 7% from another site. </li> </ul> From these figures it seems that, while the vast majority of website visitors manage to perform tasks such as product research, the task completion rate drops off the nearer they get to to actually making a purchase.  While there are some things that retailers cannot control, they need to make navigation as easy as possible so that customers who arrive with the intention to buy are not deterred by poor usability. This includes making products easy to find, providing easily accessible price and delivery information, and avoiding any <a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/3138-why-you-shouldn-t-make-users-register-before-buying">unnecessary friction in the checkout process. </a>

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Of all visitors to e-commerce sites, 38.6% are there to research products and prices, and to gather information, though just 85% are able to complete this task successfully. This is one if the findings of an <a href="http://www.iperceptions.com/en/resource-center">iPerceptions e-commerce survey</a>, suggesting that improvements in navigation and usability can have a significant impact on sales.

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Econsultancy has published an <a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/online-retail-2007-checkout-special?utm_source=blog&utm_campaign=learn-more&utm_medium=self">Online Retail Checkout Special</a>, which covers online checkout best practice in detail. This special report about the online retail checkout process takes a detailed look at how e-commerce sites can reduce abandonment rates, using real-life examples from top etailer sites (including Amazon, Argos, John Lewis and Tesco). Problems with the checkout process remain the biggest single source of revenue loss for most e-commerce businesses, and the report examines checkout best practice in the context of the overall customer journey.

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