Sainsbury’s UX Case Study
This is a case study of Sainsbury’s e-commerce user experience (UX) performance. It’s based on an exhaustive performance review of 414 design elements. 250 other sites have also been benchmarked for a complete picture of the e-commerce UX landscape.
Sainsbury’s overall e-commerce UX performance is poor. Their UX is especially thwarted by usability issues related to broken Cart & Checkout, poor Mobile Web, and poor On-Site Search performances.
First benchmarked in April 2021.
Overall UX Performance
414 Guidelines · Performance:
Desktop Web
251 Guidelines · Performance:
Homepage & Category
41 Guidelines · Performance:
On-Site Search
30 Guidelines · Performance:
Product Lists & Filtering
51 Guidelines · Performance:
Product Page
24 Guidelines · Performance:
Cart & Checkout
78 Guidelines · Performance:
Customer Accounts
27 Guidelines · Performance:
Mobile Web
163 Guidelines · Performance:
To learn how we calculate our performance scores and read up on our evaluation criteria and scoring algorithm head over to our Methodology page.
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Sainsbury’s Desktop Web E-Commerce Design
27 pages of Sainsbury’s e-commerce site, marked up with 217 best practice examples:
Sainsbury’s Mobile Web E-Commerce Design
17 pages of Sainsbury’s e-commerce site, marked up with 186 best practice examples:
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