Benchmarks

21 ‘Digital Subscriptions & SaaS’ Sites Ranked by User Experience Performance

Use the interactive UX benchmark chart below to see the ranked UX performance of 21 leading ‘Digital Subscriptions & SaaS’ sites in the US and Europe. Each of the 21 SaaS sites have been manually rated across 231 different UX elements, all based on Baymard’s 150,000+ hours of UX research.

This is a sub-set of the full benchmark which includes 123 e-commerce sites.

Case Studies

Click the colored dots to view in-depth case studies for each benchmarked site, or scroll down to see all case studies. You can also view the case study examples organized by type of page.

Benchmark UX Performances
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Overall UX Performance

231 Guidelines

Desktop Web

120 Guidelines

Homepage & Main Navigation

11 Guidelines

Homepage

4 Guidelines

Main Navigation

7 Guidelines

Page Types & Design

16 Guidelines

Plan Matrix

8 Guidelines

Checkout

54 Guidelines

User Information

10 Guidelines

Payment Flow & Credit Card Form

11 Guidelines

Order Review

8 Guidelines

General Form Design and Checkout Layout

13 Guidelines

Form Field Usability and Design

12 Guidelines

Sign-Up & Account Management

15 Guidelines

Site-Wide Features & Design

16 Guidelines

Mobile Web

111 Guidelines

Mobile Homepage & Main Navigation

10 Guidelines

Mobile Homepage

4 Guidelines

Mobile Main Navigation

6 Guidelines

Mobile Page Types & Design

10 Guidelines

Mobile Checkout

55 Guidelines

Mobile User Information

10 Guidelines

Mobile Payment Flow & Credit Card Form

11 Guidelines

Mobile Order Review

7 Guidelines

Mobile "General Form Design and Checkout Layout "

11 Guidelines

Mobile Form Field Usability and Design

16 Guidelines

Mobile Sign-Up & Account Management

13 Guidelines

Mobile Site-Wide Features & Design

23 Guidelines

Case Studies

Deep dive into any of the 21 retail sites displayed in the scatter plot above.

good
Avast
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

16 page designs: desktop, mobile

good
Slack
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

18 page designs: desktop, mobile

good
Adobe
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

22 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Zendesk
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

16 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Netflix
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

22 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Codecademy
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

15 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Firebase
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

19 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Grammarly
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

20 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Canva
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

22 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Dropbox
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

22 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Zoom
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

26 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
HBO Max
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

18 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Basecamp
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

38 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
McAfee
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

16 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Shopify
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

26 page designs: desktop, mobile

decent
Evernote
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

23 page designs: desktop, mobile

mediocre
Norton
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

22 page designs: desktop, mobile

mediocre
Apple Music
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

22 page designs: desktop, mobile

mediocre
Xero
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

31 page designs: desktop, mobile

mediocre
Microsoft Teams
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

23 page designs: desktop, mobile

mediocre
Box
Digital Subscriptions & SaaS

13 page designs: desktop, mobile


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