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E-commerce Eye Candy – Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate Statistics

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In How Can I Improve My Checkout Process?, we noted that the average shopping cart abandonment rate is 66% in the overall e-commerce market. This means that 66% of the people who find your product and decide to buy it experience a sudden change of heart during the checkout process.

We asked you to imagine this sort of behavior happening at your local grocery store. What if visitors spent 20 minutes shopping in the aisles of a store, placing items in their cart, lining up for the checkout and then suddenly run out the door, abandoning the cart in the middle of the checkout line? What scared them away?

This week’s E-commerce Eye Candy continues our exploration into shopping cart abandonment with an infographic called Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate Statistics by the Website Optimization company Invesp.

Here are the notables:

How is the average cart performing?

Conversion rates for all online traffic are a tiny bit above 2%. Cart abandonment rate hovers just around 66%, while the average online order is $116.58. It’s important to keep in mind that a B2C company’s average cart value may be much lower, but their customers will have a shorter buy cycle, which means a greater amount of total orders. A B2B cart may typically have a higher cart value, but the buy cycle is longer and orders may be fewer relative to the B2C cart.

Why do online shoppers change their minds and abandon cart?High Shipping Costs Invesp

44% of web buyers who abandon cart do so because of high shipping costs. This might be less of an issue for software merchants, as most digital products are delivered electronically through email or, in the case of SaaS products, accessed through the cloud. But if you cross-sell a physical product like a backup CD, consider incorporating shipping costs into the price of the cross-sell and highlight an offer for free shipping. SaaS companies may find difficulty in incorporating physical cross-sells, though some digital games companies like Zynga have been able to do so. As always, take advantage of multi-variate testing to ensure that your price points and marketing message are optimized.

What is one thing I can change to optimize my checkout process?Not displaying progress invesp

This piece of advice applies to most checkouts, even those with just one or two steps: Make sure to display the visitor’s progress along the way. Letting the customer know how many steps are involved at each stage of the checkout process creates a sense of certainty for the customer which makes the process clearer and smoother.

Enjoy the rest of the infographic, and let us know about your interest in shopping cart abandonment in the comment section below

 

 

 

Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate Statistics

Infographic by – Website Optimization Company Invesp


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