Check out our Google Analytics benchmark data for Oct - December 2019 for B2C eCommerce websites.

The businesses indexed are limited to multichannel retailers whose online sales range up to £15 m per annum with average order values of £179. Their websites are all built on the eCommerce platform Magento (an Adobe company), on either version 1 or 2.

In aggregate, this latest report tracks the behaviour of almost 6 million website visitors across 27 websites.

Online retailers whose data was benchmarked include Donald Russell, Micro Scooters, Perfect Moment and This Works.

The data includes statistics regarding traffic sources and mobile usage, website engagement & conversion rates.

Standout figures

• Overall conversion rates are higher than last quarter which is not surprising given the time of year.
• Average Order Values and £ per visit are higher as well due to Christmas trading.
• Emails converted the highest but only accounted for 11% of the traffic which indicates that there may be untapped potential there.
• Bounce rates on search were 23.1% which means merchants need to work harder on making search results pages compelling especially as the average conversion on search was 7%.

Standout figures

• Traffic from mobile devices continues to grow but still has the highest bounce rate and lowest conversion rate.
• At least 3 of the merchants involved were seeing conversion ratios on mobile of around 3% which proves that it is possible to provide a friendly, frictionless shopping experience on mobile devices but many still have a long way to go.

Standout figures

• Compared to the conversion rates included in Tables 1 and 2, it is evident that site search converts at a much higher rate across all devices.
• Some merchants included in this survey were seeing 15 to 20% of their visitors using site search but many are still not promoting their site search sufficiently, especially on mobile devices.

Disclaimer: Google Analytics data is not always 100% accurate.