Comments on: The Progress Bar – A Survey Of 100+ Online Retailers

By: 55 Cool New Ways to Use Landing Pages

55 Cool New Ways to Use Landing Pages — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:29:02 +0000

[...] Multi-step lead forms + progress bar. According to a survey from Pit Stop Media 52% of online retails use some sort of progress bar during their checkout [...]

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 05 May 2011 13:27:07 +0000

This came in handy when choosing a style for our skate shop website and its checkout process. Thanks for your effort!

By: Wholesale

Wholesale — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:36:40 +0000

Nice post! Some stores neglect details like these that could make or break their sales. They have to make sure the consumers feel secure and sure about the purchasing system of an online store. Sadly some stored don’t even have progress bars and this leads to double-clicking complications.

By: Sapna

Sapna — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:17:11 +0000

Thanks for this survey, as with so may best practices floating around its difficult to pin point, the best is to test and check with real users and this survey gives an idea on what can work.

By: QUORVIA

QUORVIA — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:32:52 +0000

This is Still one of the best checkout resources on the web!

Many thanks for providing it!

By: TraiaN

TraiaN — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:34:38 +0000

:) I’am glad it helps you…

By: Mark Kimsal

Mark Kimsal — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:32:20 +0000

Almost a year later and this post is still great. I saw this page and didn’t bookmark it, then I spent 2 days searching for it again. Just seeing all the different designs next to each other is great.

By: TraiaN

TraiaN — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:21:52 +0000

Randy, thanks for the nice words. We don’t post very often, bet when we do it, we make sure it’s solid information. Regarding your request for checkout best practices, well, it’s not an easy one. There are thousands of business models and probably hundreds of ways to approach the checkout process. The only “best practice” I have in mind is testing the process it self (split path testing, or A/B testing). I hope it helps.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:02:40 +0000

My god, I can’t believe how much work you put into this. Pretty incredible. Giant Thank you. It’s crucial stuff (your whole site really) and seeing the bits in comparison is huge. I wonder if it’s possible to start assembling the “ideal” cart/checkout system….I’ve been hunting for a best-practices model but nobody’s really approaching it as a whole package. Also, could be interesting to allow people to vote on design elements here – see what people are responding to.

By: Craig Higdon

Craig Higdon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:35:46 +0000

Definitely going to pass this link on to our designers. It's a great survey of progress bars. If you're interested, we've created a bunch of custom AspDotNetStorefront checkout progress bar. Take a look.