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Reducing Device-Search Friction to Unlock Revenue for a Phone Accessories Brand

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Industry

Electronics & Technology

Challenge

Even with strong demand and consistent traffic, key shopping surfaces were underperforming. Homepage engagement and deep-scroll behavior had declined significantly, while several high-traffic device collections experienced extremely high bounce rates—preventing shoppers from reaching relevant products quickly.

Results

ClickMint’s behavioral CRO diagnostic uncovered systemic discovery friction across the homepage, device collections, and search experience. The experiment roadmap is composed of 10 experiments focusing on accelerating device-based navigation, improving product discovery, and increasing revenue capture from existing traffic.

Lead Products

Phone cases, Phone accessories

$120K
EXPECTED ANNUAL GMV INCREASE
+8%
REVENUE GROWTH FROM EXISTING TRAFFIC
20%
HOMEPAGE BOUNCE REDUCTION
+10%
HOMEPAGE CONVERSION LIFT
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The Brand

This global direct-to-consumer mobile accessories brand specializes in protective phone cases, waterproof gear, and device accessories for major ecosystems including Apple, Samsung Galaxy, and Google Pixel.

The brand serves a worldwide customer base shopping primarily by phone model compatibility. While traffic volumes remained strong, behavioral analytics revealed that many visitors struggled to quickly locate relevant products due to navigation complexity and discovery friction across key pages.

 

The Challenge

ClickMint’s diagnostic analysis revealed that while demand and product interest are strong, the conversion journey is slowed by structural UX friction across several high-traffic entry points.

Across the homepage, device-specific collection pages, and the search experience, visitor engagement has declined noticeably. Homepage click events have dropped approximately 63% annually, while deep scroll behavior has fallen roughly 45–47%, indicating that many users are leaving before reaching product discovery areas.

Collection pages present additional challenges: several high-traffic device collections show desktop bounce rates exceeding 78–84%, suggesting visitors often abandoned sessions before reaching relevant products. Long filter rails, dense product grids, and buried device selectors increase cognitive load during the first moments of browsing.

The site’s search experience also reveals a discovery gap. Approximately 28% of search sessions navigate back to the homepage, indicating that visitors frequently encounter a blank search state without clear product discovery pathways when a query is not entered.

Together, these signals show a consistent pattern: visitors arrived with clear purchase intent but are not guided efficiently toward compatible products.

 

The Solution

Rather than pursuing large-scale redesigns, ClickMint deployed a series of 10 behaviorally targeted experiments designed to remove friction at key decision points in the shopping journey.

The first focus area was homepage decision acceleration. Experiments introduced a device-search field beneath the hero section, allowing shoppers to immediately search for their phone model and reach relevant product collections faster. Additional navigation chips and trust-signal bars were placed near the top of the page to guide visitors into common shopping paths.

Next, ClickMint addressed device-first navigation challenges across collection pages. Sticky device navigation bars, device model selectors, and streamlined filtering modules were suggested to reduce the effort required to locate compatible products—particularly for high-traffic device ecosystems such as Apple, Samsung Galaxy, and Google Pixel.

Finally, the search experience was enhanced through the introduction of discovery chips and category shortcuts. These features guide visitors toward high-intent collections and trending products even when users do not enter a specific search query.

Each intervention targets a behavioral friction identified on the site and is instrumented to measure improvements in bounce rate, product discovery behavior, and downstream conversion performance.

 

The Results

Based on experiment-level modeling within ClickMint’s diagnostic framework, the current optimization roadmap represents a meaningful opportunity to increase revenue capture from existing traffic.

Expected Incremental GMV Impact (Annualized) From the 10 Proposed Experiments:

  • Low / conservative aggregate upside: ≈ $55K – $70K annually
  • Expected aggregate upside: ≈ $90K – $120K annually
  • Upper-range scenario: ≈ $140K – $150K+ annually

These gains are expected to come primarily from improvements to homepage discovery, device collection navigation, and search experience optimization—areas where visitor volume is high but product exposure is currently suppressed.

As validated behavioral patterns are scaled across additional collections and international storefronts, these improvements can compound over time, transforming isolated UX optimizations into a repeatable system for ecommerce revenue growth.

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