– 2026 Research Report · Fashion Ecommerce
52% of shoppers leave your site after a failed search.
Most don’t come back.
This report documents the discovery gap across five dimensions — failed search, returns, conversion, personalisation, and catalog quality — and shows exactly where revenue is leaking from fashion ecommerce businesses today.
17 pages · 12 primary sources including NRF, McKinsey, Baymard Institute · No vendor pitch · Instant PDF download
What’s inside — 6 chapters
Chapter 01
The $821B market and the discovery gap
Scale, growth trajectory, and the structural problem inside the world’s largest B2C ecommerce category.
Chapter 02
How shoppers search — and how often they fail
Data from 896 shoppers. 52% leave after a failed search. 48% go straight to a competitor.
Chapter 03
The hidden cost of returns
$890B in US retail returns. Fashion’s 22% online return rate is 3.5× the in-store rate for the same products.
Chapter 04
The conversion reality check
Benchmarks by sub-category. 77% cart abandonment. The mobile gap most retailers ignore.
Chapter 05
The personalisation gap
80%+ expect personalisation. McKinsey: fast-growing companies derive 40% more revenue from it.
Chapter 06
Product data: the root cause
Why catalog quality underlies every problem — search, returns, conversion, and personalisation simultaneously.
“If guaranteed an excellent search and discovery experience, 62% of shoppers would shop more at a particular retailer — and 24% would pay 5–10% more for items.”
Constructor — State of Ecommerce Search & Discovery 2024 · n=896 shoppers
Who this is written for
VP / Director of Ecommerce
Conversion benchmarks and the discovery levers with the highest revenue impact.
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The direct link between catalog quality, return rates, and search performance.
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Why the search engine is rarely the problem — and what actually is.
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