Benchmarks disagree on mobile. Contentsquare's 2026 study has phones at 2% against desktop at 3.4%. Dynamic Yield has mobile ahead at 2.86%. Pull your own device split from the last 90 days before you decide mobile is your problem.

Baymard's 2026 checkout study (n=4, 560) has extra costs at the top of the abandonment list, at 48%. Showing the full total on the product page takes one afternoon to set up. Try it on your own store this week and see if abandonment moves. Link in the reply.

Ringly puts 2026 mobile ecommerce conversion at 2.8%, matching desktop. Other benchmarks still show a gap. Pull your own device numbers before you rebuild mobile checkout. Averages hide your store. Link in reply.

Growth Suite tracked 958 Shopify stores through the first half of 2026. 43% of shoppers who start checkout never finish. Before you pay for more traffic, time your own checkout on a phone and count every tap.

17% of shoppers say they recently quit an order because checkout was too hard, per Falia's July 2026 breakdown. If you run a small store, start with one fix this week: add Apple Pay or Google Pay to the mobile cart page and watch the orders come through.

Google and Deloitte studied 30 million retail sessions and found a 0.1 second faster mobile load time lifted conversions 8.4%. Open your own product page on a real phone and time it. Then decide if more ad spend is the fix. Details in link.

Phones drive 72% of ecommerce visits but only 56% of revenue, based on Shopify Commerce Trends data. A shopper who can't finish on a phone isn't a device problem. Open your own store on your phone today and time the checkout.

CartFlows pulled 2026 live data where mobile converts at 2.86% and desktop at 2.46%. So the old rule that phones convert half as well is out of date. If your mobile checkout still makes shoppers pinch and zoom, that gap is on your store, not the device. Link below.

Typical US checkouts load 23.48 form fields by default. A tight flow needs 12 to 14. Baymard testing ties cleaner checkout design to a lift near 35%. Count your fields before buying more traffic. Link in reply.