How Ocado Retail increased delivery slot bookings by +6.3% with Contentsquare

The company

Ocado Retail is one of the U.K.’s leading digital-first online grocery businesses, responsible for Ocado.com and Ocado Zoom, its fast-growing, same-day grocery delivery service.

Ocado Retail combines world-leading technology and logistics from Ocado Group and unrivaled product development from M&S to offer award-winning customer service.

Having migrated from Fullstory to Contentsquare’s Experience Intelligence platform, Claudene Scott, former Ecommerce and Digital Lead at Ocado Retail and her team began to think about how it could do more to leverage the platform’s capabilities.

Key metrics

• +60% increase in average monthly Contentsquare users

• +6.3% increase in delivery slot bookings

The challenge

Since implementing Contentsquare during the Covid pandemic, the ecommerce and trading teams had only used it to solve specific perceived issues on an ad hoc basis.

They decided they needed to get a more detailed picture of customer journeys, while also integrating the all-in-one platform across the business to help foster a more data-driven decision-making culture.

To achieve this, they team to cultivate a test-and-learn mindset across the whole Ocado Retail business, allowing them to make decisions at pace, measure the impact of those decisions, and then iterate again.

We knew that embedding Contentsquare as an integral tool in our trading rhythm was a key driver in achieving our goals. In order to do that, we needed to drive engagement and adoption up across our whole team in a sustainable way.

Claudene Scott

Former Ecommerce and Digital Lead

The solution

After successfully onboarding Ocado Retail’s merchandising teams—with extensive use of the Contentsquare University and certification program—Ocado wanted to leverage the learnings from that success.

The company developed the concept of 'Contentsquare Month', a project comprising weekly challenges based on improving an Ocado webpage or customer journey using insights found in the platform.

As a result of this project, the ecommerce and the trading teams gained a deeper understanding of how to use the platform efficiently and effectively, helping them see significant and tangible benefits for the business.

1. Christmas campaign page optimization

Ocado launched its Christmas promotional page, 'Christmas Wondermarket', showcasing high-quality images of its range of festive foods to create desire.

A quick analysis using Contentsquare's Heatmaps capability in the live browser extension revealed 0.76% of desktop users and 1.24% of mobile users on the Christmas Wondermarket page were clicking on the large, unclickable hero image. Mobile users were getting frustrated and exiting the page, and scroll depth across devices was low.

These insights showed that by removing the hero image, the product tiles would sit above the page fold, making it easier for users to find the products they’re looking for.

Zone-based heatmap analysis on Ocado's landing page showing click rate on desktop and mobile devices

The team then ran an A/B test with a variation of the page without the hero banner, which validated that removing the banner would have no impact on order conversion, but would have a positive uplift on secondary metrics.

This led the team to simplify the page by inserting a smaller hero image and removing category tiles, using only product tiles to improve product visibility.

A/B test with and without the hero banner of Ocado's Christmas campaign landing page

Journey Analysis of the Christmas campaign landing page

Digging deeper into their analysis using Contentsquare's Journey Analysis capability, the team noticed 9.3% of customers on the Christmas page came from event landing pages.

To capitalize on this traffic, the team added a top offers promotional banner to Ocado’s most trafficked event landing pages.

By doing this, the team increased the amount of visitors clicking through to the Christmas WonderMarket page from the landing page from 9.3% to 11%.

2. Boosting delivery slot bookings by 6.3%

Using Contentsquare's platform to analyze traffic and user behavior on the Ocado.com homepage, the team discovered the page had

• Low engagement on the delivery slot booking CTA

• Low interaction on the promotions carousel and product selection

• User frustration with un-clickable elements

• A high exit rate

New visitors had trouble finding what they needed or working out what actions to take. Qualitative Voice of Customer data validated issues with the Ocado.com homepage.

This resulted in a homepage redesign to make it simpler with fewer options. By prioritizing the most valuable call to action (CTA)—delivery slot bookings—the team saw a significant boost in bookings and registrations from new visitors.

Ocado's homepage before and after the redesign

Booking a slot first is really key to a good customer experience for us. So simplifying the page, taking away prices, product promotions, and fancy images of food actually made the page less overwhelming and way more successful for the customer.

Claudene Scott

Former Ecommerce and Digital Lead

The results

As a result of its Contentsquare Month onboarding project, Ocado Retail achieved great results:

• +60% more Contentsquare monthly users across the business in just 8 months

• +18.3 increase in traffic from event pages to the Christmas Wondermarket

• +6.1% increase in user registrations on the homepage

• +6.3% increase in delivery slot bookings on the homepage

The ability to make data-driven decisions at pace is really important for success. I could spend all day in Tableau and not come up with an answer when that can be found very simply and quickly within Contentsquare.

Claudene Scott

Former Ecommerce and Digital Lead

What's next

Having experienced multiple benefits from using the platform since onboarding, Ocado is continuing its data democratization initiative by introducing it to the wider business and enabling those teams to self-serve with dashboards.

The key next step for us is increasing adoption of Contentsquare across the wider business and to enable our creative and marketing teams to gain relevant insight and self-serve.”

- Claudene Scott, Former Ecommerce and Digital Lead, Ocado Retail