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E-Commerce Checkouts Need to Mark Both Required Fields and Optional Fields Explicitly (Only 14% Do So) – Baymard

https://baymard.com/blog/required-optional-form-fields

“Only 14% of sites explicitly mark both optional and required fields — even though failing to do so results in validation errors and abandonments. See our latest test findings.” (the page’s own description)

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