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PDP-034Product page · mobileMedium

Variant picker usable on small screens without accidental taps

Variant picker usable on small screens without accidental taps.

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13%of the audited stores we could judge fail this rule
5 pass21 partial4 failPublished audits · September 2026
Stores judged
30
of 40 published audits
Score weight
0.7pts
of the 100-point score
Page share
30%
of the score is the product page

What earns each verdict

Same outcomes on every UXFix rule · how verdicts work
✓ Pass5

Variant options ≥8px apart AND each ≥44x44px.

~ Partial21

Meets one criterion but not both.

✕ Fail4

Options touching or below tap-size minimum.

not assessable is recorded when the rule applied but the store could not be judged on it (bot protection, a region lock, a step we could not reach), and not applicable when the store has nothing for the rule to judge. Those stores are left out of every number on this page, never guessed. Why we do that
Why it matters

The variant picker on mobile has options that are too small or too close together. Fingers hit the wrong option.

Every mistap on a variant is either an abandoned cart or a wrong-order return. On mobile, this is one of the top sources of hidden lost revenue.

That sentence is the one a failing store sees in its own UXFix report.How rules are weighted and scored
30 audited stores, one dot each
4 fail
PassPartialFail

Every published UXFix audit this rule could be judged on, as of 23 Sep 2026. A count of real stores, not a simulation of yours.

How we test it

Scripted walk, fresh signed-out browser · the full walk
  1. 1Fresh browserSigned out, cookies cleared, desktop and mobile viewports, the store's live theme.
  2. 2Open a productA real, in-stock product page, found the way a shopper finds one.
  3. 3Judge this ruleAgainst the standard above, on what a shopper can see.
  4. 4Record the verdictPass, partial or fail, saved with the screenshot it was judged on.
What the agent looks for
Variant picker usable on small screens without accidental taps.
Confidence
The rulebook rates this check’s confidence Medium. When the agent is not sure, the rule is recorded as not assessable rather than guessed.
Not judged
10 of 40 published audits: the rule did not apply or could not be judged. Dropped, never guessed.

The numbers behind the rule

Published UXFix audits · more statistics
Where this rule sits among 103 UX rules
Most-failed rank
#53
Score weight rank
#87
Fail rate
13%

Score weight: a fail costs 0.7 pts of of the 100-point score; a partial costs half that. Most-failed rank is among the 79 rules with enough published audits to report a rate.

The issue, on real stores

from each store's own published audit

4 of the stores that fail this rule, each shown on the screen it was judged on, with the problem area marked. The picture is the store's own capture on the date shown, and stores change.

The fix

The same steps a failing store sees in its report

A pass means: Variant options ≥8px apart AND each ≥44x44px.

Severity
Medium
Score gain
+0.7pts
Page
Product page

Score gain is roughly what a fail-to-pass change adds; rules that could not be judged are left out, which can move it a little. Re-run a free audit after the change ships to confirm the verdict moved.

Checklist for the pass
0 of 3

Tick each step as you ship it. The audit judges the live store, so re-run it once all of them are done.

Every store that fails this rule

The 4 audited stores that fail Variant picker usable on small screens without accidental taps, with each store's published score and the day it was audited.
#StoreScoreAuditedPublished audit
1Keenfootwearkeenfootwear.com56Open audit
2Verabradleyverabradley.com58Open audit
3Gymsharkgymshark.com57Open audit
4Mejurimejuri.com65Open audit

What our auditors say about this rule

Options packed too tightly on a phone produce orders nobody meant to place.
Abdulhameid Grandoka, Co-founder, UXFix

Written by the person who audits this rule, and reviewed every quarter.

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Cite this

«4 of 30 online stores audited by UXFix fail the rule "Variant picker usable on small screens without accidental taps" (PDP-034) as of September 2026. UXFix, uxfix.ai/audits/rules/variant-picker-on-mobile»

Rule record · JSON
Dataset
{
  "id": "PDP-034",
  "name": "Variant picker usable on small screens without accidental taps",
  "area": "pdp",
  "severity": "medium",
  "weight": 0.723,
  "published_audits": {
    "judged": 30,
    "pass": 5,
    "partial": 21,
    "fail": 4
  },
  "updated": "2026-09-23"
}
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