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Medium
Navigation
Duplicate navigation menus
The site renders the same navigation structure twice on every page, doubling cognitive load.
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⚠ Duplicate navigation menusThe site renders the same navigation structure twice on every page, doubling cognitive load and making it unclear which menu is authoritative.
Fix
Evidence
Observed on the live site
✓ Flagged independently by 1 of 7 analysts
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Business case
If this change wins
0.1 – 0.4
orders per 1,000 visitors
Medium
Effort — 2-5 days
Not A/B testable
At typical traffic
Detecting this needs about 1,941,808 visitors per variant. Ship it as a sequenced change and log the date instead.
Prioritisation
PXL score: 5 / 10
Assessed from the live page
| Question | Answer | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Is the change above the fold? | Yes | 1 |
| Is the change noticeable in under 5 seconds? | Yes | 2 |
| Does it add or remove an element? | Yes | 1 |
| Does it run on a high-traffic page? | Yes | 1 |
| Verified by direct technical measurement? | No | 0 |
Criteria that need your data
4 of these could not be answered from the live page. Session recordings, survey or support themes, and analytics access would raise the confidence of this ranking — they do not indicate a weaker finding.
| Question | Answer | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Discovered via user testing? | No | 0 |
| Discovered via qualitative feedback (survey, support)? | No | 0 |
| Supported by heatmaps or session recordings? | No | 0 |
| Found via digital analytics or real-user field data? | No | 0 |
Implementation
Hand this to your developer
- Surface
- Navigation — Global navigation on all pages
- Problem
- The site renders the same navigation structure twice on every page, doubling cognitive load.
- Current state
- notes: Duplicate navigation menus with identical links.
- Change
- notes: Consolidate into a single navigation menu.
- Acceptance criteria
- GIVEN a first-time visitor on the affected page
WHEN the change is live
THEN Consolidate into a single navigation menu, with no regression at 375px and 1280px widths. - Tracking
- event: cro_duplicate_navigation_menus on interaction with the changed element; verify it fires in BOTH variants before opening traffic.
- Success metric
- organic sessions for the affected pages
- QA checklist
- Chrome / Safari / Firefox · 375px + 1280px · keyboard reachable · screen-reader name present · no CLS introduced
- Effort
- Medium — 2-5 days
- Test plan
- 1,941,808 visitors per variant (95% significance, 80% power); duration depends on traffic.
- Rollback
- Feature-flag the change; revert the flag if the primary metric drops for 3 consecutive days.