Case Study · E-Commerce · Pferdesporthaus Loesdau

1,493% ROI in two years, because small tests learn faster

Pferdesporthaus Loesdau is a family business in equestrian retail. As an external growth team, we quadrupled the number of A/B tests. Our Rapid Growth Engine for D2C grew out of this approach.

Starting point

Too little traffic for big tests, too little time for long ones

The company had grown from catalog to online business. Until then, many decisions about the shop were made without test data. A mid-sized company has less traffic than a large corporation. Test the way a corporation does, and you wait weeks for every result.

So we worked differently: small and medium sprints instead of big overhauls, several tests in parallel, testing first where the potential is greatest, and the ROI of the program as the most important target metric. That turned a handful of tests a year into a fixed rhythm.

What we learned about the customers

In a large assortment, orientation helps more than additional hints

More hints on search and filters achieved nothing. A simplified category page, on the other hand, delivered the second-highest value contribution of all experiments.

On smartphones, customers scroll less than expected. Even 300 more pixels before the content measurably cost revenue. And the highest value contribution of a year came from matching recommendations in the cart layer, right at the moment when someone already wants to buy.

The biggest single uplift came from the price presentation. That revealed a tension many specialty retailers know: quality signals and price signals pull in different directions.

Result

ROI more than tripled in two years

Over two years, the program reached an ROI of 1,493%. By July 2025, the value contribution had grown to €11.3 million. The calculation uses net revenue, covers only tested segments and devices, and assumes 36 months of impact per test. A/B testing pays off even without corporate traffic, as long as speed and focus are right.

1,493% ROI from the program

Number of tests quadrupled in two years

+€11.3 million total value contribution (as of July 2025)

Line chart: ROI of a testing program rises from around 400% to over 1,400%Conservative view based on our statistical ROI model, accounting for tested segments, devices, and depreciation.

Rapid Growth Engine

What it became

The approach from this project is now the foundation of our Rapid Growth Engine for D2C brands: three times as many tests as usual, 10 to 14 days of runtime per test, and ROI as the steering metric for the whole program.

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