Name: Review sections, measured: the typical values and the range across 101 real ones
Creator: Ben Peetermans
License: https://uxxray.com/fair-use/

This page states what the corpus holds. It does not recommend anything, it does not call any value good, and it never adds the axes together — a total would rebuild the composite score this product is retiring.

By Ben Peetermans · 2026-09-28 · UXXRAY section corpus, n=101 measured review sections · conversion-tactic rates frozen 2026-09-23

Limitations, stated up front

Living, not frozen. Every figure recomputes from the corpus on each build. The studies listed on Research are dated snapshots; this one moves.
Sampling. The corpus is seeded from launch directories and skews heavily to SaaS. Read the All column as this corpus, never as the web.
Withheld, not zero. A segment holding fewer than 30 measured review sections is withheld with its shortfall stated. It is not shown as 0. An industry the corpus holds none of at all is not offered as a tab — every segment, including the empty ones, is in the JSON.
Different denominators. Geometry is measured on ~100% of captured bands; the content fields sit near 59%. Every row carries its own n for that reason.
Prevalence, not cause. How common something is says nothing about whether it works. Nothing here is ranked, totalled or called better than anything else.
Not measured. Typography and colour are collected per page, never associated with a section, so this page cannot answer "what font size do review sections use".

101 review sections measured.

Typical value and the middle half of the range. The middle half is the 25th to 75th percentile: half of all measured review sections fall inside it.
What we measured	Typical	Middle half	Measured on
Share of page height	10.7%	6.7% – 17.3%	101
Top edge	31.4%	12.2% – 55.4%	101
Words	201	58 – 393	91
Links	3	1 – 10	54
Links and buttons with a label	3	1 – 10	61
Images and inline SVGs	11	4 – 34	75
Opens with an h1	11%	8 of 73	73
Holds a comparison table	2%	2 of 98	98
Captures input inline	20%	20 of 98	98
Publisher declares schema.org types	4%	4 of 98	98

The pages these review sections sit in

Page shape	Pages	Share
nav → hero → reviews → footer	12	12%
nav → hero → reviews → faq → footer	9	9%
nav → reviews → footer	6	6%
hero → reviews → logo wall → faq → footer	5	5%
nav → hero → reviews → cta band → footer	3	3%

62 SaaS review sections measured.

Typical value and the middle half of the range. The middle half is the 25th to 75th percentile: half of all measured review sections fall inside it.
What we measured	Typical	Middle half	Measured on
Share of page height	8.8%	4.8% – 14.4%	62
Top edge	24.7%	11.5% – 53.4%	62
Words	117	58 – 300	56
Links and buttons with a label	2	1 – 6	31
Images and inline SVGs	10	4 – 22	40
Opens with an h1	2%	1 of 45	45
Holds a comparison table	3%	2 of 61	61
Captures input inline	3%	2 of 61	61
Publisher declares schema.org types	3%	2 of 61	61
Links	Withheld — 27 of the 30 needed

How common each element is

Element	Present in	Of
Price anchor	0%	0 of 51
Rating	74%	23 of 31
Guarantee	0%	0 of 52
No credit card asked	0%	0 of 44
Scarcity	2%	1 of 51
Countdown	0%	0 of 57

The pages these review sections sit in

Page shape	Pages	Share
nav → hero → reviews → faq → footer	8	13%
nav → hero → reviews → footer	7	11%
nav → hero → reviews → cta band → footer	3	5%
hero → reviews → cta band → footer	2	3%
nav → hero → reviews → pricing → faq → footer	2	3%

35 E-commerce review sections measured.

Typical value and the middle half of the range. The middle half is the 25th to 75th percentile: half of all measured review sections fall inside it.
What we measured	Typical	Middle half	Measured on
Share of page height	14.6%	11.0% – 27.4%	35
Top edge	44.2%	15.2% – 64.7%	35
Words	298	109 – 583	33
Images and inline SVGs	17	9 – 34	33
Holds a comparison table	0%	0 of 35	35
Captures input inline	51%	18 of 35	35
Publisher declares schema.org types	6%	2 of 35	35
Links	Withheld — 25 of the 30 needed
Links and buttons with a label	Withheld — 28 of the 30 needed
Opens with an h1	Withheld — 26 of the 30 needed

How common each element is

Element	Present in	Of
No credit card asked	0%	0 of 38
Scarcity	0%	0 of 33
Countdown	0%	0 of 36

The pages these review sections sit in

Page shape	Pages	Share
nav → reviews → footer	5	14%
hero → reviews → logo wall → faq → footer	4	11%
nav → hero → reviews → footer	4	11%
comparison → reviews → footer	2	6%
nav → hero → pricing → reviews → faq → footer	2	6%

4 Affiliate review sections measured.

Every axis is withheld for this segment — the corpus does not hold enough of these yet to state a number that would mean anything.

Typical value and the middle half of the range. The middle half is the 25th to 75th percentile: half of all measured review sections fall inside it.
What we measured	Typical	Middle half	Measured on
Share of page height	Withheld — 4 of the 30 needed
Top edge	Withheld — 4 of the 30 needed
Words	Withheld — 2 of the 30 needed
Links	Withheld — 2 of the 30 needed
Links and buttons with a label	Withheld — 2 of the 30 needed
Images and inline SVGs	Withheld — 2 of the 30 needed
Opens with an h1	Withheld — 2 of the 30 needed
Holds a comparison table	Withheld — 2 of the 30 needed
Captures input inline	Withheld — 2 of the 30 needed
Publisher declares schema.org types	Withheld — 2 of the 30 needed
Commonest page shapes	Withheld — 4 of the 30 needed

Every figure is counted from the corpus at build time and moves when the corpus moves. Segments holding fewer than 30 measured review sections are withheld rather than estimated. Engines: 18 crawler versions. Browse the review sections these numbers counted →

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How common each element is

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