The Q1 2025 benchmarking report for shower manufacturers has just been published. Learn how the top 11 shower manufacturers perform across the digital space.
The latest Q1 2025 benchmarking report for shower manufacturers has just been published. It covers the largest 11 shower manufacturers, including Just Trays Ltd, Bathroom Brands Group, Crosswater UK, Hudson Reed, Roca UK & Ireland, Bristan Group Ltd, Mira Showers, Aqualisa Products Limited, Roman Ltd, VADO, and Roper Rhodes Group.
The research gives an inside track on who is winning the biggest share of voice online and quantifies the gaps, risks, and missed opportunities for other shower manufactures to win brand exposure, drive online enquiries, and generate holiday bookings. The report highlights year-on-year digital performance, plus winner and loser comparisons across various online performance metrics and quantifies the gaps, risks and missed opportunities for brands to win brand exposure, online growth and sales.
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Q1 2025 WINNERS LEADERBOARD
For a glance into just 6 of the metrics, we evaluated these top 11 shower manufacturers, check out our quick-look table below:
Continue reading for further detail on this quarter's best and poorest-performing UK blinds and shutters brands or request a copy of the report for the full review.
What The Industry Research Report Covers
The 70+ pages of research benchmarks each site based on 50+ metrics and indicators of successful digital strategy, including organic visibility, domain authority, paid media ads, conversion performance, technical performance, site speed, universal search, content, social ads, accessibility, and mobile performance.
Driving Optimal ROAS from Paid Media Channels
Some of the leading players in the space are high spenders on paid media channels such as Google, Bing & Facebook - but have a poor or sub-optimal conversion improvement strategy. Without an optimised, sophisticated conversion strategy that maximises the conversion rate, the return on investment is unsustainable or will underperform. Scaling spend on paid media is not achievable unless the conversion rate delivers optimal performance in the sector. Some in the space have paid media spend levels from 30k+ per month but dedicate minimal resources and budgets to conversion testing. Given the cost per clicks on ad networks will continue to rise, we recommend spending at least 10% of your paid media budget on ongoing conversion optimisation testing schedules to ensure your paid media ROI maintains long term viability, competitive advantage, and sustainability.
Pay-Per-Click Marketing
Pay-Per-Click marketing is constantly evolving, with more and more advertisers being forced to hand over a lot of control to Google's algorithms as the push for automation grows ever stronger. There are still key elements of control that we have though, the main one of these being budget which is ultimately something the algorithms can't take from you. That's why being smart with your budget and ad coverage is essential to achieving strong results and bettering what your competitors have to offer.
For Q1 2025, the average budget wastage across these UK shower manufacturer brands was £371 with some of the top players in the market spending a considerable amount on areas and audiences unlikely to deliver a return. We can see this in more detail when looking at the average monthly cost per cost-per-click (CPC) amongst advertisers, with the average of this metric being £2.36 . This highlights how competitive the market is and how important it is to control your budgets effectively. In this quarter, Mira Showers has the highest budget wastage at £2,445, and Aqualisa Products Limited has the lowest budget wastage at £2.
There are varying monthly ad budgets across the competitors in the report. While this gap highlights the competitive advantage that larger budgets can provide, it's not just about spending more; it’s about spending smarter. By focusing on driving efficiency in campaign management, targeting, and budget allocation, businesses with smaller budgets can still effectively compete with larger players. Investing in data-driven strategies and refining ad performance can help close the gap and maximise the return on every pound spent, enabling growth even in a competitive landscape. Relative to their spend, Mira Showers has the lowest monthly cost-per-click (CPC) at £3, and Roca UK & Ireland has the highest at £28.
The report highlights the importance of budget efficiency by comparing monthly ad spend with estimated CPC in relation to your competitors, see who has the highest and lowest CPC. To maximise the effectiveness of your budget, it’s essential to focus on driving CPC down while maintaining or improving campaign performance. In this report, Mira Showers has the highest estimate monthly ad spend at £16,300, and Aqualisa Products Limited has the lowest at £14.
By optimising targeting, refining ad copy, and leveraging data to identify high-converting opportunities, you can ensure every click delivers maximum value. This approach not only stretches your budget further but also boosts your return on ad spend (ROAS), enabling you to achieve stronger results without simply increasing expenditure.
Technical Website Compliance
Savvy digital marketers know that having a technically sound website is an essential component of a successful fully integrated digital strategy - plus a site capable of maximising conversion performance. Shower manufacturers will need to keep in mind website design, accessibility, navigation functions, and reduced errors (such as broken links).
Aqualisa Products Limited reported the most 4xx errors (614). There are steps brands can take to reduce and prevent 4xx errors, such as setting up 301 redirects for missing or moved pages to direct visitors to another page. Additionally, adopting an internal linking structure and monitoring broken links will help to prevent 4xx errors in the first place.
Site Speed & Conversion Rate Performance
When 62% of consumers are less likely to convert if they have a negative mobile site experience, ensuring that your site is quick and easy to load makes a significant improvement on your overall conversion rates. Site speed has a huge role to play in whether a user continues accessing a website, and all manufacturers should aim for at least 50% in this category — the higher the better. There are many steps a brand can take, such as reducing page weight, removing automatic image carousels, speeding up the checkout process, and more.
The mobile site speed for this quarter ranged between 81 and 24, with Mira Showers flagging the lowest mobile speed. Faster-loading websites can reduce bounce rates and increase repeat visitors. Most modern websites include lots of images, gifs, interactive elements, and more, which can reduce page speed.
Building Competitive Advantage with Domain Authority
Domain authority is an essential metric for measuring the effectiveness of SEO performance and helps create a reliable overall gauge of how effective your site is at achieving organic traffic, i.e. ‘free’ traffic that isn’t gained through sponsored ads. Acquiring backlinks from high-authoritative websites with a similar target audience is a sure way for shower manufacturers to enhance their DA score.
A ‘good’ DA really comes down to how your competitors are performing, however it is generally considered average between 40 and 50, good between 50 and 60, and excellent above 60. The DA score for this quarter ranged between 72 and 25, with Just Trays reporting the lowest DA score. This shower manufacturer brand received the fewest backlinks and should consider building relationships with authority websites in a similar niche to help increase their DA score.
Organic Performance – Mobile & Desktop
A strong organic performance is strategically important as it ensures your site ranks above competitors for key, transactional keywords. When 93% of your customers won’t go past the first page of Google, your absence or lack of targeting for essential keywords will cost you conversions. It’s apparent that we’ll see a fluctuation in organic traffic year on year, and we can expect to see more traffic coming from desktop. Thankfully, brands can take steps to increase their organic traffic, such as following a relevant keyword strategy and tracking its performance, making adaptions when necessary.
Three of the brands reported a decrease in organic traffic on desktop, while 6 reported a decrease on mobile. Brands can increase their traffic on both devices by optimising for SEO with a keyword strategy, building backlinks, enhancing the user experience, and more.
Universal Search Opportunity
Google Universal Search Results is an evolving opportunity to make your pages visible on a SERP (Search Engine Results Page). Universal results often appear before traditional listings and are eye-catching for users. Universal search results refer to rankings on a SERP that are not the traditional ‘blue line’ Google link, and a retailer can appear for universal search results without being strong in standard rankings. 'Reviews' and 'images' results are all ways for holiday parks to gain trust, and share eye-catching content about their locations, directly from the SERP.
Crosswater UK secured the most Universal Search appearances (5,352), with the majority of these coming from ‘reviews’ and ‘images’. By websites optimising their Universal Search appearances, they can increase user engagement and improve local reach.
The Longtail Keyword Opportunity
Longtail keywords are often considered high intent and potentially more likely to convert as a searcher is being more specific. Optimising for longtail keywords also puts your content strategy in a strong position to rank for brand new search terms as they enter Google’s index. Shower manufacturers should focus on longtail keywords, such as ‘sliding shower door’ and ‘wall-mounted basins’ to help outperform competitors. Most importantly, brands should track the performance of its keyword strategy and make adjustments accordingly.
Mira Showers secured the most longtail keyword appearances for position 3 (1,396), and the most appearances for positions 4–10 (1,922). On the other hand, Just Trays reported the fewest appearances for position 3 (8) and positions 4–10 (5) and should re-assess their longtail keyword strategy.
Facebook Adverts
With the number of Facebook users in the United Kingdom (UK) hitting over 44 million users in 2023, it is not surprising that companies have jumped at the opportunity to advertise on the social media platform. Facebook’s UK digital advertising revenue has been estimated to have breached 2.6b GB pounds in 2019. Facebook ads are a great way for blinds and shutters brands to reach people who are specifically looking to make improvements to their homes.
We’ve included examples of Crosswater UK’s sponsored posts. This shower manufacturer brand posted a maximum of three lines of text, which is the maximum amount to help with scannability for social media users.
Top Social Shares & Content
When it comes to social media and on-site content strategies, it is important to release content that has a longer shelf life. An article is considered 'Evergreen' if it has maintained its relevancy to an audience for longer. It's great for your retailer engagement, but great for Google too, who will recognise content which achieves traffic over a long period of time. Beauty and cosmetics retailers should upload social media content that benefits its audience and isn’t just related to its products.
Hudson Reed and Roca UK & Ireland both have the most Facebook Likes (20,200), while Bathroom Brands Group has the most Instagram followers (60,800). It’s important that brands post content that’s applicable to their target audience to retain followers and increase brand awareness.
Website Readability & Accessibility
20% of people in the UK have a disability – 2 million of which are people living with sight loss. In addition, 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women have some degree of colour vision deficiency. When websites are not designed to meet these needs, retailers lose customer interest as they turn elsewhere. All brands should focus on delivering a website that’s accessible for all, taking into account devices their target audience uses as well as any personal deficiencies its consumers may have.
VADO flagged the most accessibility alerts (268). There are processes brands can follow to reduce and prevent these alerts, such as using descriptive alt information for images, providing captions for videos, and more.
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