Key performance indicators that can be improved by using Verge3D

Deploying interactive 3D web experiences made with Verge3D can improve key metrics across revenue, operations, customer experience, and development workflow. In this article we outline these benefits in detail. This should help you establish proper reasoning for employing Verge3D in your business processes.

E-Commerce & sales KPIs

If integrated and used properly, Verge3D can become your money-making machine. Below are the most popular KPIs, management and marketing teams strive to improve.

Conversion Rate (CR)

Replacing images and videos with interactive 3D content allows buyers to inspect features, customize variants, and visualize products in real-time. This improves confidence in the product being visualized and hence increases probability that it will be ordered.

Looking from the other perspective, images and videos easily blend in with competitors, while interactive 3D offers a visual "wow effect" that captures buyer attention and increases perceived brand quality. This distinctive experience sets the brand apart from its competitors, turning casual lurkers into buyers and boosting the overall conversion rate.

Check out the featured applications made with Verge3D to see what we mean.

Average Order Value (AOV) / Revenue per Visitor (RPV)

By presenting your product in 3D, you will boost its value, making the purchase appear more lucrative. For configurable products, you can suggest more expensive options or upsell various accessories more easily.

As an example, see the Scooter demo. It offers a million of possible combinations implemented as a 10 MB product customizer:

This demo is freely available from the Verge3D Asset Store. You can learn from it and reuse in your own projects.

Sales cycle length

When you present your product with Verge3D, you can put way more information about its features and capabilities on the same webpage. For this, you have 360° view, camera zoom, ability to show/hide product components, show animations, present color options, exploding views, etc. Being informed, the potential customers make quick, yet well-considered product choices. This is true for both B2B and B2C sales.

Customer experience & support KPIs

Verge3D is all about how potential or existing customers see your product or service. Below are the most useful KPIs you can improve by having interactive 3D content deployed on your website.

Return rate

Mismatches between customer expectations and actual physical products often cause an excessive rate of returns. Verge3D gives buyers a precise understanding of product quality and specs before they make a purchase.

For complex or technical products that risk including incompatible parts, a well-designed 3D configurator is invaluable. It guides customers toward valid options and ensures that all chosen components fit perfectly together.

Time on page / user engagement

Interactive 3D scenes imply active engagement instead of passive scrolling. Users spend significantly more time exploring your product, e.g. by rotating/zooming the camera, clicking on material swatches, playing animations, exploring cost variations, and so on.

This also leads to a lower bounce rate and longer session duration on the company website.

Customer support ticket volume

Interactive explainers, 3D manuals, step-by-step assembly instructions, or interactive troubleshooting guides reduce inbound inquiries regarding product installation, specs, and operation.

See the E-Learning demo as an example:

This demo is freely available from the Verge3D Asset Store. You can learn from it and reuse in your own projects.

Product development & workflow efficiency KPIs

Once the decision to develop a 3D web application is made, project costs become the thing of most importance. Many sources argue that 3D web interactives are way more expensive compared to traditional website content consisting of text, images, and videos. Not with Verge3D!

Time-to-Market (TTM)

Verge3D provides close integration with the most efficient modeling & animation software packages available on the market: Blender, 3ds Max, and Maya. This can greatly speed up the process of 3D content creation. Also, Verge3D's visual scripting system (Puzzles) removes the gap between 3D designers and front-end development. 3D artists can script logic, HTML/CSS UI, post-processing effects, sounds, or even interact with server directly from their favorite DCC tool without relying on web developers.

There are many tools, libraries, and integrations coming with Verge3D distribution, that can be real time-savers. Among them:

App Manager — an all-in-one utility for typical 3D app development and deployment operations
Puzzles Library — ready-to-use snippets for implementing various features with a single drag-and-drop operation (e.g. creating dialog windows, working with camera, sending forms)
Verge3D Network — one-click hosting, CDN, and a remote folder for data synchronization
Asset Store — contains free demos and examples that can be reused in your own apps
WordPress plugin — feature-rich solution for the most widely used CMS. Offers hosting, publishing, ordering, persistent storage, form sending, WooCommerce integration
React/Vue templates — provide Verge3D components for modern client-side frameworks

Verge3D Enterprise users are also eligible for the technical support & consulting services. By using these, your development team can focus on creativity and implementing your business ideas instead of spending time and money on research and technical stuff.

Development costs

Reducing dependence on custom code (such as HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript) lowers overall development effort and project costs. With Verge3D, much smaller teams — sometimes consisting of just one skilled 3D artist — can design, build, and maintain sophisticated 3D web applications.

Soft8Soft also offers an affordable Enterprise licensing plan: a single license covers up to 5 seats, eliminating complex account management for your team.

Time-to-hire & talent acquisition cost

Because Verge3D integrates directly with industry-standard tools like Blender, 3ds Max, and Maya, businesses can tap into a massive, global talent pool of traditional 3D artists. This eliminates the bottleneck and high costs associated with recruiting rare, highly specialized graphics software engineers.

Soft8Soft also hosts a curated repository of digital agencies, freelancers, and instructors that are ready to offer Verge3D-related services including 3D, UX/UI, server-side, and consulting.

Speed of updating & introducing new features

New 3D models, material changes, animations, different lighting conditions can be re-exported directly from the primary 3D modeling software to the web application. No need to compile your project or wait for its deployment. With Puzzles this is even more straightforward — clicking the Play button in the Puzzles Editor directly affects the behavior of your real-time experience.

Web performance & technical KPIs

These KPIs are for your development team. It is essential to create not only a good-looking 3D web app, but also make the experience run smoothly across a vast user base.

Page load time & First Contentful Paint (FCP)

Verge3D supports efficient JSON metadata format (glTF 2.0), binary meshes and animations, web-friendly texture formats (such as JPEG or WebP), videos (WebM, MP4), or sounds out of the box. Most data can be compressed with highly efficient LZMA algorithm. Verge3D runtime adds little overhead on its own, being just 400KB (gzipped). Together with extensive optimization guides you can create really efficient 3D applications that will be displayed to the end user quickly.

If you need to present large scenes, multiple models, or very detailed geometry, you can split your assets into multiple smaller glTF files and load or unload them on demand with Puzzles.

Frame rate stability

Verge3D's optimization tools (built-in performance profiler, highly customizable shaders, texture channel packing, instancing, and draw call batching) keep frame rates smooth across mobile devices and low-end hardware. With Puzzles, you can easily differentiate users by their hardware, offering high-quality graphics experience to the users with more capable GPUs.

Cross-device market reach

Measures the percentage of target users capable of running the 3D application without plugin installation or hardware barriers. Because Verge3D builds on native WebGL, WebXR, WebAudio standards, final applications deploy seamlessly across all device tiers — from entry-level smartphones and tablets to high-end desktop workstations, Chromebooks, smart TVs, and VR-enabled headsets. All the target device needs is a conventional web browser.

In general, the 3D viewport fits well on any screen; however, Verge3D also supports explicit features to adapt your app UI to varying resolutions, aspect ratios, and orientations. These include 3D scene-level Visibility Breakpoints (assigned directly in the DCC tool), Puzzles logic, and responsive HTML/CSS layout techniques.

Device compatibility rate

Verge3D eliminates platform-specific drop-off by delivering consistent 3D visual experience and interactivity regardless of the operating system (Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, iOS, or Android), browser engine, or GPU. WebGL, a low-level technology behind Verge3D, has achieved near-universal support across modern desktop and mobile browsers, approaching a 99% availability rate on capable hardware. For the remaining 1% you can show a branded error page or replace your 3D visualization by a video element or static imagery.

Installation friction

Verge3D serves 3D content directly inside web browsers via native URLs, bypassing the drop-off (which may affect up to 2/3 of clients) caused by requiring the end users to install something. You can seamlessly embed 3D visualization as part of your company public website, marketing campaign page, ad landing page, members-only area, etc — it will be available to the entire internet population right away.

Security, privacy & compliance KPIs

From day one, Verge3D was designed to be a cloud-free solution. It proved to be the right decision, as security, privacy, and regulatory compliance have become top priorities.

Data sovereignty & regulatory compliance rate

Unlike SaaS 3D platforms that store customer data, application code, and 3D assets on third-party servers, Verge3D apps are developed on-premises and hosted on your own backend servers, guaranteeing 100% data control.

Verge3D does not enforce mandatory online license tracking and does not send telemetry to Soft8Soft or third-party servers, making it suitable for highly regulated industries.

This also reduces procurement delays due to Information Security (InfoSec) reviews of data processing risks.

Attack surface reduction (internal and external)

Verge3D toolkit does not require an internet connection to operate, so you can develop your apps in highly restrictive or even completely air-gapped enterprise environments. This significantly lowers vendor risk scores and potential breach vectors.

See the following article for more information.

Intellectual property protection efficiency

Verge3D exports models into optimized web-based 3D format — glTF 2.0 (with proprietary Soft8Soft extensions), stripping out sensitive artistic or engineering data. This means you can keep your raw DCC or CAD files private while maintaining visual quality for distributed apps.

The same applies to the application logic developed in the Puzzles Editor. The entire tree of visual logic blocks and their parameters is stored in an XML file (kept private) while the destination logic is compiled to an efficient JavaScript asset (distributed with the app).

Source code audit readiness

For enterprise security audits, access to full source code (available as part of the Verge3D Developer Kit) allows internal SecOps teams to perform thorough penetration testing, static code analysis, and security compliance reviews without relying on "black box" third-party software.