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Will You Add? - Simple Guidelines For Better A-B Split Website Testing
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In A/B split website testing, it is not the number of page visitors that determines how long a test takes to run, it is the proportion of those visitors that take the action measured by the test. Therefore, the
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Two simple guidelines can improve the effectiveness of A/B split testing for websites. First, test first things first. Second, use common sense to plan test sequences.
Guideline #1: Test First Things First
More than other types of testing, the order that A/B split website tests are done can have a powerful impact on the value of the results.
For most benefit, test variables in the sequence that visitors encounter them, unless there is a strong reason to depart from that order.
Test elements above the "first fold" first. (This area appears first in a visitor's browser window.) It makes no sense, for instance, to test a subhead on the second screen if most visitors do not get past the headline. Testing a variable farther down the page will take many times longer if an element above the first fold repels visitors -- a poor headline, an offensive background, tiny fonts, or any other thing -- or if it simply loses them.
In A/B split website testing, it is not the number of page visitors that determines how long a test takes to run, it is the proportion of those visitors that take the action measured by the test. Therefore, the
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Guideline #1: Test First Things First
More than other types of testing, the order that A/B split website tests are done can have a powerful impact on the value of the results.
For most benefit, test variables in the sequence that visitors encounter them, unless there is a strong reason to depart from that order.
Test elements above the "first fold" first. (This area appears first in a visitor's browser window.) It makes no sense, for instance, to test a subhead on the second screen if most visitors do not get past the headline. Testing a variable farther down the page will take many times longer if an element above the first fold repels visitors -- a poor headline, an offensive background, tiny fonts, or any other thing -- or if it simply loses them.
In A/B split website testing, it is not the number of page visitors that determines how long a test takes to run, it is the proportion of those visitors that take the action measured by the test. Therefore, the
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For most benefit, test variables in the sequence that visitors encounter them, unless there is a strong reason to depart from that order.
Test elements above the "first fold" first. (This area appears first in a visitor's browser window.) It makes no sense, for instance, to test a subhead on the second screen if most visitors do not get past the headline. Testing a variable farther down the page will take many times longer if an element above the first fold repels visitors -- a poor headline, an offensive background, tiny fonts, or any other thing -- or if it simply loses them.
In A/B split website testing, it is not the number of page visitors that determines how long a test takes to run, it is the proportion of those visitors that take the action measured by the test. Therefore, the
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In A/B split website testing, it is not the number of page visitors that determines how long a test takes to run, it is the proportion of those visitors that take the action measured by the test. Therefore, the
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In A/B split website testing, it is not the number of page visitors that determines how long a test takes to run, it is the proportion of those visitors that take the action measured by the test. Therefore, the fewer visitors that reach the action "hot spot" the longer the test will take.
Suppose two different "calls to action" -- positioned two screens down the page -- are pit against each other. If only 5 out of 100 visitors scroll down far enough to see that call to action, and to order (the action measured), it would take 2,000 visitors before 100 even see the call to action.
Out of those 100, how many would then order? One? Two? Five? Less? If 50 orders per version were required for a reliable result, it could take anywhere from 40,000 to 200,000 or more visitors to that page to run that one test. For some small internet businesses, that could equal a year for a single test.
On the other hand, if by A/B testing "first things first" the percentage of visitors that reach the order button doubled, the number of visitors required to test that same call to action would be cut in half.
Guideline #2: Use Common Sense
Do not adhere rigidly to guideline #1. Use common sense to evaluate where to start, and when to move on to a different test.
If a major problem is suspected farther down the page, it may m
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