23 A/B testing ideas to optimize your landing page

Posted in A/B Split Testing, How To on June 17th, 2011

Usually you have a pretty good idea of what to A/B test on your landing page (We have 25+ A/B testing case studies in case you need to read those). But once you exhaust all those testing opportunities, you are back to square one. The most logical step is do a proper planning of next phase of A/B testing. Meanwhile if you want to do quick testing, what do you test? In this post, I intend to compile list of 23 quick A/B testing ideas. Here you go:

Headline testing ideas

  • Smaller, crisper headline v/s longer headline
  • No headline v/s having headline
  • Different styling of headline
  • Font size (larger, smaller) of headline
  • Position of headline (left v/s right; top v/s bottom)

Call to action button testing ideas

  • Text in button (“Buy now” v/s “Purchase item”)
  • Action in button (“Watch video” v/s “Free Trial” or “Buy Now” v/s “Add to Cart”)
  • Shape, size and color of button
  • Moving button to the left, right, top or bottom (changing button position)
  • Having multiple call to action buttons v/s having one

Layout and styling testing ideas

  • Different color scheme (dark v/s light)
  • Navigation bar (left v/s right; top v/s down)
  • Default font sizes, typography and colors

Text block testing ideas

  • Long v/s short text
  • Bullets v/s normal text
  • SEO optimized v/s human readable text
  • Removing text v/s having text

Form testing ideas

  • Long v/s short
  • Same page v/s multi-page
  • Text labels on top v/s left

Miscellaneous testing ideas

  • Social proof: case studies v/s text testimonials v/s video testimonials
  • Images: small v/s large; from different angles
  • Pricing: $49 v/s $50 v/s $49.99

If you have any more ideas, please leave a comment below. I have tried to include as many ideas as I could think of, but of course, there is no limit to what all you can test!

Paras Chopra

CEO and Founder of Wingify by the day, startups, marketing and analytics enthusiast by the afternoon, and a nihilist philosopher/writer by the evening!



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January 14, 2012

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