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There’s great news for anyone using Visual Website Optimizer to carry out A/B tests on their websites and landing pages. Your chosen A/B testing software now supports Multiple Browsers Previews i.e. you can preview how your variations will appear on different browsers before starting your test. This feature is available to all users (including free trials) irrespective of what plan you’re subscribed to. Within the app, you’ll notice that instead of your usual previews, there [...]

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Starting with a new series on this blog called Revisiting the Classics, I will re-look at our A/B testing case studies and throw some new light on it (with additional commentary). The case study that I picked for this post relates to human photos on landing pages and whether they increase conversion rate. Before reading rest of the post, make a guess: do human photos (male/female) online really have any subconscious effect on visitors? What [...]

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Recently on Hacker News, someone commented that A/B testing has become like snake oil, making grand promises to be a panacea for increasing conversion rates. This comment troubled me not because the commenter was wrong (he was!) but because how certain people view A/B testing. Let me put this straight and clear: A/B testing does NOT guarantee increase in sales and conversions In fact, we recently featured a guest post by Noah of Appsumo who [...]

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We are extremely proud to release a brand new feature in Visual Website Optimizer: Revenue Tracking. This is a significant new development for our product because it means now in addition to tracking conversion rate (for multiple goals such as clicks on links, visit to pages, form submissions, engagement, etc.), you can track various revenue metrics as well (including revenue per visitor, total revenue, average order value, etc.) Why you should track revenue in your [...]

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Last week we ran an A/B test contest where you had to guess which button increased newsletter signups by 28%. Was it ‘watch a video’ or was it ‘get instant access‘? We got a total of 51 submissions (tweets + blog comments) and would you believe it: 51% said ‘Get Instant Access‘ would win while 49% said ‘Watch a video‘ will win. This is incredible and clearly demonstrates how hard is it to guess what [...]

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Boy, what a year 2010 has been for A/B testing industry and Visual Website Optimizer. We saw tens and hundreds of small/medium sized businesses increase sales and conversions on their websites. Our repository of A/B testing case studies is the proof that A/B testing works! To celebrate the excitement of 2011, I have complied the list of our best A/B testing case studies in 2010 (in order of bestness). Hope they will inspire you to [...]

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Let’s admit it: your boss has certain opinions on the website design, the usability consultant has some “best-practices” suggestions and the sales team wants specific changes to increase leads. Heck, even your office receptionist thinks that you could add Facebook and Twitter buttons on the homepage. Needless to say, everyone in your office has an opinion on website design and if you are the one with Photoshop/HTML skills, it can drive you crazy fairly quickly. [...]

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Let’s admit it: getting ideas for A/B and multivariate tests is a hard job! It becomes even harder because of your familiarity with your website or landing page. Since you breathe-and-eat your website every day and know all its intricacies, it becomes incredibly hard to think of improvements. This phenomenon even has a medical name: Blind Spot. To get ideas on what you can test in your next A/B or multivariate test, we have a [...]

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Visual Website Optimizer has a feature that allows running of same A/B or multivariate test on multiple pages at once. For example, if your site has several product categories and you would like to run a test only on one category, all you need to do is to enter a URL pattern like http://example.com/shoes/* in Visual Website Optimizer. The URL pattern above will make the test run on all pages in the shoes directory. This [...]

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Many times A/B testing is not limited to a single conversion goal. In fact, your test variations usually affect many different conversion goals on your site such as free trial signups, paid signups, newsletter subscription, etc. Measuring all these goals for a test is important because a variation may work brilliantly for one goal (e.g. it increases free signups) but may perform worse for your other goals (e.g. decreases your paid signups). If you don’t [...]

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