A/B Split testing
A/B Split testing (or A/B Testing) is a marketing term which describes testing two variations of a marketing message on customers to determine which message is more effective in producing Conversion Actions by customers.
The "A" and "B" refer to the two marketing messages or designs.
- Mechanism ##
When a visitor comes to a website, the site implements a means to divide visitors into one or more groups (The "A" group, the "B" group, etc.) ConversionRuler customers can download a script to do this (available in [[PHP}] or ASP - ask for other implementations). Best case scenario to to divide traffic equally between both sources. Typically the "division" can be handled by a redirect to another set of pages.
When splitting traffic:
- Do so equally, or consistently, to be able to compare leads to conversions.
- Pages should have analogous "conversion points" - meaning you should not have one page have a "Buy Now" button and another lead to a dead end, for example
- Conversion Tracking should be installed on each page, and pages should record differently
- Analyzing Results ##
The larger your sample size for A/B Testing, the better results you will get. When your Conversion Tracking software runs a report, you should be able to get something like:
Test | Landings | Orders | Amount |
---|---|---|---|
A | 1023 | 56 | $394.32 |
B | 1021 | 32 | $561.44 |
In this case, you can see that Test A had more conversions, but had a lower revenue totals. Depending on the value of return customers for a campaign, marketers can make a decision based on the effectiveness of each message and the desired result to maximize profit.