MaxA/B - Free A/B testing plugin for WordPress

by arcware • 16 years ago

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Encosia• 16 years ago

This looks great. I'm helping a friend with a site where this would be perfect for improving his conversions without as much work on my part.

One question though. Do the visitors get a cookie to maintain the split on return visits?

arcware5• 16 years ago

Yes, visitors get a cookie that has the value of the page they should see on return visits. For instance, if a visitor ends up on variation page #2, they will see variation page #2 from now on. Or at least until they reach the conversion page or the cookie expires in 30 days.

acangiano2• 16 years ago

Good example of effective marketing. They give you a free, useful plugin, but related plugins are available for a substantial fee. Given that you have to sign up to download the free plugin, they also have a way to propose an upsell in the future (I pretty much expect emails from them).

rmc• 16 years ago

I'm diluted they are/have A/B tested that. So it depends if your in the control or test group :P

Metapony• 16 years ago

Couldn't log in under two browsers. Was able to register but no luck after that.

arcware5• 16 years ago

Which two browsers?

acangiano2• 16 years ago

Not Metapony, but I had to login twice to download the plugin. I'm using Chrome 8.0.552.237 on Mac OS X 10.6.6.

radley2• 16 years ago

any browser - tried Firefox, Safari, and Chrome

[edit] - confirmed - took 2+ tries to get it to work in Chrome

radley2• 16 years ago

@arcware we can't stay logged in to actually download - we only see the "sign-up" landing page.

arcware5• 16 years ago

I see the problem, working on the fix now. I swear everything worked a half hour ago...

ccollins2• 16 years ago

I think it is irresponsible to put tools like this into the hands of non-technical users. The lack of statistical Significance or recommended sample size will cause a lot of people to make uninformed decisions.

paraschopra2• 16 years ago

Yes, I noticed lack of statistical significance. If the developer is reading this, I would seriously recommend adding statistical significance. It should be quite easy to implement. I had made on excel sheet for calculating statistical significance so you can use those formulas directly: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ab-test...

That said, I commend the team in bringing easy to use split testing solution for Wordpress!

javery3• 16 years ago

Perfect, that will make it into the next release.

javery3• 16 years ago

That's a more irresponsible stance to take - witholding tools and knowledge because you fear people are ignorant is a sure fire way to keep those people ignorant.

Part of our goal with this plugin is to educate users about these things - look for much more of that coming in the future.

paraschopra2• 16 years ago

Are you trying to say it is better to have A/B testing without statistical significant as compared no A/B testing at all?

I'd disagree with you completely and since you are taking this stance, I am actually worried now about recommending the plugin. Not caring about statistical significance is equivalent to taking decisions at random. You may better flip a coin, why bother A/B testing? You are letting your users take decisions not knowing if those are real or just random.

ccollins2• 16 years ago

I am absolutely not suggesting you withhold tools and knowledge, but that you should give them more tools tools that fully inform them. When you show "Improvement: 25%" after say, 20 page views - that is simply inaccurate.

MaxA/B - Free A/B testing plugin for WordPress

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