Goal: To properly brainstorm, prioritize, structure and implement A/B tests for your business.
Prerequisites or requirements:
You need to have Google Optimize set up on your website.
You should have Google Analytics’ conversion goals set up on your website.
Why this is important: Without a proper A/B testing process and prioritization in place, you are not able to confidently make business or UI/UX decisions.
When this is done: Every time you want to run a new A/B test or a batch of A/B tests.
Who does this: The person responsible for marketing strategy or conversion rate optimization in your business.
Step 1 - Brainstorm and determine what you’re going to test
How to Structure, Run, and Analyze an A/B Test on Your Website. Flawlessly plan, execute, and analyze an A/B test on your website and determine whether a variant should be implemented definitively on your website or not, based on actual data.
Outcome: You’ve got a list of ideas that you want to put to the test on your website.
Step 2 - List out those tests and prioritize them
Prioritize your funnel initiatives. Create a clear roadmap for growth by determining which experiments to tackle first and which ones to abandon or leave for later.
Outcome: You have prioritized your ideas according to the impact/effort score.
Step 3 - Design your test, launch your experiment, and analyze the results
Follow the Steps from Step 1 to execute this flawlessly.
Outcome: You have launched your experiment and are able to analyze its results.