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by dsiroker 15y ago
Great idea! We'll do this.
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by dsiroker 15y ago
Hi Josh, Yup, you can track as far down the funnel as you like. Here is an article in our knowledge base that explains how you can do this: http://support.optimizely.com/kb/goal-tracking-and-reporting... Let me know what you think!
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by dsiroker 15y ago
VWO is a great product but here are some of the unique benefits of using Optimizely: First is ease-of-use and simplicity: we hope Optimizely is a product anyone can use, not just IT or engineers. Paras Chopra, the creator of VWO recently sa
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by dsiroker 15y ago
Great point, the goal we talk about in this blog post is the number of people who click that button. One nice feature of Optimizely is that we can test as many goals as we like-- you can add goals even after the experiment has started runni
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Optimizely (YC W10) Increases Homepage Conversion Rate by 29%(blog.optimizely.com)
146 points by dsiroker 15y ago|48 comments
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by dsiroker 15y ago
Thanks, glad you like the demo video! The inspiration for Optimizely came out of similar frustrations when I was the Director of Analytics during the Obama campaign. We went through a long drawn-out sales process with Omniture Test & Ta
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by dsiroker 15y ago
Thanks Ian! Are you interested in joining us? We are actively hiring: http://jobs.optimizely.com/
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by dsiroker 15y ago
Hi Nathan, glad you dig our site! We're honored to have you as a paying customer. If you have any UI suggestions for the product we'd be glad to hear them. You can email us directly at hello@optimizely.com
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Thanks. FWIW, we do own optimize.ly but we have it set up with bitly Pro. This makes it easy for us to do short URLs (see: http://twitter.com/optimizely ). Unfortunately it costs $995 per month to do the root domain redirect (see: http://
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by dsiroker 16y ago
We should definitely make this clearer in the infographic but the 1% and 4.5% numbers represent the conversion rates for those two variations. They are not the INCREASE in conversion rates. Hence going from 1% to 4.5% is an increase of 350%
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Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Interactive Mode, Cross-Browser Testing, and More(blog.optimizely.com)
89 points by dsiroker 16y ago|12 comments
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by dsiroker 16y ago
As I understand it there is no "Learn More" page just a button: you give your e-mail, zip code and press the button. You are correct. All of the variations would redirect to the home page regardless of what the button said. So 10% look i
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Simply see what the average contribution of people who contributed during the A/B testing was per image/button combination We didn't measure the average contribution for each variation for this particular experiment but in future splash p
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How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment(blog.optimizely.com)
211 points by dsiroker 16y ago|53 comments
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Optimizely (YC W10) Founder Interviewed on Mixergy(mixergy.com)
30 points by dsiroker 16y ago|2 comments
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by dsiroker 16y ago
We took the "army of angels" approach. Maybe we should write a blog post talking about why we did this?
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by dsiroker 16y ago
The two variations compared in this experiment were the results of four separate experiments which had eight variations each. This was the final before & after test to see what the total impact was on the donation page. Each individual
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by dsiroker 16y ago
If you want to go directly to the results page without voting, here is the link: http://whichtestwon.com/haiti-fund-nonprofit-test?pollid=86
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Optimizely (YC W10) helps raise $1.02 million for Haiti Relief with A/B testing(whichtestwon.com)
50 points by dsiroker 16y ago|8 comments
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Optimizely (YC W10): Increasing Clicks with A/B Testing(dyn.com)
2 points by dsiroker 16y ago|0 comments
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Optimizely (YC W10): Ditching Politics for Entrepreneurship(online.wsj.com)
38 points by dsiroker 16y ago|1 comments
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Great honest and fair comparison, Paras. One benefit you forgot to mention is that your cheapest plan ($49) comes out to $0.0049 per visitor. Optimizely's cheapest plan ($19) comes out to $0.0095 per visitor. One thing I think we do well is
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Great feedback and certainly something we plan to improve. Thanks for bearing with us!
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Hi Patrick, glad to hear that! Curious what you think about client-side A/B testing products in general (Optimizely being just one of them) vs. server-side products (like A/Bingo). Do you face pain points with A/Bingo that might be solved w
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Certainly something we are well aware of and trying to improve! We'd love to automatically track ad clicks for you and provide the corresponding reporting to let you know which variation gets you the most clicks. Please email us at feedback
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Great point. Jumping to pre-mature conclusions is certainly an easy mistake to make. During the Obama campaign we were frustrated by having to wait 24 - 48 hours to get results for our experiments. We were lucky to be getting a ton of traff
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Our biggest challenge in building this tool was compatibility. Every webpage is different and even seemingly innocuous things things like frame busters and javascript redirects presented quite a challenge for us. We were fortunate to have a
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by dsiroker 16y ago
That's actually how it works right now. We ask for your credit card initially but you don't get billed until 30 days later.
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Thanks for not giving it away. :) As for your question, I think you're right that we could just write this as straight JSON without wrapping it in quotes. What are the benefits of doing this? I tried just putting the all_experiments_json pr
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by dsiroker 16y ago
You are correct, the more variations, the longer the experiment will need to run to reach statistical significance. Estimating how long it will take to finish is a great suggestion and something we plan on doing.

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