split test

A/B trial method

A split test compares two or more versions of something to see which performs better.

In marketing and web design, you might split test email subject lines, landing pages, or ad copy by showing different versions to different users and measuring results: We split tested the checkout button—red outperformed blue by 12%.

Also called A/B testing.

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page load · variant · click-through rate · multivariate · experimentation · hypothesis · optimize · sample size · funnel · statistical significance

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methodological rigor

split testguesswork

Conclusions drawn without proof

intuition · gut feeling · hunch · blind guess · gut instinct

variation vs. uniformity

split testone-size-fits-all

Meant for anybody

anecdotal evidence · case study

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