What is your go-to A/B testing tool

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Noah

Jan 19, 2025, 11:24 AM

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Dylan Jones

Oct 29, 2024, 11:26 AM

What is your go-to A/B testing tool? I'm looking at a few, currently (listed below), but would love to hear some opinions from folks on the positives, negatives, and favorites that you might have!

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Derek Perkins

Oct 29, 2024, 1:01 PM

SearchPilot doesn't really belong in that same list. It's targeted at SEO A/B testing, vs the other tools that are more about on-site A/B testing, usually for CRO. It depends what you're wanting to focus on

Dylan Jones

Oct 29, 2024, 1:07 PM

Probably a bit of both if possible. From the little research I've done so far, SearchPilot advertises itself as being able to make changes at an HTML level which feels like it would cover a decent amount of on-site, CRO stuff as well. Is that not correct?

Derek Perkins

Oct 29, 2024, 1:09 PM

the technology is basically the same for both, making HTML changes for users / Googlebot, but the platform analytics are going to be focused on different things

Dylan Jones

Oct 29, 2024, 1:22 PM

I suppose I could see how SearchPilot may have metrics more focused on incoming traffic/rankings vs others being more focused on engagement metrics (once the user is already on page). What have you seen more use out of, because I can definitely see benefits to both.

Derek Perkins

Oct 29, 2024, 1:23 PM

SearchPilot is awesome at enterprise scale, but smaller sites may have trouble getting to statistical significance

Nick Swan

Oct 29, 2024, 2:45 PM

I think you need to qualify your question a bit more as Derek alluded to - are you looking for a CRO tool, or SEO split testing tool?

A CRO tool will present different versions of the same page to different users with changes being made at render time by javascript.

SEO split testing tools put similar pages into two groups - test and control group, with changes only being made to the test group. The performance of the test group is then compared to the control group over the same period of time.