Does anyone have any tips on how to do A/B testing in Umbraco 4.5? I'd like to show 50% of visitors one look for the homepage, and the other 50% a different look. The homepage would be the only one involved in the test, so the rest of the site can remain the way it is now. Any advice is appreciated.
Off the top of my head, I would probably think to write a Macro to go on a base Homepage template which, on certain criteria, transfers to an alternative template.
Alternative templates in Umbraco allow you to append the alias name of a template, onto the end of a Url in one of 2 formats:
1) homepage.aspx?altTemplater=homepage1
2) homepage/homepage1.aspx
What an alt template allows you to do, is render the main Homepage template, using the alt templates master page file, this providing a different layout, but still accessing the same page properties.
This is an old topic but for people who get here via search:
There is a new plugin called uSplit being developed that bakes A/B testing into Umbraco. It is a commercial plugin but there is a free version available that does redirect-based A/B tests. You can check it out at http://usplit.endzone.io/
Hope it will help someone struggling with A/B tests :)
A/B Testing
Does anyone have any tips on how to do A/B testing in Umbraco 4.5? I'd like to show 50% of visitors one look for the homepage, and the other 50% a different look. The homepage would be the only one involved in the test, so the rest of the site can remain the way it is now. Any advice is appreciated.
Hi Ralph,
Off the top of my head, I would probably think to write a Macro to go on a base Homepage template which, on certain criteria, transfers to an alternative template.
Alternative templates in Umbraco allow you to append the alias name of a template, onto the end of a Url in one of 2 formats:
1) homepage.aspx?altTemplater=homepage1
2) homepage/homepage1.aspx
What an alt template allows you to do, is render the main Homepage template, using the alt templates master page file, this providing a different layout, but still accessing the same page properties.
Hope this helps
Matt
Seems like the best way, here's another thread on the same subject.
Cheers,
/Dirk
This is an old topic but for people who get here via search:
There is a new plugin called uSplit being developed that bakes A/B testing into Umbraco. It is a commercial plugin but there is a free version available that does redirect-based A/B tests. You can check it out at http://usplit.endzone.io/
Hope it will help someone struggling with A/B tests :)
is working on a reply...