A/B test offers
How to split traffic between two URLs and compare the results.
Example: half of the people go to landing page A, half to landing page B, and conversions are compared in the affiliate network or tracker.
Set up the template
- In the Traffic route block, enter the first URL and click Another URL to add a second one.
- Tag the URLs with different parameters so you can tell them apart in reports:
https://offer.example.org/a?variant=aandhttps://offer.example.org/b?variant=b. If the affiliate network supports subid, pass the tag there. - Click Set shares and enter the weights. Shares are weights, not percentages:
1and1— equal split,1and3— 25% and 75%. - In How to choose, select Keep the same — a returning visitor then goes to the same URL as the first time and does not skew the comparison. Set how long to remember in the remember for field.
- Save the template and copy the URLs to existing links with the Redirect / page URL checkbox.
If you need the test for only part of the traffic, for example one country, add the URLs and shares to a stream instead of the main URL.
Compare the results
How many people went to each URL is in Statistics → Clicks: the click details show the URL the visitor went to. TDS.SO does not count conversions — compare them in the affiliate network or tracker by the variant parameter.
Do not draw conclusions from the first few hundred visits: with low traffic, the difference between variants is often random. Keep the test running until each variant has at least a few dozen conversions.
Finish the test
Delete the losing URL in the template and copy the URL to the links again.