I am using Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer together. On our development rig I suddenly realized that some cookies were set twice. The GA cookies: __utma __umtb __utmc __utmz where all set both by GWO and GA. I had only expected to see one set of these cookies. GWO set them with a dot in front of the domain name: .de...
I'm trying to include the Google Website Optimizer JavaScript code, below, in a Zope3 page template. It's used for for A/B testing. However, the template html parser, which I believe is the standard Python HTMLParser module, throws the following error: raise PTRuntimeError(str(self._v_errors)) - Warning: Compilation failed - Warning: <...
I'm hoping to test different versions of a form with Google Optimizer (Multivariate testing). The form is in an ASP include, but what the server-side code will load before Google's JS does. Any ideas about how to approach this? Thanks. ...
I'm going to be using Google Website Optimiser (GWO), possibly on quite a few different sites. In theory it's straightforward: paste the validation Javascript code in the head and footer of a few pages you want to test: http://services.google.com/training/websiteoptimizeruserguide/ The problem is when you use a CMS with dynamically ge...
Hi there, I'm trying to run a multivariate test across 3 pages, google says this should be ok, as long as you use the same section names, it doesn't care about the url so much. so I have checked in google optimizer, it says all my scripts are set up correctly. Also the strange thing is it DOES work, it replaces the content, but it neve...
I'm trying to merge my Google Website Optimizer A/B testing with Google Analytics (in order to see how page variations affect stats like bounce rate, time on site, etc.). Eric Vasilik, who I believe works at GWO, recommends a technique for doing this that involves setting a user-defined GA variable that is dependent on what page variati...
I have a format of pages that I want to perform an A/B comparison on using google website optimizer. the URLs look as follows - the first page I want to compare... <mywebsite.com>/request1/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]*)_([0-9]+).htm vs <mywebsite.com>/request2/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]*)_([0-9]+).htm the goal page is <mywebsite.com>/request-sent.htm H...
I'm about to use Google's Website Optimizer to do a/b testing on the home page of my site. My question is: which of the alternative pages will google's spider index? All of them? I couldn't find any info about this on google or on GWO pages. ...
Is it possible to use Javascript in the content of a page section variation? I want different variations to make different Javascript function calls, so I have variation content like: Variation 1 <script type="text/javascript">my_func('abc');</script> Variation 2 <script type="text/javascript">my_func('def');</script> However, whe...
I have a site that I'm optimizing using Google Website Optimizer where the goal is to have someone click on a link to download some software. But the google optimizer code that's provided will get triggered on any page where the link is on. Is there any way to have it execute only when someone actually clicks the download button? Thanks ...
Im having a little issue with setting up Multi Variant Tests in Google Website Optimizer. I wish to have two tests. One being which is a header banner which appears on every page and the conversion for example would be if the visitor lands on the contact us page. This was very easy to set up. However when I intend to add another test, ...
I would like to use Google Website Optimizer (GWO)'s multivariate tests to test some different versions of a web page. I can change from version to version just by varying some class tags on a div, i.e. the different versions are of this form: <div id="testing" class="foo1 bar1">content</div> <div id="testing" class="foo1 bar2">content...
I've had an A/B Test running in Google Web Optimizer for six weeks now, and there's still no end in sight. Google is still saying: "We have not gathered enough data yet to show any significant results. When we collect more data we should be able to show you a winning combination." Is there any way of telling how close Google is to makin...
Hi. I have a site where both landing and thank you page are index.php page with different content loaded dynamically. As I'm generating the javascript and trying to validate it, it gives me an error saying that JS is not installed on the thank you page, which makes sense, because its content is not loaded yet. I was wondering how I ca...
I'm running Google Website Optimizer, and its executing client-side cookie checks to show content just once. However, when they're cookied, I get a javascript error that doesn't SEEM fatal, but I've read that 1 js error is enough to totally break Internet Explorer. the line of code in question is <script>utmx_section("Blah")<...
Apologies for the terribly newb question. We're currently implementing Google Web Optimizer in our ASP.NET Web Application and some of the code is supposed to go in very specific places on certain pages. For example, for the "Control Page" Google has some Javascript that sits outside of the <html> tags. I know I probably don't need to p...
I have been using Google website optimizer(GWO) to run a multivariate test on my web page. When I either do offline or online validation, I receive a warning stating there is multiple occurrences of my page sections. For example, if one of my page sections was Description Changes, optimizer would say I have two or more occurrences of tha...
I've previously asked how long it takes for a winning combination to appear on Google's Web Optimizer, but now I have another weird problem during an A/B test: For the past two days has Google announced that there was a "High Confidence Winner" that had a 98.5% chance of beating the original variation by 27.4%. Great! I decided to l...
Right now I am running an A/B test through Google Website Optimizer(GWO). Adwords is used to link to a static version of a page that is not running in the test. I wanted to verify that if I set the destination url for adwords as my original page in the test that GWO will route traffic to my other test versions. ...
When using Google Website Optimizer A/B split test, is there a way I can read a cookie to see which version A or B did the user get? I need to know this from a page other than the control page. ...