How we got 75% more e-commerce orders in a single A/B test for this major brand
Jasper Kuria Contributor
The Conversion Wizards, a conversion rate optimization (CRO) consultancy, was entrusted with boosting the conversion rates of a multibillion dollar company.
We used research to optimize the page and ran an A/B test. The winning version, labeled “radical,” resulted in a 75% increase in sales.
The original and double-control pages are actually identical. And to ensure that our judgment is sound, we always include a double-control.
We took the average of those two identical pages as the baseline to determine the lift, and it revealed a 75% increase at 99% statistical significance.
Here are the Google optimize screenshots:
Here’s a link to the full image of the original page.
Here’s a link to the full image of the winning page.
A look under the hood
Before I discuss the changes that produced the lift, it is important that I quickly go over the research that informed those changes. Why? Because it is a critical aspect of the process and too many CRO practitioners do not devote enough attention to figuring out why more site visitors aren’t converting.
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We surveyed both bouncing visitors and subscribers to the Subscribe & Save program. One of the important questions we asked the bouncing visitors was: “If you did not purchase today, what was your reason?”
Jasper Kuria Contributor Jasper Kuria is the managing partner of CRO consultancy The Conversion Wizards and is the founder of Capital & Growth, an e-commerce education site. More posts by this contributor 79% more leads without more traffic: Here’s how we did it Pioneer Square Labs’ Greg Gottesman on the…
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